Jimmy G Salazar

***** ****** **** **, *******, TX 77077

281-***-**** ad434o@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmy-salazar-41408526/

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management: University of Arizona

SUMMARY:

A highly organized supply chain bilingual professional with 19 years’ experience in overall supply chain management with 13 years of direct and 3 years of indirect sourcing with project, category, and MRO procurement experience. My overall experience includes 3 years in demand, production planning, inventory, and logistics planning while supporting ERP and MRP with business analytics using key performance indicators to support order management, manufacturing planning, supply chain, and process improvement. Excellent communicator with interpersonal skills in a multi-cultural and often high-pressure office environment.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Gastroenterology Center, Saint Croix and Saint Thomas, USVI (Consultant) 05/2023 – present

Project Manager (Consultant)

Contract and NextGen Enterprise PM/EHR System Upgrade Management. Responsible for all aspects of the upgraded lifecycle.

Creation and fulfilment of impactful current system pre-upgrade. Discovery of how to best navigate system post go-live. Testing, training, during upgrade, webinars, kick off meetings and implementation. NextGen EPM, EHR, Billing, CPT Codes, ICD10, Claims, Transactions.

Hewlett Packard Inc., Houston, Texas 11/2022 – 05/2023

Category Manager for Software and Technology (Consultant)

IT strategic sourcing indirect procurement responsible for performing analysis and sourcing strategy reviews to negotiate high-value and high-risk procurement contracts for HP global businesses. Contract management for software, storage, and hardware with potential support for labor and other services. Renegotiate existing contracts for all categories, as appropriate. Perform proactive spend analytics and benchmarking against existing rates. Manage strategy in collaboration with business units and stakeholders to ensure alignment of sourcing strategy with global cross functional teams for new purchases and renewals, including vendor due diligence. Interacting with peers, internal stakeholders, senior management, and suppliers at various management levels.

Infinity Global, Dansville, Virginia 3/2022 – 10/2022

Senior Category Manager (Consultant)

Category Management and development of sourcing strategies, supplier management, supplier negotiations, risk assessment, and contract management for luxury and specialty brands. The ability to provide a very personalized sourcing service, and socially responsible packaging with innovative designs, rigorous quality control, and global delivery for the world's leading luxury brands. MSA, SOW, and NDAs contract reviewing, redlining, and negotiating.

PNC Bank (Remote) 09/2021 – 02/2022

Senior Technology Contract Manager (Consultant)

PNC recently acquired BBVA Bank and Compass Bank. As a contract administrator working with PNC’s financial services group. Responsibilities included reading through MSAs and SOWs interpreting provisions and finding correlations back to Master Agreements to identify confirm terminations, retention, or renewals of vendor-supplier agreements. MSA, SOW, and NDAs contract reviewing, redlining, and negotiating.

Creation, management and posting of termination letters at the MSA and SOW level either individually or collectively depending on their correlations to their MSA. Statement of Work termination letters, retention, renewals, and negotiations for SaaS subscriptions, security, licensing, maintenance, and other services.

Gastroenterology Center, Saint Croix and Saint Thomas, USVI (Remote) 05/2020 – 08/2021

Procurement Project Manager (Consultant)

Remote sourcing and purchasing manager for Dr. Cintron. Responsibilities involve assessing, implementing, managing, and purchasing all clinical specialties involving the ordering, receiving, sorting, distribution, and replenishment of items throughout Dr. Cintron’s private practices and patient care procedure room. Responsible for the development, formulation, and acquirement of Health System supplies.

Management of long-and short-term negotiation agreements, evaluation and negotiations, requisitions, and purchase orders for materials, supplies, and equipment with vendors ensuring visibility and transparency of inventory and spending.

Elementia, Houston, Texas 06/2018 – 04/2020

Sr. Corporate Procurement Manager

Management of strategic and tactical sourcing, project, and category procurement that included continuous support to all manufacturing facilities and operations with supplier selection, price negotiation, mitigating risks, and contract management of roughly 200M spent for the Americas.

Management and control of contractual (letters of intent and master supply contracts) and commercial negotiations for (Raw Materials, Goods, Equipment Rental, Warehouse Space and Logistics Services, Real Estate Leases, Energy Contracts, Rail and Truck) with regional and international suppliers as a category and strategic purchasing manager. Analysis of current regional and international RISI, PPI, and other market price indexes with additional price formula discounts as a negotiation tool for purchasing raw material commodities and services crucial to operations. MSA, SOW, and NDAs contract reviewing, redlining, and negotiating.

Project Planning and Procurement: Development of a new product line involved working with a development and implementation engineer, VP Sales, and VP of marketing for the planning, manufacturing/procurement, delivering, deploying, sustaining, and even retiring product/equipment. Working closely with finance to develop and manage SAP Cost & Revenue Planning.

Management of Category Global Business Services: Ensuring purchasing policies, functions, strategies, and code of ethics. Responsible for the training, appraisal, and management of the entire procurement department staff of 14 which includes facility purchasing managers and warehouse personnel as a means of ensuring compliance and expectations at each of our domestic and international facilities. Weekly staff meetings as a means of maintaining company goals, communicating changes and providing direction and organizational objectives.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Houston, Texas 04/2015 – 5/2018

Supply Chain Planner/Analyst

Demand and Production Planning: Responsible for the creation of a balanced production build plan based on sales demand, material availability, production capacities, and resources using the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) integrated business management process. Maintain and coordinate material-product availability for manufacturing and manage plant site inventories.

