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Toledo, Oh, Us

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Recruited to manage an organization with five direct reports, eight indirect reports, and four contractors. The organization’s responsibilities cover all Procurement and Warehouse functions required to support the refinery operations. Total third party spend under management is $225M and the warehouse operation controls approximately 35K material codes valued at $30M. Key Achievements: Project manager for the Boynton Property Purchase Iniative with a budget of $5M annually. Management Sponsor for Charity Golf Initiative which revamped the approach toward building community partnerships, developing young talent, delivering a high-quality experience, and focusing on improvements in our zip code (48217). The initiative has raised $550K since 2021.  Managed sourcing and contracting activities $6M in 2021, $12M in 2022, and $7M (YTD) in 2023.  Championed and delivered a warehouse transition plan and program focused on consolidating all materials to the site, reducing and streamlining inventory levels, mitigating risk, enhancing service capabilities to the plant, and reduce cost by $250k + year. As part of this program we are on pace to reduce inventory by $2.6M by YE 2023 Used SPM and Industrial Engineering principles to intervene with our coke transportation provider to respond to a critical equipment failure situation to ensure the plant could maintain operations a full capacity and capture full margins over a the repair period. The estimate margin capture was $450K - $1M/day.

Oregon, Oh, Us

Promoted to manage an organization with five direct reports, five indirect reports, and four contractors. The organization’s responsibilities cover all Procurement and Warehouse functions required to support the refinery operations. Total third party spend under management is $250M and the warehouse operation controls approximately 35K material codes valued at $22M. Key Achievements: Streamlined and enhanced the contract and sourcing processes to ensure alignment with corporate DOA requirements.  Developed a contractor rate review and approval process which enabled proper controls and oversight that was standardized and documented. Championed and now managing a warehouse transition which will combine two warehouse locations and transfer 35k materials codes, enabling our warehouse to streamline operations, reduce risk, and enhance service capabilities to the plant.  Managed sourcing and contracting activities resulting in saving of $4.3M in 2017 and $4.5M in 2018.  Oversight and management of the corporate continuous improvement plans and all supply chain facing IT projects. This includes SAP enhancements, process improvement projects, policies, procedures, contracting and sourcing templates, and the Ariba implementation program.  Commodities Supported include: Construction and Maintenance Services, Turnaround Planning and Execution Services, Fixed Equipment, Rotating Equipment, Instrumentation & Electrical, Catalyst, Bulk and LTL Chemicals, Bulk and Cylinder Gases, Industrial Cleaning Services, and MRO.

Oregon, Oh, Us

Recruited to build additional capability related to Spend Analytics, Purchase to Pay, Sourcing, and Contracting. I built the initial data warehouses required to support the creation of analytics and reporting capabilities and then worked to stabilize the environment to help the organization adopt and use the generated information. This role also supported many different commodities from a sourcing and contracting standpoint. These commodities included Environmental Services, Catalyst, Construction/ Maintenance Services, MRO, Chemicals, Rotating Equipment, Instrumentation & Electrical, and Fabricated/ Engineered Equipment.Key Achievements: Developed a demand management process for a portfolio of $40M - $60M of annual capital and expense projects.  Developed a capital sourcing strategy and executed events, which saved $1.25M+ (Savings Avg 10%). Developed a Data Warehouse, which enabled the integration of information across various IT platforms; including SAP, Track, and ISNetworld. This enabled the team to gain new insights and make data driven strategic and tactical decisions. Led cross-functional effort to strategically define, source, and contract vendors to facilitate an Approved Vendor List (AVL). Led a cross function team to build out the Material Master process and enhance the list of materials available to support the site. Work with Cost Controls team to build the controls required to support the sourcing, P2P, and cost controls process.  Developed metrics and reporting that helped drive P2P process improvements.

