KENNETH B. DARE

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Walnut Creek, CA 94595 adtauy@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over fifteen years of progressive experience, accomplishments, successes in the areas of administrative analysis, contract administration, negotiations, and procurement. Special skills in the following areas:

Developing Request for Proposals Supporting Account Reps

Contract Negotiations Maintaining Templates

Vendor Management Asset/Inventory Management

IT Contract/ Procurement Maintaining Contract Files

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assembly

LAM Research, Fremont, CA 12/21 - Present

•Effectively use hand tools, torque wrenches, equipment, and fixtures to assemble wafer fabrication equipment

•Read and precisely follow work instructions and schematics; confirm correct parts were received (perform visual inspection of components prior to installation)

•Close assigned tasks: verify work was completed (sign off, describing work that was completed)

•Assist with audits (visual inspection and verifying checklists)

•Tests and troubleshoots assemblies and/or final systems.

•May perform as a Lead Assembler (with assistance), and/or train other Assemblers on specific job functions

•Provide timely information and responses to supervisors and co-workers

Production Associate/Assembly

Tesla Motors, Fremont, CA 9/17 - 12/21

•Perform complex assembly work on a production/prototype basis..

•Tasks requires a high level of skill with a variety of hand tools, precision measuring equipment, and machinery

•Involved in troubleshooting and rework, requiring a sufficient understanding of the functional operation of the items assembled as well as the finished product.

•Responsible for quality activities, including self-inspection, and inspection.

•Identify discrepant materials/components physically and verbally to supervisor,

•Complete tasks as directed by manufacturing schedules and within standard times.

Service Support Rep. (contractor)

Ricoh Corporation, Oakland, CA 1/16 - 8/17

•Delivers documents, packages, usb’s or cd’s and other items to customers, business establishments, other Ricoh USA locations.

•Responsible for meeting deadlines by following a standard set of procedures for delivering completed jobs to clients promptly, safely and according to their instructions.

•Obtains receipts, chain of custody, signed invoices or other form of payment for articles delivered.Responsible for recording client request through the creation of job tickets detailing client instructions for the job they are requesting.

•Checks completed work for accuracy and compliance with customer requirements prior to delivery, May accept new work from customers when delivering completed work.

•Responsible for maintaining compliance with state and company standards by operating a vehicle in a safe and lawful manner and following company guidelines in the event of an accident and/or injury.

Contracts Associate (contractor)

Nicoleinfotech (NIT). Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China 12/12 - 12/15

•Act as a consultant by reviewing request for IT outsourcing and software development services, drafted and administered agreements.

•Revise commercial and general conditions (scope of work, payment terms, fee/rate schedules, non-hire, non-solicitation, insurance and confidentiality, etc.).

•Verify invoices with contract schedules to ensure the amounts are correct before sending to the customers for payment.

•Assist with updating customer contracts in the database for the company.

Plano/Flow

Target, Dublin, CA 8/11 - 1/16

•Construction of new shelving and racking according to corporate schematic plans and measurements.

•Change/Revise pricing of all shelves and replace merchandise to ensure the pricing label is the merchandise.

•Merchandising of new shelving, according to best practices for merchandise flow procedures.

•Remove/Restock/Setup merchandise from shelving to be either changed or relocated to another location in the store.

•Maintain and revise all products for new and old items on the shelves that are being changed or moved and discard any discontinued/defective merchandise to a designated location and cleaning the sales floors that have been worked.

•Pull and Restock merchandise from the warehouse to the floor.

English Teacher

China 7/06 - 11/10

Contracts Associate (contractor)

Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 3/06 - 6/06

•Negotiated acceptable business and contract language with vendors that advance Genentech's business interest, and effectively communicated Legal and business trade-offs to internal departments.

•Managed the contract process from an initial request through to a fully executed agreement, including analysis, decision-making, and negotiation on the legal viability, drafting, customer negotiation and execution of the agreement.

•Managed, coordinated, and participated in discussions between departments, including Legal, Commercial Finance, Commercial Operations, and Commercial brand teams regarding areas for improvement and enhancement of the quality of contracts and the contract process.

•Proactively identified and prepared for present and future customer contractual needs.

•Fully understand the legal issues that impact Genentech's business, and coordinate with and make recommendations to Legal to resolve legal issues.

•Ensured consistency of agreements by incorporating company specifications, policies, procedures and instructions.

