Christine Chavez
Summary
Organized and motivated employee eager to apply time management and organizational skills in various environments. Seeking mid-level opportunities to expand skills while facilitating company growth. Flexible hard worker ready to learn and contribute to team success. Familiar with the needs and demands of Construction and Commodities procurement seasons and always willing to take on additional tasks to help the Department team.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Buyer II
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
05.2023 - 07.2025
- Process and approve Purchase Requests (PRs)
- Sent Request for Quotes to various Vendors
- 3-way match invoices/quotes/purchase orders, communicate with vendors, ask for credit memos on issues arising from invoices.
- Issue Purchase Orders (POs), file folders for retention, ask for and receive Material Testing Reports (MTRS), Certificate of Compliance (COC), Certificate of Authority (COA), National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST) reports for testing equipment, metal bolts, screws, washers, & lab equipment.
Procurement Specialist
Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA)
05.2022 - 05.2023
- Developed procurement strategies to optimize supplier selection and contract negotiations.
- Managed vendor relationships, ensuring compliance with quality standards and delivery timelines.
- Analyzed market trends to forecast demand and adjust purchasing plans accordingly.
- Implemented cost-saving initiatives that enhanced overall procurement efficiency and reduced expenses.
Bid Clerk, Construction Bid Coordinator, Procurement Buyer
Municipality of Anchorage
08.2016 - 02.2022
- Examined, selected, and purchased merchandise consistent with specification requirements.
- Worked closely with team members to deliver project requirements, develop solutions and meet deadlines.
- Prioritized and organized tasks to efficiently accomplish service goals.
- Maintained multiple projects and tasks to ensure high quality and timely delivery during a peak construction season.
- Demonstrated self-reliance by meeting and exceeding workflow needs.
- Demonstrated leadership by making improvements to work processes and helping to train others.
- Extensive experience in preparing projects for solicitation in commodities and Construction.
- Ability to hit target project solicitation dates.
- Knowledge of properly formatted addenda.
- Maintained RFP and Construction ITB Logs to report in the form of Assembly Information Memorandum Reports.
- Extensive review of Assembly Memorandums prior to entering into the OnBase software system.
- Public Records Request Point of Contact. Knowledge of Title 3.90.
- Extensive knowledge on State of Alaska Department of Wage and Hour wage rates. Was the Municipality of Anchorage primary contact for SOA DOL Investigations.
- Entered all Notice of Awards into the State of Alaska Department of Labor system.
- Main point of contact for all of the Notice of Completions. Verified final contract values, including all change orders.
- Knowledge of Sole Source justification purchases, Purchase Orders and properly formatted request Memos.
- Knowledge of Cooperative Contract Purchases and properly formatted request Memos.
- Knowledge of Contract requirements and insurance requirements, where applicable.
- Created and published Invitation to Bid and Request for Quote projects for commodities and nonprofessional services and Construction.
- Reviewed all Construction Invitation to Bids prior to solicitation.
- Qualified Invitation to Bids and Request for Quotes (All addenda acknowledged, signature, correct Bid Bond submitted, and Power of Attorney included).
- Primary Point of Contact for various Municipal Departments post Bid Opening.
- Created all Construction project contracts from 2017-2021.
- Worked closely with various Project Managers employed by the MOA and private engineering firms.
- Maintained Outlook calendars for all bid openings. Making sure appropriate Department Point of Contacts were invited for site visits, pre-bid conferences and bid opening conferences.
- Set up conference room for pre-bid and opening conferences (including opening of the conference call line and taking attendance).
- Created bid tabulations from bid openings.
- Verified all documents were correct upon contract return. (Payment and Performance Bonds, Insurance and Contract was signed and dated by an authorized representative).
- Created Intent to Award and Award letters for each project.
Customer Service Representative 3
Solid Waste Services
12.2006 - 08.2016
- De-escalated problematic customer concerns, maintaining calm, friendly demeanor.
- Informed customers about billing procedures, processed payments.
- Major cash handling experience.
- Processed invoices for the general public and contract customers for disposal dumping fees.
- Ensured proper Asbestos disposal paperwork was presented prior to disposal and sign off.
- Processed weight tickets for military moves and personal moves/shipping.
- On-site Team Lead when the Supervisors were not available to address customer complaints and enforcement of Municipal dumping Ordinances.
- Special Projects involving data entry for the Administration side of SWS.
- Nightly balancing of cash and checks. Input data into a spreadsheet for balancing purposes.
- Assisted in cash verification for the cash booth & scalehouses in three locations.
- Trained new employees on proper procedures and balancing techniques.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
Academy
Anchorage, AK10.2006
Skills
- Product procurement
- Accurate recordkeeping of various projects
- Decision-making
- Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point (MOS Master)
- Quick learner on software programs
- Created informal Request for Quotes with appropriate specifications for solicitations
- Strong Work ethic, attention to detail
- Multitasking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to track the status of multiple projects
- Customer service experience, cash handling
- Ability to train new employees/team members
- Created formal Invitation to Bid with appropriate specifications for solicitation
Certification
Microsoft Office Master in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint.
Awards
Alpha Beta Kappa, 2006 Member, Alumni Association
Timeline
Buyer II
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
05.2023 - 07.2025
Procurement Specialist
Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA)
05.2022 - 05.2023
Bid Clerk, Construction Bid Coordinator, Procurement Buyer
Municipality of Anchorage
08.2016 - 02.2022
Customer Service Representative 3
Solid Waste Services
12.2006 - 08.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
Academy
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