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Skyler Britt LyBarger

Gurnee,United States

Summary

An MBA educated and certified SME with a strong balance of Legal, Strategy, Business, Technical, and Financial, acumen with a documented track record in successful negotiations of contracts, consistently exceeding milestones, including vendor and procurement management, auditing and successfully pass rating, and savvy business strategies while continuing high integrity, ethics, and achievement. Consistent high yields demonstrated resulting in substantial savings for multiple categories

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Governance Manager of Contracts and Procurement

Statistical Dynamics
Denver, USA
09.2011 - Current
  • Responsible and accountable for management of all Domestic, International, Commercial and Government contracts and sub-contracts with contract and procurement support to IT (hardware, software, professional services, licenses, cloud, and maintenance), R&D, HR, Marketing, and Operations for both commercial and government business
  • Lead the review, redlining, negotiating, drafting, and resolution to all commercial, prime and sub-prime contract sticking points throughout the entire contract life cycle
  • Oversight, development, and implement strategies, policies, and procedures of the procurement and vendor management including the purchase of indirect and direct product for the entire organization and clients as required
  • Maintain a master list and performance of all suppliers and vendors to increase value, reduce cost and risk including ongoing development of scorecard process and analysis for on-going needs
  • Closeout and auditing of contracts and financial documents to ensure official audits are successfully passed by internal and external auditors
  • Drive, all corporate contracts (i.e. MSA, MPSA, MPA, PSA, SLA, CSA, BUDA, IATA, RIPA, Third Party, Teaming Agreements, Operational, MOU, LOU, SOWs, NDAs, SaaS, PaaS, Workman's Comp Third Party Agreements & POs) including other related documentation, such as summaries, financials, COIs (Certificates of Insurance), and other performance reviews, score cards, and root cause results
  • Compliance adherence for all government contracts (business, legal, deliverables, timeframes, milestones, renewals and termination requirements which include regulated business, FAR, DFAR, ITAR, GSA, UCC and INCOTERMS
  • Ensuring deliverables are met with contract compliance and customer specifications and closeout certifications
  • Implementation of Document Control Systems for SD and customers (electronic and hard standing) for maintaining and management of all corporate documentation
  • Resolution and ratification of all contract and operational issues (legal, technical, financial and customer support
  • Partner, assess and review all RFP, RFQ, RFI, with internal and external customers respond and submit to Senior Management/Executives, COR/CO, and PMs for approvals including communicating appropriately to all stakeholders, customers, or potential business partners. Formulate specific needs and source out to potential vendors to award business for corporate needs
  • Liaise with inside and outside counsel as necessary to resolve any conflicts or engage legal into discussions as necessary to assist in the completion of complex contract issues which require legal’s approval
  • Oversee and direct work of strategic sourcing personnel and operational staff of thirty (30 = 3 managers, 1 assistant, and 26 non-management staff); includes training, cross training, direction of activities, taking accountability and ownership, support, performance, quality thinking, appraisals, PIP and termination exercises
  • Accountable for ensuring company has all tools necessary for completing roles and responsibilities including upgrades as required
  • Review and approval of all company expenditures including evaluating data to determine where costs can be adjusted and to cut needless spend, streamline the overall operations to run lean and increase profit to the organization
  • Utilize research tools to analyze business risks and volatility of current vendors as well as potential partners and suppliers that desire to do business with the corporation
  • Reporting on weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis to executive management of operational activities which includes the status of contract and procurement list, new business, any outstanding issues and the resolution to those issues, budget status, revenue generated, savings realized, expense updates, deep discounts achieved, KPI and ROI updates
  • Budget planning, control, cost, and pricing for all purchases including staff reporting on asset tracking
  • Implementation of mandatory training for entire staff on policy and procedures companywide and job specific titles, including tracking all employee training revisions to those policies and procedures as necessary
  • Training employees companywide on Contracts/Procurement/Vendor processes with classes ranging from one on one up to 300
  • Ensure training by executive management and all staff on regulations for industry specifics by government organizations, FDA, FAA, EPA, HIPAA, including other state and Federal agency changes that impact contracts and procurement
  • Outsourcing projects to third party management companies (India, Vietnam, Spain), this may also include outsourcing SMEs in the company to support customer projects and awards
  • Completely engaged to ensure a 5-star Customer Experience for ALL customers (internal and external)
  • (AT&T, United Airlines, Cricket, and Kaiser - Simultaneously)
  • Successfully and consistently have met and exceeded all personal, financial and team goals set for 2011 through 2025
  • Corporation has been saved over 30 million + dollars over an annual goal of 5 million dollar set spend including the millions of dollars to corporations where consulting and contracting has been implemented
  • My team is on target to not only meet but exceed the diverse spend goal of 22% to 25% and has consistently been ranked first with highest diversity spend
  • Budgets successfully managed and strategically developed for corporations/clients ranging from 27 million to 3 billion in annual spend which includes deep integration into business units to provide a complete top-down view of areas needed for change management, attrition or redirection of resources
  • Successful Development of Procurement, Contracts, and Vendor Management programs for not only the corporation but for the clients supported, in addition to the individual consulting performed
  • Completion of over 500 contracts by fiscal year end and with suppliers
  • Successful negotiations with saving from 30% to 80% discounts for multiple categories
  • Cleanup of outstanding supplier invoices from 6 months of former colleague’s accounts; thus equating to over 12 million dollars and the management of all acquired accounts (valued at 25 million of a 350 million dollar budget). All accounts brought current to turnover to the outsourced company (50 accounts - Bronze, Silver, Gold accounts) with the remaining retained by the customer until it was decided to outsource the remaining accounts; budget for customers contracts was 1.3 billion

