Stuart P. McCusker Strategic Sourcing Leader

Manassas, Virginia Telephone: 703-***-**** Email: ad24mw@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-mccusker-3436705/

SOURCING & PROCUREMENT OVERVIEW

MBA (Supply Chain Candidate), BS (Finance), Bilingual (English & Spanish), Global Supply Chain Professional, with more than 20 years of large-scale supply chain leadership experience with a consistent track record of building cohesive, cost-efficient, high performing supply chain cultures that consistently attained revenue growth and profit objectives, achieved multi-million-dollar cost savings and exceeded Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), for industry leading organizations such as: NTT Global Sourcing, Northrop Grumman, Hewlett Packard and Fannie Mae.

Experience includes, serving as Senior Supply Chain Manager for Northrop Grumman Space System Division in Dulles, Virginia, with responsibility for achieving the following 3 items: 1) implemented a 10 million parts vendor management inventory program that realized cost reductions of $4.5 million while simultaneously reducing lead times by 74.6%; 2) Purchased and tracked more than $100 million for all materials supporting the space flight business; and 3) Achieved total compliance with CPSR, Sarbanes-Oxley, FAR and DFAR controls/requirements.

Demonstrated 20+ years track record of saving employers more than $80 million on multiple projects in the IT, professional service, and logistics sectors.

SOURCING & PROCUREMENT SKILLSET

Instituting Multi-Million-Dollar Cost Savings Total Supply Chain Management Implementing Continuous

Process Improvements Evaluating & Addressing Risk Management Developing Supplier/Partnership Alliances

Managing Global/National Contracts Negotiating New Cost-Effective Pricing Creating a Shared Supply Chain Management Vision

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Instituting Multi-Million-Dollar Cost Savings: Played a key negotiations role that saved over $35 million on multiple Cisco projects, the largest contract with a value of $28 million for NTT Global Sourcing. Additionally, worked collaboratively with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in Japan, end users, and Cisco, that engineered a solution which proved instrumental in generating $28 million in savings from the initial projections, simultaneously managing annual spends exceeding $400 million.

Creating a new Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Program – Entrusted by Northrop Grumman senior management with restructuring $100 million of organized inventory that included auditing and updating all balances, to ensure data accuracy. Subsequently, achieved a 74.6% lead-time reduction on thousands of piece parts, and saved $4.46 million in unnecessary inventory purchases with the vendor stocking the inventory at their facilities, and not charging until it was delivered.

Consolidating Multiple Pricing Schedules: Built and organized a procurement function at several organizations that encompassed creating an Intra-Net site to organize and post all relevant policies, procurement request intakes, strategic vendor pricing, and all inventory balances. Consequently, in one instance consolidated 16 different pricing schedules for multiple markets, and created 1 cohesive national program that reduced price scheduling by 12.5%.

WHAT OTHERS SAY

"Stuart brings all of the right experiences – P&L and strategic perspectives; numerous leadership roles; decades of continuous improvement and cost saving programs. Beyond all of his amazing experience, Stuart brings the intangible. People want to work with and for him. People willingly follow his lead. He cares for and develops teams and individuals. And he does all this in a way that you can depend on."

...William Boland, Commercial Satellite Program Manager, at Northrop Grumman

"Stuart’s leadership skills are outstanding, and his style is authentic. He genuinely wants other people to be successful. Stuart was able to create a culture of operational effectiveness and continuous improvement across our large and geographically dispersed field operations team while doing this in a very complex matrixed environment. He is a great leader and team-mate, and cares about his staff and results."

...Brian Silbert, NE Regional Manager at General Dynamics Information Technology

KEY COMPETENCIES

Building & Leading High Performance Teams Managing Global Purchasing Initiatives Managing High Priority Supply Chain

Initiatives Resource Allocation & Optimization Strategic Planning & Execution Conflict/Dispute Resolution Formal Presentation Skills Financial Reporting & Forecasting Implementing Continuous Process Improvements Multiple Program/Project Management

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Telephone: 703-***-**** Email: ad24mw@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & ACHIEVEMENTS

Forever Oceans Corporation Ú https://www.foreveroceans.com/ Ú Bethesda, Maryland Ú 2021 to 2023

(We are kelp-huggers and want to protect the water that covers 70% of our planet)

VP of Supply Chain - Global Operations – Scope of duties consist of establishing a wide-array of global procurement procedures and controls by interacting with CEO, CFO, COO and country president's that included dotted-line management of 5 supply chain staff members.

