Responsibilities include global sourcing and development of Network Service Providers for Transport/Waves, IP, Transit, Dark Fiber, Peering, Co-location Providers, Content Delivery Network (CDN), as well as tools to manage circuits and monitoring. Total category spend of $18M with achieved cost savings of 23%. Other responsibilities include negotiation of complex Master Service Agreements ensuring favorable commercial terms. Focus includes working closely with cross-functional teams including operations, program management and finance to maximize product offering and costing to increase profitability.• Collaborate with technical resources and business units to identify new sources and re-negotiate agreements with current providers to drive cost reductions upwards of 50% on mature commodities. Facilitate and develop relationships with new suppliers.• Establish and maintain business relationships with key suppliers. Ensure that negotiated agreements are implemented, and aggressively pursue competitive purchase environment by constantly seeking alternate supply, product replacement and substitution• Negotiated new standard commercial terms for Co-location and Data Center Providers resulting in less liability and escalator clauses.• Led and participate strategic business reviews with key suppliers, focusing on relationship growth and resolution of problematic issues like chronic circuit outages.

Manage a global Procurement team with direct reports in Asia, Europe and the US with a total direct spend of $100M. Responsible for direct and indirect purchases, sub-contractor installation services and capital equipment purchases. Develop and maintain strategic relationships with three international and one domestic contract manufacturer. Handle sub-tier supplier expedites, assurance of supply for a best in class lead-time of two weeks after receipt of order, and monitor performance quarterly. Work closely with Contract Manufacturers to alleviate expedite fees for orders outstripping forecast. Work internally with Operations and Planning regularly on supplier capabilities as well as streamlining of forecast and supply integrity. Proactively resolve challenges related to supplier capacity and demand surges. • Work with Commodity Management on resourcing of existing suppliers to drive cost reductions upwards of 30% on mature commodities. Facilitate and develop relationships with new suppliers.• Responsible for development of metrics previously lacking such as On Time Delivery, Expedites/Defers, Procurement Cycle time, Invoices on hold etc. Moved the department to an automated PO creation environment reducing the amount of time it takes to create and send Purchase Orders by 50%. Full Sales order to PO linkage.• Work directly with sales on quoting of new opportunities and have achieved additional discounts of 15% on already competitive pricing.• Grow Contract Manufacturers to meet business need by reduction of leadtime from six weeks to two weeks for standard products. • Led strategic business reviews with key suppliers. Developed and implemented stocking programs which significantly reduced leadtime, inventory liability and cost.

Merged OEM Purchasing team, Direct Purchasing team, New Product Purchasing team and Services Purchasing team into one organization with a spend of $250M on Direct Materials. Performed overall skill set and redundancy evaluation. Coordinated the Supply Chain aspect of a full outsourcing of both an international and domestic Contract Manufacturer. This included assumption of inventory, transference of terms from our supplier to contract manufacturer and assumption of open PO’s. Developed and mentored new Contract Manufacturer team and tailored them to the requirements of the business.• Revamped the Subcontractor services process by developing a simplified agreement template and rolling out to organization – 30% reduction in time within legal and at suppliers.• Implemented with key suppliers a merge-in-transit model where inventory can be held for up to two weeks at no cost to company prior to picking up.• Executed a Subcontractor services RFP reducing the number of subcontractor services suppliers from 30 to 5. Achieved an overall cost reduction of 30%.• Developed PPV reporting mechanism to ensure standard costs are set accurately for new products. Created all buyer reports such as the open order report, shortage report, planned order report etc.

Managed $70M in PCB’s and subassemblies. Was responsible for outsourcing of production line from Texas to Contract Manufacturer in Penang, Malaysia. • Assumed responsibility of poorly performing contract manufacturer. Improved line down shortages and drove leadtime reduction from 8 weeks to 4 weeks. Improved OTD from 70% to 98% by prioritizing supplier and working sub-tier supplier expedites.• Expanded supply base to meet demanding R&D lead time requirements. • Created a qualification and on-boarding process for fabricated part suppliers.• Implemented quality provisions and an inspection process for fabricated parts.• Began capturing performance metrics. Implemented periodic supplier assessment and business reviews.

Managed $20M annually in direct material spend. Reduced supplier count by eliminating small volume distributors and re-sourcing with existing high volume distributors, achieving a cost reduction of 15%. Successfully drove 20% inventory reduction through the use of Two Bin and Consignment programs with strategic supplier. Participated on strategic team to transfer production lines from the Phoenix, AZ facility to Bangalore, India facility while supporting both production lines to maintain continuity of supply.

Managed $20M of annual direct material spend. Reduced supplier count by eliminating small volume distributors and re-sourcing with existing high volume distributors. Successfully drove 20% inventory reduction through the use of Two Bin and Consignment programs with strategic supplier. Participated on strategic team to transfer production lines from Phoenix, AZ facility to Bangalore, India while supporting both production lines to maintain continuity of supply.

Responsible for managing largest annual commodity spend of $80M for advertising. Achieved 20% cost reduction goal by combining advertising agencies and negotiating a larger discount. Streamlined the procurement process for all commodities by working with over 30 different campuses to standardize the requisition process, payment terms, and contract approvals. Moved all of the advertising suppliers to more favorable payment terms throughout North America.

Solely supported newly formed startup company in every aspect of Procurement including raw materials, engineering materials and capital equipment purchases. Renegotiated contracts to gain favorable terms achieving a cost reduction of 20% on capital equipment purchases. Acted as liaison between engineering and suppliers to review product designs and ensure simplification of design while moving into high production which achieved cost reductions of 15% off existing designs. Conducted on site supplier audits with the quality department to assess and approve both new and existing suppliers are strategic supply sources.

Purchased multiple commodities such as semi-conductors, resistors, capacitors, diodes and PCBA level assemblies. Oversaw transition of product line from one Contract Manufacturer to another while maintaining continuity of supply and acted as liaison between CM, engineering and product managers, and suppliers. Created, defined and implemented Return Material Authorization (RMA), Shop Complaint and Supplier Corrective Action process for new start up division. Mentored new employees and oversaw training of system requirements and ensured adherence to processes and procedures.