Management Project

R. RASHELLE THOMAS

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Alexandria, VA 22302 Cellular: 510-***-****

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Extensive commercial and government experience developing, administrating and managing contracts including; procurement and supplier negotiations for contract terms and conditions and supplier management. Effectively collaborate with internal departments, external customers and all levels of management to gather, analyze, summarize, and prepare recommendations on contracts and sourcing strategies, practices and procedures.

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COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft, Access, Visio, Adobe Suite, Aglie,Sharepoint, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Ariba, Costpoint-Deltek,Business Process Management (BPM), Cognos, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business to Business (B to B), Lotus Notes, and Microsoft Office

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SKILLS

Strategic Program Planning

Work Flow Optimization Cost Forecasting

Contract Management Risk Mitigation

Operation Management Strategic Sourcing

Data Analytics

Change Management Team Leader Strong Negotiator Metric Reporting

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HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

Contract Management • Procurement Management • Cross –Functional Teams

• Functional areas of expertise are subcontracts management, procurement, purchasing, contract management, risk management, compliance, pricing and proposal development.

• Cradle to grave management of federal, civilian, and commercial contracts and subcontracts, domestic and international, from the pre-proposal phase through award, post award administration and closeout.

• Proven ability to develop and implement strategic sourcing initiatives that deliver cost-effective and high-performance solutions to business and financial clients; experience working with a diversified range of services and projects.

• Possess in-depth knowledge and practical experience with strategic sourcing, coordinating, developing and evaluating complex request for proposals and contracts.

• Experienced with information technology contracts i.e. software licensing, hardware equipment and developing and managing partnerships with key suppliers. As well as the ability to independently negotiate and resolve contractual issues.

• Extensive experience in developing and expanding supplier diversity programs.

• Management and administration of subcontracts valued up to $10 million to include FFP, T&M, CPAF, CPFF, IDIQ and LH contracts, preparing solicitations for competitive and sole source acquisitions, reviewing SOW, flow down clauses, monitoring performance, approving payments, compliance, closeout.

• Management and administration of multimillion dollar contracts, to include FFP, T&M, IDIQ, , GSA Schedules, proposal development, win strategy, evaluation of requests for proposals, bid or no-bid decisions, Teaming/ Non-Disclosure Agreements, pricing, risk analysis, cost estimating, DCAA/ CPSR audit, small business plans, post-award administration and compliance.

• Thorough knowledge of federal regulations and Public Law pertaining to the contracting industry, FAR, DFARS and civilian agency supplements, TINA, SCA, ITAR and UCC.

• Customers include all branches of the Department of Defense, civilian agencies including the Department of Commerce, Department of Energy; commercial customers include domestic and international suppliers and consultants, commercial agencies, independent contractors.

• Authoring policy and procedure, standard operating procedures and guidelines, and templates, disseminating training materials, facilitating educational seminars and protocols, mentoring, establishing intern program for in-house contracts and procurement professionals, supervision of staff of up to10.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CONSULSUTING ARRANGEMENTS: 10/2010-Present

Contracts Representative (Contractor)

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Arlington, VA

• Negotiates, draft and resolved legal terms with commercial suppliers business and legal representatives involving contracts such as Teaming Agreements, Professional Service Agreements, Project & Maintenance Services Agreements, End User License Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Master Services Agreements, Time and Materials, Firm Fixed Price, etc

Senior Procurement Analyst (Contractor)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, Office of the Inspector General, Washington DC

• Provided acquisition support and direction to the US Department of Commerce Office of The Inspector General (OIG) program office stakeholders.

• Demonstrating proven acquisition experience and leadership in one or more specialized areas (e.g., project management, procurement, source selection and contract management).

• As well as managing the procurement life cycle (pre-award, award, post award) including development of sole source justification, cost analysis, Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCE) and or market research documentation.

• Contributor in strategic initiative development and aligned projects selection work sessions.

• In addition, to drafting moderate to complex requirement documents such as Statements of Work (SOW), Performance Work Statements (PWS), and Statements of Objectives (SOO) in support of the OIG’s acquisitions strategy. Negotiating Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) and Inter -Agency Agreements (IA).

• Provided business advice to the program office in preparing solicitation and award packages including all related contractual documents award and post-award the development of acquisition planning, cost estimating, price analysis, defining the technical evaluation criteria, contract management and administration ensuring compliance with a wide variety of Federal Acquisition Regulation.

