Professional experience includes 20+ years in purchasing and sourcing roles. Thirteen years spent with The Boeing Company. Six of those years sourcing parts and components for commercial and military aircraft, the remaining 7 spent negotiating large scale (mainframe) hardware and software contracts. During five years at Koch Industries, Inc., role was to manage a contracts group responsible for negotiating and managing information technology contracts for the various Koch companies. Formed Acquisition Services, LLC in 2002 to provide sourcing expertise for medium to large companies that do not have international purchasing capability in-house. The goal is to provide companies with an international sourcing capability without the expense of full time headcount equivalents.I have traveled to Asia (China, Vietnam, India, Thailand) over 100 times in the past 15 years and have inspected over 500 factories. My belief is that source selection is the most critical part of any sourcing activity.Specialties: Negotiation, purchasing, sourcing, international business, international source selection, business development, sales and marketing