London, England, Gb

Promoted to manage a team of five that executed Purchase to Pay, Sourcing, and Contract Administration activities for Operations, Maintenance, HSSE, Commercial, and Technical Services teams. The Purchase to Pay process ensured the proper controls and documentation were in place for approximately $350M of total third party spend. In the sourcing and contracting space, my team oversaw both services and material purchases for the Maintenance, Operations, Environmental/ Remediation Management, MRO, Catalyst, Process Gas, and Chemicals commodities, which totaled 40% of total third party, spend. Key Achievements: Led a project to balance a contract portfolio of 120 agreements. This involved the delivery of a Master Agreement template and a transitional sourcing plan. Execution of the transition plan delivered $0.5M in savings.  Led a cross-functional team in developing the sourcing and life-cycle management strategy for catalyst (Fresh Catalyst purchase, logistics, reactor unload/ reload, and spent catalyst disposition). Impact for the up-coming Turnaround. Current savings estimate – Catalyst Purchases: $0.5M; Transportation: $0.1M; Reclamation/ Disposal: $0.1M. Led the Procurement team to prepare and manage the supply and services required to support a USW work stoppage. Led a Project to institute a new standard contract template for nested Craft Contractors. This involved working with a cross functional team to develop the Contract templates, and then executing the appropriate Sourcing and Negotiation to implement the new templates. Estimated saving was $1M. Led the procurement activities for a cross-functional team, which purchased a $2.1M piece of engineered equipment for the Turnaround. Through the negotiations, I was able to deliver $0.3M in savings and pushed the supplier to leverage their global supply chain to meet the delivery expectation of the Maintenance and Turnaround Organization.

London, England, Gb

Promoted to manage all Continuous Improvement projects, system implementations, and process improvement activities for the Toledo Procurement and Supply Chain Management (PSCM) Team. This role required leading and developing projects across functional boundaries and within the local procurement team. Key Achievements: Utilized Systematic Management to review, revamp, and implement needed changes to the Purchase to Pay process which increased first pass efficiency 25%+ and increase productivity by $0.15M+ (Est). Developed and implemented a document management strategy that standardized the document storage processes. I accomplished this by aligning the site with corporate retention policies and storage requirements, while rationalizing/ simplifying storage structures and options. Additionally, the project incorporated a Website redesign and delivery of additional needed software and tools to facilitate transitioning to a paperless environment.  Led a project team to develop site-wide PCSM education strategy, which focused on ensuring all stakeholders were compliant with company policies and procedures related to acquiring services and materials. This program increased awareness and adherence to common procurement processes, risk mitigation compliance, and proper spend management. Managed the implementation of the Track Timekeeping System (contractor time keeping system) with an estimated $2.5M in savings to the refinery. Site lead for a BP US R&M Supplier Enablement Project, which focused on identifying and standardizing future enhancements and upgrades to the PSCM technology and process landscape. This included integrating SAP Spend Management, an implementation of SAP Master Data Management, Ariba Sourcing, the Ariba Network, and Quadrem. Site lead for a payment term extension project, which delivered $2M in working capital improvements.

London, England, Gb

Promoted to provide needed leadership to $30M in MRO category spend in an effort to minimize risk (legal, supply, compliance), and proper spend management. This role was responsible for developing cost savings projects, contracting, negotiations, and supplier performance in the MRO category. In 2011, the role was expanded to include Construction Services sourcing for base capital projects (projects below $10M). Key Achievements: Led cross-functional team (Operations, Maintenance, Technical, & Procurement) which utilized Continuous Improvement concepts to develop a steam-trap management strategy. This strategy leveraged PSCM activities (sourcing/ contracting) to revamp our stream trap management program. This project delivered $60K in direct savings on services/ materials and projected reduction in steam consumption by an estimated $1.5M. National Commodity Manager for Lab Supplies & Power Transmission. Responsibilities included Market Sector Strategy development, Supplier Performance Management, and Sourcing efforts across BP’s US downstream and chemicals business.  Led and developed a Supplier Council for collaborating with key material suppliers to produce a safer, more compliant, and cost effective operating environment.  Led an inventory reduction project, which reviewed, categorized, and reduced inventory by $1.2M  MRO Sourcing and contracting activities with project saving of 5-7%. Led Base Capital Sourcing for $10M+ of Construction Services and Fabricated Equipment spend (Savings Avg: 8%).