Favorably negotiated a long-term 50-year warranty on HDPE pipes running on Fish Pen Infrastructure, as well as negotiating 16 contracts for equipment, vessel, leases, sustainability, and fish pen infrastructure that culminated in saving $555.600 on several projects and future negotiations. Implemented JIRA workflow system.

NTT Global Sourcing Ú www.nttsourcing.com/ Ú Plano, Texas Ú 2020 to 2021

(The company brings together the procurement volume of each Group company and engages in

centralized price negotiations and comprehensive agreements with leading global vendors)

Director-Category Management-IT, Telecom, and Security – Primary duties focused on preparing and reporting financial performance for all projects that encompassed software, hardware and security products for U.S., Japan and UK projects.

Realized a $28 million savings on a single Cisco project working collaboratively with Cisco, and the NTT end users. Additionally, negotiated 20-point discount increases globally with IT security provider Trend Micro.

Northrop Grumman Ú www.northropgrumman.com/ Ú Dulles, Virginia Ú 2018 to 2020

(Northrop Grumman is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company

with annual revenues of $30 billion.)

Senior Manager Supply Chain – Charged with implementing a large-scale S&OP planning process across sales, demand, inventory and lead times that fully compliant with CPSR, Sarbanes-Oxley, FAR and DFAR control/requirements.

Created and Implemented a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) program resulting in cost reductions exceeding $4.5 million due to utilizing inventory management best practice savings that delivered lead time reductions of 74.6% on piece parts. Consequently, 1000's of 12-month lead time items were reduced to 3.3 months by implementing monthly demand forecast provided to (2) key suppliers.

DXC/Hewlett Packard Ú www.dxc.com/ Ú Herndon, Virginia 2016 to 2018

(DXC is a global multinational company that provides mission critical systems and IT services)

Supply Chain-USPS Region (United States Public Sector) – Responsible for managing the sourcing and implementation of IT hardware and software management savings for the Department of Navy ($822,000) Department of Homeland Security ($1.5 million), Federal Healthcare (ACA - $1.5 million) and Leveraged Delivery ($125,000).

Played a significant supply chain role in managing the cost take-out program for The Department of Navy TELCO Services, which subsequently generated program savings of $1.7 million.

PRIOR 2016 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CSC Ú Falls Church, Virginia Ú Senior Sourcing Manager-Global Category Management Ú 2011 to 2016

Fannie Mae Ú Herndon, Virginia Ú 2009 to 2011

Supply Chain Management Contractor (2009-2010) Ú Supply Chain Management (2010-2011)

Wireless Facilities Inc. Ú Reston, Virginia Ú Director of Procurement Ú 2008 to 2009

Resun Corporation Ú Dulles, Virginia Ú National Sourcing Director Ú 2006 to 2008

Nextel communications Inc. Ú Reston, Virginia Ú Supply Chain Management Ú 2003 to 2006

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

MBA, Concentration in Supply Chain (Candidate, 2024), Southern New Hampshire University

BS, Finance, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

ENDORSEMENTS

"Stuart's sourcing, supply chain, and cost reduction knowledge is advanced and second natured. A proven supply chain management professional and strategic alliance builder with a 20+ year record of achieving established corporate objectives in a timely and cost-effective manner. His strong intellect and analytical skills allow him to work through complex problems requiring insight, composure and long-term perspective. Stuart excels at creating innovative solutions that yield results for all parties. I highly recommend Stuart to any organization as a seasoned professional with exceptional skills."

...Joe Michael, Managing Director at The Retained Search Group

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