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Email: EMAIL AVAILABLEMobile: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEExperienced Supply Chain Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Spend Analysis, Strategic Sourcing, Software Assurance, Purchasing, Sourcing, and Management. Extensive experience in manufacturing and data center environments. Authorized to work in the US for any employer.Work ExperienceSupply Chain Director Crystal Group, INC - Hiawatha, IA November 2018 to Present CPIM responsibility including Purchasing, Material Handling, Kitting, Inventory, Warehouse and Shipping/Logistics.Communicates parts status with operations department and internal customers. Accepts and analyzes vendor bids or proposals. Negotiates for best costs, arranges vendor contracts, and observes quality of purchased materials. Lead subcontracting efforts to establish agreements and specialized terms and conditions that adhere to customer and company expectations. Works with Aerospace and Defense DFARS, FAR clause review and sub-contract requirements, Oil and Gas industry consulting, Autonomous vehicle and trucking industry and other commercial customers. Supports supplier assessments, including performance monitoring, visits, and audits. Maintains supplier scorecards. Assists with supplier documentation, including quality, origin, lifecycle, and other. Software Assurance responsibility for internal and external clients. Analyzes spend and inventory on purchased parts. Recommends improvement strategies and leads execution of tactics. Communicates cost savings and/or risk avoidance. Utilize internal quality management tools, interacting with quality team and other departments. Responsible for risk management of suppliers. Lead counterfeit goods compliance efforts. Help forecast procurement needs for critical parts. Prepares reports and required documents. Crystal is a high-tech AS9100 company that makes rugged servers for the military and harsh environment fields. ERP Consultant/AWS Manager Software (formerly Fuse 5 Software) - Coralville, IA December 2017 to November 2018 Advise clients on ERP functionality and implementation. Managed AWS usage for multiple ERP platforms and customers. Provide on-site system builds including Warehouse management, inventory, ship station, scanners and back-office integrations. Provide 3rd party integrator project plan data to integrate with Fuse5 and the client interface. Worked with multiple ERP systems to integrate a dashboard for customer usage. Managed AWS capacity, expansion, and bandwidth for more than 500 nodes. Managed search engine apps to integrate print servers, data storage via web interface. Created Intranet dashboards for customers to utilize multiple platforms. Owner/CEO Avalon, LLC - Cedar Rapids, IASeptember 2013 to April 2018 Owner of Avalon Motors, a local auto repair and sales shop specializing in autonomous applications and computer aided navigation. Managed all aspects of a small business including sales, maintenance, equipment, employee scheduling, procurement of parts and vehicles, tax accounting and P/L responsibility. Obtained contracts for fleet equipment for several local and National businesses. retrofit autonomous and other control modules. Managed disposition of retired fleet assets for major fleets. Director, Global Sourcing Pearson, IncFebruary 2002 to June 2014 Manage $1 Billion spend profile. Managed categories include Infrastructure, Deskside IT, Consulting, Outsourcing, Staffing, Service Level Agreements including BCP, Datacenter Operations, Data Warehousing, IP. Fleet, Sales assets, and software assurance. Contract Management and P&L responsibility. Understand the overarching needs of the organization. Act as Vendor Relations Manager, liaison for legal staff, and end users for discussing contract, RFx issues and corporate agreements. Writing and editing high level contracts and agreements, negotiating terms and providing red line items and addendums Lead for 18 mergers/acquisitions and developed lean processes for acquisition activities. Led project teams in IT, Business Intelligence, Finance, Legal, Operations and Procurement. 12 direct reports with 42 departmental staff in 7 locations. Transitioned and eliminated procedures by lean process, led numerous six sigma events, won several team awards and held Kaizen Events for operators, managers and owners of a process. Extensive experience with Oracle and SAP Databases. Developed e-portal sites/various databases. Sat on Standards Committee for server, deskside and infrastructure. Helped established BYOD and BCP policies as well as T&E and p-card security, policy, auditing and reporting. Audited project activities for requirement clauses, change order and customer scope change requirements. Vested authority reviews and technical and process reviews for cross-functional projects.IT Procurement Manager ACT, IncSeptember 1996 to February 2002 Manage technology spend. Review line-item budgets, pricing review, etc. Establish company standards for IT equipment, hardware and software and recommend solutions. Execute contracts and manage procurement of all technology. Reallocate equipment and licensing. Equipped ACT test centers including testing for 12 certifications including NAACP, MCAT, LSAT, ASE certification, Nursing boards Program Management, CPM, CNA. Previous titles: Help Desk Manager Provide technical support and perform maintenance and repair for over 1100 users dealing with PCs on a Windows platform and Oracle ERP. Develop and maintain databases and procedures for users. Help Desk Manager Headed IT helpdesk for all regional offices covering 8000 users in 12 locations. Created and directed work orders for solutions/repairs. Direct and assign duties for staff. Hired contract help for IT projects. Business Manager American Honda1991 to 1996 Served as Business, Finance and Insurance Manager for Midwest Regional area. Assigned Sales and Leasing contracts for American Honda. Maintained floor plan agreements for area dealers. Constructed and recommended financial products, dealer financing systems and developed marketing materials. Worked with local area banks to provide customer finance and leasing options.Account Executive Computerland, Inc1990 to 1991 Sales rep for Iowa schools, government agencies and state colleges. Maintained sales and service contracts with major customers throughout the territory. Configured and set up customized systems and server architecture for schools and government agencies.EducationBachelor's degree in Business AdministrationUniversity of IowaB.S. in Computer ScienceIowa State University - Ames, IA |
