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Richard Ness

Email: *********@********.***

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City: Apple Valley

State: MN

Zip: 55124

Country: USA

Phone: 612-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: 110

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Richard B. Ness

7710 128th Street West Mobile: 612-***-****

Apple Valley, Minnesota 55124 *********@********.***

Executive Summary

Results-driven IT Supply Chain professional experienced in leveraging enterprise-wide indirect spend, ensuring increased value and service to stakeholders and management, while limiting risk exposure. Over 24 years (18 years at Director level) in Relationship / Vendor Management with a unique combination of financial and legal acumen, team collaboration skills, and passionate leadership that delivers consistent results. Knowledgeable in sourcing strategies and negotiation techniques to create competitive tension that drive cost savings. Proven results leader both as a sole contributor and in multiple management roles. Broad-based background in asset & contract management and operational procurement processes. Extensive exposure to various IT solutions including hardware, software, maintenance and professional services: End User Computing (Dell, Microsoft, Intechra), Telephony & Networking (AT&T, CenturyLink, Sprint, Cisco), Data Center Hardware (IBM, HP, EMC, NetApp), and Infrastructure Software (Oracle, VMware, Salesforce, Computer Associates).

Professional Experience

2001 to July 2012 MCKESSON CORPORATION, San Francisco, CA

2008 to 2012 Director, IT Sourcing Corporate Procurement

As a corporate shared service, managed a virtual team of (5) IT Sourcing Managers and a Sourcing Analyst in large scale strategic sourcing initiatives with an array of suppliers across multiple categories, aggregating technical requirements from all business units to maximize pricing leverage to deliver millions in annual cost savings and efficiencies.

Acting as a sole contributor, negotiated the replacement of a large fixed asset storage environment with a multi-year utility solution incorporating a declining price per gigabyte/tier/month based solely on usage (as a result, received the aTechStar Awarda for contributions to the company).

Created and maintained a pipeline of upcoming sourcing / contract activity to manage stakeholder expectations and allow visibility to other supporting departments including Legal, Finance, IT risk, and various corporate governance boards.

Lead the integration and contract consolidation efforts from several mergers & acquisitions, both domestically and internationally, to drive cost savings and efficiencies.

2004 to 2008 Director, Contract Management Corporate Procurement

Established a Contract Management Office to streamline the IT contract approval and signature process and to provide robust management of post signature activities. Designed and populated an Access database of IT contract information with over 1,000 contract records.

Migrated the contract database from Access to the Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) module of the SAP/R3 financial system. The SRM repository contains contractual data as well as an electronic image of the agreement. Established process of utilizing system generated email alerts and reports highlighting upcoming contract milestone activities.

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2003 to 2004 Director, CIT Finance Corporate Information Technology

Transitioned the IT staff of a business unit into the Corporate IT organization. Project included headcount and salary baselines, IT spending transfers, and financial analysis of fixed asset base (depreciation expense) and telephony usage expense.

Managed a project working with the SAP systems support and A/P to develop and implement full SAP purchase request-to-order functionality for multiple business units.

Developed corporate database to manage server assets from multiple business units. Created a process to capture similar data on newly acquired servers with information from POas.

2001 to 2003 Director, IT Finance McKesson Health Solutions

Lead role in sourcing activities for the entire business unit including IT hardware, software, maintenance/support, telephony, professional services, etc.

Re-designed the IT procurement process. Initiated a centralized procurement function, which reduced costs and decreased lead-time from request to delivery. Instituted a new centralized invoice validation and payment procedure, which resulted in annualized cost savings of approximately $875K.

Managed a business unit wide IT physical asset inventory, created an asset database, and produced monthly fixed asset reports. Utilizing the asset repository developed IT usage-based expense reporting which significantly improved IT expense management.

Established a new cost center structure by IT discipline. Produced budget vs. actual expense reports for cost center managers & conducted in-depth monthly reviews. Prepared annual IT budgets and calculated the intercompany allocations for IT related goods and services.

1996 to 2001 UNITEDHEALTH GROUP, INC, Minnetonka, MN

1998 to 2001 Director, IT Acquisitions Ingenix, Inc.

Orchestrated the shift from a centralized IT acquisition process to a decentralized BU centric model. Earned complete responsibility for providing senior management and IT technical staff with efficient and cost effective solutions in sourcing and managing information technology.

Created new IT product & services approval, purchasing, and tracking workflows for multiple sites, migrated IT services from outsourced to insourced, established new external vendor agreements with significantly improved pricing discounts on hardware, software and maintenance services. Interfaced with Corporate IT, Procurement Services, and Legal to leverage corporate wide agreements and service level offerings. Developed detailed asset inventories to drive accurate expense allocations.

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1996 to 1998 Director, Technology Acquisitions and IT Outsourcing Support United Healthcare Corp.

Provided business leaders and IT technical staff with creative and cost effective solutions in sourcing and managing information technology (large systems, UNIX, desktop, LAN/WAN networks and telecom). Re-engineered IT procurement processes and developed strategies to optimize savings and productivity. Key contributor to 1996 IT related cost savings and avoidance of approximately $120 million.

Supplied IT technical staff with financial expertise to manage outsourced solutions in controlling costs and ensuring contract compliance. Provided financial analysis and negotiated contractual terms and conditions for requests for additional services

Managed the procure-to-pay process for IT acquisitions including authorizing purchase orders, invoice validation and account coding to insure timely payment and proper expense distribution.

1988 to 1996 FINGERHUT CORPORATION, Minnetonka, MN

Manager, IT Acquisitions and Asset Management Information Services Division

Responsible for the sourcing and expense management of all corporate data processing hardware, software, maintenance and professional services (approx. $40 million annually). Lead IT negotiator with all OEMas and 3rd party vendors for both purchase and lease transactions.

Orchestrated all IT finance functions related to an extensive data center migration to a new facility including bridge financing, negotiations for seed equipment & asset swaps (hardware and software licenses) and various professional services.

Personally responsible for cost savings of over $10 million on IT hardware acquisitions through vendor leverage and aggressive financing strategies (In 1993, received aGolden Thimblea Award, Fingerhutas highest employee award). Key player in introducing non-incumbent OEMas into the environment for overall performance improvements and competitive pricing leverage.

Education and Certifications

ITIL v3 Foundation Certification

M.B.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, CA

B.A., Concordia College, Moorhead, MN

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