Experience

ScionHealth

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Division Vice President, Strategic Sourcing

  • Feb 2022 - Present



ROi (majority owned of Mercy Health - St. Louis, MO)

• Greater St. Louis Area

• Executive Director, Supply Chain

  • Jul 2011 - Feb 2022

  Embedded resource within the Mercy Health System, responsible for managing the supply chain in the eastern Missouri region that includes five hospitals and 170+ clinics/urgent care facilities. Seven direct reports, 252 FTEs in Mercy East Supply Chain. • Integrated three acquired hospitals into Mercy’s supply chain creating standardization and efficiency for those hospitals. • Led the expansion of Supply Chain’s role taking responsibility for functions managed by hospital clinical teams that were deemed “supply/service management shadow structures”. Example was supply management in the operating room. • Identified the need for a better way to manage surgical instrument inventory. Negotiated with a vendor to provide professional services and software development/deployment at a fraction of the cost compared to other commercially viable options. • Executed on cost cutting initiatives resulting in accumulated savings averaging greater than $400,000 per year. • Oversaw the Earth City, Missouri facility operations responsible for patient records storage, surgical custom procedure tray distribution and a commercial print shop. Show less



ROi (an operating division of Mercy Health)

• Executive Director, Corporate Transportation

  • Nov 2009 - Jun 2011

  Responsible for a $5 million + transporation department within ROi servicing over 400 hospital and clinic locations for IDN Mercy Health. ROi (Resource Optimization & Innovation) is Mercy's supply chain organization, group purchasing organization, distrtibutor and manufacturer for custom packs.

• Executive Director, Support Services GPO

  • Feb 2008 - Nov 2009

  Led a team developing GPO contracts within non-clinical categories of spend. Responsible for a $200 million portfolio.



Cardinal Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Retail Sales

  • Mar 2006 - Feb 2008

  Led sales team focused on serving the retail independent sales segment. 13 states, 9 direct reports, 42 people in total on the team. $1.2B in sales

• Manager then Director, Health System Sales

  • Oct 2003 - Apr 2006

  Led a team of sales representatives in St. Louis and then managers who supervised sales teams over 13 states that called on hospitals maintaining existing business and new business generation.

• Director, Operations

  • May 2000 - Sep 2003

  Led a team of five direct reports and 100 employees overall who were responsible for the functional areas of warehouse operations, customer care, inventory control, accounting, and information system administration.

• Senior Project Engineer/ Director of Operations

  • Aug 1995 - Apr 2000

  For Pharmaceutical Wholesaling Division: managed new building construction projects to include the design of whse layouts, re-engineering processes, defining system requirements to support different distribution processes, and led field operations teams in moving from one warehouse to another. Then opened up specialty distribution center in Columbus, Ohio area.