Ken Bragdon, Mba, Cpsm, Nigp-Cpp, Cppb, Ctcm Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin

Organization-wide ownership of the cradle-to-grave contract management process, with an emphasis on supplier development, sourcing, evaluation, negotiation, contract development & administration, process improvement, and benchmarking.• Development of over 65 master agreements, totaling approximately $120 million in authorized spend.• Conducts research and authors comprehensive content for stakeholders, including scopes and specifications, terms and conditions, requests for Council authority, justifications, memorandums of understanding, appeal notices, and recommendations to management and officials.• Delivers consulting expertise to internal clients by crafting contractual content and category strategies, ensuring compliance with State and City laws, and developing contract management training.• Introduced purchasing initiatives to management to improve contractual award timeliness, utilizing methods like cooperative contracts, exemptions, and interdepartmental contract sharing.• Executed process improvements, achieving consistent 100% compliance with State and City regulations and maintaining a 97-100% timely encumbrance rate.• Oversight of departmental contract portfolio during a 60% operational budget increase over four years without additional personnel or resources.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Responsible for processing and awarding most city-wide IT hardware and software purchasing orders, procuring approximately $11.6M worth of goods and services in FY 2019. •Responsible for contract monitoring and all renewals/extensions of master agreements for three of the City’s departments. •Acquires products and services for power generation facilities via competitive purchases and master agreements. •Performs research and actively works with end users to identify and best determine deliverable needs via scopes of work. • Assists senior staff regularly with unrelated master agreements and requests for proposal. Engages regularly with new and potential vendors to continuously increase the available vendor pool of the City.

Reviews departmental requests for solicitation and award. Generates and validates contractual information. Creates purchase and delivery orders. Researches and generates vendor information for upcoming solicitations. Coordinates outreach projects for City employees to meet with potential vendors. Facilitates City’s bid opening seminars. Conducts research and compiles data for various procurement projects

Austin, Texas Area

Managed and processed online sales and special orders for a record store and concert venue with 50 staff generating up to $100K in daily sales.Researched, located, and procured special orders for high-value or rare items, which included determining item conditions and conducting market research and price comparisons. Developed and implemented “Mystery Bag” marketing campaigns to remove slow-moving inventory items from the warehouse, leading to a 20% decrease in excess product.Increased holiday sales over 200% by identifying top-selling items and maximizing their visibility within the storefront.Set up and managed retail tents at music events and venues, including SXSW and Austin City Limits. Trained five Customer Service Representatives in sales processes and inventory maintenance.

Conducted product pricing analysis for current and future projects, making possible a successful product launch of floor mats into the Canadian market. Visited factories in China to assess potential projects and marketing opportunities. Attended Canton Industrial Fair in April 2011, and traveled to Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shanghai.

Managed a $5K advertising budget and executed marketing initiatives for an influential immigration law firm, which included trade show materials, biweekly newsletters, website content, and social media outreach.Researched and developed content for e-mail marketing initiatives and newsletters with over 10K subscribers in over 30 countries.Developed and maintained B2B relationships with both domestic and international firms. Implemented SEO keywords which improved website search result placement by four Google pages.Analyzed daily visits, user demographics and geographic locations using Google Analytics, internal algorithms, and Alexa.Negotiated new contracts with a web provider and e-mail blast distributor, reducing monthly costs 40%.Engaged in aggressive series of reciprocal link exchanges with high-profile sites to improve URL visibility, generating an increase in subscribers from 4K to over 10K.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English / Communication Studies

Dual Degree