Highly accomplished Operations & Supply Chain Director with 15+ years of success improving business operations, efficiency, service, and significantly increasing profitability for world-class healthcare teaching, research, and delivery organizations.
• Outstanding ability to assess organizational requirements, analyze market conditions, and source suppliers who best serve those needs with a total cost of ownership (TCO) approach.

• Expert in analyzing existing workflow and operations and redesigning to increase efficiency, effectiveness, customer service and productivity while reducing costs.

• Strategic, analytical, and productive in developing sourcing strategies and excels in creating processes, procedures and systems to fully leverage spend.

• Strong negotiation skills, identifying optimal pricing, delivery, and other contractual terms to mitigate risk and assure a robust supply of quality goods and services.

• Specialist in transforming raw data into relevant information to be used for business decisions.

• Influential communicator with outstanding executive presentation, leadership, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills.

Specialties: Negotiation, Purchasing, Materials Management,
Operations, Policies and Procedures, Vendor Management,
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) implementations,
Client Relationship Management, Hospital specific technology and systems, Competitive analysis, ERP.