Senior Contract Specialist responsible for the South Hartford Conveyance and Storage Tunnel solicitations and awards: $500M. Solicitation and award of annual water main construction contracts of over 10 miles of water main per year. Administrator of online bid system, company SAM.GOV account, natural gas & electricity supply contracts, Virtual Net Metering agreements, and wastewater treatment plant equipment procurement/maintenance/support contracts.

Team Lead of Building Services, responsible for nationwide contracting of Preventative Maintenance Services for Building Systems: HVAC, elevators, generators, fire & life safety systems, water filtration, trash and recycling. Also manage Emergency Preparedness, Recovery and Response Services contracts.

Procurement site leader responsible for $40M spend across 3 different business units (Metal Strip, Specialty Wire, Engineered Shaped Products) and served on corporate sourcing team for multi-site Bulk Gas supply.• Acted as data and analysis guru on bulk gas contract team. Researched government and business data. Built commodity forecast model. Built savings analysis for multi-site contract. Bottom line: Saved over 10% in a $25M contract.• During economic contraction negotiated 17% reduction in primary raw materials fabrication charges in 2009 contract.• Consistently produced Operation Excellence Savings: $138K in 2007, $169K in 2008 and set up $248K for 2009.• Continuously improved department Quality performance by introducing recording and reporting of supplier ratings to site Quality System.

Procurement site leader for Specialty Tape Manufacturing facility, responsible for $4M spend and to serve on corporate sourcing teams, Adhesive and Polyethylene Film.• Site had a history of high inventory to profit ratio. Led inventory reduction plan, changed metric to days on hand v. fixed dollar amount. Targeted and achieved 40 DOH inventory with 5% reduction target next fiscal year.• Brought dept into compliance to pass site first ISO certification audit• Reset a history of Net 30 day payment terms out by 25% in FY 05.• During unprecedented 2005-2006 petroleum based raw materials market spike following Hurricane Katrina pushed off or avoided $100K+ in cost increases.• Reset a history of Net 30 day payment terms out by 25% in FY 05.• Pushed off or avoided $100K+ in cost increases during unprecedented 2005-2006 petroleum based raw materials market.

Supervised the Buying, Planning, Inventory Control, Shipping and Receiving functions of NMT, a pioneer in the field of non-surgical repair of structural heart defects in United States and European Union• Site had a history of inventory variance. Created cycle count program. Improved tracking of on-site hospital inventory working with sales force.• Trained and mentored Buyer/Planner function in the areas of sourcing, negotiation and best practices. Also ERP system and Crystal Reports, • Improved monthly graphical report of inventory data. Provided in-depth analysis and recommendations to senior management.

Contracted to resolve failing RTV Program (Returns To Vendor) at a high volume electronics contract manufacturer.• Took charge of $2M+ inventory. Analyzed old system. Interviewed cross-functional group of stakeholders• Created cross referential database queries, reporting, spreadsheet analysis of raw system data and generated all project metrics. • Built new procedures to streamline process. Reduced RTV inventory to $100K by end of project.

Supervised the Buying, Planning, Inventory Control, Shipping and Receiving functions of ETEX Corp, a leader in bone substitute materials.• Challenged to lead ETEX “Facility Consolidation” move team. Planned and executed move on schedule and 10% below budget. Zero issues.• Generated 10% cost savings on inventory expenditures in FY ’02.• Achieved inventory accuracy of 99.2% in FY ’01 and 99.9% in FY ’02.• Received ETEX Corp.’s Extra Mile Award, Q4 ‘00 and Q1 ‘02 • Served on Safety Committee. Performed safety audits and acted as liaison during chemical incidents with safety services vendor. Served as Quality System auditor; internal and vendor audits.

Specialist for purchasing a wide variety of materials, services and supplies. Assigned to support R&D with background and familiarity with biological research at Genzyme, a world leader in transgenic and other biologically manufactured pharmaceuticals.• Worked as part of a materials team with a cost savings of $1.5 M in FY ’98.• Wrote SOPs for new procedures.• Sourced unusual material goods.• Implemented Year 2000 compliance protocol with critical suppliers.

Perform chemical hygiene inventory of novel molecule discovery labs.