• Negotiating terms and conditions of contracts, administration of contracts, developed and managed under GWAC, IDIQ's, GSA etc.

Senior Lead Procurement Representative (Contractor)

Intelligence & Security Procurement, BAE SYSTEMS, Herndon, VA

• Acted as a primary contact between the various project teams and/or business unit stakeholders and Legal; reviewing contracts from a compliance, business and financial perspective and mitigated identified contractual risk exposure in support to various Information Technology projects.

• Negotiated and executed of various contractual documents: licensing agreement, professional/consulting services agreement (CSA’s), master services agreement (MSA’s), non-disclosure agreements (NDA’s), drafting and modifying statements of work (SOW’s).

• Performed cost analysis, conducted RFx initiative, contract executions and new services and vendor implementation with delivered cost savings.

• Communicated contract-related information in response to inquiries from both internal and external customers ensuring timely processing of contractual information, documentation and or resolution to any arising contractual issues.

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Senior Procurement / Contracts Analyst -Corporate Procurement Management and Analysis

PMI MORTGAGE INSURANCE GROUP, Walnut Creek, CA 6/2007 – 10/2011

• Contract management which included structuring, reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and analyzing various contracts as well as conducted spend and cost analysis. Implemented a rigorous Supplier Balanced Scorecard program and sourcing strategies to deliver superior, optimized price structures and contract terms

• Collaborate with in-house teams to evaluate RFP and RFQ responses to ensure adequate competition prior to awarding contracts and interface with internal and external customers regarding inquiries, contract requirements and related contracting issues.

• Prepared status reports; schedule and lead weekly contract status meetings for each contract's support team.

• Drafted and modification of Statements of Work (SOW’s), Service Level Agreements (SLA’s), Master Service Agreement (MSA’s), non-disclosure agreements (NDA’s). As well as collaborated with legal on various contractual provisions, issues and preferred approaches to structure transactions. Team leader for enterprise sourcing, process improvement and implementing project compliance to service level agreements (SLA’s) and key performance indicators (KPI’s).

• Provided recommendations and contract interpretation to senior management issues relating to business risk, advised business teams of possible legal risks as well as maximized, leveraged spend; managed and mitigated risk of non-public information.

• Facilitated the identification of procurement process improvement/ process-model and supported, planned and executed these activities while working closely with stakeholders to define, identify plan improvements of the Procure to Pay project. Core Team member for ERP (PeopleSoft) transition team to ensure optimal service of the ERP system is operating, functioning as modeled and deployed and determined the most effective eProcurement project approach, process scheduling, best business practices, and benchmark as well as provided direction, training to end-users and decentralized procurement departments personal on procurement best in class methods.

• Assisted with day to day management of the P-Card program to include tracking and maintenance of cardholders during all phases of the P-Card life cycle from card application through card retirement.

• Presenter of executive level presentations, influencer of key stakeholders and builders of consensus for sponsorship.

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Senior Procurement Specialist/Buyer IV -Campus Procurement & Business Contracts

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco, CA 8/2006 –5/2007 (Contractor)

• Responsible for contract management and administration in accordance with the university policies, legal requirements and department’s specifications.

• Reviewed and administered contracts and modifications; prepared contract review records and obtained necessary management approvals. Led negotiations of contracts and modifications with various vendors.

• Collaborated with various departments on appropriate course of action, development of specifications, competitive bids, negotiations, evaluations, selection of contractors and vendors. Supported campus and system-wide strategic sourcing initiatives, by performing advanced spend analysis of assigned commodities. In addition to providing support of a system wide upgrade of the PeopleSoft E- procurement and Supplier Service Contracts module supporting efforts of the solutions configuration, testing, documentation, and end user training requirements.

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Manager of Strategic Sourcing

GREENPOINT MORTGAGE FUNDING, Novato, CA 7/2005 -8/2006

(Division of North Fork Bancorp.)

• Managed full-cycle sourcing for 30 million in spend including diagnostic assessment, market and cost benefit analysis (CBA) execution of RFx initiatives /analysis/ award, negotiations, contract development and implementation for capital equipment, indirect goods, IT Services and professional services.

• Implemented a contract and purchase order tracking system to monitor terms and conditions, pricing, non¬standard terms, and renewals.

