LANE COOPER
424-***-**** (cell) • *******@*****.***
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Procurement Management, results-oriented professional with excellent qualifications and background, relating to Procurement Management
● Efficient and detail-oriented, with excellent time management skills
● Works resourcefully in stressful situations
● Consistently exceeds established company goals
Key Strengths Include:
● Management, versatile Procurement Manager with expertise in purchasing and contract negotiations
● Administration, extensive experience with developing and adhering to company policies and procedures
● Motivation w ith excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiating skills, both oral and written
● Problem solving ability
● Supervision skills & experience
● Loss Prevention, monitoring and preventing shrink of merchandise, by doing inventories, managing paperwork, and promoting procedures
● Customer Service, special care of all vendors and consumers in providing the very best of services and skills
● Computer Skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), Windows, Procurement Operating Systems: SAP, SRM and Lawson, Vendor Server & Visibility, Visual PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DCX CHOL, El Segundo, CA, September 2017 – Present
- Purchasing Agent
● Procures raw material, machine parts, hardware, outside processing for Aerospace/Medical divisions
● Prepare RFQ’s
● Finalize and evaluate bid proposals
● Evaluate potential new sources
● Work closely with Engineering, Production Control, Accounting, and Shipping/Receiving departments Composites Horizons Inc., Covina, CA, May 2016 – May 2017
- Sr. Buyer
● Procures raw material, machine parts, hardware, outside processing for Aerospace/Medical divisions
● Prepare RFQ’s
● Finalize and evaluate bid proposals
● Evaluate potential new sources
● Work closely with Engineering, Production Control, Accounting, and Shipping/Receiving departments Zodiac Aerospace, Huntington Beach, CA, October 2013 – May 2016
- Buyer
● Procures raw material, metal extrusions for (13) Zodiac sites including international locations
● Prepares RFQ’s
● Analyze and evaluate proposals
● Works closely with accounting and receiving resolving invoice/receiving discrepancies Senior Aerospace Ketema, El Cajon, CA, April, 2012 – August, 2013
- Sr. Buyer
● Procures raw material, standard parts
● Sets up outside processing contracts
● Prepares bid packages
● Analyze and evaluate proposals
● Works closely with accounting and receiving departments resolving invoice/receiving discrepancies
● Establishes long-term agreements as opportunities arise Northrop Grumman, El Segundo, CA, 2005 – 2012
- Subcontract Administrator
● Reviewed and documented purchase order requests and contracts against company policy and procedure, prior to order placement
● Interviewed and selected vendors based on commodity required for purchase and negotiated the best cost and contract for the company
● Prepared Bid packages, analyzed and evaluated proposals Federation State Preschool, Carson, CA, 2005 – 2002
- Procurement Officer
● Procured goods and services, over 30 sites, to ensure all operations of preschool functional efficiently, maintained warehouse inventory
● Maintained a central system that ensured adequate safeguards to prevent loss, damage, or theft EDUCATION
● AA Degree, General Education – LA Harbor Junior College, Wilmington, CA
● Presently Pursuing B.A. Public Administrati on – Cal State Dominquez Hills CERTIFICATION
● CPM Certified Purchasing Manager – UCLA Extension