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South Lyon, Mi, Us

Purchase, Ny, Us

Responsible for executing and implementing effective procurement strategies of Indirect spend commodities within IT / Software, Marketing, HR, and Professional Services. Identification of needs through delivery. Develop and execute commodity strategy by partnering with the stakeholders to facilitate business goals and objectives to come in within budget. Foster strong supplier relationships and find win-win solutions for sourcing events.

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• Managed end-to-end procurement for IT Software, SaaS purchases, and foreign military sales within the Middle East, Europe, and Australia.• Negotiated $1M+ dollars in cost savings including $780,000 during a 5-year SaaS software renewal term in 2024. • Effectively handled cradle to grave purchase order process of ~50 purchase orders and ~$3MM in spend monthly utilizing Oracle E-Business Suite ERP to execute sourcing, negotiation, purchase order creation, and invoicing. • Achieved audit compliance with US Government standards while maintaining a swift 5-day purchase order lead time.• Collaborated with the legal team to renegotiate and enhance standard terms and conditions with three SaaS vendors, optimizing payment terms and minimizing risk for General Dynamics.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

• Responsible for logistics engineering, data analysis, project management, and generation of strategic cost savings initiatives• Led implementation of the static movement initiative pilot for 8 suppliers, delivering six figure cost savings.• A cross-functional leader that effectively collaborated with various teams to validate logistics cost savings.

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

• Managed logistics and associated technology contracts with a spend of $25M, utilizing SAP Ariba for efficient contract administration. • Supervised and executed all emergency and special logistics projects, collaborating with Domino’s supply chain centers, resulting in being awarded the Customer Service Excellence Award in Field Support in 2020. • Collaborated with in-house legal team to design two contract addendums to mitigate transportation contract increases while ensuring addendums complied with standard Domino’s terms and conditions. • Monitored 20+ suppliers tracking quality and cost utilizing SQL database and data visualization with Microsoft Power BI. • Managed first transportation RFQ that generated 12% total savings verse budget by utilizing targeted negotiation and procurement practices.• Standardized all transportation freight claims by creating SOPs and record documentation.

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

• Conducted data analysis and presented data through compelling data visualizations that benefited both supply chain centers and headquarters.• Created multiple Microsoft Power BI dashboards utilizing SQL queries for supply chain engineering, sales, project management, operations, and inventory control. • Coached Supply Chain field team members on how to effectively leverage Microsoft Power BI dashboards. • Collaborated with Enterprise Information team to develop strategies automate manual data load processes.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Served as Scrum master and product owner, promoting Agile software development methodology.• Communicated with product owners to establish project requirements, milestones, and user stories. • Facilitated meetings, including requirements gathering, daily stand-up, sprint planning, and retrospective, with both product owners and development team. • Communicated project requirements by writing use cases and user stories for software development team. • Utilized Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) to guide software development from ideation to final product. • Maintained an up-to-date product backlog and tracked development progress to ensure timely completion.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Engineered an R program to ingest Excel and SQL data to match freight capacity to shipper RFP freight reducing matching time from 1.5 hours to 5 minutes per RFP.• Diagnosed and resolved operational constraints such as equipment incongruencies to determine backhaul capabilities of UPS assets.• Interfaced with both UPS Transportation Analytics and Coyote Pricing daily to confirm capacity and freight. • Generated reports to monitor key Coyote metrics with Tableau, Microsoft Excel, and SSRS by utilizing SQL queries to extract data. • Designed a loyalty rewards program to incentivize owner-operator carriers working with Coyote.• Utilized SSIS package in Microsoft Visual Studio to extract flat file data and store into our database for generating reports.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• #1 in total phone calls (>220 calls/day and >5 hours/day) for October and November 2013. • 150% better sales and 254% better gross margin than colleagues of similar tenure.• Nominated as a “Tenacious” MVP employee in July 2014.

Lansing, Mi, Us

• Valuable resource of the MBI Molecular Biology team in the scale-up and de-risking of problems associated with Molecular Biology. • Very experienced with site-directed mutagenesis and PCR. Generating 8 new plasmids in the past year for pipeline projects.• Familiar with multiple organisms including: E. coli, S. cerevisiae, B. subtilis, A. succinogenes as host organisms for manipulation in Molecular Biology.• Protein Expression by T7 RNA Polymerase mechanism (pET system vectors) and familiar with protein purification using HIS-Tagged proteins.• Familiar with small-scale New Brunswick Fermentors (2.5, 5, 10 L respectively).• Familiar with HPLC systems including Waters and Agilent Technologies.

East Lansing, Mi, Us

• Research Scientist in Dr. Zachary F. Burton’s lab, performing in vitro transcription assays with the use of radio-labeling to understand transcriptional kinetics and fidelity on a bond-by-bond level.• Responsible for stocking and ordering supplies of lab while under a strict budget.• Trained and managed two undergraduate lab members.• Maintained lab to comply with regulations set forth by NSF, NIH, EPA, OSHA, NRC, OSHA, and Office of Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Safety (ORCBS).

Master'S Degree, Supply Chain Management

Certificate, Biochemistry Research Trainee Program

B.S., Biochemistry / Molecular Biology

Hs Diploma, College Prep