• Responsible for supplier selection, pricing, negotiating, minimum order quantity (MOQ) and logistics delivery.• Prepare and negotiate material and service contracts with suppliers.• Negotiate pricing reduction, concessions, rebate from vendors, etc.• Prepare, disseminating and review price and delivery inquiries to qualified manufacturers and suppliers.• Perform planning activities to procure material on a timely basis, at the most optimum supply chain cost.• Issue Purchase Orders and Service Agreements in accordance with company’s policies and procedures.• Develop and maintain reliable sources of suppliers.• Maintain supplier database regarding supplier location, pricing delivery history and make recommendations.• Review overall supplier activity and performance to assure contract compliance.• Develop and presenting reports of purchasing activities and costs.• Develop relationships with vendors.• Assist in the development and implementation of Purchasing methods and procedures and then monitoring the process to assure that all purchases are in accordance with company policy and procedures.• Maintain stock levels of inventory items by running reports and ordering stock items as needed.• Handle all LED product warranty issues with manufacturer.

• Responsible for supplier selection, pricing, negotiating, minimum order quantity (MOQ) and logistics delivery.• Prepare and negotiate material and service contracts with suppliers.• Negotiate pricing reduction, concessions, rebate from vendors, etc.

• Manager – Managed all daily activities of store, which included: customer relations, hiring, training and scheduling of associates, payroll, bank deposits, inventory control, merchandising of seasonal products. Since managing present store, reduced shrinkage and loss from 8% to 0.5% in one year and increased Front End sales from $17,000 per week to $25,000 per week.

• Administrative Support - Provided administrative support for technical services and QA – Powerpoint presentations, complex documents, technical bulletins. Designed layout and facilitated publication of internal newsletters (Sundae Times and Cultured Quarterly) using Microsoft Publisher software.• Quality Documentation - Certificates of Analysis, Material Safety Data Sheets, Nutrition information, product specifications maintained, kosher letters requested from Rabbi for new products. Maintained and improved the quality of the systems that generate the aforementioned controlled documents.• Improvement Action Program (IA) – IA’s were registered and distributed for corrective action. Co-ordinated Steering Committee Meetings, maintained status of all IA’s, maintained committee minutes. Created and maintained the IA Access Database. Supply IA group committees with reports.• ISO 9001 Document Control – Researched, analyzed and developed Standard Operating Procedures, Work Instructions and other ISO documents were created, circulated and maintained. Generated status information on document system for monthly review. Developed and maintained Lotus Notes Document Database for storage of all issued controlled documents.• Formulation Management – Maintained resources in MRP software (Protean), maintained formulation production models in Protean, maintained product label database. Maintained formulations in Formulator Lotus Notes database. Maintained work instructions for maintenance of resources and production models for use with Protean and Formulator.