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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateCandidate's Name
Street Address Elizabeth DrPittsburgh PA Street Address
EMAIL AVAILABLEPHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE CEDUCATION PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTBachelors of Science Sociology / Corrections Certified Public Procurement Officer (CPP) Minor: Criminal Justice, 1990 Universal Public Procurement Certification The University of Akron, Akron, OH Council 2010 Current designation expires 2025 Graduate Ohio University Ohio Real Estate License, 2009 2010 (inactive) Executive Leadership Program 1998 Keller Williams Realty Broker Athens, OhioMember National Institute of Government Procurement (NIGP) 2008 present, Member of Central Ohio Organization of Public Purchasers (CO-OPP), Finance & Budget Committee member; Strategic Planning Committee, VPPA (Virginia Chapter), MPPA (Maryland Chapter). Elected Treasure, Member of Board of Directors 2013; NIGP Local Chapter CO-OPP . Past member of Ohio Chapter NABJA, National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice 1990 2013.Software Application experience & training:PMIS Project Management Information System Web Applications Online Forms (DRC Intranet) CUBS Water Rate Payer Accounting System Internet Explorer Ohio Accounting Knowledge System (OAKS) Microsoft Office Suite E-Procurement ORACLE & PERFORMANCE SERIES,MICRO Soft GP DynamicsWorkday HRIS & FINANCIALSPROFILEService-focused, performance-driven, customer service oriented professional with expertise in directing total facility operations, administration, comprehensive programs/treatment functions, providing strategic direction and tactical support, partnering with diverse, cross-functional internal and external teams, in a high-intensity environment. Excellent communicator able to influence and communicate at all levels.Broad-based competencies include strong planning, communication, organizational, and keen decision-making skills, providing administrative, consultative and supervisory support. A Strong and exceptional relationship builder with success in forming strong sustainable associations by using teambuilding skills to streamline coordination and improve communication with internal and external stakeholders with applications of Quality Management tools. Proven record in engineering and designing successful transformational business models from transactional business processes elevating productivity, retaining talent and assuring successful delivery on social contracting across the organization.Over three decades of Governmental experience across multi-disciplinary industry with progressive mobility; specialized in corrections, public utilities, wastewater & water supply industry, real estate industry purchase agreements, lease back agreements, project management with site preparation, government procurement, management and administration; Experienced in handling all aspects of advertisement, contract management administration, metrics evaluation on performance and close out with a diversified funding portfolio on Capital funds, Operation funds and Grants. Extensive Training, working knowledge & Experience in all levels of Emergency Management System Incident Management and Disaster Recovery Planning, Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP); specialize in Candidate's Name Page 2H PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE W PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEfacility, city and procurement emergency management experience, simulated, table-top and applicableboots on the ground experience.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCECity of Baltimore Finance DepartmentDirector of Procurement Chief Procurement Officer (Acting) February 2020 Present Serves as Acting Bureau Chief for Citywide leadership on all procurement and purchasing, leasing and contracting functions in a centralized procurement model Serve as authority on procurement related and contracting strategies in presenting to the City Board of Estimates recommendations that serves in the best interest of the City of Baltimore Establishes policy, standards and practices for doing business with the City for multiple agency organizational structure and enforces all policy, regulation, executive orders and city charter requirements surrounding citywide procurement and contracting Assumes responsibility and the administration of the Citys Property Disposal and Procurement Card programs, approves and monitor program controls for auditing and quality assurance Plans, directs and coordinates annual strategic plans, provide leadership in establishing short and long term goals surrounding, contracting, human resources, and operational needs Directs the preparation of comprehensive reports concerning, CitiBuy statistical data, forecasting, process controls, quality assurance and standardization and the preparation of a multi-million-dollar budget submissions for authorization of each fiscal year operation funding Serve as lead