SUMMARY:

• DAWIA Level II
• FAC - C Level II Certified
• Financial Management
• Strategic Thinking
• Decision Making
• Verbal/Oral Communication
• Client Relationship
• Cost and Price Proposals
• Cost Estimates
• Analytical Reporting
• Highly motivated, goal oriented leader with over 15 years of military experience.
• A self-starter who consistently assumes responsibilities, meets goals, and completed task in a timely and efficient manner.
• Well versed in operational processes, organizational structures, and contracts/acquisitions life cycle.
• Performs with integrity and professionalism as an individual and team player within a fast-paced work environment.
• Willing to relocate or travel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Word
• Excel
• Outlook
• PowerPoint
• and Access
• ARC GIS
• Database management
• Adobe Illustrator
• E-procurement
• Standard Procurement System (SPS)
• Integrated Logistics Management System (ILMS) and Ariba

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Satellite and Wideband Communications Equipment Operator

Responsibilities:

• Deployed, operated and sustained ground and space based satellite, Beyond Line-of-Sight wideband communications, telemetry, and instrumentation systems.
• Managed and performed design support, installation, calibration, testing, operation, maintenance, and repair of facilities, systems, equipment, and related subsystems.
• Monitor, analyzed, and directed performance checks and measurements to ensure acceptable performance.
• Established and maintained communications links with distant terminals. Operated earth terminal control console and monitors system performance indicators. Installed and checked operation of wideband and satellite earth terminal communications systems.
• Managed, installed and checked the operation of instrumentation and telemetry activities.
• Established performance and production standards and work methods.
• Determined extent and economy of repair for malfunctioning equipment.
• Recommended methods to improve equipment performance and maintenance procedures.
• Prepared reports related to operating, installing, repairing, maintaining, and evaluating equipment.

Bioenvironmental Engineering Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Surveyed and evaluated community and industrial workplace environments and recommend controls to keep environmental and occupational exposures within acceptable limits.
• Proficient use in specialized survey instruments and equipment to collect samples and evaluate hazards that may exist in the workplace, such as exposure to toxic chemicals or intense noise.
• Evaluated the effectiveness of controls such as industrial ventilation systems and personal protective equipment.
• Operated radiation-measuring instruments and conduct surveys of facilities, equipment and operations to ensure that the use and disposal of radioactive material comply with environmental safety and health standards.
• Performed medical readiness surveys to identify chemical, biological and radiological agents and provide advice on decontamination and protection procedures for medical personnel, patients, equipment and facilities.