Contracts and ProcurementManager

Ball Corporation
Broomfield, USA
04.2004 - 09.2011
  • Responsible for the management of nine military contract and sub-contract programs within the AVT organization. Programs were DOD classified and Secret programs either as prime & sub-prime as well as commercial business
  • Management of all contracts and agreements from beginning to completion in Ball’s tracking system which includes drafting new contracts and amendments, changes to project and project scope, SOWs, ROMs, RFPs, material modifications and changes, monetary values and milestone payments
  • Tracking shipments to ensure delivery dates are met per contract requirement dates and schedules
  • Work with prime contractor (Customer) to ensure all agreement terms, project issues are resolved, time-frames are met and agreed upon, including the continuing development of business relationships, along with customer service support to internal and external customers and suppliers
  • Ensure all contracts comply FAR, DFAR, EAR and ITAR requirements in addition to the legal requirements set forth by Ball Aerospace legal authorities and DCAA and DCMA auditors as well as enforcing policy and process on complex contracts and agreements
  • Status updates on all contract negotiations, projects and financial expenditure to the Senior Manager and Direct of AVT
  • Reporting on a weekly and monthly basis for contract/project status for KPIs, ROIs, monitoring of month to month spend, annual deltas, trend lines, delays and cost factors and impacts, OPM data, cycle time, delivery time, material cost variance, data extrapolation, manipulation and situation scenarios and strategic planning
  • Ratification of all contract issues and communication with all levels of management and Executive staff on end results and synopsis
  • Mitigation of risks through better successful negotiations, tighter contracts and control of projects
  • Collaborate with Program and Project Managers including other stakeholders to analyze and develop strategic plans and SLAs to successfully manage each project and contract
  • Within two months of coming on board, 2.5 million dollars in past due invoices owed to Ball had been retrieved from customers with continuing pursuit to resolve all outstanding funds for all projects.
  • Turnaround of “dead project” that not only generated $50 million dollars in new revenue but future on-going business with a potential profit over a 20 million over a period of seven to ten years depending on build and depot.

Education

Double Master - Contract Management; Commercial & Government (CPCM)

Villanova University

MBA - Business and Communications

Almeda University

Skills

  • MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point)
  • Lexis/Nexis
  • HP Asset Manager
  • MS Project
  • Concordance/Opticon
  • SAP Financial
  • Google
  • Westlaw
  • SAP Fieldglass
  • Visio
  • Ariba
  • ADP
  • Procuri
  • Oracle Budget/Financial
  • SharePoint
  • Contract Logix
  • IDEAS/FFS
  • Coupa
  • Peoplesoft
  • Costpoint
  • IDEAS/Contracts
  • TAP
  • Word Perfect
  • Cisco Jabber & Skype
  • WebEx
  • Crystal Reporting
  • Teams/Zoom/Google Meet
  • DocuSign

Countries Negotiated With

  • Canada
  • India
  • Vietnam
  • China
  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • Sweden
  • France
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Russia
  • Denmark
  • Egypt
  • Italy
  • Brazil

Membership

  • Member of NCMA
  • IACCM
  • ISM

Locations

  • Gurnee, Illinois
  • Arvada, Colorado

Awards

Inducted into the Who’s Who in Business as a lifetime member, 2014

Companies Negotiated With

  • Microsoft
  • IBM
  • McAfee
  • Ericsson
  • Teradata
  • Cisco
  • Tibco
  • CompuCom
  • Oracle
  • HP
  • Adobe
  • TATA
  • Cognizant
  • Harvey Nash
  • Jira
  • Apple
  • Taleo
  • AT&T
  • Eli Lilly
  • Accenture
  • CapGemini
  • Rolls Royce
  • RHI
  • SHI
  • Zones
  • Nestle
  • DOD/DOI/DOD
  • Airbus
  • Lockheed
  • Roche
  • Rosavia (Russia)
  • SNC
  • Atlantic Aviation
  • Staxi
  • Manpower

Technical Applications

  • MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point)
  • Lexis/Nexis
  • HP Asset Manager
  • MS Project
  • Concordance/Opticon
  • SAP Financial
  • Google
  • Westlaw
  • SAP Fieldglass
  • Visio
  • Ariba
  • ADP
  • Procuri
  • Oracle Budget/Financial
  • SharePoint
  • Contract Logix
  • IDEAS/FFS
  • Coupa
  • Peoplesoft
  • Costpoint
  • IDEAS/Contracts
  • TAP
  • Word Perfect
  • Cisco Jabber & Skype
  • WebEx
  • Crystal Reporting
  • Teams/Zoom/Google Meet
  • DocuSign

Timeline

Governance Manager of Contracts and Procurement

Statistical Dynamics
09.2011 - Current

Contracts and ProcurementManager

Ball Corporation
04.2004 - 09.2011

Double Master - Contract Management; Commercial & Government (CPCM)

Villanova University

MBA - Business and Communications

Almeda University
Skyler Britt LyBarger