Highly motivated, tech-savvy professional with over 20+ years’ experience in fast-paced environment. Extensive experience in purchasing and expediting in high-profile EPC projects. Exceptional analytical ability and talent for managing information. Respected team player and leader, inspiring cross-functioning teams to achieve common goals, often times despite communications differences. Passion for service delivery improvement, adept pricing negotiation, and procurement proficiency.

Repeatedly chosen for challenging assignments procurement strategies and supply chain sustainability and repeatedly delivered stellar results.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Wood Group Mustang, Inc., Houston, TX April 2006 to March 2015

Senior Buyer, Procurement Coordinator, Senior Expeditor

Senior Buyer, Purchasing agent with expertise in technical product knowledge and components. Fulfill demanding project specifications by timely execution on requests for quotes and proposals for projects, as well as expediting material for on-time deliveries. Drive end-to-end fulfillment of material procurement for plants and refineries, partnering with engineering, to ensure compliance within stringent specifications. Participated in project and client meetings. Prepared weekly project progress reports accordingly for both project management and client use. Equipment and materials included Fabricated Vessels/towers/columns, tower trays, receivers, fabricated tanks and drums, heat exchangers, air coolers, pumps, pipe, valves, bulks, structural steel, control valves, thermo-wells and thermocouples, instrumentation, electrical, sample coolers, and specialty items per project requirements.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES

• Qualified vendors and prepared bidders list

• Experienced processing RFQs (including correct specifications, authorizations, terms and support documentation included)

• Analyzes vendor quotes to identify meeting all criteria and subsequently negotiate final terms and conditions

• Well-organized and able to work on multiple critical issues simultaneously

• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of project operations, engineering and material management (multiple discipline

knowledge)

• MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, Projects) and procurement software knowledge

• Executed sourcing process and able to effectively source segments and/or commodities with increasing

complexity and medium value.

• Understands strategies for assigned segments or commodities and proactively drives initiatives to meet sourcing

objectives.

• Coordinated the preparation of requests for quotations/proposals with the Responsible Package Technical Lead.

• Interfaced with QC Coordinator, Package Engineers and others to ensure adherence to project schedule, technical

compliance, and purchase order requirements, etc.

• Prepared commercial bid tabulations and purchase recommendations.

• Entered information into the material control system.

• Prepared inquiry, purchase order and expediting status reports.

• Coordinated the closeout of purchase orders including resolution of supplier conflicts.

• Approved invoices for payment into Oracle system.

• Purchased spare parts (commissioning and spares).

October 2011 to July 2012 Senior Expeditor

Materials included Fabricated Vessels/towers,/columns, tower trays, receivers, fabricated tanks and drums, heat exchangers, pumps, control valves, thermo-wells and thermocouples, instrumentation, Structural Steel, commodity valves, electrical, sample coolers, and specialty items per project requirements.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES

• Attended kick off and pre-fab meetings.

• In house expediting.

• Interfaced with project teams and vendors with goal of making sure all purchase order requirements are met.

• Initiate contact with the supplier/vendor to review the purchase order and establish contacts for the duration of the project.

• Expedited Vendor Data, as required in purchase order for Engineering.

• Expedited suppliers to provide sub-vendors data for work done outside of their shop and provide a list of major buy out

material with request for copies of un-priced purchase orders.

• Expedited project schedules and held on-going weekly telephone conferencing to review schedule and confirm major

equipment and material are on schedule and to report any slippage that may occur and reported to team.

• Confirmed progress payments to be made in the purchase order and provide any documentation for back up.

• Prepared shipping release and contacted jobsite to prepare for arrival.

• Once equipment is received on-site and MRR issued, Final invoice is received, to close out the order.

The Scruggs Company, Houston, TX May 2011 to October 2011

Purchasing

Purchasing and Sales representative for a service oriented Distributor and Manufacturer's Representative. Offered solutions to liquid handling problems by designing and providing Valves, Pumping Systems, Waste Water Treatment Systems, Process Control Systems, and Instrumentation Systems.

Marshall J. Brown, Inc., Stafford, TX September 1980 to July 2005

Sales Supervisor, Purchasing agent and inventory control

Hired as receptionist in 1980, escalated through performance and drive to positions of increasing accountability to inside and outside sales, as well as technical trained all sales personnel. Issued all purchase orders and inventory control.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES

• Answered inside sales calls

• Outside sales

• Priced all request for quotations

• Prepared Purchase Orders for all buy out materials.

• Provided Technical Product Training

• Inventory Control & customer returns

• Devised pricing strategy and system for organizing client database.

• Coordinated with Engineering firms to formulate bid-winning RFQ’s.

• Partnered with clients and customers to resolve issues.

• Expedited equipment and material for on time delivery

• Billing, Credit, & Collection along with strong customer service skills.

Proficient in: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook. Experience with MAS90, SAP, Oracle, Ariba and Maximo, as well as other data bases and programs such as Pacesetter, and PDMC.

PROFILE

Business Ethical Training Certificate

Safety Training Certificate

Six Sigma White Belt Certificate

Sales Rep of the Year Award.

Outstanding Supplier Award, industry vendor’s recognition

Expediting Management Certificate

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