Chief Procurement Officer with global responsibility for strategic sourcing, category management, procurement operations, travel and credit card programs, supplier diversity, supplier risk management, supply chain sustainability and supplier relationship management. -Delivered $162.5M in supplier opex savings. -Increased spend with diverse suppliers by 50%. -Implemented a Commercial Collaboration Program assisting with over $90M in revenue with customers who are also company suppliers. -Implemented P2P modules for Oracle Cloud globally. Rolled out global travel and purchasing card programs. -Passed all FFIEC audits of third party risk management.

I led the Nielsen Global Procurement team. This included sourcing, vendor management, procurement operations, supplier risk, supplier diversity, software acquisition & rights management and global travel.Team Accomplishments:-2018 Delivered $23.4M in cost savings against a target of $11M -2018 Delivered $35.2M in cost avoidance-Implemented SAP Supplier Registration, Working Capital and Spend Visibility-Deployed Flexera globally to manage Nielsen software assets-2018 Delivered $85M in spend with diverse suppliers-Scored 100% for Supply Chain Management on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Tied for top company score.-Deployed Concur globally and Implemented Corporate Uber, Corporate Amazon Prime-2019 Delivered $30.4M in vendor cost savings

I led a global team of technology partnership managers responsible for building relationships with leading and emerging technology companies that were strategic to Thomson Reuters business objectives. The goal was to enhance the business value of the relationships by developing go to market activities such as joint marketing & sales, co-product development and increasing sales of Thomson Reuters products and services to our technology partners customers.In 2015 the team was give the additional objective of managing the company's investment in emerging technology companies, and building relationships with Tier 1 venture capital firms, incubators, accelerators and foreign trade missions.We managed the strategic relationships with 19 technology companies to include: Adobe, Apple, AT&T, Amazon Web Services, BT, CenturyLink, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SFDC, TCS, Verizon. We also maintained technology relationships with Cloudera, Platfora, Samsung, Tamr, Workday and Vodafone.Accomplishments have included:* $26M increase in sales of Thomson Reuters products and services to technology companies 2014-2015.* Completed 3 minority stake investments in emerging technology companies (Agolo, Fluent and Tamr)* Secured over $5M annually in joint marketing dollars from technology partners* Instrumental in Thomson Reuters historic partnership deal with IBM Watson* Built foundation for Thomson Reuters joint go-to-market efforts with SAP that resulted in the launching of Reuters new Polling Explorer: http://polling.reuters.com/* Secured Microsoft Global ISV status that delivered over $1.5M in Microsoft resources to Thomson Reuters product development 2014-2015* 9 successful product POCs with emerging tech companies 2014-2015* Created and developed relationships with over 85 emerging technology companies in the Big Data/Cognitive Computing spaces

In 2007 Reuters started a Search & Content Technologies Business Group. I took on the role of business development which included managing relationships with leading technology companies, developing relationships with emerging companies in the content vertical, executing content sharing or distribution deals and working on acquisitions. I secured long term strategic commercial agreements with Vhayu Technologies and FAST and then built out true business partnerships with them. Most of the time in this role centered on Reuters successful acquisition of ClearForest, a text analytics and text mining company with software development located in Israel. My role included technical and business due diligence pre-acquisition, negotiating technology agreements during the acquisition and integration of the staff and technology post-acquisition.

I took charge of a small team dedicated to developing the company's technology relationships. Primary drivers were to secure joint marketing support and direct technical support of our technology teams. Major success included securing over $10M in joint marketing funding from technology partners.My team drove technology partner support of the company's new development locations in Thailand, China and India. We hosted an annual Technology Partner Summit in Bangkok. We also managed company EBC visits to West Coast technology company HQ locations.My team enlisted the support of our technology partners to put on the company's first internal software development and technology conference for 500+ staffI led the company's joint recovery efforts with our technology partners in the wake of the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.

In this role I led two major projects with direct customer interaction and impact. The first was project managing the software development and delivery of Reuters Messaging, Reuters product alternative to Bloomberg Mail. I led a year long successful interaction with the Beta client, Deutsche Bank. The product was delivered on-budget and ahead of schedule.The second project was a major over hall of the Reuters Instrument Code (RIC) infrastructure, data structures and content. I was the bridge between Reuters top 16 financial vertical clients and the internal technology and product teams. The project greatly enhanced our ability to deliver the information our customers required to be competitive in the financial vertical.

