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Remote

• Supported team of five individuals and one technical lead manager with three direct reports with varying levels of experience responsible for strategic sourcing, negotiation, and procurement for Meta Connectivity.
• Partnered closely with Meta Connectivity legal team to identify and draft updated standard contract terms tailored to the unique business requirements of external Connectivity partners.

Menlo Park, CA

• Sourced, negotiated, and administered R&D-focused space and telecom contracts with global partners, including for hardware, software, and engineering and consulting services, in support of the Facebook Connectivity.
• Identified opportunities and led cross-functional efforts to improve internal business processes by eliminating redundancy, improving efficiency, and ensuring best practices were leveraged across the department to.
• Represented FBC Sourcing in internal team developing new software solutions for sourcing.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Manage team of seven employees of varying levels of experience responsible for all indirect procurements across the company, including IT, capital equipment, facilities, travel agency, professional services and.
• Examine indirect procurement business processes to streamline, eliminate non-value added requirements, and ensure best procurement practices are leveraged across the department.
• Represent SSL to corporate-led team undertaking an initiative to unify company policies across business entities.

Palo Alto, California

• Initiated, negotiated, and administered complex, multimillion dollar domestic and international (Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Japan) subcontracts for mechanical and electrical components and.
• Led a cross-functional team responsible for successfully negotiating 15% savings (approximately $100M over three years) on a long-term agreement with a key supplier of spacecraft signal amplifiers.
• Served as a highly reliable Team Lead, correcting deficiencies in the handling of existing high-visibility suppliers; reviewing internal requirements documents prior to release; and interviewing candidates and training.
• Managed suppliers throughout the entire procurement process (requests for proposal; evaluation of single-source and competitive proposals; negotiation of price, schedule, and terms and conditions; award; and close-out).
• Achieved consistent cost savings on both high and low volume hardware (11% on mechanisms, 7% on on-board processors, 12% on signal amplifiers) through innovative application of both business and engineering solutions.
• Actively coordinated with engineering, program management, legal, export, finance, security, logistics, contracts administration, and accounts payable departments to achieve approval of all stakeholders and insure.

San Jose, California

Served as primary point of contact for customers at SJC airport to address passenger needs while coordinating with other airline personnel to complete pre- and post-take-off and landing tasks under continuous, tight deadlines.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Leading People And Organizations, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma

Ba, Political Science, Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Golden Key National Honor Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Eta Sigma Phi, Resident Advisor.