Responsible for sourcing a wide variety of technology including telecom, network hardware and software to support the IT, contact center, marketing and sales organizations. • Effectively managed over $200M in annual spend in global Telecom and Networking categories generating $26M+ in saving in 2015-2016.• Built and managed international team to develop the first category based sourcing organization for telecom services.• Lead sourcing activities to build 2 Global Development Centers for over 1500 employees in India. Developed best practices for sourcing and P2P in special economic zones that optimized customs and tax benefits. Competed project 8% under budget.• Conducted multiple RFPs to identify global standard for credit monitoring, fraud detection and call recording platforms.

Strategic sourcing expert across various functions including IT, Network Operations, Telecommunications, and Marketing for the Consumer and Business product lines. Activities include RFx development, vendor selection, contract negotiation and cost reduction.

Director level position with authority over narrowband, broadband, WAN, transit, peering, and VoIP services. Set strategy and supervised contract negotiation, budgeting, forecasting, capacity management, quality of service monitoring and overall vendor management for consumer and business product lines.

Highly visible role with financial planning and budget responsibilities. Led DSL and VoIP network planning activities while continuing to manage narrowband product. Integral to the successful integration of multiple acquisitions. Managed staff responsible for optimizing network utilization and performance of the narrowband, DSL and voice networks. Consistently outperformed budget by 5%-9% year over year.

Managed a team responsible for network capacity and quality. Assumed increased role in vendor management and financial planning. • Played pivotal role in the network integration after MindSpring and EarthLink merger.

Performed detailed analysis of network utilization, usage trends, quality metrics and sales performance to identify cost reduction and optimization options.

Hired as inbound sales representative and quickly advanced to cross-sell multiple residential and business product lines including dedicated services, domain registration, Web hosting, and Web design. Promoted to Manager after first nine months leading team of 10-14 inbound and outbound sales agents.