negotiator for contracts resulting from an advertised RFP, Sole or Select Source Execute signatory authority on behalf of City of Baltimore Office of the Mayor on an annual basis for an excess of 500M in goods and services for City Wide Agencies. Serve as 3yr. 2018 ERP Phase II Finance Project Functional Lead for Procurement, Supplier Community development and Supplier Contracting policy and security; responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary team of Finance Professionals in Business Process Alignment Opportunity for the City of Baltimore to include but not limited to design, architect and configuration of a state of the arch implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning System (Workday ERP Project). Implemented Workday Phase II Financials, August 2022, first of comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning System in City of Baltimore). Responsible for recruitment, hire and termination initiator on all bureau staff employment procurement professionals and print shop. Responsible for monitoring and planning annual BOP Annual Budget that includes operational and training initiatives. Serve as City Officials, Directors and other leadership lead consultant and authority on all procurements and contracting. Executing authority to bind City of Baltimore on behalf of the Mayor and City Council, in the City Multi-Billion dollar corporation and jurisdiction. Served as Functional Lead on City Wide Work Day implementation Project; design, architect and configuration. Lead a team of city employees in testing of configurations and served as the responsible party for P2P implementation FY23; effectively retiring all antiquated legacy systems for procurement, account, budgets and grants. Lead system data cleaning, validations and successful implementation for legacy purchase order documents, to include but not limited to purchase orders and contracts. Successful standardized and provided mainstreaming guidance on agency Professional Services and Capital Construction project agreements within Work Day. The response time decreased from legacy system 30-day delay to a 1 day turn around enhancement providing a (3) day SLA auditable documented turn around in the new Work Day System. Candidate's Name Page 3H PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE W PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLECity of Baltimore Finance Department, MDDeputy Director of ProcurementSeptember 2018 Present Serve as leadership to a multi diverse team of procurement professionals in a centralized procurement model with (6) direct reports reflecting Contract execution & Administration, Sourcing & Procurement, Purchasing, MBE/WBE & Supplier Management and Statistical Reporting function.Responsible for identifying, monitoring the quality assurance of full realm of procurement Business Practices. Established processes through writing of standard operating procedures to direct procurement professionals in application of best practices creating streamlined business processes reducing administrative cost in procuring in addition to decreasing the turnaround time on production of final products as a result of advertisement and contract award to purchase order. The realignment included but was not limited to IFB, RFP, Sole and Select Source Procurements. Serve as authority on procurement related and contracting strategies in presenting to the recommendation for award to the City Board of Estimates. Established written Standard Operating Procedures and Policy revisions to reflect best practices in the Procurement Industry. Responsible for enforcing all policy, regulation, executive orders and City Charter requirements surrounding citywide procurement and contracting. Lead of team of procurement managers in establishing project management tools that produced increased contract renewals and decreasing contract ratifications which inadvertently decreased the agencies numbers of submittals for change orders and request for approvals for unauthorized spending. Directs and manages a leadership team of Operational Managers, Procurement Mangers, and Procurement Specialists in meeting the strategic planning and performance measures established by the City Chief Procurement Officer in line with the Mission and Vision of the City Department of Finance. Provides leadership on project management for solicitations, contract renewals, contracting risk management and mitigation of risk for all program performance measures established by the Chief Procurement Officer Responsible for the collaborative efforts and assignment of work direction to assure compilation of historical and forecasted data for continued continuity of services and goods; responsible for administering efforts to assure that City wide contracts are appropriately advertised and awarded in accordance with City Charter. Responsible for citywide contract spending in addition to the preparation and monitoring of all fiscal year end close-out activities compliance requirements that includes but are not limited to assuring contracting