--Managed daily issues with family rental properties including sourcing materials, HVAC and service contractors--Computerized business w/ complex Excel workbook for revenues/expenditures that feed audit ready tax docs-- Information transfers on procurement/supply chain processes with small consulting/market research firms--Secondary caregiver for terminally ill parent

Contractor-8-months• Contracted to launch a new technology category product using new, internal Lenovo global multi-plant manufacturing and supply chain & purchasing processes. Negotiated and steered internal legal, functional, and external stakeholders to close contractual agreements to provide a lean supply chain and financial transactions between Lenovo and vendors. Supervised global manufacturing met new product design and launch schedules.♦ Negotiated two $150M baseline spend contracts with global contract manufacturers meeting new product launch (NPI) deliverables and release dates and implementing partner alignments♦ Reduced contract closure times by negotiating and influencing two reluctant contractors to use Lenovo contract structure and previously agreed signed agreements

Led complex procurement, hardware/software supply chain & sourcing for largest IBM spend product category projects with spending budgets up to $250M/year with Fortune 400 vendors. Managed collaborative supply chain issues to closure ensuring revenue and total delivered cost on requirements from initial RFQ through award & signoff on services, product life cycles, ensuring vendors meet products and services cost, quality, delivery, procurement processes, metrics and fulfillment milestones. Handled all cost processes, analysis, takedowns, service costs and negotiations to hit cost savings targets ensuring no unapproved cost increases after award with approved engineering change notices. Monitored and managed procurement processes and global purchases caused no product development missed launch & closure target dates. As procurement quality lead, ensured no missed orders through root cause, recommendations, and action plans. Gave directional management guidance to team of 4. Team Lead--Storwise product category 2012-2018Team Lead--Data Center DCS 3xxx, 5xxx, product categories 2008-2018• Quoted (RFQ/RFP/RFI), awarded & managed two (2) successful $200M-plus (YR spend) global vendors ensuring all products completed lifecycle milestones, meeting cost, quality and fulfillment targetso Managed and brought to market over 40 global products on-time and meeting cost targetso Managed relationship & change management issues with both vendors as one vendor grew rapidly and other vendor spend decreased rapidly with products going end of life

Successfully managed product line procurement, new vendor onboarding, resolved procurement and systems integration issues and negotiated costs during vendor consolidation and product lines down from three to one successful, award-winning product segment. Proactively managed vendor developed, manufactured, tested, and shipped as IBM-logo products. During major global product transition, collaboratively managed supplier setups, CAPEX, tooling, IBM internal and vendor processes, procurement changes, and supply lines. Developed, implemented, and reported vendor performance ratings to internal and external stakeholders. Collaborated with third party logistics, service, and parts vendors to ensure customers had no end-of-life parts issues. ♦ ♦ Reduced costs by over $1M per quarter through the creation of global ‘per deal’ supplier/ customer discount program due to comprehensive negotiations between procurement, sales team, and vendors♦ Saved $4M annually by creating and managing negotiating a successful vendor discount sales program Created a 35% increase in revenue of software sales by changing the complex software sales process from existing part number purchase model to new royalty payment model♦ As a key member of team, successfully launched and managed over 40 products and supply chain life cycles