Vincent Witt Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, US

Provide primary legal support for HPE's global supply chain organization. Responsible for providing HPE business unit clients legal advice and counsel to support strategic decision making for Logistics, Privacy, and High Value Commodity Suppliers. Areas of focus include process and training development, negotiating commercial contracts, settling.

Houston, Texas, US

• Pointnext Services Global Supply ChainManaged global end to end commercial contracting process for vendor supply chain of information technology (IT) spare parts to customers.
• Developed contract templates, organized tracking and maintenance of contracts for ~300 suppliers worldwide
• Drafted and negotiated in short turnaround times, IT vendor parts procurement and services, SOWs, indemnity/waiver, non-disclosure and other agreements
• Manage development, maintenance, and RFQ Process controls for ~300 service suppliers totaling ~$445M annual spend; and contracts negotiation training development and implementation for ~30 supplier managers
• Coordinated supply chain commercial counsel input on service supplier agreements

Houston, Texas, US

• Pointnext Services Global Supply ChainManaged multiple global IT ODM/OEM suppliers w/ ~$5-50M in annual spend, tasked with commodities strategy development, complex manufacturing, repair, and direct fulfillment supply.
• Triaged escalated issues through mixed-skills teams to reduce customer wait times & improve quality
• Drafted and negotiated agreements, pricing, lead times, delivery dates, and claims; making trade-offs among competing objectives of multiple stakeholders
• Developed strategies to achieve to $2-$4M in annual cost savings to mitigate risk to regional P&L, while balancing supplier capabilities against customer demands

A small unique firm leveraging technical and business experience to assist clients in making value-based decisions for their family and small businesses that provide them with long term benefits.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Enterprise Group, New Product Introduction Program ManagerManaged new product introduction (NPI) of Industry Standard Server factory setups for Hyperscale solutions in Americas region supply chain.Accomplishments:
• Selected to lead Americas region implementation (and consult worldwide) of HP-ODM joint venture transition of Hyperscale customer solutions to Mexico factories, bringing new factory end-to-end processes online in only.
• North America Supply Chain Assessment and Recommendations (NASCAR) work-stream lead responsible for overall solution test and quality readiness, defining and implementing new solution test and quality check tools at.
• Led development and use of off-nominal factory process to interface between global engineering and regional production and streamline production processes identifying design issues thus reducing customer issue.
• Identified lack of documented and consistently followed process for new product introduction in the Houston and supplier factories; researched varying approaches used by staff, assimilated data, and produced process.
• Created a tracking process for all non-standard product introductions and organized a weekly review of all special part numbers and team member assignments, resulting in fewer, if any, dropped product setups and.

Windsor Locks, CT, US

• Technical Manager for EVA Space Operations Contract for NASA's International Space Station leading a multi-discipline, multi-company team that provides Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and processing expertise for.
• Led multi-discipline, multi-company design, manufacturing, and processing partnership with constant communication ensuring quick resolution of issues among CAMs and technical leads.
• Developed contract requirements, managed drafting, fact-finding, and technical negotiations of over 100 individual IDIQ delivery order and major contract changes, each with unique government customer requirements.
• Established standard practice of engineering support in evaluation of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and NASA FAR clauses for every contract change, producing synergy between departments and more consistently.
• Developed Technical Assistance Agreements (TAAs) and Statements of Work (SOW) to facilitate exchange of data and technical assistance with international partners, positioning the company to excel at satisfying export.

Windsor Locks, CT, US

• Sole non-government member of multi-disciplined panel responsible for collecting information on current processes and products used in the spacewalking community and developing new strategic plans with tactical.
• Restructured existing contract and achieved long term plan that was selected by customer 2 years ahead of all other NASA directorates
• Nominated for Rotary Foundation National Award for Space Achievement Stellar Award, 2008 for outstanding achievement in leadership in developing Capability Post Shuttle Retirement

• Partnered contract provisions with NASA customer, developing compliance matrices and technical responses to Requests for Proposal (RFP) and Requests for Information (RFI); and successful negotiations support on.
• Developed objective criteria worksheets to clearly communicate expected behavior and performance of teammates to support subjective evaluation by customer, producing effective means of defending ambiguous complaints by.
• Conceived and implemented open access common depository of achievements and customer/client feedback easing the compilation of periodic evaluation reports.

• Successfully managed performance/cost/schedule of hardware development, sustaining engineering and operations for NASA’s Spacesuit Life Support Systems, including intensive focus on ensuring customer.
• Promoted strong technical performance all teammates evidenced by Customer Feedback award fee scores in the mid to high 90th percentile.
• Awarded NASA Astronauts’ Personal Achievement “Silver Snoopy” Award, 2006.

• Developed and integrated requirements and operational capabilities of Spacesuit and tools with the Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) programs. Accomplishments:
• As designated program representative for international partner relations and real-time crisis management, led for NASA ISS program manager the troubleshooting and recovery of spacesuits operation on ISS.
• Awarded NASA Certificate of Appreciation for using techniques never before planned, or even conceived, for execution on-orbit to recover critical systems on ISS.

• Lead of the Russian EVA Engineering Systems Integrated Product Team advising NASA management during real-time mission operations including crisis management events. Organized and led multi-national, Technical.
• Through years of negotiation and information exchange in an international, multi-company, multi-discipline team of engineering, safety, medical, and operations representatives, led the safe integration very complex.
• As tool project engineer responsible for flight hardware projects from inception through design, development & test, finishing with certification for flight into space aboard the Space Shuttle. Saved the last minute.

Jd, Law

Emba, Business

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering