Kimberly Livingston

• Purchasing direct and indirect parts for the subcontracts team in NSS, including commercial and government
• Built supplier relationships to facilitate effective communication on purchase order needs and future collaboration.
• Collaborating with subcontract program managers to place purchase orders, including coordination of documentation and ensure accuracy on billing and receiving. Ensuring accurate terms and conditions are added for each purchase order, and or worth with contracts to obtain
• Indirect purchases include: Obsolescence, Capital and Engineering, Metrology, Facilities, and MSI (Gov) Program (Miniature Systems Interface
• Tracking all purchase orders for the MSI program and report out weekly to MSI leadership
• Creating ePO folder documentation for all government purchase orders over 10k for the MSI program by working with internal requestors and compliance to ensure all requirements are met and accurate
• Contributor for SAP to Oracle transition and integration activities. Other projects include - ePO folder enhancement testing and Ivalua onboarding
• Support AS9100 audits were appropriate and ensuring compliance with DFARS and FAS on all purchase orders
• Analyzed procurement data to identify cost-saving opportunities and enhance supplier performance.
• Identified improvement areas in procurement processes and implemented changes to enhance efficiency.

• Managed multiple strategic projects throughout Digital Technology in cybersecurity, DFARs, and infrastructure with cross functional team and multiple organizations
• Coordinated scope, cost, and schedule management for each project to ensure alignment with strategic objectives
• Apply project management and change management skills in order to drive successful completion of various projects serving business units and shared service customers across the enterprise
• Updated leadership regularly on project statuses and outcomes to facilitate informed decision-making
• Managed project timelines, ensuring adherence to schedules and deliverables.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and define project scope.
• Identified risks and developed mitigation strategies to enhance project resilience throughout lifecycles.

• Supported 3 subcontract program managers in the ASIC Center of Excellence
• Coordinated small to medium-sized projects for program purchase orders, amendments, FAIs, quality issues, and RFPs throughout lifecycle
• Working with multi-functional teams - programs, suppliers, internal compliance, application engineers, finance
• Managed supplier relationships with Program Managers through effective communication to ensure alignment on project goals
• Oversaw management of obsolete ASIC parts from inception of PCN to last time buys by identifying tasks and scope of work
• Assisted SPMs with supplier and program requirements for respin projects
• Managed daily mismatch tool to track discrepancies in purchase requisitions and problem receipts.
• Additional projects - Super excess inventory, invites and registration for the supplier conference
• Previous direct buying experience for electronic component team including resistors/capacitors/IC's/connectors

Coordinated Fusion Leadership, XPGM, and CCB weekly meetings to facilitate project alignment and decision-making

• Coordinated customer communication between internal teams and stakeholders to ensure clarity on project status and requirements
• Co-led Project Management CoP to share best practices and enhance project management capabilities across teams
• Assign change requests, collect data for reporting, send out weekly updates, ppt
• Updated and organized master equipment list to ensure accuracy and accessibility.
• Setting up peer reviews in PREP and closing out when completed
• Creating powerpoint slides for weekly team meetings
• Coordinate TSO documents for SOI packages
• Assisted TPM with side projects.