financial obligations are reconciled, cancellation of purchase orders and finalizing agency receiving obligations Coordinates the responses and activities surrounding procurement audit findings and policy creation and recommendations for policy changes surrounding quality assurance functions under the Bureaus full realm of operations to include but not limited to purchasing, procurement, business process, contract administration and necessary financial controls in concert with accounts payables & budgets. Enforces all regulations, city code, city ordinances, executive orders, and policies. Responsible for employee work performance. Oversight of Cooperative Program for best value procurements resulting in a standardized bridge contracting opportunity for the City of Baltimore creating inevitable Administrative Cost Savings and strategic Cost Avoidance inherently associated with the Formal Solicitation Process. Responsible for creating annual budgetary spending for the Bureau of Procurement in excess of 4M annual budget allocated funding. Present and represent the Department of Finance in Council annual hearings along with other City elected officials; City Comptroller, President of Council, Mayor and City Administrator. Applicable experience in Emergency Management; served as the lead internal intelligence officer and Commander in the Bureau of Procurement during the 2019 Cyber Security Attach Nationally known in the City of Baltimore. Applied disaster recovery leadership efforts and the organizations new normal plan implementation after the successful negation and release of the jurisdictional citywide breach. Extensive experience in serving as Incident Commander, Logistics / Finance Chief, Coop Planning(continuity of services) and Intelligence on a host of multi-disciplinary emergency management. To include but not limited to Finance and the field of Corrections / Law Enforcement. Serves as the Chief Procurement Officer in the absence of the CPA or as designee Candidate's Name Page 4H PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE W PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLECity of Alexandria Sanitation Authority d.b.a. AlexRenew Enterprises December 2016 July 2018Purchasing Manager, Purchasing AgentLead a team of buyers in a hybrid (centralized and decentralized) procurement environment. Review and approve all scope of work, specifications, special provisions, and general terms in solicitations (ITB, RFP, Quick Quotes small purchase agreements, sole source request) documents. Responsible for full realm of procurement to include posting and management of RFP & ITB, evaluation process, contract notice of award and standard contract executions. Serve as the Contracting Officer for all purchases and term contracts equal to or < 100K.Serve as lead procurement officer on all Operations procurements commodity and Capital Projects. Oversight of purchasing requisition approvals assuring all request are following requirements outlined in the Virginia Public Procurement Act (VPPA) and compliance with the Agency Purchasing Manual. Serve as signatory authority for all purchase order conversions and contracting equal to or < 110K. Serve as Lead Procurement in negotiation of contracts resulting from an RFP solicitation for all services(professional and non-professional). Responsible for coordination of pre-bid conferences with prior experience in pre-construction conferences.Liable for supervisory and management duties related to P-Card Program Administrator with an allocated credit line in excess of 100K with the Bank of America. Serve as signatory of reviewed and approved monthly expense reports and monthly payments estimated at 40K per month, to Bank of America. Owner of P-card program policies and serve as compliance officer for issuance and monitor of use of all cards issued to individual Managers, Leadership Team, and all Agency Business Travel cards. Make recommendations to Chief Finance Offer for review and changes to the policy. Consult on unauthorize payments in accordance with Authority established p-card use policy; directly responsible for making recommendations for suspension of card use, increase and decrease in line of credit, and initiation of internal investigations of alleged misuse or violations that are non-compliant with established company policy. Conclusions and recommendations are forwarded directly to Authority Chief of Finance and Administration for appropriate actions.Serve as the Contract Administrator with a host of internal and external customers (end users) and stakeholders (contractors). Responsible for the full realm of contract administration and performance. Manager all contracting goods and services terms / conditions, expirations, renewals and extensions pending future solicitations, and contract terminations. Review and Authorize escalations in contract cost through a request process utilizing guidelines of CPI-U labor cost increase, authorize and negotiate soles source contracts, while monitor the market for beneficial cooperative purchases and joint