I ran operations for a 800+person, 5 building, software development campus in Hauppauge, NY. This included the coordination of facilities, security, data center operations, human resources, finance, communications, vendor management and software development labs. I was also responsible for local university recruiting, our summer internship program and our community relations outreach program. During this time I was responsible for managing the transfer of 3 major product software development efforts from New York to Bangkok (these products were leading revenue producers for the company). This included all training of Bangkok staff, transferring physical IT and IP assets to Thailand and developing a transition plan that would not be noticed by our customers. The program was under budget, met all timelines and had zero impact on customer service.

I was a founding technology relationship manager of the company's new Strategic Technology Relationship Program. My role was to build strong technology and business relationships with Intel and Compaq (later HP). My work with Compaq included partnering to engineer new releases of Reuters real-time information and trading systems that could keep pace with increasing market data rates. With Intel I developed Reuters first joint marketing partnership with a technology company. The campaign focused on combining the power of Reuters real-time systems fueled by Intel's new chip development to deliver the fastest systems to the financial vertical. I developed and led the joint effort between Reuters, Intel, HP and Red Hat that transformed the financial services industry. We worked together to port the Reuters Market Data System to Linux which aided in breaking Sun Microsystem's near operating system monopoly in the vertical. The port to Linux allowed the banks and trading houses to open up their hardware business for bidding from the likes of HP, IBM and Dell, thereby forever reducing infrastructure costs.

In this role I began a 17.5 year employment with the world's largest provided of news, financial systems and professional information products in the world. I started my time at Reuters (later Thomson Reuters) as a project manager supporting the executive leadership team responsible for developing financial information and treasury trading applications. We released several innovative financial products to include Dealing 3000 during this time. In this role I helped managed the Y2K compliance efforts of our New York software development teams and ran the Y2K New Years Eve Operations Team for all US based client based applications. Our efforts were very successful with no product or service failures reported. Due to my military and relationship background I was assigned to manage efforts to recover a major company data center that had flooded. I organized 24 hour clean-up operations, enlisted the support of vendors and returned the data center to full operations in half the estimated time.

This position provided me great experience in product development, marketing and business partnership development. I worked on developing products and solutions in the security, military and intelligence fields and then created marketing and sales plans to build revenue in emerging markets. This allowed me to drive the company's business launch into the Russian, Indian and Mexican markets, generating over $10M in revenue in 1 year. I was responsible for customer VIP (Senior Government and Military Officials) visits and conducting international consultancy assignments. I was also the company's number one customer lead developer at industry trade shows. I worked to develop business relationships with companies in order to deliver joint propositions to mutual clients and built strategic supplier relationships for goods and services we needed to deliver full solutions to our customers.

Macy's is one of the leading high end retailers and I thoroughly enjoyed the fast paced and demanding work environment during my time with them. My first assignment was as an operations manager in the flagship Herald Square store. I managed all operations for the 7-9th floors which included china, glassware, flatware, toys, luggage, women's wear, furniture, pianos, rugs and best of all Santaland, the annual Christmas holiday experience. I really enjoyed working with international diplomatic customers and helped outfit several consulates in NYC with full china collections. This helped my continued development of relationship skills, especially with very demanding customers. I also helped develop out outsourcing vendor relationships to true strategic partnerships. From Herald Square I moved to managing the full operations of the Macy's location in Nanuet, NY. This store has 227,000 sq ft of floor space with $40M+ in annual revenue. I am most proud of creating a strong support staff at the store that was able to cut truck to floor merchandising time by over 50%. This is where a built a strong foundation in vendor management having to manage over 25 vendors providing support to store operations.

My time in the US Army provided me strong leadership and management skills that have benefited me in all the positions I have had since. My organizational and staff development skills were developed over four years of challenging military job assignments in the intelligence field. I selected to serve my Army time with the 10th Mountain Division as I wanted to provide intelligence support to an infantry combat unit. My jobs included both unit leadership and staff position roles. I experienced two of my most life rewarding work experiences during my time in the US Army and developed my strong skills of relationship and partnership management.. The first was being able to help the residents of Homestead, FL recover from the devastation of Hurricane Andrew. For 4 months I helped run logistics and personnel to restore basic services, shelter and food/water to the residents of the town. I was in charge of coordinating military efforts with NGOs to include the American Red Cross, AmeriCares and the Salvation Army. The second experience was the time I spent in Somalia. Our unit worked in Somalia during Operation Restore Hope to guarantee food delivery to the thousands of starving Somalis throughout the country. My relationship skills, developed during Hurricane Andrew relief, were once again called on and I coordinated military efforts with the International Red Cross, Irish Concern, CARE and Doctors Without Borders. I was also the relationship manager for US force interaction with United Nations forces to include Australia, Denmark, France and Pakistan. My fellow soldiers joked that my office was a mini-United Nations.