Trenton Riddle Email & Phone Number

Cibolo, Tx, Us

United States

• Manage team of procurement specialists, with a volume of ~130 direct and indirect contracts per quarter• Review, evaluate and negotiate contracts to ensure inclusion of required and favorable terms and conditions o Contracts include; master agreements, BAAs, statements of work, and order forms o Contract types include; cloud, data, software, hardware and professional services• Serve as liaison with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with contract specifications• Utilize Ascension’s and The Resource Group’s GPO participants’ collective purchasing power strategically in negotiations• Collaborate internally on sourcing and procurement strategy

• Define and conduct ongoing research and analysis in IT procurement, vendor management trends, organization, skills, tools, transformation issues, and best and next practices.• Perform contract and document reviews per week on client proposals and advise on related pricing, terms and conditions, and negotiating strategies. o Documents include; RFPs, bids, orders, statements of work, and master agreements• Advise clients on best practices regarding sourcing strategies, contract negotiation, and vendor relationships• Produce industry/role-specific research as necessary via reading, networking with clients, vendors and analysts.• Answer (using video and audio conferencing, and written response via email) inquiries from clients in covered topic areas• Create materials for and deliver presentations, and individualized consulting, to clients.• Provide sales support by speaking to prospective and existing clients and prospective clients.Accomplishments: o Lead author for published article within first three months of role (Titled: “What Are My Sourcing Options for Postimplementation Support for Oracle Cloud Applications?”)  This research assists clients with creating a sourcing strategy for application managed services (AMS). o Co-author for Gartner’s 2022 Magic Quadrant for Oracle Cloud Application Services  This research assists clients in understanding Tier 1 vendor ranking in the OCA market o Co-author for Gartner’s 2022 Critical Capabilities for Oracle Cloud Application Services  This research assists clients in ranking Tier 1 vendors on their abilities in common use cases such as services related to advisory, implementation and/or managed services o Total Value of client spend:  Assisted 3-4 clients per day with projects or relationships that range from $300k to >$50M. Most common range being $3M-$12M.

San Antonio, Texas

• Provide programs and drive implementation to improve efficiency and compliance in support of objectives. • Develop, communicate, and train the organization on business practices and processes – including writing knowledge articles and presenting new programs.• Serve as a liaison for Global Process Owners and Deal Management, among other teams, to ensure accurate and timely process implementation and transaction processing. • Assist with resolving post-booking Cloud issues escalated to our global Center-of-Excellence team.• Collect, verify, and analyze data to measure key performance indicator actual versus business objectives.• Provide management with impact and compliance issues surrounding key business decisions and/or deals.• Communicate Oracle Business Practices to the organization and monitor process, trends, and approvals for full compliance. Accomplishments: o Supported over one hundred Deal Management employees across two regions, operating in multiple languages. o Streamlined process for resolving provisioning roadblocks with complex Cloud transactions, reducing in booking and provisioning times by at least 2 days by standardizing roadblocks in published process documents. o With the assistance of Deal Managers, created and maintained website for Deal Management to remain up to date on special contracting needs for key customers allowing non-standard processes to be followed in a repeatable manner, speeding up contracting turnaround time and improving on customer satisfaction. o Proposed and implemented a more fluid method to share process updates with stakeholders, speeding process updates/rollouts by at least one week. o Elected to coach others on critical thinking skills.

San Antonio, Texas

• Assemble, draft, and execute contract documents, supporting the Cloud, Consulting and License lines of businesses for, both, commercial and public sector/government entities.• Responsible for 30-40 deals per quarter (~10 being strategic/complex) o Roughly 90% of strategic/complex deals would close the same quarter• Review approvals/executive summaries to ensure appropriate business approvals are secured.• Review the Partner or Customer Agreement to ensure it is valid for the current transaction and meets Oracle standards.• Engage with Sales, Legal, Revenue Recognition, and other cross-functional teams on nonstandard contract terms.• Manage Sales and Customer expectation on time-to-completion for a given transaction request.

San Antonio, Texas

• Monitor NSCC trade reject activity and Reconcile daily trade activity and money movement.• Identify/execute trading error resolution of any mismatched trade activity between systems.• Generate wires to send to fund managers and record keepers for trades, dividends and fees.• Produce client trade activity daily confirms & monthly statements.• Prepare/produce client trade activity, financial statements, and ensure timely delivery to stakeholders.• Role requires a high understanding, and demonstration, of Microsoft Access and Excel.

San Antonio, Texas

• Provide technical support for clients using a variety of trading platforms• Utilize quote systems to communicate information correctly regarding stocks to clients• Process stock certificates and deposits, prepare paperwork for overnight delivery• Understand and be able to communicate various types of client accounts• Experience with Microsoft Office and SQL• Experience with a notable Business Intelligence (BI) tool; Oracle• Results oriented; ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines• Service oriented; committed to teamwork and catering to customers

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Technology - Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance, General

Activities and Societies: The Investment Society, Financial Management Association, and Junior Achievement.