ventures. CITY OF COLUMBUS OHIO (DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES (DPU) 5/2013- 12/2016 WATER SUPPLY GROUP / TECHNICAL SUPPORTCLASSIFICATION: MANAGEMENT ANALYST 2Working titles: Contract Administration/ Procurement/ Real Estate Acquisitions / Operations & Capital Budgets AnalystFull-timePrepare, monitor and coordinate the Water Supply Capital Improvement Budget and Capital Improvement plan, to include auditing and authorizing payment, in coordination with each Project Manager and (PCM) Professional Construction Management Contractor, in combined purchasing volume in excess of 600+ million dollars. Extensive working knowledge of Program Execution Plan, Design Phase Services, Construction Management, Submittals, and Progress Quarterly Reporting; to include experience monitoring large PCM Program Execution Plan (PXP), Program Support Services Task with hands on experience with the Citys (PMIS) Program Management Information System.Responsible for preparation and submittal of Operations Annual Budget request and justifications. Prepare, monitor and coordinate tracking of forecast spending under the Operation Budget. Responsible for auditing and authorization of payments invoiced again all services and goods in excess of 400+K annually. Analysis of Water Supply annual fees including ODNR (Ohio Department of Natural Resources) Water Withdrawal fees, USGS annual fees, OEPA license to operate fees, dam safety fees, and tap fees. Serve as resource, consultant, for preparation, advertises and execution of contracts. Candidate's Name Page 5H PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE W PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEResponsible for all solicitations (ITB, RFP, RFI, and RFQ) for the Department of Public Utilities Division of Water Supply Engineering Group. Experience in writing complex technical and general specifications for necessary acquisition of commodities for the Division in a Hybrid purchasing structure whereby currently am responsible for review and approval of all specifications for goods exceeding 10K and services exceeding 20K; serve as a primary procurement consultant and primary sourcing strategist for the division of Water Supply Group in coordination with DPU Budget Analyst and DPU Fiscal. Responsible for holding pre-bid conference, pre-construction, and site visits.Serve as Contract Administrator and monitoring of all contract performance classified as Operations funded contracts. Prepare and maintain Supply Group maintenance specific service contracts (Universal Term Contracts) including requirements and procurement, recommendation for award, preparation of legislation, execution of contract and approval of invoices for payment. Experienced in addressing contract performance, pay schedules, labor contracts, and fixed price contracts. Serve as lead procurement officer in initial contract disputes arising between the contractor and agency; to include initiating cure notices, unilateral solutions, bilateral solutions, change orders and contract amendments. Monitor and tracking of MBE (minority Business Enterprise), SBE (Small Business Enterprise) expenditures and funding for Sub-Contracting under Capital & Operation Funding.Responsible for asset management and the initiation of salvageable goods process. To include copiers, furnishings, and divisions fleet; (10 vehicles). Assure that vehicles are serviced in accordance with Garage Preventative Maintenance and unforeseen maintenance issues; i.e. battery replacement or charged in inclement weather.Prepare and monitor leases of Division Owned Property, including ensuring property meets State and local requirements for rental, land leasing for CAUV (Calculated Agricultural Use Value) properties. Assure compliance with City standards, annual inspections, preparation of monthly / annual invoices prepared through CUBS system. Responsible for receiving and tracking tenant payments, farm leases advertised for bids and new leases executed at appropriate intervals, to include renewals and extension of the leases. Maintain files for ensuring purchase information (deeds, maps, leases, taxes, etc.) and other reports status are maintained. Participate and member of DPUs Strategic Land Acquisition Planning with Chief Engineer, Water Supply Administrators, Managers, and Citys Chief Real Estate Attorney. Responsible for tracking of remaining funds in OPEN Auditor Certificates (ACs) for Land Acquisitions, preparation of monthly report for review with Citys Chief Real Estate Attorney. OHIO DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION AND CORRECTION (ODRC), 9/1990 to 5/2013 Columbus OHCentral Office/Fiscal OperationsCLASSIFICATION: Management Analyst Supervisor 1, 6/2008 5/2013 Working titles: Contract Analyst / Real Estate Administrator Full-timeUse extensive business administration knowledge when processing and monitoring Personal Service Contracts (PSC) for construction, activation and maintenance (CAM), ranging from o 50K to 1M / biennium awarded contracts with consulting firms Star Engineering