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Seattle, Washington, United States

Leads the supply chain function for the corporation including strategic sourcing, contracting, procurement, and inventory management.

Seattle, WA

Led the Strategic Sourcing Department to source third party services needed to perform facilities management services for Amazon and Amgen in North America.

Bothell, Washington

• Led the Division’s $500 million annual spend by strategically planning and directing employees to globally source, negotiate, contract, and procure, products and services necessary to build large-scale thermal power.
• Developed strategies and objectives and implemented best practices to reduce negotiation cycle time by 20%, reduce commercial contract risk and increase negotiated savings.
• Created a low cost country strategic and tactical plan to procure equipment and commodities from China and Korea.
• Re-aligned materials management to assure proper controls are applied and processes performed efficiently with accountability.

Mountlake Terrace, WA

• Directed Premera's total company contracting and procurement for goods and services for appoximately $200 million of annual spend for this $7 billion medical insurance services provider serving over 2 million people in.
• Established the team mission and strategic objectives to align with the Company’s direction
• Created team values to promote an environment for the team to achieve stated objectives
• Developed individual and team productivity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction metrics

Bellevue, WA

• A $4 billion electricity and natural gas utility serving 1 million electric and 800,000 natural gas customers in Western Washington.Led the Company’s $500 million annual fixed-asset portfolio acquisition by directing.
• Managed construction services vendor relationships including supplier selection, contract negotiations and onboarding. Led teams to negotiate contract pricing, commercial and operations terms and conditions, and.
• Led a corporate strategic sourcing effort to select a gas facilities construction service provider saving $7 million annually, with annual spend of $80 million.
• Reduced labor expense by 30% by developing performance metrics to increase individual and team productivity and accountability.
• Created and implemented a new collaborative construction contract bid evaluation process for direct reports.

• A subsidiary of MDU Resources Group – a $6 billion natural resources and services companyDirected 15 employees to perform business development, market research, marketing program development and implementation.
• Negotiated contracts for large industrial, government, academic, institutional, commercial and individual projects using risk-assessed capital investment discounted cash flow models to achieve profitable ROI, gaining.
• Creatively negotiated bankruptcy settlements with two customers recovering $1M revenue on stranded assets.
• Created and implemented a comprehensive partner-based marketing plan aligning partners’ value propositions with customers’ needs. Targeted go-to-market multiple channeled strategy focusing teams on untapped markets.
• Initiated and directed market research studies resulting in shifting marketing program design to maximize related program adoption and revenue, and develop sales forecasts. Studies included customer satisfaction, new.
• As P&L owner for a natural gas trading subsidiary, transformed the entity into delivering positive earnings through setting effective marketing strategies, pricing and business development initiatives.

• Selected by the CEO for strategy leadership to initiate and sponsor change to improve the company’s operating efficiency and financial performance. This included developing a strategic planning structure to identify.
• Created strategic planning proposal criteria to provide process teams formal quantitative and qualitative structures to evaluate shareholder value opportunities.
• Selected ten cross-group collaboration teams focused on process-improvement throughout the company and led them to develop risk-assessed, positive net present value business proposals.
• Reduced annual operating expense by $3.5 million through major initiatives including Balanced Scorecard performance management, corporate management and regional reorganization, customer service call centers, and.

Mba, Business Administration

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology & Criminal Justice