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Watsonville, Ca, Us

• Directed overall management for client’s procurement function and strategic direction to ensure alignment for organization’s objectives.• Developed and implemented purchasing policies and procedures in conjunction with client’s business needs• Headed contract negotiations, recognizing exceptions and risk factors, and providing recommendations to C-Suite and general counsel for execution.• Established supplier guidelines, obligations, and maintained Master Service and Master Equipment Purchase Agreements with partnered vendors.• Led project management and technical sales teams as they ramped production/sales for solar modules into emerging residential, commercial, and industrial markets.Results/Key Achievements• Lowered client’s BOM cost by ~30% after initial review while expanding supplier base to de-risk supply shortages.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

• Directed communication with executives and cross-functional teams to establish strategic plans and objectives.• Lead negotiations and managing contract life cycle for new initiatives through NDA, Master Supply Agreements, Equipment/Project Schedules, and Services Agreements.• Vendor down-selecting through RFQ processes and developing category plan objectives in areas of technology, quality, cost, flexibility, and service.• Executed projects consistent with company policies while achieving overall organizational goals.• Developed global sourcing objectives with specific negotiation strategies cognizant of cost, supply consistency and risk mitigation.• Built and managed relationships with all current and new vendors through a large scale global manufacturing product launch.Results/Key Achievements• Recruited internally to join the CapEx sourcing team at the inception of the Series 6 module ramp. Agility working with cross- functional team members that handle ~$1.5B in capital expendentures. Personally negotiated ~$300M at over $30M cost savings.

Memphis, Tn, Us

• Opitimized existing domestic and international logistic processes, and applied continuous process improvements based on historical data and current practices. • Negotiated, secured and proactively facilitated the on-time shipping, pickup and delivery.• Procured and coordinated shipments to preferred carriers to optimize service, capacity and cost. • Resolved carrier's issues in first response activity and communicated to appropriate parties as necessary. Escalated imperative issues to Supply Chain Management.• Expedited or de-expedited deliveries and changed scheduled quantities to meet changes in demand or production, including working with manufacturing and suppliers to schedule and arrange timely and cost-effective deliveries.• Achieved lowest possible cost for freight, balanced against optimum quality and schedule needs.Results/Key Achievements• Sourced accounts with preferred carriers and maximized shipping practices through continuous improvements to produce $600,000 in cost savings annually against our customers’ historical transportation spend.• Coordinated with material planners to improve value stream processes to improve manufacturing Just in Time workflow.

• Liaised with US military team members to coordinate mission schedules, optimize processes, and communicate asset levels and shipping issues.• Negotiated and sourced subcontractors to expand fleet to support agile military shipments.• Forecasted asset readiness and ensured that the appropriate fleet assets were available and efficiently allocated, and made recommendations of asset in-field readiness.• Supported the utilization of the Global Distribution Management System (GDMS) and I-Star databases.• Researched and developed software solutions to streamline and troubleshoot all shipping issues to increase revenue.Results/Key Achievements• Drove efficiency to rank in the Top 5 on the Order of Merit List of all logistics company’s from the outset of the National Afghan Trucking mission.• Forecasting at full asset readiness led to maximizing company’s available monthly capacity; $2.5 million in dry/heavy cargo and $3.5 million in fuel cargo.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Directed project updates to align with site operational team members to ensure seamless support to military customers from project start-up until completion.• Provided oversight of intricate missions to meet crucial requests for information deadlines; 100% delivery on-time.• Created and maintained the support organization structure for mission specific tasks and applied Lean methodologies such as weekly Kaizen audit analysis to support mission objectives.• Liaised with Iraqi Authority (Ministry of Interior) as KBR personnel and guests transferred through Iraqi Immigration and Customs.• Monitored all activities in the Middle East/Kuwait Theater including tracking of all incidents and generated Serious Incident Reports (SIR) or Incident/Accident Reports (IAR) along applicable timelines.Results/Key Achievements• Developed and implemented Standard Operating Procedure work instructions that cut rework by more than 60%• Led and maintained excellent operational network of 15-20 personnel for continuity and mission success through continuous improvements to drive standardization of work and reporting compliance across regions. (i.e. Quality Circles)• Processed all Service Order Requests within Maximo application; 100% error free.

Johnson City, Tn, Us

• Maintained equipment downtime database system that gave management the ability to quickly calculate downtime by location, mine, and/or individual equipment• Researched and created tracking system to catalog drill hole (core samples) information that resulted in the ability to search quickly for particular data without having to invest in new exploratory drilling• Located and organized critical files from subsidiary companies to a centralized site in order to streamline record keeping for seven different locationsResults/Key Achievements• Placed in lead role to recover all core drill hole data from all new incorporated mines, which led to $5 million is cost savings

B.A., History, Minor In Communications

Litigation