Project Management Assistance/Coordination

• Established business relationships with companies such as Fluke Biomedical, Scaletronix, Newark InOne, Ayantra, BBraun Biomedical, and Mouser Electronics.
• Drafted and assisted in the finalization of business cases in order to obtain budget and funding for new projects and pilots.
• Built interdepartmental and interdivisional business partnerships in order to get projects started and keep them moving.
• Generated quarterly and year end reports that covered inventory movement, expenditures, cost savings and that were used to form the budget estimate for the next fiscal year.
• Worked as part of a team along with Procurement and Director Staff to ensure the terms of national and regional vendor contracts benefited all parties.
• Interfaced and fulfilled requests for Global Sustainability, IT Security, and Field Operations.
• Oversaw 75 to 100 Purchase Request entries annually from entry to approval for system installations and replacements that varied in price from $185K to over $500K per request.
• Member of a team that focused on spending control and transparency that reviewed purchase requests for construction and small projects ensuring proper entry and if estimates or quotes were inline with the work to be performed.
• Part of a team that coordinated the conversion of over 2000 facilities from a centralized solution delivery system to a machine localized delivery system.
• Managed/tracked project documentation and configuration management of documents provided to end user.
• Able to work in office or remote at home. (Home office equipped with 32″ QHD monitor, 2×1 KVM, and camera.)

Personnel Management And Leadership

• In 1993, I attended a class in the US Navy. The Chief Of Naval Operations endorsed a training system based around Dr. W. Edwards Deming concept of TQM but it was tweaked to include a centric focus on leadership becoming TQL. In studying these concepts and picking the best parts of the two, I strive to build a team environment in which the team members feel they belong, contribute, and matter to the objective(s) being accomplished.
• Experienced in completing employee performance evaluations in Workday, PeopleSoft, and hard copy.
• Able to recommend employee salary increases in both individual merit and raise pool systems.
• Capable in drafting and submitting justifications for an employee’s equity bump in salary.
• I do not always manage from a distance. I operate, as needed, as part of a team.

Personnel Training & Policy

• Have worked with training in various capacities since serving in the US Navy. This includes overseeing personnel initial and periodic training requirements, facilitating OJT, teaching topics in training classes as needed, and tutoring personnel on an individual basis when required.
• Working with an Education Director, we laid the foundation for what would become a six-part segmented training curriculum for all technical new hires. Aside from authoring and coauthoring several chapters, I continued working with Education to ensure the files were up to date and catalogued properly in their respective repositories.
• Updated older training material to modernize it for current configurations.
• Assigned as PM for a team to create a new procedure for annual fire door inspections and worked with Education to produce a training video to assist field personnel with familiarization of subject matter.
• Worked as part of a team with other departments to create new procedures and modernize existing policies.
• Created and maintained an internal departmental website that served as a resource road map for field technicians in order to ease navigation stress of the corporation’s massive website.