Hard-working and results-oriented self-starter with precisely the varied but specific skills to help the company excel from this position. Invaluable company-specific experience and working relationships internally and externally.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Purchasing and Procurement Analyst II
BEF Foods
Lima, Ohio
09.2015 - Current
As member of Accounting Department, reported directly to corporate Controller as sole SAP purchaser for nine departments.
Created or sourced various procurement tools to manage quote process, invoicing, order entry and receiving.
Managed procurement requests and acted as point-person for internal inventory for nine departments; also leveraged vendor-managed inventory auto-orders.
Resolved daily issues by handling invoice discrepancies, replacements for rejected materials and missed and late deliveries.
Researched and evaluated new and current vendors to determine suitability of products and contract and pricing negotiations.
Maintained internal inventory of supplies and equipment.
Processed sales orders and handled administrative functions like bookkeeping, purchasing, tracking and credit applications.
Reported emergencies, weather delays and carrier schedule changes to management and supervisors.
Supervised compliance measures regarding domestic and international tariffs and customs regulations.
Achieved and maintained vendor loyalty by forging long-term relationships based on prompt, documented, accurate and courteous interactions and record-keeping.
Created and maintained full life-cycle vendor profiles (W9, ACH, ordering interface, AP/AR and supply chain relationship fostering, credit establishment, to updated pricing and contacts through retirement and archiving).
Compliance Manager
CNI
Wapakoneta, OH
12.2000 - 04.2014
Please internally consult Dave, Aaron, Randy, Nate, Cory, Donna, and any other long-term current or alumni (i.e. Tim/Diane) employees for feedback on my work with CNI.
Worked from Tech Support to Customer Service (first 3rd shift team) to Transport Specialist in NOC (entirely new position/sub-department), to Admin/Manager titles under Service Bureau as: BrightCLEC Manager, Provisioning Specialist, IFN Transport Manager, Security Officer to Security and Compliance Manager, Number Portability Administrator, etc.
Instrumental from feasibility phase to cookie-cutter process in multiple new service offerings including IMTs, Number Portability Administration, CALEA TTP to mapping ~500 miles of fiber with 98% accuracy to qualify for 10s of millions in grant money.
Researching, negotiating and remaining current (industry events, steering committees, forums) on
statutes and ICAs to maintain compliance (mandatory filings and reports) for member and client companies on number portability, ICAs and CALEA- i.e. FISA and domestic wiretap orders by working with LEAs (FBI,
DEA, Sheriff Assoc's, ATF and national task forces), OEMs as needed (Verint, ADTRAN, Cisco, Ericcson, Juniper), carriers (AT&T, TW, Qwest, VZ, Sprint, Zayo, Comcast, etc.) as well as local, state, and federal-level regulatory bodies and co-ops (PUC, PUCO, NPAC, NANPA, NTCA, NECA, RTCA, OTA, OMMC, OARNet, etc.).
Education
High School Diploma -
Shawnee High School
Lima, OH
06.1989
Skills
Business professional written- and verbal-communication skills
Full MS Office Suite, specializing in Excel w/ VBA-backing
Years of SAP, ERP and CRM experience
Years of tech support, customer service, sales, supervisory and management experience
Years of key-holder, safe/cash deposits/withdrawals company in-person banking
Years of employee management including HR admin hire-to-retire record keeping (on/off-boarding), payroll, scheduling, interviewing, hiring events, etc
Assertively autodidactic self-starter
Office Administration experience from multi-line phones and scheduling to vendor safety training to inventory maintenance to processing and distributing mail to employee training/orientation to producing training materials (my son briefly worked for CNI and was amused to hear my voice still being used on CPNI training at CNI)