Todd A. Morrow
Apartment 301
Riverview, Florida 33578
e-mail:***********@*****.***
CAREER SUMMARY
An experienced purchasing professional with a proven track record of facilitating vendor relations and cost savings in various manufacturing settings. Developed commodity specific procurement strategies for critical path purchased items.
Raw Material and Energy Procurement
ISO 9000 SCM Procurement Representative
Broad MRP experience
Experience with various ERP Systems
Over $1 million in Cost Savings Success
Intercultural Communications Facilitator
Quarterly Contract Review Participant
Terms and Conditions Negotiator
Lean Six Sigma Experience
Creator of Vendor Review Questionnaire
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Babcock & Wilcox Company, Barberton, Ohio 2005-2017
Project Procurement Manager
Provided procurement guidance, coordination, and management between the commodity based Supply Chain Management organization throughout the entire procurement process: from proposal conception to project execution.
Led Babcock & Wilcox negotiations opposite structural steel fabricators in the People’s Republic of China. This resulted in the lowest cost structural unit pricing ever obtained in the modern era of the Babcock & Wilcox Company. Cost reduction in excess of $600,000 in this single negotiation
Created Vendor Review Questionnaire as in concerns their European Union Experience.
Owner of Lean Sigma Project to track supplier performance.
Sends out RFQ Packages and Creates Purchase Orders for international and domestic projects
Coordinates Procurement Look-Ahead Schedules to ensure the timely delivery of purchased products.
Weirton Steel Corporation, Weirton, West Virginia 1987-2004
Senior Buyer/ Lead Buyer
Procured key raw materials such as Tin Ingots; Ferroalloys; Chemicals; and Energy requirements.
Demand driven MRP experience. Coordinated consignment inventories opposite suppliers of ferroalloy materials such as Ferro boron; Ferro Manganese; Ferro Titanium. Coordinated the JIT delivery of railcars of hydrated lime and zinc. Negotiated with Mountaineer Gas to hold natural gas in a “bank” on their system on behalf of Weirton Steel.
Successfully guided/ led the Weirton Steel Procurement Staff in obtaining ISO 9000 Certification.
Created the Procurement Procedures to manage substandard vendor performance.
EDUCATION
M.S. Business Administration: Malone University, Canton, OH, 2010.
B.S. Engineering Science: Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH, 1987.
Undergraduate Minor-Mathematics: Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH, 1987.
Six Sigma Yellow Belt: The Babcock & Wilcox Company, Barberton, OH, 2011.
SOFT SKILLS
Communication: Editor-in-Chief of the SCM Newsletter for the Babcock & Wilcox Company
Safety Conscious: EH&S Safety Warden for the Babcock & Wilcox Company
Public Speaking: Extensive Dale Carnegie Training
Adaptibility: Experience with ERP Systems [Oracle; Vendor Server; Visibility]; Word; Excel; PPT
HONORS AND SERVICE
Engineering Department Student of the Year Award: Franciscan University of Steubenville
Magna Cum Laude Graduate: Franciscan University of Steubenville
Salute to Black History Exhibits and Performances Volunteer: Florida State Fairgrounds
Volunteer for the Office of Diversity: Hillsborough County Schools