John H. Walsh

610-***-****

Email: ac0f4s@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/johnheatonwalsh

Work Experience

Deputy Strategic Sourcing LeadOperational Services DivisionCommonwealth of Massachusetts

Boston, MA

May 2016 January 2017

-Created business plan and strategy for participation in and implementation of floorcovering and installation

services contract.

-Wrote Request for Proposals for floorcovering and installation services.

-Optimized purchasing strategy for the MBTA as an eligible user of a state contract under my supervision by

developing language and categorization on a statement of work document.

-Collected and sorted sales data on diesel fuel for the prior years and projected savings for use in negotiations

that will save the MBTA an estimated $450,000 annually, while adding over $90,000 to OSD administrative

fee collections annually.

-Negotiated cost-saving solution with facilities vendor, retaining a favorable billing arrangement and 3%

reduction in vendors desired price increases.

-Administered and approved vendor renewals on two contracts, overseeing the collection of $20,005 in

backlogged administrative fee payments due under the terms of the contracts.

-Assisted and advised a contract user in procurement procedures, resolving users problem of obtaining

responses and consequently saving the user tens of thousands of dollars.

-Led the development of a standardized contract user issue communication and resolution process.

Strategic Sourcing Team CoordinatorOperational Services DivisionCommonwealth of Massachusetts

Boston, MA

August, 2015 May, 2016

-Collected, cataloged, and recorded submissions of Quarterly Sales and Supplier Diversity Spend Reports

from Commonwealth contractors by implementing a new standardized process, leading to approximately 98%

retrieval of needed reports.

-Administered the distribution, collection, and execution of contractual awards and paperwork for over 15

contracts.

-Assisted in development of solicitations, maintenance of bids, and scoring and awarding of contracts.

-Created and conducted presentations for report completion, bidders conferences and contract overviews to

enhance vendor understandings of contractual procedures and streamline vendor compliance.

-Proposed solution to need for estimated $0.5 million state demand for construction equipment.

Help Desk Specialist Operational Services Division Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Boston, MA

August 2014 August 2015

-Invented standardized terminology to streamline verbal responses in order to contribute to year-end goal of

15% reduction in phone call time.

-Created new categorization scheme for work order tickets for better data collection to guide efficient

identification of frequent issues to further reduce call time.

-Assisted customers with eProcurement system over email and phone.

Technical Skills:

-Microsoft Excel: Pivot Tables, Lookup Functions, Count Functions, Financial Functions, Statistical

Functions, Scenario Manager and What-if Analysis, Macros.

-Trained in Access

-Highly knowledgeable in many different statistical tests and probabilities

Education

Level Edu Data Analytics

Enrolled expected certification August 2017

Certificate in Data Analytics (includes statistics, coding, programming languages, machine learning)

Boston University Undergraduate

Boston, MA

B.A. in Sociology

GPA: 3.03

Additional Courses: Statistics I, Macro and Micro Economics

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