David M. Sanford

Concord, CA ***** • acrwke@r.postjobfree.com • www.linkedin.com/in/davidmsanford

SENIOR ADMINISTRATOR, QUALITY AUDITOR, BUYER

Managerial Support • Diverse Staff Support • ISO Quality Auditing • Purchasing • Project Support

Senior Administrator with extensive and advanced experience in planning, organizing, and supplying complex services to diverse management and staff. Talent for administering transparent and unobtrusive support to large dynamic office environments. Flexible, unflappable, and committed to providing information and service both proactively and upon request. High tolerance for interruptions, competing priorities, and short-notice demands.

• R&D, Marketing, and Academic Environments • Documentation and Writing

• Management and Staff Support • ISO Quality Auditing / QA Support

• Office Management • Project and Staff Coordination

• Procurement • Training Record and Transcript Management

• Human Resource Functions • Procedures and Work Instructions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MONTEGO VILLAGE TOWNEHOUSE HOMEOWNER’S ASSOCIATION, Concord, CA, 2003-Present

Director, Homeowner’s Association Board of Directors (Elected Volunteer)

Evaluate, make recommendations, and vote on association projects including painting, paving, safety, property upkeep, and improvement.

Approve association budgets, sign association disbursement checks, and serve on CC&R revision committee.

Maintain homeowner relations and respond to their concerns.

BIO-RAD LABORATORIES, Hercules, CA, Life Science Group, 1995-2013

Senior Staff Administrative Associate, Protein Technologies R&D and Lab Separations Divisions – 1997-2013

Staff Administrative Associate, Lab Product and Protein Separations Divisions – 1995-1997

Summary and Achievements:

Applied communication and interpersonal skills serving multiple biotechnology R&D departments with 150 staff including engineers, scientists, writers, software programmers, and 11 managers.

Maintained training records and served on steering committee for Plateau Learning Management System implementation, curricula entry, and division LMS support.

Employed effective writing skills generating reports, work instructions, standard operating procedures, meeting minutes, effective memos, guides, and manuals.

Managed more than $5 million in annual purchases as R&D Buyer, maintained purchasing policies, and guided and trained personnel on Baan ERP System.

Planned and conducted 2 major staff moves to new building and maintained employee seating arrangements.

Major concurrent duties and accomplishments by job function include:

Administration

Supported and coordinated staff in 3 divisions and more than 15 departments consisting of 150 scientists, engineers, programmers, documentation specialists, marketers, and managers.

Composed extensive correspondence, emails, work instructions, standard operating procedures, notices, minutes, and information pieces for use by multiple departments and divisions.

Generated informative and easy to read memos and announcements on own initiative or as requested.

Earned frequent compliments from staff, management, and upper management on the quality, effectiveness, and sometimes entertainment value of memos and documents.

Handled extra duties including ISO auditor, division ISO management representative, Plateau Learning Management System planning and implementation, documentation system support, and R&D buyer.

Developed portions of new product development process and established project book structure.

Determined training structure as member of Plateau learning management system steering and implementation committees. Maintained and updated training records.

Input division job positions and curricula for implementation of Plateau Learning Management System during a significant reorganization and while serving as foreman on a 4-month jury trial.

Quality System Auditing

Served as ISO 9001-2008 Division Management Representative for Laboratory Separations and Protein Function Divisions, member of Life Science Group Quality System Steering Committee with input into company quality policy, auditing planning, and maintaining the Bio-Rad quality system according to evolving ISO standards.

Planned and ran two or more large division internal audits per year and provided leadership to audit teams.

Originated Audit Handbook and Audit Style Guide to help 90 auditors write high quality audit findings and provide help for people new to Bio-Rad who had never experienced an ISO audit.

Audited newly acquired Canadian company into the Bio-Rad ISO standard, evaluated and edited work instructions, and gathered gap analysis information used for due diligence.

Received company recognition and award for efforts as auditor and management representative.

Generated and tracked corrective actions to closure.

Procurement

Processed more than $5 million per year in requisitions and purchase orders utilizing Baan ERP. Placed orders, received R&D shipments, and administered invoices under company policy and Sarbanes-Oxley rules.

Saved $1.5 million of project and product workflow delays by providing clear purchasing work instructions for management and staff during a challenging implementation of a new purchasing system, Baan ERP.

Troubleshot all R&D division purchasing issues and communicated with vendors.

Trained, counseled, and guided staff on purchasing policies and provided clear and concise work instructions.

Project Management

Implemented and supported projects and established project book system.

Provided documentation and project meeting support for Kaleidoscope Pre-stained Standards project.

Planned, executed, and reported on large division ISO quality audit projects twice yearly.

Managed departmental project books and developed project book design.

Human Resources Support

Served as division and department level point-of-contact to 150 staff and managers for human resources matters including service referrals, job candidate support, general information, informal counseling, and trouble-shooting.

Wrote clearer explanations of HR policy and procedures than those provided by Human Resources.

Brought training records into ISO compliance and eventual implementation of the Plateau Learning Management System on-line training database for about 800 people in Life Science Group.

Audited training records for quality, accuracy, and adherence to ISO standards and company policy.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Administrative Assistant R&D, WordTech Systems, Orinda, CA. Assisted Vice President R&D and software development staff. Provided sales support for dBASE-clone products dBXL and Quicksilver dBASE compiler.

Registration Office Weekend Supervisor, Office of the Registrar, John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, CA. Served as academic transcript specialist and Title 504 campus handicapped access officer.

EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND COMPUTER SKILLS

MBA / MPA Combined, General Management, John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, CA

BA, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CA

AA, General Education, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA

MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Plateau, Notes, Concur, ADP, Baan ERP, ISO 9001-2008 Standards

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