Provide executive leadership for the contracting and procurement functions on an Agency wide basis. Working closely with Business Unit and cross-functional leaders, optimize strategic plans and the execution and acquisition of all services, materials, construction and infrastructure needs including Public-Private Partnerships (P3). Work with senior executives in Operations, Engineering, Legal, Finance, the Office of Central Procurement and the Public Information Officer regarding highly complex multi-year projects valued in the billions of dollars annually. Actively participate in the District’s Procurement Reform Activity to implement strategies and law (code) changes ensuring the legal authority for any manner of contract or procurement and drive high levels of transparency.

Lead Contract Officer for all mega construction and transportation infrastructure projects. These projects include roads, bridges, and commuter rail, bus and streetcar services. Also responsible for assisting General Counsel with legislation enabling DDOT’s authority to engage in any combination of Design, Build, Maintain, Finance and Operate (DBOFM) Public-Private Partnerships (P3.) Other duties include supporting the Director, Deputy Director and Chief Engineer with Infrastructure Project Management Administration. Actively engaged in the implementation of the District's Procurement Practices Reform Act (PPRA) and implementing Program Management best practices.

Responsible for the oversight, governance and directing the management of all state contracts while providing contract and procurement guidance to all state, school, local officials and state agency personal. This role actively facilitates economic development for business growth and provides direction to the State's Office of Supplier Diversity and supports commodities and services ranging from office supplies to I.T., professional and non professional services, Hazmat materials and operations.

(This was a six month contracting engagement): Category manager responsible for establishing contracts with external agencies providing content creation and marketing outreach. Specific focus areas were enhancing and facilitating customer driven interaction, communication, education and product delivery to the healthcare community in six important areas of decease management and treatment for cardiovascular, oncology, gastrointestinal, neuroscience, respiratory and infectious deceases.

Responsible for maintaining existing customers and acquiring new accounts through traditional and social media marketing and sales for this leading reseller of mobile and desktop computers, computer repair services, I.T. networking and IT asset management programs. The primary clients were law enforcement, emergency services and mobile works engaged in mission critical harsh environments with a secondary focus on the consumer and higher education markets.

Responsible for global marketing programs focused on data storage solutions consisting of hardware, software and services in the areas of data storage and server virtualization solutions, infrastructure simplification, backup and recovery, information life-cycle management, and data security. Eariler positions at IBM included Product Marketing Manager for workgroup printers and Marketing Expense Controls Manager.

Provided and managed cross product and industry sales channel enablement initiatives and third party relationship management for co-marketing with ISVs. This position included developing training, sales tools and working with ISVs and their channels to partner with Compaq Channels. The primary focus of these efforts focused on solving the business pain points and challenges of small and mid-sized companies.

Senior buyer, OEM contracts manager, manufacturing plant purchasing manager, international field service logistics manager for the Middle East and Latin America, and new product development manager for printers, storage and mission critical complex solutions.