Responsible for the overall Procurement, Purchase Order placement, and expediting of all major equipment, piping, valves and fittings, instrumentation, electrical materials, controls, and structural steel as a contractor for Covanta Renewable Energy.

Sole Buyer for 45 Design Group Engineers. An excellent experience for anyone who has the passion to work in a large organization and thrive.

Responsible for detailing, ordering, coordination of material deliveries with Project Management and warehouse, coordination of job progress of installation with general contractor and other sub-contractors.

• Responsible for the overall Procurement, Purchase Order placement/management and expediting of all major equipment, piping materials, piping spools, valves, structural steel, controls and instrumentation for a new $60MM Hydrogen Plant Project in the Dickinson, ND• Responsible for the overall Procurement, Purchase Order placement/management and expediting of all major equipment, piping materials, piping spools, valves, structural steel, controls and instrumentation at multiple Domestic Refineries for clients as Chevron, Tesoro and Conoco Phillips. Received commendations from Chevron Management for cost savings on multiple orders.

Buyer – August 2010 – January 2012• Responsible for the overall Procurement, Purchase Order placement/management and expediting of all major equipment, piping materials, piping spools, valves, structural steel, controls and instrumentation on SAMREF (Saudi Aramco Refinery) Project in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. Received a commendation email from GE/Bentley Nevada for handling orders in a timely manner.Senior Expediter/Buyer- November 2007-July 2009• Responsible for coordination of manufacturing/scheduling/Shipping of Vessels, Heat Exchangers and Structural Steel for Chevron’s Richmond and El Segundo Refinery Projects. Promoted to Expediting Lead March 2008. Promoted to Associate Buyer May 2009 while still holding Expediting work load. Trained in AutoCAD2007 as well as AutoCAD2007 Advanced through Glendale Community College. Additional Training in Piping Design through Worley Parsons Piping Department. Earned multiple achievement awards from Chevron/Worley Parsons for work ethics.

Worked from Apprenticeship through Foreman levels on many projects ranging from Standard Commercial Ducting to Clean room environments. Installation of FRP and Teflon lined Stainless ducting for Intel and Infineon Computer chip plants in CA, NM and VA locations. Joint Foreman-ship on 250,000 sq ft Thunder Valley Casino North of Sacramento, CA. Basic TI installation of HVAC for clients of Disney, Warner Bros.Changed careers due to work related injury.