Demand, Inventory, and Production Planning: Responsible for obtaining analytical, marketing, and sales data to effectively estimate future product demands. Other duties include planning optimal inventory flow, analyzing statistical data, and generating forecasting solutions.

Process and Quality Improvement: Responsible for leading and implementing Six Sigma Lean Data and Lean Process flow projects to promote six sigma lean efforts and improve operational processes.

Axens North America, Houston, Texas 10/2014 – 03/2015

Supply Chain Planner/Procurement Manager

Master Planning: Responsibilities included the generation of a production plan based on sales demand, material supply, manufacturing capacity, and resources. Maintain and publish plant schedule, coordinate product availability, manage plant site inventories.

Sourcing: Providing continuous support to the plant facility its operations with supplier selection, price negotiation, mitigating risks, and contract management. Category Raw Material Purchasing: Order raw materials; precious metals such as Platinum, Rhenium, and Palladium for catalyst manufacturing, management of raw material, and inventory.

General Electric Oil & Gas, Houston Service Center 7/2012 – 09/2014

Technical Planner

Support of all shop technical requirements; working closely with the design engineering department. Maintaining comprehensive and accurate records of all manufacturing, inspections, and repair jobs through the GE process. Ensure consistency with all GE applications, procedures, and technical performances. Involved in the inspection, maintenance, installation, operation, and repair of turbomachinery. Responsible for gathering information including preparing required forms, using, instructions, blueprints, and drawings for inbound manufacture and repair jobs.

Generation of work orders for inspections and expected repairs. Responsible for postcondition inspection, repair scopes, and final reports for customers from all GE reporting shops.

Diageo North America, Captain Morgan/SDI, U.S. Virgin Islands 11/2010 – 6/2012

Procurement Project Manager

Providing continuous sourcing, purchasing and logistics support to the plant operations. Management of Project, Category, and MRO Procurement for Diageo USVI with a staff of 2 purchasing clerks. Responsibilities included preparing, analyzing, and negotiating RFPs for products and services.

Purchase of process chemicals such as sulfuric acid, caustic soda, nonethylene glycol, yeast, etc. Purchasing of Industrial processes and management of Inventory, and Logistics for automation instrumentation such as flow meters, level sensors, controllers, electric controls, pneumatic controls instrumentation, pressure, air pressure regulators, automated ball valves, and temperature/tank level automation. Electrical automation such as PCL's, actuators, sensors, and transmitters. Sourcing of boiler control systems, control loops for fuel, combustion air, and feedwater, flame safety equipment, burner control systems, flame detectors, and control actuators.

GeoNet Ethanol LLC-Saint Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands 02/2005 – 11/2010

Procurement Project Manager

Providing continuous sourcing, purchasing and logistics support to the plant operations. Management of Project, Category, and MRO Procurement. Responsibilities included preparing, analyzing, and negotiating RFPs for products and services.

Procurement planning for the purchase of industrial process automation instrumentation that included flow meters, level sensors, controllers, electric controls, pneumatic controls, pressure, air pressure regulators and controls for instrumentation, automated ball valves, and temperature/tank level automation. Electrical automation equipment such as PCL's, actuators, sensors, and transmitters.

Hovensa, Hess Saint Croix USVI 03/2002 - 02/2005

Plant Operator

Responsibilities as a petroleum refinery plant operator, involved, equipment surveillance, autonomous maintenance, and first-level response. Operation of the control room, equipment, and understanding of process controls & flow (start-up, shut down). Entering work notifications and communicating work activities accurately in the system (shift changes, logbooks, and maintenance follow-ups).

Responsible for executing continuous improvement activities and providing feedback through appropriate channels. Facilitation of safe work permitting processes. Compliance with all Hess Rules and guidance (energy isolation, confined space, hot work). Coaching of all safety aspects of the job and work location.

Coast Guard certified Dock Master and Certified Fire Fighter. Worked independently at times to maintain production goals and manage process troubleshooting. petroleum derivatives products from the process included gasoline, distillates such as diesel fuel and heating oil, jet fuel, lubricating oils, and naphtha or (ethylene and propylene) raw materials for polymers.

JOB-RELATED SKILLS, CERTIFICATES, AND LICENSES:

Advanced Microsoft Excel, (v-look/pivot tables and graphs), Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft SharePoint with AD-HOC database reporting and Access database linkage, Visio diagrams, SQL database writing, data mining, and queries. SAP: Development, Creation, testing, training, and execution of new purchasing processes, strategies, and training in the SAP MRP&ERP enterprise systems. Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP Ariba, SAP Fiori & SAP Success Factors, Oracle, NetSuite, Outlaw, People-Soft Epicor, Prophet 21, Primavera P6, RMI, & JDE. Medical and Legal Terminology, Medical coding, NextGen hosting electronic health records. TWIC Card.

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