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Beaverton, Or, Us

Tualatin, Oregon

Portland, Oregon Area

• Negotiated long term agreements with key suppliers. Results included an increased company presence, improved supplier relationships and greater supply chain flexibility.• Successfully managed essential planning and procurement activities maximizing cost benefit and timely delivery while minimizing inventory, shipping and material handling costs.• Developed and maintained vital procurement metrics reports.• Worked closely with Quality Control Manager to assure compliance with FAA quality processes and procedures.• Created order management procedures and attended to customer requests for post production support. Collaborated with customers to assure material availability and order accuracy.• Handled routine inventory management responsibilities. Performed inventory location transactions, valuation changes and corrected all discrepancies.• Expanded role to learn Configuration management function. Assumed ownership of procurement bill of materials, production work orders and management of configuration changes in the database.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Built and developed constructive and effective relationships with internal stakeholders• Administered formal RFP process from IT consulting requirements to large construction projects• Created new SAP services RFQ process which resulted in reduced the time to acquire services from 6 to 8 weeks to 2 or 3 days• Developed and documented new business and system process flows• Lead in training end users and other procurement staff• Enhanced process to efficiently update source lists in SAP. Benefit was to allow SAP to continue to “auto-generate” purchase orders for multiple material agreements accounting for 50,000 auto PO line items (65,000+ source list items)• Monitored the source list expiration report and collaborated with sourcing managers to assess requirements. Worked with SAP support team to create a new transaction which allowed individual buyers to update source lists as needed

San Francisco Bay Area

• Negotiated software maintenance contracts totaling over $4 million for 2002 with an associated cost savings of $460k• Implemented a web based contracts database which allowed the easy tracking and reporting on all IT related license, maintenance and service agreements• Resolved contract related issues as well as supplier performance issues• Led the IT team which established criteria for equipment deployment• Created procedures for a new asset management program focusing on computer systems lifecycle management• Worked extensively with asset management to properly retire computer assets resulting in significant tax savings• Partnered with procurement to assist in the deployment of usable equipment• Managed a multi-million dollar inventory with 99% accuracy• Development weekly and monthly metric reports for management• Initiated an extensive trade program with Sun Microsystems, resulting in a $900k annual savings• Established a Microsoft maintenance procurement strategy which resulted in a $1MM cost savings over 2 years• Responsible for sourcing and procurement of all networking/telecom equipment, software, and printers• Continually exceeded all department metrics for customer service, cost savings and PO placement• Developed, tested and implemented an e-procurement portal for ordering business cards and stationary online• Analyzed reports and metrics to assure vendors were performing to expectations• Purchased commodities ranging from office supplies to software and laptops