Summary of Qualifications |
- J.D. Edwards MRP Transition Team Leader
- Procure to Pay (Purchasing and Receiving)
- Purchasing, Receiving, and Inventory
- Project Purchasing - Capital Projects Buyer
- Purchasing Professional; MRP, Strategic Sourcing, Competitive Formal Bidding, Contract Design and Administration, ROP, EOQ, SOQ calculations
- Financial Analysis; purchasing costs; inventory costs; warehouse, etc.
- Materials Forecasting, demand and costs
- Manufacturing Experience; BOM rollup, Supply Chain from Finished Goods to Raw Materials; Inventory management
- Negotiate contracts; prepare purchase orders, bid proposals; review requisitions
- Prepare formal bids; evaluate bid responses and award contracts
- Evaluate and monitor contract performance; review costs of deliveries and inventories
- Microsoft Office Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, etc.; power user.
- Advanced IT knowledge; (continuing night-classes in Computer Science)
- Intranet / internet use for posting various reports and queries
- Strong math skills; communication skills; writing skills
- Database skills
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Employment |
2005 - Present Contractor, Kansas City, MO
Quotes and Proposals, Analyst, Database
- Team member Quotes and Proposals team
- Background work for answer to RFQ
- Peruse RFQ contracts for compliance for federally funded projects
- Wrote database to facilitate search for contract information
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2001 - 2005 Variform, Inc. Kansas City, MO
Buyer
- Metals: Aluminum; coil, extrusions, castings, straps; toll vendors for rollup parts and assemblies
- Polypropelene; compounds
- Strategic purchasing planning; partnering with vendors for short and long-term plans
- Projects Purchasing - Capital Projects Buyer
- Annual forecast and plan for supply; ROP, EOQ, SOQ design and implementation
- Materials Forecasting, demand and costs
- Financial Analysis; item cost analysis; proportional costs analyses
- Formal competitive bidding; Strategic Sourcing; sourcing new vendors; negotiation of prices and contract specifics such as terms, freight, and vendor-warehousing; Inventory management
- Contract writing and administration; evaluate and follow-up contracts
- Team Leader; J.D. Edwards software transition team
- Wrote detailed Purchasing Instructions; trained buyers and receivers in classroom setting
- Spreadsheet, Database, desktop problem solving and reporting
- Traffic: detention management, carryover shipments, sourcing carriers, statistical evaluation
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2000 - 2001 Contractor Kansas City, MO
Purchasing Agent/Analyst/Database programming
- Various contract employment including
- Access database programming, Purchasing, Accounting
- Employment firms
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1993 - 1999 Trans World Airlines, Inc. Kansas City, MO
Purchasing Agent/Buyer
- Supply 90 locations nationwide; administrate warehouse inventory; service internal customers throughout entire company; Inventory management
- Computers; Software; Furniture; Paper; Carpeting; Printing; many others
- Copier contract - 400 machines
- Formal competitive bidding; blanket contracts set up for use by all employees and agents of the airline
- Project Purchasing - Capital Projects Buyer
- Contract writing and administration:
| National Copier Contract | $1,700,000.00 annually |
| National Paper Contract | $750,000.00 annually |
| National Office Supply Contract | $400,000.00 annually |
| National Carpeting Contract | $100,000.00 annually |
| National Radio Contract | $120,000.00 annually |
| National Furniture Contract | $60,000.00 annually |
- Wrote and updated Field Purchasing Manual in use by approximately 1500 employees nationwide.
- Wrote Purchasing Handbook for all company use - on intranet; in print
- Wrote Access relational database for buyers - vendor info source; source for user input and interface
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1991 - 1993 Hallmark Cards, Inc. Kansas City, MO
Contractor: analyst
- Designed, wrote, and installed system for producing monthly reports from all 240 stores
- VAN; automate a system to parse and format data
- Monthly sales report for all stores nationwide; fully automated
- Monthly bad check report for all stores; fully automated
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Education |
B.B.A./Finance - University of Missouri
- Major: Business Administration/Finance
- Minor: English
- Tutored Algebra and English
- National Scholastic Honor Societies:
- Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Theta Kappa, Phi Theta Kappa again: 2001
- Classes part-time:
- CICS Computer Science from Penn Valley Comm. College; focus in programming, internet-web programming, interactive-database
- Windows 2000 Server, SQL Server 2000, TSQL, Internet-Web Programming, Advanced Web Programming, ASP, ADO, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, C++, Visual Basic, TCP/IP
- 171 Cumulative hours
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Curriculum Vitae |
- Original training in Purchasing by U.S. Government at G.S.A. in Kansas City, MO; student intern in Purchasing
- Extensive training, G.S.A. Purchasing Manuals, weekly professional training.
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