President Resume
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Proven leadership in supply chain management, including operations and procurement management consulting with over 19 years of professional experience. Broad experience in both direct and indirect procurement, with strengths including project management, spend analysis, category code definition, strategic sourcing, outsourced spend management, procurement metrics design and implementation, process design, organization design, commodity council design, job design, ERP and e - procurement implementations, and training development and delivery.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Applications: PeopleSoft 8.9, 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2 (eProcurement, eSupplier Connect, Purchasing, Services Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Contracts, Inventory, eSettlements), Visio, MS Project
Relevant Coursework: PeopleSoft eProcurement Rel 8.9 Ed2, PeopleSoft Workflow Rel 8.44 Ed 1 (Certificates of Completion for both courses from Oracle University)
Languages: English, Spanish
EMPLOYER HISTORY:
Confidential
President
Responsibilities:
- Owner of independent firm specialized in providing procurement and supply chain consulting services to external clients.
- Focused on enabling customers to optimize the value of their external spend on goods and services.
Confidential
PeopleSoft Functional SCM 9.2 Upgrade Lead
Responsibilities:
- Served as SCM lead for a PeopleSoft 9.1 to 9.2 upgrade that encompassed the eProcurement, Purchasing, Inventory, eSettlements, & eSupplier Connect for a national healthcare ministry with over $21 billion in revenues.
- Developed new SCM 9.2 security and common FSCM 9.2 Fluid and workcenter security
- Designed 9.2 supplier portal and Supplier Registration, Supplier Change, and New Supplier User workflows
- Implemented Supply/Demand, Supplier Administration, Buyer, and Supplier Homepage workcenters
- Led system test efforts and coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
PeopleSoft SCM Implementation Architect & Lead
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Served as functional lead for the PeopleSoft 9.2 inventory module at an Indianapolis-based integrated healthcare system with over $16 billion in annual revenues
- Performed all design and configuration tasks related to the PeopleSoft inventory module across multiple implementation waves
- Developed functional inbound and outbound specifications between PeopleSoft inventory module and Cerner, Epic, QSight, SpendBridge, AtPar, and Optiflex/ Omnicell applications
- Developed inventory module and inventory interface scripts and led system and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Served as PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing 9.2 module consultant for the largest county government in Minnesota with annual revenues of over $1.8 billon.
- Performed all Strategic Sourcing design and configuration activities within development environment in support of future implementation phase
- Developed Bidder Approval, Supplier User Approval, Supplier Approval, Sourcing Event Approval, and Sourcing Plan workflows
PeopleSoft Confidential Implementation Lead
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Served as implementation lead for the PeopleSoft 9.1 eProcurement, Strategic Sourcing, and eSupplier Connect modules at a Florida-based health solutions provider with $9.8 billion in annual revenues.
- Led the design, configuration, and testing for all modules within scope, including the enablement of multiple punch-out catalogs, utilizing Agile project management methodology, and supported Supplier Contracts module activities.
- Developed eProcurement Requisition, Bidder Approval, Vendor Approval and Sourcing Plan workflows.
- Created 30+ new system roles and their associated permission lists and page-level security.
- Performed configuration changes of existing PeopleSoft 9.1 inventory module to ensure alignment with newly designed processes and integration with the roll out of the eProcurement module.
Governance and PeopleSoft SRM Implementation Lead
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Served as lead of the Governance (organization, policy, process, and metrics) track for a major procurement transformation effort at a Pittsburgh-based healthcare deliverer and insurer with $11.9 billion in annual revenues.
- Led the design, configuration, testing, and training of PeopleSoft eProcurement, eSettlements, Strategic Sourcing, and Services Procurement modules and multiple punch-out catalogs, and coordinated integration with the Inventory and Supplier Contracts modules
- Authored all PeopleSoft SRM module training materials, including presentations, online courses, desktop procedures and quick reference materials and led classroom and distance-based learning sessions.
- Supported upgrade of PeopleSoft modules, including eProcurement, Purchasing, Strategic Sourcing, Services Procurement, from 8.9, 9.0, to 9.1.
PeopleSoft SCM Training and Support Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Served as sole dedicated PeopleSoft 9.1 support consultant for multiple Baltimore area hospital locations for a healthcare services and hospital network with $4.6 billion in annual revenues.
- Functioned as subject matter expert for Inventory, eProcurement, Manager/ Employee Self-Service modules.
- Provided end user support to materials management professionals on all facets of the PeopleSoft Inventory module (order fulfillment, replenishment, receiving, returned materials management, transactional history analysis, etc)
- Conducted classroom sessions for eProcurement end users and inventory quick reference guides
Confidential
Senior Managing Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the proposal, development and delivery of procurement and supply chain transformation strategies and solutions that improved customers’ overall operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Led projects and teams with over 20 clients across a wide variety of industries.
Confidential
Team Lead
Responsibilities:
- Led all Confidential (Procure to Pay) efforts for the roll-out of a comprehensive indirect procurement outsourcing solution utilizing SAP that included hosted web-based purchasing and reporting tools and dedicated global sourcing, tactical buying and account payable support.
- Responsible for multiple aspects of the project including process and procedure design, vendor master definition and migration, punch-out and hosted catalog enablement, UAT testing, and training of global transactional buyers and help desk specialists in India and Hungary.
Confidential
Team Lead
Responsibilities:
- Led a 10 member Confidential process design team in support of an SAP ERP/ e-procurement implementation at a diversified consumer goods manufacturer with over $6 billion in annual sales.
- Designed direct procurement to-be processes that supported the procurement of materials for internal manufacture and outsourced subassembly as well as the provisioning of materials to 3rd party manufacturers via consignment and buy/sell processes
- Created processes that supported the purchasing of indirect services and goods via a web-based e-procurement.
- Achieved $67 million in cumulative savings over a 5 year period.
Project Manager
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Managed a major procurement transformation effort for a global telecommunications manufacturer with $35 billion in annual revenue.
- Planned and managed a cross-functional team with members drawn from procurement, finance, IT, and logistics.
- Designed and implemented a metrics system that combined internal data with external market intelligence sources to measure the competitiveness of over $15 billion in annual direct materials spend.
Team Lead
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Directed the formation of the first enterprise-wide procurement commodity council for a diversified Confidential with annual revenues of over $30 billion.
- Managed $160 million in global connector commodity spend and delivered savings of $4 million within 7 months.
- Managed the activities of procurement and design engineering resources from 10 autonomous business units.
- Developed processes and guidelines that served as the model for all future client commodity councils.
Category Team Lead & Transformation Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Served as a member of a three-person team that designed a major multiyear procurement transformation of a leading Confidential and gas services company with annual sales of over $16 billion.
- Targeted $190 million in savings over 5 years via improvements in organization, sourcing and category management methodologies, metrics, contract management, and compliance measures.
- Led the global travel sourcing team that achieved 11% savings on an in-scope spend of $131 million in 6 months.
Confidential
Implementation Team Lead
Responsibilities:
- Led Confidential process design team in support of an Oracle 11i ERP implementation for a PC manufacturer with over $3 billion in annual revenue.
- Conducted client design workshops to define ERP-enabled processes covering all facets of procurement activity.
- Developed to-be process flows encompassing indirect and direct procurement, build to plan and build to order, and supplying 3rd party manufacturers with components both through consignment and buy/ sell transactions.