Supply Chain Customer Service

A. Snyder

**** ****** ******* ***** * Houston, TX 77084 * 713-***-**** * **********@****.***

SUMMARY

A self-directed, educated, and data-driven professional with 10 years’ experience and a desire to continue working within a Supply Chain role, expanding on the skills of contract negotiations, supplier management, and data analytics. Seeking a new role, as my recently new position is at a company with a cultural clash and many HR/payroll/benefit issues. Seeks a role in West Houston that allows me to continue growing a successful track record in initiating, planning, and executing projects across a wide variety of departments and products and in a company with a suitable cultural fit that emphasizes employee empowerment, efficient workflows, and lean processes.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Supply Chain Management Aug. 2010-May. 2013 University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business Houston, TX Certified SCM, Certified Business Modeling/Decision Making Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology Aug. 2007-May 2009 University of Houston-Downtown Houston, TX

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

McDermott, Inc. Sept 2015-Present

Senior Supply Chain Specialist-IT Houston, TX

• Manages 60% of Corporate spend, equating to $70M across IT and HR categories

• Responsible for achieving 20% cost reductions for 2016, and successfully negotiating $195k already in the first 7 weeks of employment

• Responsible for vendor relations, optimizing contracts and building strategic partnerships that add value and reduce costs

• Highly experienced in sourcing and negotiating with consultancy organizations, resellers, and OEM’s for customized scopes of work, IT hardware/software, licensing, support/maintenance, and training

Exterran June 2013-Sept 2015

Strategic Sourcing Specialist Houston, TX

• Started out in 2013 as a Senior Sourcing Analyst and quickly moved in to leading the strategy, analytics, and implementation on manufacturing and indirect corporate categories that have resulted in over $1M in annual savings

• Managed sourcing initiatives with stakeholders from many internal departments such as Engineering, Business Technology and Human Resources that resulted in an average savings percentages between 7-10%

• Proudly selected to develop and teach a training program for the Sourcing department that would progress the sourcing and analytical skills amongst fellow Sourcing Specialists

• Provides internal analytical consulting to the team by analyzing complex data trends through the development of business models that provide insight across many levels of the natural gas compression business, as well as reports spend assessments & categorization, market evaluations, and other ad hoc analysis

• Demonstrated a dependable, organized, and productive work ethic with the capability to manage complex sourcing projects by repairing and closing out Environmental and Emission projects after many fellow Category Managers suddenly resigned SOS Security April 2011-Aug. 2012

Operations Manager Houston, TX

• Managed the operations of a $57million IT firm, including coordinating with sales, marketing and engineering departments across the three remote offices in Texas

• Experienced in successfully coordinating, sourcing, and overseeing complex domestic and international projects for multi-million dollar customers

• Fully responsible for all operations and supply chain activities including budgets, procurement, sales logistics, supplier management, customer service and returned merchandise

• Implemented operational processes that achieved a 20+ day decrease in Accounts Receivable, thus improving business cash flow and improved processes and record keeping for government reporting and compliance requirements

National Actuarial Pension Services, Inc. May 2009-April 2011 Financial Account Manager Houston, TX

• Managed asset reconciliation projects for customer pension plans and executed complex loan processing procedures, contract management, and distribution administration Eppco Products, Inc. Aug. 2005-May 2009

Operations Manager Houston, TX

• Managed all supply chain-related activities, including sourcing, sales order tracking, process improvement, logistics, inventory management, accounts payables/receivables, and contract negotiations

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc. Aug. 2007-May 2009 President Houston, TX

• Established strategic growth efforts, increasing membership by 50% within 1 year

• Played an active and leading role in improving the entity’s constitution and operational structure

• Outlined and managed budgets and cost controls for the non-profit organization and brought the organization into a surplus

• Developed transition and training procedures within members and management Additional skills: 70 WPM, Advanced Excel user (@Risk & Solver experience for monte carlo simulations), Oracle/SAP/SPMAT, SharePoint, Microsoft Access, Export Logistics as well as Business Budget training from UH Business Development Center, Certified Karass Effective Negotiating, almost 50% complete hours towards PMP certification

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