Program Management/Purchasing/Procurement/Logistics/Supply Chain/Contracting

Profile: A dynamic, multi-talented, goal-oriented individual pursuing a challenging position that will enable me to use my strong organizational skills, educational/military background, and ability to lead while learning. I am leader and manager with over 8 years of demonstrated experience in management analysis in the United States Air Force with experience as a procurement specialist, operations manager, and planner. I offer a vast array of practical and hands-on managerial experience that includes, supporting aircraft and equipment maintenance supervision, operations, and logistics at stateside locations as well as remote locations around the world; and administering management programs in highly visible and stressful environments.

Professional/Educational Strengths: Predictive Analysis and Modeling, Data Mining, Hypothesis Testing, Exploratory Data Analysis, Descriptive Statistics, Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Procurement Management, Strategic Planning, Process Improvements, Relationship Management, Forecasting and Cost Benefit Analysis, Internal Product Traffic System, Vendor Sourcing and Analysis, Staff Development and Leadership, Logistics Management, Cost Containment, Contract Negotiations, Inventory Management, Decreasing Dead Stock, Marketing Strategies, Consumption Based Planning, Forecasting, Ethical Procurement, Inspection of Goods and Services, Principles of Buying, Project Management and Coordination.

Experience/Career Highlights

Confidential, 12/2010 - Current
Planning, Scheduling and Documentation/Production Control

Plans, schedules and organizes use and maintenance of aircraft, engines, munitions, missiles, space systems, aerospace ground equipment (AGE), and associated support systems. Documents and maintains aircraft, engines, missiles, munitions, AGE, and associated support systems records. Maintains generation flow plans for units required to meet emergency war order and wartime tasking. Analyzes maintenance information and requirements and develops visual presentations; monitors aircraft maintenance scheduling effectiveness.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Prepare aircraft maintenance plans and flying schedule for all aircraft and supporting equipment and personnel.
• Coordinate and distribute production schedules and work orders to departments.
• Control and schedule all aircraft (MQ-1B UA) 28 day records reviews.
• Manage Time Compliance Technical Order program in organization database.
• Manage and control the Phase and Time change items in organization database.
• Assists Certified Quality Auditor to produce applicable contract compliance reports.
• Manage and control data integrity program to ensure 100 percent accurate historical maintenance data.
• Confer with department supervisors and other personnel to assess progress and discuss needed changes.
• Review documents such as production schedules, work orders, and staffing tables to determine personnel and materials requirements, and material priorities.
• Examine documents, materials, and products, and monitor work processes, in order to assess completeness, accuracy, and conformance to standards and specifications.
• Revise production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaborating with management, marketing, sales, production, and engineering.
• Confer with establishment personnel, vendors, and customers to coordinate production and shipping activities, and to resolve complaints or eliminate delays.
• Calculate figures such as required amounts of labor and materials, manufacturing costs, and wages, using pricing schedules, adding machines, calculators, or computers.
• Compile information, such as production rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, and customer information, so that status reports can be completed.

Significant Contributions:

• Managed and assumed responsibility for developing an annual travel budget of $10,000.00.
• Created Air Force Repair Enhancement Program Database used to monitor $1.6 million in unit resources.
• Maximized the use of policies and practices, interpreted and explained government procedures and regulations.

Confidential, 09/2010 - 12/2010 (Contract Position)
Hospital Procurement Specialist/Operations Manager

Under the guidance of the Regional Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Operations Manager, my position was responsible for researching, sourcing, selling, and maintaining items needed by the customer at the VMI location. This included but was not limited to the following: cross referencing take-offs, coordinating material(s) for the different phases of a job, working with each of the customer's divisions to insure we are supplying the inventory that is needed; purchased machinery, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, or services necessary for the operation of the establishment. Purchased raw or semi-finished materials for maintenance/manufacturing. Prepared documents, processed transactions, and maintained files applicable to automated purchasing systems and other electronic methods. Analyzed statistical data pertinent to all purchase card functions. Performed market research; reviewed requirements to include descriptions, furnished property, availability of funds, justifications for sole source, brand name purchasing, and delivery requirements. Maximized the use of commercial items and practices, interpreted and explained procedures and regulations.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform buying duties when necessary.
• Track the status of requisitions, contracts, and orders.
• Maintain a clean and professional warehouse at all times.
• Prepare purchase orders and send copies to suppliers and to departments originating requests.
• Determine if inventory quantities are sufficient for needs, ordering more materials when necessary.
• Respond to customer and supplier inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations.
• Review requisition orders in order to verify accuracy, terminology, and specifications.
• Prepare, maintain, and review purchasing files, reports and price lists.
• Compare prices, specifications, and delivery dates in order to determine the best bid among potential suppliers.
• Calculate costs of orders, and charge or forward invoices to appropriate accounts.
• Research and source products that are required for hospital Maintenance and Engineering.
• Cross-reference and order specific quantities for customer take-offs as necessary.
• Develop & maintain relationship with customer's Maintenance Technicians, Engineers, and local vendors.
• Maintain records of all research, regional item requests, etc. that are processed.
• Monitor and adjust inventory levels on an ongoing basis to maintain the proper levels of inventory.
• Maintain an accurate inventory of all company owned property and supplies.
• Recognize and communicate to the Regional V.M.I. Operations Manager both market and customer business conditions.
• Ensure the integrity of all inventory is accurate and secure at all times.
• Communicate with the customer about product stocking levels and seasonal fluctuations to ensure there are no outages.
• Ensure that all invoicing and reporting, as required by the customer, are occurring correctly and on time.
• Develop & maintain relationship with customer's Maintenance Technicians, Engineers in satellite hospital locations as required.
• Contact suppliers in order to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems.
• Follow up with all appropriate parties to ensure a smooth flow of inventory replenishment into on-site VMI location for hospital maintenance.