Consulting Firm.Administer and serve as Project Manager for all vending services for agency state wide, 29 facilities, monitoring payments on 25% -32% of commission received on monthly basis on accumulative sales 100K 200K annually paid in quarterly increments with 4 year contract agreements / per site.Serve as agency Real Estate Administrator overseeing real estate portfolio which includes 22 leases 2.6M and over 16,987.34 acreage of land. DRC is the largest land holder in the State of Ohio. Assist DRC legal counsel with research on legal requirements, research and process property purchases of undeveloped and farm land, land swaps, easements, responsible for lease payment and property management in accordance with local and state law. Responsible for receiving and tracking agencies Royalties annual. Responsible for the administration, contract monitoring and lease renewal/terminations of property leases.Experienced with working knowledge in contract negotiations, issuance, review, and award/ award recommendations of formal procurements, served as lead procurement in contract negotiations including University of Cincinnati Sponsored Research and Information Technology Ohio Risk Candidate's Name Page 6H PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE W PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEAssessment System (ORAS) project accumulative awarded contract for 1.8M. Personal service contracts with multiple end user departments annual training with realized cost savings and measurable efficiency relative to goods and services provided by the Carie Group Inc. which resulted in additional Quality Assurance Tools at no additional cost to the agency.Attorney Generals Office (AGO) Assistant Attorney General in pursuing contractual agreements, scope of work (sow) and compensation for Legal Witnesses and Experts in award amount between 649K/annual personal service contracts sow reviews, testimony, depositions, and consultation with various scope of work, Neurologist, Psychiatric, Psychological, Radiology, which serve as Expert Witness in legal cases v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections.Extensive hands on experience with developing, reviewing, and sourcing complex scope of work for request for proposals, invitation for bids, and service qualification processes.Experience with complex and detailed procurement regulations and procedures, Declaration of Material Assistance, Workman Compensation Certifications, State Auditor site compliance Unresolved Findings for Recovery, review of Insurance documents with bonded coverage of 1M, and assuring each contractor comply with the Affirmative Action Plan Verification process that exceed the threshold of an award exceeding $2,500.Collaborate with institutions and other departments to coordinate specifications development, conduct solicitations, evaluate and recommend multi-million dollar awards in Educational Programs accumulative biennium awards 3.5M dollar contracts, including renewals and one-time bids thus ensuring optimum productivity, efficiency and quality of servicesCommunicate confidently with individuals at all levels including people from a variety of cultures and social backgroundsProvide full range of administrative/customer service support (respond to public information inquiries, submit/request electronic Release/Permit, respond to inquiries, investigate/resolve contract issues, prepare correspondence, provide technical assistance)Serve as liaison representing agency, providing information, coordinating and maintaining public relations activities with individuals and other state government entitiesExperience with purchasing guidelines including purchase order processing, reviewing accuracy of coding and fundingMaintain electronic and hard copy files: contracts/amendments/agreements, contract log, procurement filesCentral Office, Ohio Penal Industries (OPI)Management Analyst Supervisor 2, 3/2006 6/2008Working title: Regional Food Service Administrator Full-timeDirected Food Service operations of agency for the North Region; conducted annual inspectionsPlaned, designed, managed and directed the implementation of all food safety statewide programsFacilitated/coordinated staff training program including food equipment use, food sampling plans; maintain trained staff databaseDeveloped/implemented division standards, operational policies and proceduresDirected/provided oversight of activities of lower-level staff; interpreted, administered pertinent laws, departmental policiesCollaborated with statewide licensed dietician in establishing consistently nutritional heart-healthy menus; managed School Nutrition Program Grant 3M dollarsDeveloped, analyzed budgets, provided oversight for capitol improvement projects, fiscal and farm; authorize expenditure of funds for personnel, equipment and materialsOperated personal computer to enter/edit/verify data and produce reports Correctional Reception Center, Orient OHWarden, 8/2000 3/2006Working titles: Deputy Warden Administration / Deputy Warden Special Services Full-timeSupervised