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Nashville, TN, US

Support new business activities by researching suppliers and technologies in order to meet new specifications. Establish a new panel of suppliers to support customer trends considering aluminum. Investigate alloy pricing trends and compiling long term strategies for raw materials procurement.Mitigate post covid price inflation for domestic and imported.

Set department fiscal year targets, tracked and reported quarterly progress. V-Level status reporting consists primarily of cost reduction activities, future model profit ratios, new business and technology investigation, process improvements, and departmental training.Created a purchasing application through Quickbase, connecting to engineering and sales.

Negotiated changes to the Centralized Steel Program agreement, allowing steel coils to be rerouted to be delivered directly to Tier 2 suppliers, instead of Unipres locations. This activity reduced the total transportation impact to US plants by $2.5million and created an incremental reduction for the customer's internal cost. Made improvements to the.

Created a purchasing procedure to establish the restructuring of corporate purchasing responsibilities from support to responsible. All sourcing for Mexico and US plants were centralized to the North American regional office. Achieved a $42mil impact in cost reduction in a single fiscal year.Audited 36 new supplier locations in order to achieve the needed.

Coordinated day to day activities of a large scale sourcing project increasing US annual purchase turnover from $130 to $279mil. Processed RFQs for metal stampings, fasteners and insulator commodities for plants in the North American region. Researched and analyzed globally common parts pricing with other regions to negotiate best pricing on new and.

Cookeville, TN

Provide advice and support to customers pertaining to store merchandise and/ or shopping experience; to issue refunds or compensation to customers; to train new staff to deliver a high standard of customer service; to supervise a team of customer service staff.

Met with students to review concepts taught in class and help students improve classroom performance. Tutored in the subjects of accounting, finance, math and history.

Served as a classroom teacher in a summer literacy enrichment program.

Master Of Science - Ms, Finance

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Japanese Society Club, Minority Affairs Ambassador

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), International Business