Developed a comprehensive and disciplined Procurement Strategy focused on integrating and providing comprehensive leadership for all USP purchasing, logistics, and vendor contract management. • Generated annual 2%-3% incremental savings program on $27M in chemical / freight spending via purchasing strategy, vendor relationship management, cost/vendor optimization, and negotiations strategy • Created chemical (and freight) spend tracking metrics ; used Danaher Business Systems tools to optimize annual cost savings, vendor relationships, and favorable supply agreements.• Developed and executed vendor focused Quality Assurance programs supporting >$45M in annual business using vendor management KPIs including score cards, corrective action reports, and PPV tracking• Negotiated 18% YoY savings on $25M strategic chemical spend (2017/2018) by leveraging market knowledge, purchasing volume, and vendor relationship management • Managed rolling stock procurement and operations for trucks, bulk liquid trailers, and ISO containers

I continue to grow my strategic program and project management skills adding materials purchasing, supply chain, fleet management, and logistics to my experience. I also continue to refine my leadership skills in product and project management, regulatory filings, purchasing, planning, operations, and manufacturing scale-up. I have commercialized ‘open innovation’ consumer and ag product platforms worth >$100M; I have led development teams in consumer and ag products from concept through new market definition, pilot production and commercial scale-up in N. America, EU, S. America, N. Africa, and SE Asia.Throughout my career I have delivered results 30% early (earning sales 1 month ahead of plan on average) in multiple retail channels by using PM scheduling, MS Project, FMEA, and risk management.At USP Technologies (a Danaher Company) I lead a strategic initiative to secure long term contractual agreements and control operations costs for supply chain, logistics, and customer service including account monitoring and order processing. I developed a purchasing strategy to generate a 75% freight savings for a key customer contributing 110bps to gross margin. At FMC I led development and expansion of a >$100M global platform to update off-patent crop protection chemicals: I identified product targets, new markets (Europe, SE Asia, and N. Africa) and managed annual development budgets of ~$250M for regulatory, testing, and manufacturing trials.At BioLab I led the group managing a 35-project global portfolio, the Stage-Gate process and all ‘enterprise’ project schedules: these projects required identifying corporate (D-level and above) resources, assigning tasks, and following-up with corporate team members to insure they finished tasks.

Contract work while family member ill: Led key time and resource constrained projects, managing outside vendor spending (materials, labor). Built project management infrastructure: schedules, checklists, and tracking tools. Created resource management metrics to leverage spending into purchasing power.

Created a new product development atmosphere modeled on Consumer Products cross-functional teams focused on commercialization of value added insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides.In my three years, led a platform development program with fifteen individual projects and turned five (5) of these projects into new products - scaling them up through commercial scale manufacturing. These five new products represented the first new FMC R&D innovation developments in over seven years. Led implementation of cross-functional teams, project definition paperwork, MS Sharepoint implementation, standardized Stage & Gate documentation, and other PMO infrastructure.

Manager: Led the successful development and launch of 35 commercial platforms (>$75M incremental revenue value) including a team of NPD professionals. Worked on enterprise level programs with C&D level project teams to launch new brands, industry changing formulation development (non-oxidizer halogen water treatment chemistry) including new products with >$12M revenue contribution.Program / Project Manager: Developed day to day project management techniques to implement project management environment new to company. Incorporate project documentation and financial tracking tools into all new product development activities including stage/gate process.R&D Scientist: Created proprietary formulations and led the commercialization process from lab research to pilot manufacturing through field/market testing and product launch.