Patty Karr, Mba Email & Phone Number

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Manage ordering, delivery, and billing of 2.3 million gallons of fuel annually
• Manage transport driver responsible for 60 mission critical sites which includes County Fire Stations and 130 generators
• A part of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) team when activated
• Responsible for fuel tanks compliance, maintenance, and repairs at 6 facilities
• Monitors fuel budget
• Responsible for monthly reporting to the State

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Negotiated fee reduction of $35K Implementation/Training on EVV (electronic visit verification) project
• Negotiated reduction in monthly fee on EVV project for NY and NJ annual savings $385K
• Achieved cost avoidance and savings of $35K on Fitness Center Subsidy
• Process Improvement computers in Fitness Center savings of $43K
• Achieved savings of $17K on Income Tax Compliance project
• Negotiated savings on Penetration Testing project of $48K

Marietta, GA

• Manage fuel procurement strategy for vehicle fleet of over 50,000 units and 357 facilities amounting to an annual spend of $165MM
• Conceptualized Oil Supplier to provide free oil testing $280K in savings
• Achieved $895K in cost avoidance with Telematics supplier
• Recovered $189K from mobile fuel supplier from suspect fraudulent transactions
• Created data base to track spend and compare to DOE
• Implemented mobile fuel contracts at 195 facilities achieving $122K in savings

• Negotiated savings of $166K
• Took over project that was trending to stall. Met deadline of converting 17,000 fuel cards – converted remaining 60% in two weeks.
• Currently manage 1,200 freight lanes and 450 index based contracts
• Identified and resolved billing error which resulted in a refund of $50K and cost reduction of $10.5K.
• Secured additional freight lanes/93 locations for $246K worth of business.
• Developed data base to manage secondary suppliers and freight lanes with delivery to 300 locations resulting in savings of $100K.

Manage Process improvementsResearch index based pricing disputesWork with suppliers to validate index based contractsManage staff of 3 in mission critical department ($850MM per year)Negotiate volume rebates with truck stopsAssist in fraud casesPresent at Service Managers trainingCompile Quarterly and Monthly fuel dashboardsAssist Maintenance with winter.

Managed daily operations of fuel purchasing and payablesNegoiated with truck stopsImplemented process improvementsRan AS400 queriesManaged fuel card program

Mba, Coporate

Ba, Marketing And Business Management