Amanda Wares

• Development, implementation, and daily management of standard indirect procurement process from quote to payment for IT Department.
• Management of 5 million dollar IT budget and all contracts associated within 5% accuracy year over year.
• Drive cost savings initiatives by analyzing products/services, determining effectiveness, negotiating with vendors, and making recommendations for changes.
• Full procurement support from initial request through order placement and delivery for global IT partners.
• Reconciliation of invoices and any discrepancies involved.
• Smartsheet system administration

• Administrator of Carl Perkins federal grant spending through consultation and collaboration with the State of Michigan, academic deans, and CTE faculty program coordinators to assemble and prepare grant funded professional development, program evaluation, equipment, and supply requests for 25 individual college Career and Technical Education (CTE) approved programs.
• Assisted in the administration and management of Career and Technical Education Management Application (CATEMA) database system, used to track CTE student transition within the College’s service area through collaboration with secondary, government, and other relevant parties.
• Development, implementation, coordination, and oversight of post-secondary CTE articulation agreements through partnerships with local high school CTE coordinators and teachers, CTE faculty program coordinators, and local business partners to create programs of study that help students earn college credits by attending college level CTE courses while still in high school.
• Collect, analyze, and review Core Performance Indicator data factors determined by the State of Michigan with each CTE faculty program coordinator to determine if target goals have been reached and how to improve in areas that have not shown progress.

• Provided full procurement support from initial request through order placement and delivery for 17 College departments/divisions in compliance with all contractual requirements and obligations for the type of funds being spent.
• Collaborated with College departments/divisions to establish budget, grant specific requirements and all other aspects required to develop specifications for bids and other effective short- and long-term purchasing solutions.
• Served as College Purchase Card Administrator by resetting passwords, temporarily increasing individual spending limits for travel or special functions, assisting employees with monthly online reconciliation and upload of receipts, and all other functions necessary to successfully use and reconcile College issued purchase cards.
• Held annual and as-needed College wide learning sessions to help employees understand Federal, State, and local grant regulations and policies, the College’s purchasing process, how to use Ellucian to enter purchase requisitions, how to reconcile purchase cards online, and any other purchasing related session if needed or requested.
• Served as the College’s dedicated Carl Perkins federal grant buyer.
• Established vendor relationships to foster ongoing relationships with business partners.
• Continuous education in regulations of federal and state grants through training, conferences, and networking.

Project Management

• Planned and implemented marketing projects for national and international clients by defining project scopes, goals, and deliverables, defining project tasks and resource requirements, and developed project plans.
• Coordinated project staff and managed project scopes, goals, budgets, timelines, and deliverables.
• Monitored and reported project status to department heads on a regular basis to ensure projects remained on time, on budget, and on track.

Webmaster

• Built web pages and email marketing campaigns in multiple languages for global distribution within set budgets.
• Created official news and press releases in multiple languages for global distribution within set budgets.
• Designed and created customer satisfaction surveys in multiple languages for global distribution.
• Financial reporting and web analytics.

• Lead a team of six members toward reaching sales goals by maintaining and developing customer relationships and ensuring the correct target market was being reached with marketing strategies.
• Managed international client relations and sales.
• Oversaw sales data for multiple sales representatives across the United States.
• Negotiated, approved, and managed vendor agreements and contracts.
• Tracked office advertising expenses and managed advertising budget.
• Developed and sustained relationships with existing and potential clients by coordinating meetings, attending trade shows, and providing customer service support.
• Provided sales and customer service support to national and international clients.

• Provided IT purchasing and customer service support for GM, Bank of America, and other clients as contracted by receiving requests for purchase, negotiating pricing and lease agreements from vendors through competitive quoting, making buying decisions, and issuing purchase orders.
• Tracked order status from initial purchase through delivery to end user using an internal database.
• Reconciled invoices