United States Federal Government
Resume:
LANCE
LEVERTON
Lanark, Illinois *****, United States
********@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Dynamic Contracting Specialist with extensive experience at the Bureau of Prisons, adept in Federal Acquisition Regulations and contract negotiation. Proven track record in budget management and fostering competition, ensuring best value for government procurements. Strong analytical and communication skills drive successful project outcomes and enhance operational efficiency.
EXPERIENCE
Contracting Specialist
GSA Lanark, Illinois, United States
October 2024 - Current
Prepares solicitation documents, incorporating specialized provisions, such as cost accounting standards, requirements for technical proposals with appropriate weighting factors, cost or price escalation factors, socioeconomic programs, etc.
Pre-award: Incumbent reviews and analyzes requests for procurements, revising the statement of work, drawings or specifications in coordination with the requiring or program office.
Post-award: Conducts post-award conferences with the contractor to provide information, to clarify standard and special provisions of the contract and to maintain liaison with the contractor to interpret contractual obligations and resolve problems.
Negotiates changes and other modifications to contracts directly with contractor personnel on material and labor costs, overhead, profit or fees, resolving disagreements between auditor and contractor involving audit determined cost or pricing.
Prepares memorandums to explain rationale and methods used in arriving at final negotiated price and other agreements.
Supervisor: Heather Morrow 816-***-****)
Alderman Ward I
City of Lanark Lanark, Illinois, United States
April 2015 - April 2023
As a Lanark City Council member, I carry the shared responsibility of many tasks.
Pass municipal ordinances and budgets, and make appropriations.
As a whole, we select and hire top administrators for the city such as the City Manager or Chief of Police.
The council is responsible for giving direction to the mayor and reviewing policy and procedures.
We serve on multiple sub-committees such as, Personnel, Streets and Property, and Economic Development & Finance.
Prepare lectures and taught the budgeting process to fellow council members so that they have a better understanding of the process.
Established a replacement schedule on an excel spreadsheet that we utilize to assist us in the budget procedure.
As a council member, we are each assigned sub-committee's to either lead or be a participant in and we research items that are presented to us for possible action.
Submit these findings to the council and other agencies on our recommendations.
Reside on a community base non-profit improvement organization that helps the continuing involvement of our town including the city parks and various holiday events throughout the year.
I reside as the mayor pro Temp, in the case that the mayor becomes incapacitated, to maintain continuity of the city government.
As a council of a whole, we hold executive session to involve personnel and legal and litigation matters and real-estate acquisition and declaring property surplus.
All meetings that are held must be posted to the public and adhere to the statues of the Illinois Open Meeting Act.
Supervisor: Ken Viglietta 815-***-****)
Contracting Specialist
Bureau of Prisons Thomson, Illinois, United States
January 2022 - October 2024
Contract specialist, for the Bureau of Prisons are charged with executing and administering contracts for the procurement of supplies, services, construction, or research and development.
Utilized the following government procurement systems to build and modify contracts/orders for USP Thomson: Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Bureau of Prisons Acquisition Policy (BPAP), SAM.gov, FPDS-NG, Content Manager, JEDI, and UFMS.
Responsible for preparing purchase orders for food service quarterly needs.
Prepares RFQ solicitations and post the solicitations through the Government-wide point of entry, www.sams.gov, with a letter to offeror.
Receive the vendor bids and prepare the Bid Abstract and analyze price quotes received, determining the lowest price technically acceptable in accordance with FAR 15.101-2.
With the assistance of the cost center manager, a selection is made to determine Fair and Reasonable pricing in accordance with FAR 13.106-3.
Prepare the standard form 1449, verify any active exclusions, and verify any technical aspects of award.
Assist in determining best value to the government and promotes competition.
In accordance with the Simplified Acquisition Procedures, FAR Part I3, I have performed procurement duties at the local level.
Conducted solicitations by reviewing the technical requirements and conducted market research to ensure that the proposed price is fair and reasonable, and specifications are being adhered to in the bid.
Ensure that Federal Prison Industries (Unicor) and AbilityOne vendors are used whenever products are available, to the maximum extent practicable by utilizing FAR 8.002 Prioritized for use of Mandatory Government sources and in accordance with BPAP policy.
Review purchase orders and contracts for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with policies and procedures.
Review Procurement Requests (BPQs) in Unified Financial Management System (UFMS) and prepare the appropriate awards or acquisition order documents (BPOs, BONs, BPCs, BNRs, BPAs, BORs) that await award from a Warranted Contracting Officer.
Reference FAR 52-212; specifically, 52.212-1 through 52.212-5; Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
Communicate with Cost Center Managers in Medical, Facilities, and Food Service to initiate procurement actions in accordance with FAR part 7, Acquisition planning.
Supervisor: Justin Wray / Contracting Supervisor 815-***-****
Food Services
Casey's General Stores, Inc. Lanark, Illinois, United States
March 2019 - November 2019
This position offers a variety of duties focused on assisting customers.
Store Employees' run the cash register, keep the store stocked and clean, operate kitchen equipment in the production of prepared food items such as donuts, pizza, made to order sub sandwiches and more, all in a customer-friendly retail environment.