Aircraft Armament Systems Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Routinely checked and electrically test aircraft weapons release and gun systems.
• Operated and repair support equipment and electrical generators and drive bomb lift trucks.
• Controlled many different types of test equipment and gauges and repair, if needed.
• Participated in the test and evaluation of new and prototype weapons and weapons systems.
• Developed supervisory status by managing over $200 millions of dollars in hospital equipment and supplies, aircraft parts and equipment worldwide for 12 aircrafts located within the squadron and in assistance to other squadrons located within the wing.
• Managed and provided policies and processes for multiple levels of management within the organization.
• Worked as assistant crew chief and took care of satellite communication equipment while supervising 11 airmen 3-Staff Sergeants .
• Maintained storage facilities that housed health hazards, pilferable and shelf-life products. Filled independent demands for material requisitions and monitored the Just-in-Time deliveries. Received and inspected all incoming materials and reconciled with purchase orders. Processed and distributed documentation with purchase orders. Packaged and stocked finished good items.
• Supervised in-kind transfers of identical aircraft parts to other squadrons within the wing as well as other bases to expedite operational readiness of military aircrafts to support missions.
• Prepared, presented, and managed office branches annual budgets as well as budget formulation and execution. Requested and Negotiated pricing on RFPs for suitable substitutes of supporting equipment and bench stock (e.g., washers, bolts, fuses, circuits, etc.), which saved significant amounts of money for the Confidential .
• Implemented training procedures and conducted training sessions with officers, non-commissioned officers, and airmen. In turn, non-commissioned officers trained the airmen they supervised. Periodically trained entire workgroups tasked to satellite communications.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Contract Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Work using a wide range of contracting methods and contract types relative to building services and construction.
• Experienced in planning and carrying out pre-award and post-award procurement actions.
• Skilled in preparing and processing unilateral and bilateral modifications, change orders, and administrative changes.
• Well-versed in analyzing difficult contracting issues and identify alternative solutions.
• Frequently perform cost and price analyses, negotiations, evaluations, awards, reviews cost breakdowns, direct and indirect costs, identify costs which are allowable and allocable.
• Regularly work on requirements that involve conducting discussions and negotiations with contractors.
• Accomplished in making final determination on awards within delegated contracting officer authority, recommend awards on contracts to higher level contracting authorities.
• Experienced in establishing and maintaining an open line of communicates with contractors/vendors/customers to avoid a breakdown in delivering what is needed to achieve the customer's goals.
• Well adapted in evaluating technical bids/offers for responsiveness and conformance with the solicitation.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Procurement Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform market research to determine the proposals offered are fair and reasonable.
• Provide recommendation on pricing to the Contract Specialist.
• Work on procurement issues internally and externally as they occur.
• Evaluate the organization’s procurement operations including files and system level reviews.
• Apply industry and business market practices, contracting laws, regulations, and policies.
• Manage the Government Purchase Card program by analyzing and evaluating contract matters and initiated, developed and recommended contract procedures and control.
• Train Cardholders and Approving Officials in simplified acquisition technique.
• Recognizes the multiply needs to prepare for a procurement such as availability of funds, previous performance of the vendor, foreign currency exchange rate, and other related areas.
• Acts as a Contracting Officer Representative ( Confidential ) on tasking-order type contracts that are single or multi-year duration.
• Knowledgeable of procurement statues, Executive Orders, policies and regulations to recommend operating procedures for policy.
• Provide recommendations to engineering, operational and management personnel on approaches and procedures in the development of assigned procurement packages.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Contracts Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Solicited, evaluated, negotiated and awarded contracts.
• Administered contracts by assuring compliance with the terms and conditions of contracts.
• Terminated contracts by analyzing, negotiating, and settling claims and proposals.
• Analyzed and evaluated cost or price proposals and accounting systems data.
• Planned, established, or reviewed contracts, programs, policies or procedures
• Developed acquisition strategies and directed and managed procurements.
• Developed acquisition strategies in support of the organization’s strategic plan, mission, goals and objectives.
• Recommended the method of contracting and prepares the solicitation documents and justifications based on pre-approval and pre-solicitation conferences.
• Persuaded senior officials to justify proper contractual approaches.
• Created and issued solicitation documents ensuring appropriate clauses are selected with clear and complete specifications, including packing and delivery requirements or other routine supplemental stipulation to meet the customer’s specific needs.
• Analyzed price and cost data to establish the negotiation position and to determine competitive range. Analyzed proposals to determine the best buy.
• Participated in negotiations as a cost/price negotiator.
• Conducted pre and post award conferences to arrive at a clear understanding of what is required.
• Analyzed data to determine trends.
• Negotiated funding modifications after analyzing elements such as labor rates, contractor’s business volume forecast, economic conditions, business trends, union agreements, local labor market conditions, and inflation rates.
• Awarded Delivery and Purchase orders, contracts, and Blanket Purchase Agreement.
• Performed contract administration to include incremental funding, preparation of rate and cost adjustments, redirection of effort, and coordination of time extensions, change orders, and stop work orders.
• Maintained regular contact via written and verbal methods with the contractors to ensure the contracts were properly administered.
• Formulated and administered policies and procedures to maximize Federal socioeconomic goals in compliance with the Small Business Administration (SBA) office.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Contracts Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provided guidance to supply support personnel relative to procurement planning and execution with focus on changes to procurement law and regulation.
• Provided assistance in the development of contractually acceptable specifications, work statements and quality assurance criteria.
• Developed the procurement plan encompassing issues such as funding the results of market analysis in regards to resources, delivery requirements and/or government furnished property.
• Recommended the method of contracting and prepares the solicitation documents and justifications.
• Analyzed price and cost data to establish the negotiation position.
• Conducted pre and post-award conferences and site visits.
• Negotiated contracts half-million or more, made modifications; recommended acceptance or rejection of waivers and/or deviations.
• Developed and issued cure or show cause notices to correct performance deficiencies.
• Served as a warranted Contracting Officer and responsible for applying signature to final award documents to obligate Confidential funds.

Confidential

Mail Clerk

Responsibilities:

• Performed general mail handling and distribution including sorting, classifying, processing, routing, etc.
• Sorted incoming and outgoing mail.
• Inspected all official mail by size, weight and class (1st class, priority, registered, and 3rd class); assigns United States Postal Service (USPS) rates according to standards to ensure the most efficient use of postal funds.
• Operated a personal computer (PC) or similar computer terminal, uses authorized systems for mail processing, and uses a database for mail tracking and receiving accounting items, entering new items, printing routing sheets, recording deliveries, to access the post locator, to redirect improperly addressed or no record mail, and to find assignment information for individuals based on available data.
• Printed daily shipping reports, performs daily backups, and provides accounting information on demand.
• Performed other related clerical duties such as storing and distributing internal management documents, maintaining required stocks of forms and supplies, maintaining counts of materials dispatched and received, obtaining receipt signatures and operating and maintaining personal computer equipment.
• Accurately and expeditiously process over 500 pieces of incoming and 1500 pieces of outgoing mail daily for the entire Phoenix VA Regional Office
• Timely execution of this job was important to the proper adjudication of veterans’ claims for the many VA benefits.
• Reviewed incoming mail to determine the proper distribution to its locations.
• Accepted and reviewed claims for VA benefits from Veteran Service Organizations and properly routed them to the applicable VA business line.

Confidential

Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted advanced research and analyses of inorganic and organic chemical compounds to include using many of the isolation, purification, and bi-solvent extraction techniques to sample, test, and measure these compounds.
• Performed multiple experiments and analyses of the results, in order to improve the chemical reaction’s efficiency and product.
• Prepared weekly presentations to communicate the problems and progress made the previous week.
• Assisted the Laboratory Research Chemist in data collection, analyses, and advised for the written Peer publications.