Paralegal/Contracts Administrator (contractor)

AlphaSoft Services Corporation, Walnut Creek, CA 9/05 - 12/05

•Reviewed requests for training and consulting services, drafted, negotiated and administered agreements.

•Responsible for supporting Recruiters in implementing all business contracts and agreements with clients.

•Developed and negotiated Agency, Direct, 3rd Party Agreements, Consulting Services and Pass through contracts.

•Negotiated commercial and general conditions (scope of work, payment terms, fee/rate schedules, liability, indemnification, non-hire, non-solicitation, insurance and confidentiality).

•Reported to management/staff regarding status of business strategies for negotiating conflict/modifications identified with each potential agreement, purchase order or RFP.

•Ensured consistency of agreements by incorporating company specifications, policies, procedures and instructions.

Seafood Manager

Safeway, Danville, CA 9/01 - 09/05

•Set up and maintained seafood counter which consisted of receiving delivery of seafood products from vendors, cutting fish, pre-packaging fish, value packs, stocking frozen seafood items and ensuring the specialty meat counter was full and ready for the day.

•Responsible for Purchasing and Maintaining Inventory of all fresh and frozen seafood products and supplies.

•Managed the Seafood Department and a staff of 6 workers for training new employees, role playing customer service dialogues, duties for the day and to ensure that plenty of reserve seafood products are in the cooler ready for the counters and customers to purchase.

Contracts Manager (contractor)

Cingular Wireless, San Ramon, CA 3/01 - 8/01

•Responsible for the take over of major strategic initiative for the acquisition of non-technical classification of temporary workers. The initiative was valued at over $40 million per year and resulted in several master agreements with national agencies with an estimated savings of $15 million per year over a three-year period.

•Developed Request for Proposals (RFP) and prepared contracts regarding professional services and other contracts. Assisted the vendor manager in the selection process for the winning contract.

•Supported Human Resources in creating, developing and amending professional service and training agreements.

•Liaised with internal clients, legal and vendors determining necessary information for preparing contracts.

Contract Manager

Inktomi Corporation, Foster City, CA 1/00 - 3/01

•Responsible for the East Coast Region in creating, developing, negotiating, amending all nondisclosure agreements, trial evaluations, software licenses, merchant agreements, alliance contracts, professional services and support agreements with customers are negotiated.

•Liaised with internal clients, finance, marketing and technical division in determining necessary information for preparing all product contracts.

•Created, distributed and maintained all company mutual confidentiality and trial evaluation agreement templates.

•Successfully supported a maximum of fifteen account representatives in establishing a smooth transaction for the completion of contracts.

Business Systems Analyst (contractor)

24 Hour Fitness, Inc., Carlsbad, CA 9/99 - 1/00

•Responsible for all IT Contract/Purchasing, training and consulting services, inventory of all of hardware, software and peripheral equipment.

•Negotiated, drafted and administered software license agreements.

•Developed and implemented an Asset/Inventory Management system for the IT Division and company.

•Maintained policy and procedures for purchasing, inventory and other projects.

IS Contract Specialist (contractor)

Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc., Torrance, CA 7/98 - 7/99

•Reviewed requests for services, equipment, training, non-disclosure, confidentiality, and consulting contracts.

•Negotiated, drafted and evaluated hardware contracts, software license agreements (site, CPU, and tier pricing), maintenance agreements, professional service and consulting agreements for the Year 2000 compliance.

•Liaised with parties in obtaining and determining necessary information for preparing contracts, agreements and purchase orders. Responsibilities involved the procurement of computer hardware, peripherals and software applications.

•Responsible for approving payment of vendors' invoices for Toyota and/or affiliates including purchase order invoices, check requests or other invoices.

•Major team member in the implementation of the Year 2000 compliance and dealers new systems for Toyota. Maintained vendor reports and coordinated bi-weekly meetings with internal departments to discuss vendors' compliant/non-compliant products for the Year 2000 compliance.

•Maintained ICN Contract Management Database.

COMPUTER SKILLS

MS Word, WordPerfect, Eudora Pro, Meeting Maker, Excel, Access, Microsoft Office Outlook, Honeywell, Raytheon, Diablo

EDUCATION

Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA

Major: General Studies

St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA

Candidate: Paralegal Certification

Courses completed: Business Law, Legal Research & Writing and Contract Law.

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