• Created standardized services and consulting agreements to reduce administrative effort and cost.

• Support Information Technology initiatives by negotiating prices, drafting terms

and conditions and finalizing agreements

• Designed and Implemented Supplier Performance Program and trained relationship owners to manage vendors to the organizations SLA’s.

• Designed and Implemented vendor contract database tool enabling automated administration and reporting.

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Senior Subcontract Administrator- Supporting the Department of Energy

LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY, Berkeley, CA 2/2005 – 7/2005

(Contractor)

• Administered sub-contract agreements, including financial review, negotiations and award.

• Prepared bid packages, conducted pre bid meetings, analyzed, and evaluated proposals, Request for Information (RFI’s) and Request for Proposal (RFP’s).

• Conducted negotiations with suppliers to obtain favorable contract provisions and mitigated potential contractual risk

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Subcontract Administrator -Supporting the Department of Defense

K.R.S KWAJALEIN RANGE SERVICE LLC, Richmond, CA 10/2001 - 2/2005

(Bechtel National, Lockheed Martin, Chugach Company) Formerly: Raytheon Service Engineering

• Managed supplier relationships and cradle to grave procurement ensuring on time, accurate and appropriate delivery of goods and service for a Department of Defense prime contractor in support of a remote facility on Kwajalein. Closed-out and completed 200 firm-fixed and cost-type contracts for Raytheon RSE rollover.

• Administrated high dollar value sub-contracts, including financial review i.e. price/cost analysis, negotiations, award and closeout of procurement.

• Reviewed, analyzed, and revised requirements documents, including requisitions, Statements of Work, Performance Work Statements, and source justification documents.

• Prepared and Issue Requests for Proposal for competitive and non-competitive negotiated procurements.

• Performed Source selection, including competitive and non-competitive, directed procurements/sole source justifications

• Performed Price and Cost analysis to include competitive award, catalog or market price/research, comparison with historical pricing, and comparison with in-house estimates

• Negotiate Terms and Conditions and fee arrangements, Milestone payment schedules.

• Awarded, administered, followed-up, and closeout subcontracts and purchase orders. Monitor performance, approve and process payments, closeout

• Issue show cause letters, cure notices, and termination actions, as appropriate.

• Developed new vendor relationships, qualify vendors, assess risks, and monitor existing vendor performance to subcontract technical, schedule, and administrative requirements

• Perform the timely closeout of subcontracts in preparation of the contract closeout, request assist audit from DCMA/DCAA.

• Worked on numerous proposal efforts, assuming responsibility for purchasing activities in support of the proposal team, administration of subject matter expert consultants writing the proposal, selecting teaming partners, preparing teaming agreements and PIA, soliciting bids and BOEs from teammate subcontractors for use in the Raytheon proposal, soliciting competitive pricing for ODCs, and writing the purchasing system portion and the Small Business Subcontracting Plan of the proposal.

• Reviewed existing subcontracts for completeness, updated and otherwise insured existing subcontracts met all parameters of the DOD and FAR/DFAR and CAS requirements. Prepared bid packages, conducts pre bid meetings, analyzed, evaluated proposals and negotiated contract provisions.

• Developed and applied various procurement strategies and methodologies. Reconciled accounts payable issues, solved delivery issues and returns to vendor material.

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Relevant Professional Experience

Information Technology Purchasing Supervisor 3/1999 - 9/2001 ORGANIC ONLINE, San Francisco, CA

Subcontracts Administrator/Buyer 4/1995 - 2/1999

RAYTHEON SYSTEMS, San Jose, CA Supporting the Department of Defense

Buyer IV 12/1992 - 4/1995

BECTON DICKINSON-Immunocytometry Systems, San Jose, CA

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EDUCATION

College

Currently pursuing Bachelor’s of Science degree, Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University .

Business Administration Program, De Anza College, 2/1994-9/1996

Training

Currently pursuing Defense Acquisition University (DAU) certification through American Graduate University

Certificate: Federal Contracting Basic, George Washington University, 5/2000

Certificate: Purchasing Management/CPM University of Phoenix, 9/1998

Certificate: Effective Negotiating, Dr. Karras, 3/1998

Certificate: Understanding the Legal Aspects of Purchasing, San Jose State University, 12/1998

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

The Institute for Supply Management and National Association of Contract Management

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