Time and Leave Clerk
Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Thomson, Illinois, United States
September 2015 - November 2017
Responsible for posting on a daily basis, computed, balanced hours of work and keying them into the time and attendance records system for personnel in the institution.
This results in the bi-weekly determination of pay.
Responsible for maintaining documentation regarding leave and pay as appropriate.
The work includes examining time and attendance records and employee requests which serve as a basis for pay and leave computations.
Resolves and answers questions regarding payroll issues.
Ensures time is correctly keyed into the system, verifies overtime has been approved before keying and confirms staff are entitled to additional pay such as overtime, night differential and Sunday/holiday pay.
Prints time and attendance reports for institution staff and maintain copies of reports, overtime and leave documentation by pay period.
Distributes original copies of time and attendance reports to all staff.
Supervises inmate orderlies on a daily basis coming in and out of office.
Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel Microsoft Office Expert.
Other programs also proficient in is WEB-TA, Sentry, BOP-WARE, MS Access for Roster program of staff.
Maintains an orderly record keeping system of all T&A files that are secure.
Maintains office in an orderly appearance to ensure organization of records.
Performs quarterly reviews of all T&A records to maintain accuracy of records for program review.
Maintains a constant rapport with supervisors of other departments to enhance the communication between departments when discrepancies are found.
Instituted a new office procedure in order to track leave discrepancies, corrections, comp and overtime on an excel spreadsheet for program review and business office, and communicated to other staff the implementations of the new procedure to ensure accuracy of policy.
Moves throughout the institution to meet with staff and supervisors to ensure proper documentation is signed regarding personnel pay.
Keeps supervisor informed of changes of personnel pay and discrepancies.
Facilities Assistant
Bureau of Prisons Thomson, Illinois, United States
November 2017 - January 2022
I am responsible for performing a variety of administrative functions in support of the mission of the Facilities Department.
Duties performed by myself, include administrative, clerical, budgetary and procurement functions which assist in the orderly operation of the department to which assigned.
I also performed T&A functions for the department by inputting the facilities staff times worked into WEB TA.
I am the system administrator over the TMS software that keeps track of work orders and progress of B&F projects.
This system also allows me every month to run reports for Region and Central Office, that give a detailed look of progress made with work orders and projects.
I also prepare these reports for the Warden and Executive staff, as well as other departments for Work Programming each month, I am responsible for setting up the meeting and the documents for them to sign.
I help manage budgetary needs for the Cost Center Manager of Facilities by updating purchases made into the Financial Management Information Systems (FMIS), and then reconcile the expenditures every month.
I reconcile millions of dollars, spread over the multiple cost centers, for the Facilities Department, and report the reconciliation to the Cost Center Manager and to the Financial Management Department.
I maintain an accountability of Fund control for multiple projects as well as department funds for the Facility Manager.
I reconcile credit card statements to ensure that proper authorization and program review policies are being adhered to.
I process all of the purchase orders of the department and make sure that they are funded through FMIS and are assigned a YREG number.
FMIS has recently been upgraded to the UFMS system that is now the functioning financial management software.
I have discussed procurement actions and credit card reconciliation actions with fellow staff members during our monthly staffing meeting to advise of changes being made or to help staff members understand the information that is needed for procurement requests.
I purchase office supplies and materials for projects.
Each year I produce annual Procurements for utilities and inspections services and provide the JOFOC's for.
I also am in charge of contract modifications memos throughout the year as expenses change.
Numerous times a day, I am on the phone with contractors to verify or to secure quotes for materials.
I also review contracts, when needed, to verify that the contracts are being adhered to and are in compliance with GSA regulations.
I supervise daily, inmate orderlies, that perform cleaning tasks for the various offices and shops, and also perform certain clerical duties as well.
During activation of the facilities; I performed work on projects using tools and had to calculate and order security screws and security caulk for light projects of securing plastic covers in fixtures of inmate cells.
Along with all other correctional institution employees, I am charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution.
The staff's correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.
Supervisor: Karl Stroh - Facility Manager 815-***-****)
EDUCATION
Bachelor's degree - Business Administration
Kaplan University, Davenport, Iowa, United States
June 2014
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Credits Earned: 172 Semester Hours
Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications: Business Administration
GPA: 3.92 of a maximum 4.0
AWARDS
Golden Key International Honor Society - Member
Army Commendation Medal
Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary and Service Award
Civilian Life-saving Award
Golden Key International Honor Society, Dean's List, President's List
Army Achievement Medal
WORK AUTHORIZATION - AUTHORIZED COUNTRIES
United States
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Title: Contracting Specialist
CERTIFICATIONS
Point of Sale (POS) System Operation Proficiency with CRM Systems
Point of Sale
LANGUAGE
Englishaspose_nerdinfographic_0_4.5
Fluent
SKILLS
Budgeting
Microsoft Office
Purchasing/Procurement
Purchase Orders
Research & Development (R&D)
Problem Solving Skills
Administrative Skills
Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS)
Contract Review
Customer Relations
Communication Skills
Data Entry
Operational Support Sales
Preventative Maintenance
Intuit Quick-books
Analysis Skills
Negotiation Skills
Accounting Standards and Regulations
Contract Analysis
Acquisition Regulations
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