As a professional, I have always wanted to start my own business. I decided to take 12 months from my career as a procurement professional and try my hand at my own business. I am now rejuvenated and ready for the next challenge in my career.

• Directing the Capex across 20+ locations in North America and managing $200M+ annually on a commercial level.• Negotiating numerous $500K+ contracts for 30+ high-priority projects, reaching $250M+ annually.• Successfully led $300M, three-phase capacity expansion at three decentralized specialty steel locations.• Simultaneously managing various initiatives and equipment expenditure of $200M+ and over two years including Caster ($80M), Rolling Mill ($40M), Reheat Furnace ($40M), Baghouse ($20M), and Non Ferrous Recovery Systems ($19M). • Delivering strategic supervision to contract employees and serving as project lead for decentralized procurement team.• Facilitating SAP go-lives at 21 mills and 46 downstream locations following involvement in intensive SAP training.• Interviewing and making hiring decisions for applicants, as well as training and onboarding new team members.• Effectively leading capital procurement, project planning, execution, and closure in collaboration with various project teams.• Documenting cost savings and avoidance by exceeding goals and consistently meeting over 10% savings on $250M+ annually.• Ensuring value-add supplier relations through implementation of the “scorecard” system of comparing suppliers.

• Managed various strategic sourcing projects, engineering services, procurement processes, and capital equipment projects.• Functioned as strategic sourcing specialist handling annual capital expenditures worth ~$300M.• Held accountable for return on invested capital initiative for improved return on investment of the company; as well as for rental equipment worth $10M and lifting gear worth $3M annually.• Implemented bidding process, e-auctions, and technical RFPs, contributing to ~10% departmental cost savings.

• Administered all key procurement functions in support of multimillion-dollar production operations.• Managed production parts and capital tooling procurement for multiple product launches; accumulated $10M+ organizational savings involving major projects from lower cost countries.• Led planning and purchasing for ~$45M of components as part of the Existing Product Integrity (EPI) group.• Determined and secured supply sources including landed cost initiatives, low cost country sourcing, and should-cost analysis.• Identified materials and manufactured components to be used, analyzed supply quality and solved production line stoppages.• Observed strict legal compliance in purchasing contracts and in facilitating staff training.• Secured 10% annual savings and maintained competitive status as electronic material sourcing and purchasing division lead.• Broadened knowledge of plant functions and production requirements through experience as buyer in Tennessee facility.

• Global 8D training, defective material management, and materials management.; Six Sigma initiatives with Green Belt status. • Corporate sourcing efforts for indirect materials such as Seagate Retail Drive, Food Services, and Metal Injection Molding. • Outsourced major design and manufacturing services (Chemical services, Food services, and Capital Equipment). • Direct material experience with forecasts and placing orders, as well as supply chain management, including negotiations.