Ken Mullen Email & Phone Number

Martinez, Ca

Administer and review purchase orders, bids and contracts of all materials, supplies, equipment and services for the District; handle the more complex and large purchases and specified contractsAdvise internal customers in the District's purchasing procedures and related policies.Assume responsibility for contracting for consultant, professional, engineer and architect services.Keelp abreast of changes in legislation affecting purchasing

Oakland, California, United States

Purchased all IT and Engineering for Children’s Hospital

250 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, Ca

Contractor in the City of Palo Alto's Purchasing/Contract Administration Department as a dedicated resource for the City's IT Department and the Community Services Department. I manage all contracts for hardware and software plus the warranty associated with both categories. Issue RFPs for all sourcing events above certain dollar limits. Write General Service and Professional Service Agreements for all new engagement with technology vendors wanted to do business with Palo Alto. Working with… Show more Contractor in the City of Palo Alto's Purchasing/Contract Administration Department as a dedicated resource for the City's IT Department and the Community Services Department. I manage all contracts for hardware and software plus the warranty associated with both categories. Issue RFPs for all sourcing events above certain dollar limits. Write General Service and Professional Service Agreements for all new engagement with technology vendors wanted to do business with Palo Alto. Working with IT Senior Analyst to create new contract templates that are technology specific that helps the City of Palo Alto conduct business with new business that protects the city. I work with various departments within the 330+ staff in Community Services Department. I have also worked on contracts for the City of Palo Alto's Public Works Department replacing equipment at the Water Department. Show less

250 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, Ca 94947

Manage the "Citywide" category of Contracts that touches all the City Department

Headquarters Located At Walnut Creek, Ca; Data Centers Are In The Phoenix, Az

• Plans and implements activities related to the sourcing of hardware, software and professional services.• Determines methods and procedures on new assignments **POC in Flash Technology for Storage **Negotiated 60 month lease for Managed Print Services; 23 states, 200+ devices, saved 39% • Lead teams to develop sourcing strategy, using 5 – 7 step methodology• Leads the effort of the negotiation team with legal and business/project representatives for more complicated and… Show more • Plans and implements activities related to the sourcing of hardware, software and professional services.• Determines methods and procedures on new assignments **POC in Flash Technology for Storage **Negotiated 60 month lease for Managed Print Services; 23 states, 200+ devices, saved 39% • Lead teams to develop sourcing strategy, using 5 – 7 step methodology• Leads the effort of the negotiation team with legal and business/project representatives for more complicated and larger deals **Enterprise Storage, Wintel Blade Servers, Security technology, Managed Print Services, Data Warehouse- Network and Voice• Facilitating Strategic Sourcing Project that creates and modifies Strategic Sourcing operating policies and procedures along contract templates and Legal clauses for our IBM Emptoris contract management system. • Works independent on most contracts moderate in complexity Show less

Concord, Ca

• Responsibility of supporting the Senior Category Lead in strategic sourcing, contracting, procurement and supplier oversight of PG&E's Transmission & Distribution in support of the ED Services Portfolio• Provides integral support to strategic sourcing leadership and guidance to our internal business clients supporting sourcing events as well as tactical procurement and contract administration services.• Responsible to complete moderate to complex strategic sourcing, contracting… Show more • Responsibility of supporting the Senior Category Lead in strategic sourcing, contracting, procurement and supplier oversight of PG&E's Transmission & Distribution in support of the ED Services Portfolio• Provides integral support to strategic sourcing leadership and guidance to our internal business clients supporting sourcing events as well as tactical procurement and contract administration services.• Responsible to complete moderate to complex strategic sourcing, contracting, procurement and supplier oversight and project assignments* Extended Master Services Contracts with Gas SubContractors that were still working on the reparations of the San Bruno Gas Pipe explosion in 2010. These vendors were hitting there Financial Contract spending ceilings I would work with Legal, Accounting and Risk Management so we could extend more credit to these excellent vendors that were working for us, Show less

HISNA is Hyundai Information Services of North America and we support all the technologies requirements of Hyundai and KIA automobile companies and their affiliates. The Procurement team of which I am a member of is located in Irvine, CA

