Daniel Easter

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Nashville, TN mobile 615-***-**** adratw@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

Establish vendor relationships, initiate and negotiate contracts, clinical and administrative doctor/patient support, budget coding, purchase order, orienting families/patients, and establish OMS externship approvals via medical center contract and extern file confirmation.

ACHIEVEMENTS

●Proficient in Banner, Microsoft Word, Outlook, PMM, Excel, and experience in Power Point.

●Front Desk Service Rep – Property Appointments/Listings, Service Request, PO request/instruction, Faculty/Doctor support.

●Approve purchases including a second look, purchase request, contract approval form, quotes, and proposals.

●Ability to multi-task and develop a plan of action.

●Purchasing, inventory, placing orders, and product sourcing.

●Excellent people skills working with a variety of vendor groups and university small group meetings, storeroom staff, students, budget managers, deans, nursing staff, property owners, brokers, patients, visitors, doctors, parents, and teaching music and planning youth activity calendar.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Nursing Operations Support, Externship Coordinator and Doctor Support/Administrative Assistant

Vanderbilt Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee 10/2012 to present

●Stand In for procedures patient/nursing assistance, rapid response.

●Process requests generated from clinicians for supplies and equipment.

●Assist patient’s families with accommodations, orientation, visitation guidelines, resources, tours, and child’s status after surgery.

●Provide support to doctors in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery via Estar, message basket, provider communication/doctor’s patient notes, student internship contract application, U.S. and Canadian dental school contacts, intern coordination of documentation, extern confirmation, and campus visits.

Procurement Coordinator

Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee 9/2005 to 8/2012

●Establish vendor relationships and monitor school savings from vendors. Ensure purchase requests meet guidelines and then determine the method by which payment should be administered. Research for a better price, request bids, and cost comparison analysis.

●Lease vehicles, income lease rental properties, property tax monitoring, and off campus land/lease opportunities.

●Oversee campus-wide adherence to purchasing policies and procedures. Meet with accounts payable and related user departments’ management, administrative assistants, budget managers, deans, and buyers to assist with procedures, processes, and encourage competitive pricing.

●Maintain vendor base and research new vendors for cost savings. Coordinate contractual and alliance vendor relationships and negotiate, review, organize, monitor, and evaluate campus contracts that produce company savings for services and products…copiers/printers, vending machines, furniture, office products, plants, subsidized “green” enterprise car sharing, laundry, (3) cell phone providers, utility audits, private jet service for university president, natural gas, computer equipment, and lease vehicles.

●Serve as liaison between university and vendors/suppliers …meeting with prospective vendor groups to evaluate their proposals and contracts.

●Streamline processes through accounts payable, end users, CFO, business office IT staff, vice president of finance, and legal office.

Purchase Order Manager

Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee 12/1999– 9/2005

●Issue purchase orders for campus schools and university.

●Insure quality organization in storeroom and supply of stock as well as quick access to supplies and services off campus from suppliers/vendors.

●Supervise Materials Coordinator, Runner, and Storeroom Clerk.

●Coordinate with building engineers/craftsmen on electrical, plumbing, carpentry, HVAC, computer, and office supplies.

●Coordinate with housekeeping staff on mattresses, mattress covers, paper products, shower curtains, and cleaning products.

●Reconcile visa statements and all campus enhancement purchases.

●Meet with vendors to determine best pricing arrangements and payment methods…bulk, contract, visa, check request, net 30, etc.

●Negotiate terms of delivery, payment and pricing with vendors.

●Reconcile complaints and/or budget/billing concerns via budget coding with campus departments.

●Generate and process work orders.

Affiliate Broker and Church Work

●Listing and selling home, Nashville - 1990 - 2010.

●Property renovation, Nashville -

1990 to present.

●Church – organ/piano, Nashville – 1996 to present.

Youth calendar, youth activity

director, youth choir, teaching piano,

singing leader, Ashland City, TN - 1992 - 1996.

EDUCATION

Freed-Hardeman University - Henderson, Tennessee

Bachelor of Science Degree / Music, Theology/Youth Development

Belmont University – Nashville, Tennessee

Pipe Organ Certification

Continual Learning Institute – Nashville, Tennessee

Real Estate License

David Lipscomb High School – Nashville, Tennessee

Diploma

AFFILIATIONS

-Banner Software Certification / Purchase Orders and Accounting

-NAEP / National Association of Educational Procurement

-Nashville AGO / American Guild of Organist

-Nashville Board of Realtors

-Certificates in comparative market analysis, appraisal, and legal aspects of real estate / CLI

-Cigna software training for insurance codes form reviews, updating, and proofing

INTERESTS / HOBBIES

-running, swimming, landscaping, biking, music, architecture, and carpentry.

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