Experience

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  DST Systems

  • Kansas City, Missouri Area

  • Vice President. Chief Procurement Officer

    • Jun 2014 - May 2017
    • Kansas City, Missouri Area

    Provided leadership for an annual $509 million direct and indirect spend. Transformed a scattered contract administration team into a single best in class procurement team by:• Building Category strategic sourcing teams• Establishing procure to pay capabilities• Founding an enterprise Supplier Governance Risk / Compliance organization • Automating routine transactions (47%)• Reduced Supplier base from 8,600 to 1,012 (88%) • Saving / avoided or recovered $175 million in 36 months

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  BMC Software Inc.

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Director, Head of Global Procurement

    • May 2010 - May 2014
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Head of Procurement covering 38 countries and administered an annual addressable spend of $750 million that saved / avoided over $101 million (34%) in 48 months.  Rebuilt a previously failed I.T. Strategic Sourcing team with outstanding success Instituted and chaired a Supplier Risk Governance and Compliance organization

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  Technology & Business Integrators

  • New Jersey

  • Executive Consultant

    • Jan 2009 - Apr 2010
    • New Jersey

    Led business process optimizations and transformations for Fortune 500. Utilized extensive Six Sigma functional excellence to provide hands on interim CPO leadership.

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  Achievo Corporation

  • San Ramon, California

  • Vice President, Finance

    • Jan 2008 - Jan 2009
    • San Ramon, California

    Invited to this IPO. Reported to CFO and COO. Assisted in preparation of S1 for SEC filing of Initial Public Offering (IPO) as the North American and European Controller while also directing global FP&A and Corporate Treasury. Achievo shelved S1 SEC filing due to closure of capital markets and global economic downturn

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  Cisco Systems Inc.

  • San Jose, California

  • Director, IT Supplier Mgt. Office

    • May 2006 - Jan 2008
    • San Jose, California

    Directed Vendor Management Services for Enterprise Software and Outside Services (India partners) responsible for cultivating and balancing senior relationships between global corporations such as IBM, SAP, Oracle, Accenture, Hewlett Packard, SAP, SalesForce.com, Agile, Wipro, Infosys, Tata, Satyam and over 300 others. Saved or avoided over $330 million in 19 months.

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  Flextronics

  • Milpitas, CA.

  • Sr. Director, Deputy Procurement Officer

    • Jun 2001 - Apr 2006
    • Milpitas, CA.

    Senior most Procurement Leader reporting to the CPO for $9 Billion of Global Direct Materials spend and $1 Billion per annum of Indirect spend along with 28 Category Managers in a 100 persons global organization in 165 countries. Five year Savings over $535 million.

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  US Navy

  • Various

  • LIEUTENANT COMMANDER

    • Dec 1974 - Feb 1984
    • Various

    Served on the nuclear ballistic missile submarine USS Will Rogers (SSBN-659) as Supply Officer and USS Enterprise (CVN-65) as the S-1 Contracting, Inventory, Logistics, Procurement and Nuclear Supplies Officer. Retired.