• Supported the Vice President of Procurement of a Fortune 500 company optimizing and documenting best practice procurement policies
• Responsible for negotiating Master Service Agreements, Statements of Work, and Proof of Concept Agreements
• Ensured that all Agreements were compliant with client Legal/Risk Mitigation requirements
• Improved the relationship with a key trading partner by pursuing cost reduction and business optimization opportunities in alignment with company sourcing strategies

Nippon Telephone and Telegraph is a $104B Japanese telecommunications company. In 2019, in support of the "One-NTT" initiative, NTT Global Sourcing was created to manage sourcing and contracting activities with global suppliers.
● Category Director
• Developed a formal "Procurement Policy" establishing Global Sourcing as the single authorized agent to source, negotiate, establish rates, prices, and terms, sign contracts, award business and add or delete suppliers and service providers of goods and services, thus ensuring that NTT spoke with "one voice" in all dealings with our Distribution trading partners.
• Developed a Global Framework Agreement that included fair yet favorable terms including most favored, 'cost-plus' and 'un-bundled' pricing, price protection, benchmarking, balance of trade, standardized enhanced payment terms, and market development funds.

RELX is the parent company of Elsevier, Reed Exhibitions, Reed Business Information, and LexisNexis. They publish scientific, technical, medical, and legal books and journals, and manage exhibitions.
● Procurement Manager
• Responsible for managing over $40M in logistics spend.
• Identified over $2M in cost savings via various creative sourcing activities.
• Managed domestic TL, LTL, and parcel shipments and international parcel product movements.

Hewlett Packard, commonly referred to as the founder of Silicon Valley, split their Enterprise Services business and created Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2015. In 2017 HPE spun off its Software division to Micro Focus creating the world's seventh-largest pure-play software company.
● Strategic Procurement Manager
• Served as the global lead for various product lines and services, including translation and localization, office consumables, business print, learning and development publishing, business cards, and logistics.
• Managed requests for quotation (RFQ) for the business-critical translation of more than 50 contract documents consisting of over 2.5M words, delivering $150K in savings.
• Achieved $410K in cost savings by migrating to a streamlined translation memory tool.
• Reduced outlay by $235K after refining the office consumables market basket.
• Developed a world-class solution to streamline and consolidate all training ordering to a single elegant platform.

Via mergers Infomax, ComputerLand and Vanstar became Inacom. Inacom was a multi-billion-dollar integrator and distributor of computers, software, and associated products.

Senior Purchasing Manager
Supervised four product managers serving over 120 sales professionals
• Negotiated price, RMA procedures, price protection, and stock rotation agreements with manufacturers and distributors to ensure mutual profitability.
• Managed relationships with third-party memory manufacturers, manufacturers of mass storage, networking, and other products.
• Managed a team of three IBM buyers maintaining up to $70 million in inventory supporting over $450 million in sales.
• Purchased over $300 Million of product for resale below normal dealer cost while maintaining preferred-account status with eight broker vendors.