SUMMARY:

Motivated Procurement and Contracts professional with comprehensive knowledge of and extensive experience with commercial and government contract drafting and negotiations. Highly versatile and flexible; quickly masters new roles, responsibilities, technologies and environments. Reputation for high integrity, excellent problem solving ability, strong work ethic and excellent analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Proficient with: MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Visio)

Participated in software implementations of: SAP, Determine, Ariba, Upside, Novatus

Financial and procurement tools: SAP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, Supplier Portal (eInvoicing), CostPoint)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Contracts Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage daily intake and prioritization of all contract requests as well as provide guidance and work direction to Contract Administrators;
• Negotiate, evaluate, and edit all types of commercial and government contracts on behalf of the company. This includes Reseller, Channel Partner, Teaming, Subcontract, Non - Disclosure, Consulting, Software, Leasing Agreements and Purchase Order Terms and Conditions
• Develop new Agreements, Forms and Templates consistent with company needs and policies
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with all contracts
• Research FAR, DFAR and other federal, state and local regulations
• Support RFP review and compliance reporting.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Contract Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented standard template agreements for consistency across company
• Negotiate and manage all contracts including Non-Disclosure, Consulting, Professional Services, Subcontract, MOU Agreements and Modifications
• Instrumental in establishing partnership for Back Office Solution offering shared services
• Coordinate networking events for business leaders

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Manager, Operations

Responsibilities:

• Manage contracts team implementing and negotiating Confidentiality, Teaming and Subcontract Agreements in support of all phases of new opportunities. This includes pre-award and post-proposal phases.
• Assist in RFP and source selection of both rebid and new opportunities.
• Manage $20M Corporate Confidential Purchasing Card (Pcard) with over 100 active cardholders.
• Manage E-invoicing Portal with 2200 active users generating over $652M in invoices annually.
• Operated Help Desk with approximately 300 e-mails and phone calls each month.
• Manage Vendor Administration and Maintenance Team with over 26,000 active vendors within our CostPoint Financial Application.

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Director, Procurement

Responsibilities:

• Oversee over $1B in Accounts Payable Spend.
• Manage $384M annual Visa PCard Program with a net company rebate of over $400K annually.
• Purchase Order cycle cleanup of outstanding financial commitments which saved over $900M.
• Successful offshore of several processes and sub-processes. The process efficiencies resulted in a headcount reduction of 72% or approximately $825K annual cost savings.
• Manage 30-35 employees including over 22 offshore personnel in all procurement process areas.
• Oversee over 23,000 Customers and 20,000 expense vendors in a financial system.
• Maintain and report pertinent metrics for all PTP processes. Crucial identification of customer pain points, volume metrics for employee utilization analysis and possible process inefficiencies.
• Maintain and refine SOX Controls in all procurement areas ensuring compliance with no deficiencies.

Confidential

Sr. Manager, Shared Services Department

Responsibilities:

• Managed the purchase order processing and sourcing functions accessing the use of enterprise software licenses in a company-wide effort to reduce $30M annual software maintenance spend.
• Migration and integration of two new Contract Management Applications in an effort to provide better interface and reporting for their contracts.
• Successful outsourcing of various transactional activities to third party BPO. Spent over 10 weeks in India as part of an outsourcing initiative to transition and manage numerous processes.
• Assisted Business Owners in negotiating and contract reporting in order to maintain high quality and consistent pricing terms and conditions.
• Assess Risk Mitigation and implement appropriate controls for high spend purchases and vendors.
• Facilitated a catalog ordering system within our SAP financial application which allows employees easier and faster ordering for popular office supplies and computer peripherals.
• Top Secret clearance with FBI and National Security issues.
• Lead on-call investigator handling urgent overnight legal crises.
• Compliance of over 2,500 state and federal documents and 800 calls per month.
• Speaker at several Computer Crimes Conferences and coordination of training law enforcement agencies in Confidential legal practices, policies and procedures.

Confidential

Contracts Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with Sponsorship Agreements for professional golfers as well as their caddies
• Managed site tours, offsite fitting and assessments