Accomplished Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Operations executive with more than 15 years of experience using exceptional communication and leadership skills to coach, manage, and motivate diverse professionals in challenging environments.  Experienced professional in the Humanitarian, Research, Manufacturing and public sector industries with demonstrated focus on total cost of ownership and process management.  Solid experience in planning, implementing, and executing strategies resulting in greater customer confidence and strengthened business processes to achieve results and value engineering. Embrace diverse environments committed to promoting creativity, effective problem solving, and breakthrough results with commitment to continually manage change. Experience at director level has proved extremely instrumental in the areas of development and execution of strategies and action plans within the procurement/supply chain arena. Proven ability to lead cross functional teams, negotiate contracts, develop long term commodity strategies, negotiation, supplier development, utilize e-sourcing tools, manage working capital, complete cost analysis and source from low cost markets.