Thomas Sampson Email & Phone Number

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Develop and maintain strong vendor relationships to ensure on-time delivery and acceptable quality
• Ensure best pricing using persuasive negotiating skills
• Utilize organization and time management skills to ensure deadlines are met on projects with short lead times
• Effectively communicate with other departments to coordinate company priorities and objectives
• Trainer for new purchasing agents
• Responsible for purchasing of all company material requirements, including: Fabricated items, electronic components, long-lead materials, tooling, test equipment, capital equipment; routinely generate/read/interpret.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Hired, trained and managed photography sales staff (20 employees) for four cruise ships

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Managed Navy contracts valued at $70M
• Developed, monitored and analyzed functional cost budgets for 35 managers
• Organized manpower forecasting and contract cost of completion summary
• Prepared program cost and schedule status reports and presented to government customers
• Presented cost analysis data at top-level and senior management meetings
• Supported the proposal manager for new business development

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Skillfully performed product scheduling, yield calculation/analysis and maintenance of inventory for $10M in production parts
• Identified problems and implemented solutions to produce a cohesive component flow in the production line
• Trainer for new coordinators
• Presented production status at management meetings
• Interfaced with all personnel from assemblers to directors