CLIFFORD A. MORALES
Houston,USA
Summary
Dynamic Procurement Operations Specialist with extensive experience at CenterPoint Energy, excelling in contract negotiation and compliance. Proven track record in strategic sourcing and data analysis, driving cost-effective solutions. Adept at cross-functional collaboration and effective communication, ensuring alignment with procurement policies and optimizing operational efficiency. Fluent in Spanish, enhancing stakeholder engagement. Rational Operations Specialist with many years of experience in the industry field. Thorough knowledge of supply chain management, logistics, and forecasting.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Procurement Operations Specialist / Gas Operations (Contractor)
CenterPoint Energy
Houston, USA
08.2025 - Current
- Review, approve, reject, and edit purchase requisitions to ensure alignment with procurement policy, compliance standards, and approved budget thresholds.
- Manage contract funding by creating and adjusting funds within SAP and maintaining accurate financial tracking for active agreements.
- Process contract extension requests, coordinating approvals and updating contract records to maintain continuity of services.
- Edit and refine contract language to ensure clarity, legal compliance, and alignment with company standards.
- Execute pricing updates on existing contracts and add new rate structures to agreements based on business needs.
- Obtain director-level approvals for funding requests, contract extensions, and high-value procurement actions.
- Coordinate with business units to validate justification documentation for sourcing, spend approvals, and renewals.
- Manage Master Service Agreement (MSA) updates, including redlining, language edits, and collaboration with Legal for final approval.
- Update Scope of Work (SOW) documents, adjusting verbiage, adding rate details, and ensuring compliance before Legal review.
- Push fully executed contracts from SAP into Coupa to support accurate procurement workflows.
- Create and edit Purchase Orders (POs), ensuring proper scope, pricing accuracy, and supplier information.
- Prepare and route contract documents through DocuSign for signatures and complete execution.
- Serve as a procurement help-desk resource, providing guidance to internal stakeholders and supporting company-wide policy and system inquiries.
- Communicate directly with suppliers on onboarding, pricing updates, contract revisions, and issue resolution.
- Maintain and update supplier information to ensure accurate and compliant vendor records.
Power Distribution Engineer III
PIKE Engineering
Houston, USA
08.2020 - 08.2025
- Design overhead distribution line projects following utility and NESC standards.
- Prepare complete construction drawing packages including BOM, staking sheets, and work sketches.
- Conduct field evaluations to obtain measurements, confirm site conditions, and validate design requirements.
- Perform pole loading analysis and verify structural integrity based on project scope.
- Determine appropriate conductor types, transformer sizes, fusing, and protective device placement.
- Ensure all design solutions meet clearance, safety, and reliability requirements.
- Develop cost-effective design alternatives that optimize performance and minimize construction costs.
- Support permitting efforts by preparing necessary documentation and technical drawings.
- Coordinate design requirements with engineers, project managers, and construction crews.
- Manage multiple design projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines and budget constraints.
- Prepare material lists, labor estimates, and construction-ready documentation.
- Update GIS and asset records following project completion.
- Maintain accurate design files and ensure compliance with utility standards.
- Ensure designs comply with NESC, OSHA, and utility-specific requirements.
- Perform safety and clearance checks for all overhead designs.
- Identify potential reliability concerns and incorporate improvement measures.
Procurement Analyst III
GTM CALDIC
Houston, USA
04.2018 - 08.2020
- Assisted procurement manage the trade balance tools to suggest the quantity required based on the forecast of all Houston-supported subsidiaries.
- Aided global category managers with purchase requisitions and 3-month forecast.
- Developed a strategic sourcing presentation for CFO to present at monthly team management meeting.
- Assisted procurement team in managing products price tendencies in market overview meetings.
- Supported procurement team in all sales operations w/affiliates in CENAM, Mexico, and South America.
- Helped Identify, evaluate, and register new suppliers and products into the AX systems.
- Prepare the Purchase Forecast to Financial department according to the trade balance tool.
- Coordinate the planning of all vessels from the office, consolidating information with all affiliates.
- Prepare and present analysis of product and markets to support business plans of strategic products.
- Consolidate the materials to be presented by Category Manager at Commercial Meetings ensuring the follow-up initiatives coming from these meetings aligned to Category Managers.
- Develop and Record supplier performance information.
- Prepare and present analysis of the products, suppliers, and markets to support the business plan of strategic products and strategic suppliers.
- Follow Up Initiatives from Category Managers and Specialties business.
- Support procurement team with Actual vs Estimated report.
Procurement Analyst II
EAGLE 4 INC
Houston, USA
03.2016 - 04.2018
- Manually converted data from excel into Openworks platform.
- Locate supplier and request for quote.
- Maintain tracker via Share Point up to date.
- Input product information from material request into Opernworks.
- Contact supplier to provide lead time, weights, dimension, and quality control documentation.
- Keep client updated regarding status or all orders via Share Point.
- Helped logistics request certificate of Origin from the Chamber of Commerce.
- Helped logistics request certificate of Conformity.
- Created packing list and commercial invoice to freight forwarders.
- Uploaded and converted material receipt for company to get paid.
- Created reports reflecting material receipts and warehouse received transactions.