multi-disciplinary administrative staff; responsible for overall planning, operation, direction, evaluation and management of the institution, including budget, fiscal, food service, physical plant, maintenance, warehouse, and consolidated fleet and garage services; served as leadership in all areas of Candidate's Name Page 7H PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE W PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEadministration for direct staffing of 70 employees, indirect staffing responsibility for 800 employees in a 24/7 operation.Administered $40 million dollar budget with allocations on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis for a 12 building 50-acre campus-style prison, which included consolidated services with neighboring Pickaway Correctional InstitutionProjected facilities upgrades; requested appropriations for capitol improvement projects in between 50K 1M awarded contracts.Conducted regularly scheduled performance evaluations and work improvements plans; provided staff professional development and continuing educationServed as initial on-site responder to critical incident situations; analyzed possible security breakdowns; responsible for all aspects of critical incident management (CIM): logistics, finance, action plan, recourse process, communication plans, medical triage, etc.As Deputy Warden Special Services, supervised diverse staff in medical/mental health and recovery services, education, religious services and rehabilitative programming Activated Richland Correctional Institution, Mansfield OH Warden, 5/1998 8/2000Planned and administered special services of large (2500) adult institution; supervised assigned diverse supervisory and managerial personnel spanning medical/mental health and recovery services, education, religious services and rehabilitative programming areasProvided direct oversight of budget preparation and monitoring of spendingServed as chairperson for institutional audits (internal management, self-assessment, ACA) ensuring operations complied with applicable accreditation standardsFormulated, reviewed and implemented institution-wide policies/proceduresEstablished goals and objectives; conducted research/investigations, developed evaluation assessment toolsHeld chairperson position of various institution committees: Community Services Program, Cost Savings and Efficiency Program, Safety and Health ProgramsPrepared and maintained required reports, correspondence and recordsAssumed administrative control of institution during Managing Officer absence Operation Support Center (OSC), Columbus OHAssistant Chief Inspector, 12/1996 5/1998Full-timeConducted statewide administrative reviews, investigations and dispositions of offender grievance appeals involving conditions of confinement for 33 institutionsProvided direct supervision/direction, assistance and training for assigned institutional Inspectors and InvestigatorsEnsured compliance with applicable departmental, accreditation, state, federal and legal requirements/standards thereby supporting agency mission and visionCompiled classified, confidential, sensitive investigations as directed by Chief Inspector or agency Director: Use of Force, Equal Employment Opportunity, alleged staff and/or offender misconduct, with possible criminal prosecution; On behalf of Director, prepared correspondence for Inspector General, Correctional Institution Inspection Committee, Attorney Generals Office relating to offender law suits, public stakeholders, and offender family membersNorth Central Correctional Institution, Marion OHUnit Manager, 10/1994 12/1996Full-timeServed on Activation Team as a Department Head for North Central Correctional InstitutionCoordinated all staffing and overall operations of multi-disciplinary unitGained extensive experience conducting offender/employee affair investigationsServed as institution disciplinary Hearing Officer for Use of Force, rules of conduct violations for employees and offendersCandidate's Name Page 8H PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE W PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEReviewed, developed and implemented institution-wide security policies, protocols for operation of medical, education, mental health and recreational servicesConducted Unit Audit Inspections ensuring operation complied with applicable departmental, accreditation, state, federal and legal requirements/standards Orient Correctional Institution, Orient OHCase Manager, 9/1990 10/1994Full-timeDeveloped Unit Plan Manual, which addresses the security policies and program mission in offender living unitPlanned social and rehabilitative program services for assigned unit (general population)Coordinated activities with other treatment units, volunteers or community service providersParticipated in development of individual treatment plans by assessing risks, needs and progress of offendersPrepared security classification instruments; recommended changes in social programsInterviewed offenders for inclusion in programs; collects personal/family |
