Contracts Manager - IT Sourcing and Procurment
Resume:
Chris Wiencek
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EMPLOYMENT The opportunity to take a career leading contracts drafting, negotiation and
GOAL administration, as well as vendor evaluation and business planning,
and apply these skills towards delivering cost savings, process improvement
and revenue growth, as a Contracts/Supply Chain Manager.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- 7 years consulting in the pharmaceutical, retail, software, telecomm, defense, and oil and gas industries.
-14 years drafting, negotiating and managing IT contracts at Motorola.
-Experience drafting, negotiating and administering the following: confidentiality agreements, RFXs, leases, loan agreements, software licenses, hardware purchase agreements, master services agreements, support agreements, evaluation agreements, shrinkwrap agreements, customer/sales agreements, subcontractor agreements, partnerships, contract amendments, service and support agreement renewals, SOWs and SLAs.
- Managed Motorola equipment and tools procurement and multi-million dollar budget.
- Partnered with Motorola’s marketing team to build the Java business and developer programs.
- Member of the Motorola Software Business Council responsible for growing software
business revenues across Motorola.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
IT Contracts Manager: (CA Technologies 2-2017 to 4-2017)
- Urgent project to amend existing vendor contracts to comply with current EU data privacy
laws and update security compliance provisions.
Software Contracts Manager: (Snow Software 7-2016 to 2-2017)
- Took over for their attorney, who left the company. Redrafted Snow’s standard contracts.
Drove process improvements. Negotiated/redlined customer contracts.
Contracts Manager: (Tesoro 5/2013-11/2013) (Contract Consultant)
- Worked on contracts assigned by BP to Tesoro as part of Tesoro’s acquisition of BP’s Carson, California refinery.
Contracts Analyst: (Dyncorp 9/2011-May/2012) (Contract Consultant)
- Worked as part of a team charged with reviewing, organizing and remediating all corporate
contracts in preparation for US government audit.
IT Contracts Manager: (MedImmune 4/2011-8/2011) (Contract Consultant)
- Led IT contracts renewals, telecomm contract management, staff augmentation as well
as process improvement initiatives.
- Supervised 2 direct reports.
Software and Services Contracts Specialist: (Convio 11/2010-2/2011)
- Prepared and negotiated SAAS-Software as a Service, client contracts, amendments and
order forms in support of their sales team.
IT Contracts Analyst: (Ericcson 1/2010-9/2010) (Contract Consultant)
- Ericcson hired a team to cost reduce IT services expenditures. Initial estimated
savings was $15M. I identified another $25M in savings.
- Vendor managed their drive testing and EF&I service providers.
IT Procurement Contracts Analyst: (Michael’s Stores 3/2008-10/2008) (Contract Consultant)
-Michael’s hired a team to cost reduce all non-merchandize expenditures. The goal for the team was $15M in savings, which was exceeded by $6M. I was responsible for reviewing all IT spending hardware(servers, routers, IT capital expenditures), new store facilitization, IT services, software, etc.
oLed RFPs to consolidate professional services.
oLed RFP to evaluate copier vendors for corporate-wide lease.
oLed RFP to evaluate warehouse automation and productivity improvement.
oLed RFP to evaluate improved expensed-equipment ordering process and identify lower cost providers.
IT Contracts Manager: (Verizon 9-2007 - 2/2008) (Contract Consultant)
-Supported Verizon’s Wireless IT team with a wide range of contract services--RFPs, amendments to software contracts, evaluation, preparation, and negotiation of new vendor contracts, Service Level Agreements, etc.)
IT Procurement Contracts Analyst: (Tesoro 4/2007-8/2007) (Contract Consultant)
- Tesoro brought in a team of contracts experts to review all contracts associated with the acquisition of a refinery from a competitor. I was responsible for the negotiation and assignment of IT licenses, and the identification and negotiation of new contracts if the existing contracts could not be assigned. Working under a very tight timeline, the team met the goal of having all of the contracts assigned, prior to acquisition of the refinery, which ensured a seamless transition.
IT Contracts Manager: (Marathon Oil 9/2006-2/2007) (Contract Consultant)
-Working as part of the Procurement department, I was responsible for cradle to grave management of IT contracts, including:
- IT vendor evaluations via RFI/RFP drafting and leadership.
- Job Order and contract negotiation.
- Contract renewals and amendments.
- PO generation.
Software Contracts Manager: (Motorola 1991-6/2004 & Freescale 6/2004-12/2005)
- Drafted and/or negotiated 500+ agreements, including:
- Technology agreements with companies like Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
- Joint development agreements.
- Subcontractor agreements.
- Customer agreements.
- Shrinkwrap agreements.
- Hardware and software evaluation loan agreements.
- Support agreements.
- Confidentiality agreements.
- Won concessions in virtually every contract I negotiated, ie.: pricing concessions, schedule
concessions, indemnity concessions, etc.
- Cost reduced the Java agreement with Sun-- $70 million savings.
- Supervised 1 employee and mentored high school interns.
Business Developer: (Motorola, 1991-2003)
- Worked across the corporation, as Vice President of the Software Business Council,
to grow software revenue.
- Fostered growth and communication across businesses within Motorola through the
development of the Software Business Council website and business plan.
- “Back office” partnership with marketing to build the Java J2ME business.
- Introduced new distribution models and drove developer program licensing.
Program Manager: (Motorola, 1993)
- As program manager for the firmware component of the Motorola Computer Group's
Windows NT platform, I pulled in schedules and led the team to make all
milestone deliveries on or ahead of schedule.
- Program managed the on-time delivery of the Windows NT port to the Apple 8500 server.
Engineering Team Leader: (Motorola, 1987-91)
-Provided customer service before building a 9-member customer support, product
engineering and documentation team.
- Established processes to improve performance and customer support.
- Outsourced distribution and led electronic software distribution implementation in
order to save money and improve performance.
- Supervised the development of a RISC Software training program.
- Built and led a 4-person system administration team.
- Managed multi-million dollar equipment and tools procurement budget.
Software Engineer: (Motorola, 1984-1987)
- As a member of the Graphics Processor Team, I designed, C-language coded,
tested, and documented an assembler and microprocessor emulator.
- Successfully performed Unix SVVS testing and wrote an object file format translator.
- Experienced in the PC and Unix operating system environments.
Education:
B.S. -- Department of Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Double major-Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. (1982)
University of Texas at Austin, Intellectual Property Certificate Program.
Numerous Motorola and third party training courses.
Tools:
- Experienced in the Apple, PC and Unix operating system environments.
- Experienced using SAP, Ariba, Salesforce and Microsoft Office Tools.
Community Leadership:
- Current President of the Villa Pare Condo Owners Assn. (2016)
- President & Treasurer of the Wilshirewoods Neighborhood Assn.('94-'96)
- Austin City Council task force member. ('95-'96).
- Entrepreneur -- Landlord (1992-present) and small business owner (2006-present).
- Membership chairman and labor coordinator -- College Houses, Inc.(1980’s)
- Bicycle commuter and tourist (led 2000-mile East Coast tour). Kayaker. Runner.Triathlete.
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