- Direct communication with suppliers, freight forwarders, and clients to make sure orders get to their destination on a timely basis.
Procurement Specialist II
Halliburton
Houston, USA
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Consolidating all data regarding testing, assembly and calibration of equipment and tools before it can be sent out to customers.
- Managed data that was accumulated into a master database and exported additional data from access.
- Conducted follow-ups with owners to ensure actions being closed.
- Create charts, schedules, presentations and workflow.
- Manage & maintain schedules in MS Project & Customer tools.
- Order and track as parts for wire line tools.
- Made sure that it is all QA approved and met company deadlines.
- Navigated through Oracle DBA to retrieve related information regarding the wire line tool we were building at the time.
Geoscience Engineering Tech (Intern)
BP America
Houston, USA
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Format directional surveys provided by the wells team, load all surveys via curve loader option, and QC all ‘vetted’ CompassAudit directional surveys using a 4D visualization application called CoVIZ 4D for all Mad Dog rigs into Openworks.
- Provided complete well data support including LAS file editing, digitizing and custom re-formatting as per request, well log splicing, QC and formation correlation.
- Get all Mad Dog offshore rig data ready for transfer from Openworks to Petra.
- Create a database that consolidates all off set well data used for future well planning purposes.
- Maintained and organized the company geological library, seismic data, well files, geological maps and IHS database.
- Locate final, signed well initiation documents (WID’s), Geological operation plans (GOP’s), Settlement of requirements (SOR’s), and End of well reports (EOWR’s) for all Mad Dog Wells in GOM.
- Used various applications such as Atlas, GWO share point, the Mad Dog server, and eSearch to locate final drafts of vital documents for all Mad Dog wells.
- Assist geologist and petroleum physicist by creating montages with a variety of charts, logs, and compiled data.
- Loading seismic data from various media and reformatting raw data into SEGY format.
- Managed field, survey, and map database.
- Managed seismic and well database to maintain up to date database and ensure accuracy.
- Plotted production; worked with logs; and provided production maps with the usage of ArcGIS 10.2.
- Wrote technical reports, and collected geological and technical data.
- Assisted with cross sections, digitized, calibrated log images, plan metered and spreadsheets.
- Participated in geological, geophysical, geochemical, hydrographic and oceanographic surveys, prospecting field trips, exploratory drilling, well logging or underground mine survey programs.
- Utilized ARIES for reserve forecasting using the decline curve method.
Accounts Payable Analyst
Litton Loan Servicing
Houston, USA
01.2005 - 01.2012
- Coordinate incoming general/litigation requests coming from attorneys and distribute tasks to specific BK processors.
- Assemble invoices to be completed for payment.
- Clarify any questionable invoice items, prices or receiving signatures and obtain proper information and/or data regarding invoice payments and review invoice requisitions for satisfactory payment approval.
- Verify and calculate all extensions and totals on invoices (calculating and taking discounts when applicable).
- Prepare vouchers listing invoice number, date, vendor address, item description, amounts and coding per accounting policies and procedures.
- Calculate, post business transactions, process invoices, verify financial data for use in maintaining accounts payable records, and provide other clerical support necessary to pay the obligations of the organization.
- In charge of approving, denying, and adjusting incoming Bankruptcy invoices/documents from attorneys and outsourced vendors through the LPS Invoice Management system.
- Meet monthly quality requirements. Run monthly approval/denial reports to analyze monies being paid and saved. Run annual departmental spending reports.
- Handled all proof of claim assignments, MFR, and transfer info that attorneys would request.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Petroleum Engineering Technology
Houston Community College
Houston, TX08-2014
Skills
- Spanish (Fluent)
- Contract negotiation
- Procurement compliance
- Data analysis
- Strategic sourcing
- Attention to detail
- Effective communication
- Business forecasting
- Overhead Distribution Design
- Utility Design Standards
- SAP
- DDS
- Maximo
- GIS
- ESRI
- ArcMap
- Price Analysis & Cost Control
- Construction Prints/Design package
- Load Analysis
- Transformer Sizing
- Pole Loading Analysis
- Joint-use Design
- NESC Compliance
- Field Surveys / Site assessment
- Construction cost estimation
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Critical Thinking & Research Skills
Affiliations
- Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
- PETOW
- Energy Industries Council (EIC)
- SPE young professionals
- Society of Exploration Geophysics (SEG)
Certification
- Petroleum Engineering Technology
- TWIC Card
- BOSIET Offshore Survival Training
- Basic Plus Safety Course
Languages
Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
Timeline
Procurement Operations Specialist / Gas Operations (Contractor)
CenterPoint Energy
08.2025 - Current
Power Distribution Engineer III
PIKE Engineering
08.2020 - 08.2025
Procurement Analyst III
GTM CALDIC
04.2018 - 08.2020
Procurement Analyst II
EAGLE 4 INC
03.2016 - 04.2018
Procurement Specialist II
Halliburton
01.2015 - 01.2016
Geoscience Engineering Tech (Intern)
BP America
01.2014 - 01.2015
Accounts Payable Analyst
Litton Loan Servicing
01.2005 - 01.2012
Associate of Applied Science - Petroleum Engineering Technology
Houston Community College