London, England, Gb

Recruited to manage and develop all site procurement reports, dashboards, and metrics. This included management of established reports, and development / design of reports to meet new requirements. Additionally, the role supported all commodities groups by developing dashboards and performing spend analytics to facilitate project identification.Key Achievements: Developed a Data Warehouse, which enabled the integration of information across various IT platforms; including SAP, CTS, D&B, PICS, and Oyster Spend Management. This enabled the team to gain new insights and make data driven strategic and tactical decisions. Developed services rate comparison tools that standardized labor skill information and rate details and enabled easier comparison of rate variances across both union and non-union service suppliers. Lead Supplier Performance Management implementation efforts at the refinery which produced $1M in benefit to the site.

Toledo, Oh, Us

Promoted to support the Customer Operations Unit which generated $1.5+ Billion in annual revenue. This role combined Team Leader and Process Expert activities for the customer service teams supporting the Building Materials business, and split time between project managing continuous improvement (primarily Six Sigma) initiatives and call center operations. Key Achievements: Organized and built team to support an SAP Customer & Material Master Data Cleanup. This included developing a cross functional team, building needed database and analytical tools to identify masterdate deficiencies and enable mass correction, and feed information back to the IT master data team in a mass upload format. This project review and updated 25k Material Master records and 10K Customer Master records. Developed custom data warehouse, which enabled the integration of information across various reporting systems; including SAP, SAP BI, and the Rockwell Call Center Database. This enabled the team to gain new insights and make data driven strategic and tactical decisions. Developed a customer facing ordering tool that standardized the order form template and incorporated cleansed material master data. The goal was to automate and mistake-proof order submission and reduce entry errors, costly returns, and frustration for customers.

Toledo, Oh, Us

Promoted to a project based role that provided opportunities in Project Management, ERP Software Design, Configuration, Systems Architecture, Process Mapping, and Data Warehouse Architecture. Project list: Deployment of an SAP 6.0/ Netweaver Application to the Alloy Business - Functional specifications for custom shipping & receiving processes - Process design/ configuration for logistics - Cross functional specifications for reporting - Process documentation development, modeling, & testing - Data catalogs development & uploadData Warehouse Upgrade from SAP BW 4.1 to BI 7.0 - Data model development - Report definition & functional specification development - Input on Data Warehouse design & functionality requirementsGlobal Logistics Reporting Requirement Definition & System Implementation Recommendation (Project Manager) - Global logistic reporting catalogue & as-is mapping - Standardization & mapping of future metrics - Definition of required reporting tool capabilities - Development of standard Metrics & Reports - Reporting platform & vendor analysis - Platform & vendor recommendation reportGeneral Ledger Harmonization (Project Manager) - Define & manage requirements of 3 reporting work-streams - Resource mapping & time-line development - Management resource & budget constraints - Delivery of harmonized GL's (EU to US)Classes & Conferences Attended- SAP Warehouse Management- SAP Transportation Management - SAP BI Report Building - SAP TechEd 2008- SAP User's Group Reporting & Analytics Conference (2008)- Aris Business Process Modeling Certification

Toledo, Oh, Us

- Service Agent Relationship & Performance Management- New Hire Training Program/ Employee Development Program Revamp

Greenwich, Ct, Us

Inside Sales, Operations, Dispatch, Customer Service, Transportation Provider/ Driver Dispatch and Development for Con-Way's transportation brokerage division.

Masters Of Business Administration, General Management

Bachelor, Management And Organizational Development

Associate Of Arts, Liberal Studies