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Palatine, Illinois, Us

Springdale, Ar, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Managed a team of Account Executives (SAE's, and AE's) who were responsible for the procurement (P2P) of K-12th grade textbooks, instructional technology, assessments, and other educational materials for teachers and students. • Reduced HMH’s print spend in the various areas. Workbooks-21% savings with a spend of $4,650,980, Media-31% savings with a spend of $947,983, TE’s-13% savings with a spend of $895,777, PE’s-15% savings with a spend of $1,703,958. Total Savings of $1,705,273 from previous year. • Worked directly with suppliers to ensure contractual negotiations/service agreements are met. • Trained, guided, and supported direct reports to ensure all savings targets are met. • Managed a ten million dollar budget on print procurement.

Prism is a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of MIS/ERP (Management Information Systems and Enterprise Resource Planning) software products for the printing and graphic arts industry. • Supported implementations across Midwest and in Canada. • Participated in identifying the Project Definition and Scope.• Organized the installation and configuration of Prism’s MIS/ERP software and components.• Prepared functional specifications from end-user requirements.• Provided consulting and training for customer implementations.

Chicago, Il, Us

Participated and supported the design and implementation of print sourcing and also partnering with users to define print, inventory, specifications and requirements by conducting internal and external data analysis for HCSC. Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) is a non-investor-owned mutual insurance company that operates through its Blue Cross and Blue Shield divisions in Illinois, Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and several subsidiaries to offer a variety of health and life insurance products and related services to employers and individuals.• Managed and led all print buying for BCBSIL, BCBSTX, BCBSNM, and BCBSOK. • Collected and analyzed data from internal and external sources to present to Senior Management.• Led all Digital StoreFront training when rolled out to (HCSC) IL, TX, NM, and OK. • Key HCSC contact for all print related matters.

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Managed and led Scheduling for Verizon Information Services, a company which provides sales, publishing, and other related services for over 1,730 directory titles in 44 states with a total circulation of approximately 121 million copies in the U.S., and 8 million internationally. • Successfully increased workload production by 40% from 2005 to 2006 with a on-time ship % of 99.9%. • Increased MPPS (thousand of pages printed) from 9.5 million MPPS (9.5 billion pages) to 13.5 million MPPS (13.5 billion pages) in a span of three years. 2004, 2005, and 2006. • Planned a successful six-month PrismWin Project, which consisted of the initial Job Loading, Quoting, and Scheduling-January 2003. • Coordinated the initial Scheduling of the new Mitsubishi Sheetfed Press Installation Project-June 2004.

M.S Management

B.S., Network And Telecom Management

Certification, Mcse

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