Significant Contributions:

• Seized the tasks of preparing loss reports on various property claims.
• Purchased items in accordance with the proper method of payment as indicated.
• Resolved all purchasing transaction disputes with all suppliers within 2 weeks of hire.
• Investigated all delinquent purchasing transactions, ensured that all were processed and received in a timely manner.
• Ensured that the purchasing card transactions received were applied against the appropriate budget account number.
• Documented the business purpose of the purchase.
• Monitored and evaluated performance of contracts to determine extension of contracts and compliance to the contractual obligations.
• Implemented process of reviewing purchasing transactions if applicable and submitting disputes after exhausting all options for resolution with the supplier.

Confidential, 11/2001 - 06/2010
Management Analyst

Formulated and applied mathematical modeling and other optimizing methods using a computer to develop and interpret information that assisted management with decision making, policy formulation, or other managerial functions. Developed related software, service, and products; frequently concentrated on collecting and analyzing data and developing decision support software. Developed and supplied optimal time, cost, or logistics networks for program evaluation, review, or implementation. Conducted organizational studies and evaluations, designed systems/ procedures, conducted work simplifications and measurement studies; prepared operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently/effectively.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with others in the organization to ensure successful implementation of chosen problem solutions.
• Analyze information obtained from management to conceptualize and define operational problems.
• Perform validation and testing of models to ensure adequacy and reformulate models as necessary.
• Specify manipulative or computational methods to be applied to models.
• Define data requirements and gather and validate information, applying judgment and statistical tests.
• Study and analyze information about alternative courses of action to determine which plan will offer the best outcomes.
• Prepare management reports defining and evaluating problems and recommending solutions.
• Formulate mathematical or simulation models of problems, relating constants and variables, restrictions, alternatives, conflicting objectives, and their numerical parameters.
• Collaborate with senior managers and decision makers to identify and solve a variety of problems and to clarify management objectives.
• Break systems into their component parts, assign numerical values to each component, and examine the mathematical relationships between them.

Significant Contributions:

• Developed real-time aircraft tracking system currently being benchmarked for Air Force-wide implementation.
• Designed personnel manning and system capabilities research tool used at the Air Combat Command level.
• Built program to isolate and correct errors on 700,000+ aircraft records; reduced the previous process by two weeks.
• Designed an innovative performance indicator spreadsheet that increased scheduling accuracy above issued standards.
• Root-cause Analysis discovered discrepancies in yearly attrition calculations and annual aircraft flying schedule.
• Eliminated manual entry of information by modifying historical data systems.
• Ensured 100% accurate deviation reporting by setting up a coordination point between all departments.
• Lean/Six Sigma representative for five departments.
• Provided senior Air Force leadership with statistics used for benchmarking pilot training syllabus for F22 program.

• Master of Arts Procurement & Acquisitions Management
• Certificate in Government Contracting
• Bachelor of Science Management/Computer Information Systems
• Associate of Arts Production Management
• Airman Leadership School
• Luke AFB Lean/Six Sigma

Technical Proficiency

• Experienced in IT functions to include; installing Ethernet cards, and USB cards, program installation, mapping network drives, and performing system updates.
• MS Access Expert; Windows NT, Windows XP/Vista/7, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Publisher, Visio, etc.
• Experience in using office equipment, both software/hardware and performing CPU upgrades.
• Experience with SQL, Java, C++, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and Visual Basic for Applications
• Local and Wide Area Networks
• Experience with Supply Chain Software