Sarah Silva
Lockhart
Summary
Detail-oriented professional with strong background in purchasing, vendor management, and inventory control. Proven track record of identifying cost savings opportunities and developing and executing strategies to maximize sales and profits. Considered a valuable asset to any team.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Purchaser III
Office of the Attorney General
Austin, TX
01.2025 - Current
- Requisitions and orders for goods and services using guidelines, rules, policies, and laws set by TxCPA.
- Analyzed procurement requests to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards.
- Collaborated with vendors for goods or services.
- Prepares and issues purchase orders.
- Prepares and distributes bid invitations to vendors.
- Reviews and tabulates bids and orders to determine the lowest and best bids or bids that provide the best value.
- Tracks the status of requisitions and purchase orders.
- Processes purchase orders and other purchasing documents and enters information into state and/or agency purchasing systems.
- Maintains purchasing and procurement reports, records, and files.
- Report purchases to ESBD and LBB.
- Assists in monitoring legal and regulatory requirements pertaining to purchasing and procurement.
Purchasing Specialist
Caldwell County
Lockhart, TX
09.2023 - 12.2025
- Processes requisitions, ensuring availability of funds and receipt of the best price, ensures purchase is in accordance with County Purchasing Policy and Purchasing laws, and generates purchase orders.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align purchasing strategies with organizational goals and objectives.
- Enhanced supplier relationships through effective communication and negotiation tactics, leading to improved contract terms.
- Analyzed vendor contracts to ensure compliance with procurement policies and budget constraints.
- Evaluated supplier performance through regular assessments to maintain quality standards.
- Participate in developing IFB/RFP/RFQ. Drafting bid specifications, placing advertisements, uploading bids to the county website, formal bid openings and proposal processes as needed, pre-bid conference, post-bid award, post award conference.
- Solicits informal bids and quotes for goods and services.
- Monitors current contracts to ensure terms, billing, and service comply with original agreements and corrects problems as needed.
- Receipt invoice data into the county financial system.
- Runs monthly reports on open purchase orders; researches outstanding purchase orders and checks with the department/Accounts Payable on the status.
- Manage distribution of P-card, reconcile statements, and audit county credit card and P-card use.
- Annual inventory of county assets.
- Prepare and auction county assets.
- Fleet program inventory, inspections and registrations, plates, repairs, and maintenance program.
- Substitute at Commissioners Court when needed.
Deputy Elections Administrator
Caldwell County
Lockhart, TX
03.2021 - 09.2023
- Controls and manages the successful completion of Federal, State, and local elections conducted by Caldwell County according to the Texas Election Code, which includes holding elections, preparing/printing ballots, preparing/furnishing election equipment and supplies, conducting voting, canvassing election returns, maintaining custody of voted ballots and other election records and filing instruments under Title 15 (Political Disclosure Act), complying with all requirements set forth in the Texas Election Code.
- Oversees certification and recertification instruction for election judges in cooperation with Caldwell County political party representatives.
- Reviews and assists in making recommendations to Commissioners Court for voter registration lists, election judge lists, and voting precinct boundaries, which may involve joint recommendations with Caldwell County political party representatives.
- Reconciles significant issues dealing with voting and security of voted-ballots and other election records; answers questions and makes official statements regarding voter registration, election returns, election laws, procedures, and legislation, for Elected/Appointed Officials, election judges, candidates, the news media and the public.
Education
High School Diploma -
Leander High School
Leander, TX05-1997
Skills
- Procurement
- Ordering and purchasing
- Customer service
- Teamwork orientation
Certification
- Certified Texas Contract Developer (CTCD)
- Certified Texas Contract Management (CTCM)
Timeline
Purchaser III
Office of the Attorney General
01.2025 - Current
Purchasing Specialist
Caldwell County
09.2023 - 12.2025
Deputy Elections Administrator
Caldwell County
03.2021 - 09.2023
High School Diploma -
Leander High School