• Creating Strategic Sourcing Department• Create templates for RFP/RFI and SOW plus HW/SW & Services Agreements• Submit RFP for Domestic Print Services company• Negotiating Contracts with New Customers: Reference Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Company

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

• Negotiating Enterprise-Wide technology based agreements for State Compensation Insurance Fund• Created Legal Sourcing Templates; RFP/RFI, SOW, SW, HW & Professional Services contracts• Creating Vendor Management Office for IT at State Compensation Insurance Fund

SSO will implement multi-year strategic alliances with suppliers to leaverage University of California wide volume, reducing the number of vendors to an optimum number and leading the Medical Center community to the benefits of buying through pre-arranged supply channels so that the majority of purchases are made via contracts. Worked with Sourcing Management at all 5 UC medical centers. Negotiated contracts that benefited 10 ea UC Campuses, 5 ea UC Medical Schools and 23 ea Cal State campuses.

San Francisco Bay Area

Voluntary Industry Organization

San Ramon, Ca Headquarters

Manage Global Vendor Relationship with SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, Mercury, Ariba, • Negotiated Global Enterprise Microsoft $30M Contract saving 10% * Negotiated Oracle Global OLSA replacing 17 yr old 1989 SLSA* Negotiated SAP Global 3 yr agreement• Develop long-term Strategic Alliance programs with HP, IBM and SAP with co-development • Co-developed Legal Templates for all of Chevron

Contractor to Permanent position at Carnival Corp. There are 7 operating companies; Carnival Cruise, Princess, Holland American, Seabourne, Costa, Aida, and P&O, that have there own CIO and my position was to work with the different environments and negotiate enterprise agreements with technology providers for the entire corporation.

Novato, Ca Headquarters

• Negotiating Software, Hardware, and Professional Services Contracts for Fireman s Fund Supply • Management Department delivering 10-15% additional savings

San Francisco, Ca At Bank Of America West Coast Headquarters

• Delivered the reorganization of Strategic Sourcing activities for a total over $550m in annual spend for the Bank of America in their Real Estate Property and Project Management groups programs west of Chicago and Manhattan. Develop and implement formal Sourcing programs including specification development, assessment of supplier performance and benchmarking, identification and collaboration with the supplier community, collection and analysis of market data, issuance of RFI/RFQ/RFP s… Show more • Delivered the reorganization of Strategic Sourcing activities for a total over $550m in annual spend for the Bank of America in their Real Estate Property and Project Management groups programs west of Chicago and Manhattan. Develop and implement formal Sourcing programs including specification development, assessment of supplier performance and benchmarking, identification and collaboration with the supplier community, collection and analysis of market data, issuance of RFI/RFQ/RFP s, facilitation of open competitive bidding and negotiation/execution of national and global supplier agreements. Show less

San Bruno, Ca : It Management Location

• Single Point of Contact in managing technology vendors: IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, etc. • Negotiate product and service contracts with strategic software, hardware and professional services IT vendors • Individual responsible for Annual spend 2003 is $95m, ITAM department spend for 2003 is in excess of $350m

San Francisco, Ca

• Negotiated agreements that reduce risk and increase value to the firm. In year 2001, increased savings to firm by $50m once the team became involved.• Restructured Procurement Team in Birmingham, England for 3 months (Oct.-Dec. 2000)• Participated on Management team and chose eProcurement provider, Ariba, in 2000 and had it put on 17,000 workstations• Procurement Department spend in 2000 was $1.3b, 2002 spend was $645m

Purchasing Manager for Computer Software and Hardware Reseller that had revenue of $150M in annual sales. Negotiated contracts with IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Hewlett Packard, NEC and Lotus.

Aa Program, Film/Cinema/Video Studies

Back in college Fall 2013 semester with direction to complete coursework for Bachelors in Business

Aa Program, Business Administration And Management, General

Intro classes to a Business Administration degree.

General Education, Science And Fine Arts

Activities and Societies: 1969 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) General Education with pre-college classes