Experience

Wild Bill's Sports Saloon - Premier Hospitality

• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Maintenance Technician

  • Nov 2022 - Present

  Leveraging my over two decades of resort and rental property ownership and maintenance to perform most maintenance tasks for six restaurants in the Twin Cities area. Leveraging my over two decades of resort and rental property ownership and maintenance to perform most maintenance tasks for six restaurants in the Twin Cities area.



Forest River Inc.

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Independent Contractor - Owner/Operator

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  Hauling fifth wheels and travel trailers from manufacturers to dealers across the country Hauling fifth wheels and travel trailers from manufacturers to dealers across the country



INTransport, LLC

• United States
• Truck Transportation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Contractor - Owner/Operator

  • Feb 2022 - Jun 2022

  Hauling 5th wheels and travel trailers from manufacturers to dealers across the country. Hauling 5th wheels and travel trailers from manufacturers to dealers across the country.



TCF Bank

• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Vice President, Director of IT Sourcing & Vendor Management

  • Sep 2015 - Mar 2022

  Created an IT sourcing and vendor management practice for a company that previously had none. Developed and executed all sourcing, negotiating, contracting, and vendor management strategies and processes supporting Information Technology teams. Staffed sourcing and vendor management team, provided coaching, mentoring, and leadership to ensure IT leadership and IT client expectations were met.• Formed strong relationships with internal clients to understand their business and become a trusted partner who provides guidance regarding vendor interactions and expectations• Implemented strategies and processes that drove a disciplined sourcing process to make sure we selected the right IT solutions at the best value and negotiated the terms needed to ensure the success of the project• Drove expense reduction through continuous assessment and renegotiation of upcoming contract expirations and renewals• Used repeatable vendor scoring and assessment practices to help ensure vendors are fulfilling the obligations of the contract and meeting the client’s performance expectations• Partnered with clients to manage suppliers and drive behavior that optimizes outcomes for TCF• Provided interpretation and guidance regarding current contracts, in partnership with the TCF Legal team• Served as the single point of contact for all commercial discussions with vendors, helping to preserve the client’s relationship with the vendorAdditional experience: • Managed all activities related to license usage audits with several vendors including IBM, Oracle, VMWare, and Cisco. Developed communication strategies that mitigated audit settlements. Served as single point of contact in order to insulate client and leadership from audit impacts.• Led all IT vendor interactions related to two mergers. Worked with clients to understand technology selection decisions. Renegotiated contracts to allow for contract termination upon merger completion. Coordinated all vendor notifications.



Target

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, Vendor Management Office

  • Mar 2011 - May 2015

  Developed and executed all sourcing, negotiating, contracting, and vendor management strategies supporting Information Technology investments across all business technology teams representing $500M annual external spend. Staffed and led team of 8 negotiators, provided coaching, mentoring, and leadership to ensure client expectations were met. Defined team goals, structure, and talent management plan as part of VMO leadership team.• Coached and developed teams who delivered over $75M negotiated savings annually by following established strategies.• Reduced negotiator workload 10% by identifying need to move tactical contract execution duties to non-exempt team, developing value proposition and presenting to leadership, creating role expectations and job descriptions, staffing and leading team.• Engaged directly on high-dollar negotiations, maximizing value attainment, including $24M credit from company whose software solution was being abandoned and $60M negotiated savings on 7-year hardware investment.• Led team through multiple realignments and provided coaching and training, allowing team members to become deep domain experts that understood clients’ business.• Ensured client teams, leaders and executives understood team’s function and value, creating trusted partners that were engaged early by project teams.

• Senior Sourcing Analyst, Vendor Management Office

  • Jan 2006 - Mar 2011

  Managed 12-16 concurrent sourcing initiatives while influencing internal stakeholders to preserve leverage and support competitive sourcing strategy. Developed sourcing strategies for each project that were implemented through competitive sourcing events or direct negotiations. Led vendor negotiations and contracting, engaged partners from Legal, Information Security, Risk Management, and other teams as necessary to ensure alignment with organizational goals.• Designed and executed complex sourcing strategy and negotiated terms deemed “world class” by third party SAP benchmark firm, supporting implementation of enterprise SAP solution, resulting in 10-year total cost of ownership being reduced by $68 million. Received one of 10 annual “Making a Difference” awards presented by CIO.• Selected by leadership to lead confidential project with C-level sponsorship, completing vendor selection and negotiations on time while delivering $10M savings on $100M contract. Coordinated and managed vendor selection process that included in-depth vendor presentations to CIO and senior executives.• Achieved $4M negotiated savings for SAP hardware platform by effectively managing cross-functional team of 8 technology stakeholders to maintain leverage and support competitive sourcing strategy.



Imation

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 200 - 300 Employee

• IT Procurement Manager

  • 2003 - 2006

  Directed all IT sourcing and vendor management for $2B company. Interfaced directly with CIO and IT leaders to ensure visibility to all sourcing projects and to support financial goals through strategic sourcing, vendor negotiations, and vendor management.• Accomplished 18% savings by analyzing financial impact of early renewal of $3M equipment lease, collaborating with IT leadership to develop strategy, present findings to CEO and CFO and obtain executive approval.• Facilitated selection and implementation of contract management system for global manufacturing company by negotiating purchase of selected software and establishing internal user group to expedite training and promote usage.



Thomas & Betts

• United States
• Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Purchasing Manager

  • 2001 - 2003

  Managed team of raw materials buyers and inventory analysts supporting a $65 million manufacturing facility. Managed team of raw materials buyers and inventory analysts supporting a $65 million manufacturing facility.



Northern Tool + Equipment

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Manager

  • 1998 - 2001

  Reporting directly to the President and interfacing with the owner, worked on several special projects related to maturing the retail operations of a $400 million mail order-centric company. Reporting directly to the President and interfacing with the owner, worked on several special projects related to maturing the retail operations of a $400 million mail order-centric company.



Menards

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Consultant

  • 1996 - 1998

  Directed design of multi-million dollar data warehouse project that would control $400,000,000 of inventory for a $4 billion company. Insured usability of system by defining use cases of new system, planning layout of all graphical user interface screens, consulting on layout of data tables, and designing many pre-canned reports and queries.

• Merchandise Buyer

  • 1986 - 1996

  Responsible for all facets of retail operations related to 65 product categories representing $125 million in sales, responsibilities included category management, sourcing, vendor negotiations, merchandising, advertising, supply chain, vendor management, and store operations.