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PETER R.
PeterR17@embarqmail.com
URL: http://texconte.tripod.com

OBJECTIVE: Resourceful, innovative, computer literate, profit-driven professional is seeking a position on your management team. His proactive demeanor, utilizing his skills in construction, negotiating, contract administration, total procurement, supplier development and management techniques will help to reduce your indirect costs.

RELEVANT SKILLS: RELEVANT SKILLS:

Well-informed, consistently current with hands-on the pulse of the changing technologies. Leads negotiations with excellent budgeting, estimating, forecasting, planning, and problem-solving skills.

Outstanding communications, interpersonal, people and decision-making aptitudes.

A team-player, who initiates, enhances and maintains excellent vendor relationships.

Achieved record of on-time completion of all assigned projects. Will under promise and always strives to over deliver on commitments. Great deal of expertise working with DOD, FAR, DFAR, and GOV contracts.

Re-negotiated an existing $35 million project, for Dow Jones, replaced a bankrupt contractor. Completed project generated over $1.2 million increase in profits.

Purchased, coordinated and supervised the building of two high tech $2 million showcase rooms, for AT&T Credit, using limited work-in-progress drawings.

Acquisition of significant hardware, software, technical equipment and services.

Responsible for contracts to support inventory control, implements vendor management programs. Strong organizational, prioritizing and scheduling skills.

Consistently on a crusade to limit sole-source situations whenever feasible.

Develops, updates and initiates procurement policies and/or procedures.

Writes and amends contracts for professional services and equipment installation. Exposed to the Lean 6 Sigma environment. Excellent computer aptitude.

Reviews and interprets construction drawings and specifications. Software: SAP, Comprizon Suite, Blackberry, Lotus Notes 6.5, Outlook Express, ACT, Oracle DBA, HTML, DOS, Primavera, Growth Power-Mapics/ODIE, Windows XP, NT, 2000, 98, 95, Corel Word Perfect, Adobe, Citrix, Deltek Cost Point, Success Estimator, Pegasys, Great Plains, Microsoft Access, Office, Power Point, Project, and certified with MS Word and Excel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

General Services Administration 2003 - Present
CONTRACTING OFFICER’S TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE; Orlando, FL

Negotiates, modifies and administers contracts and purchase orders.

Mentors and trains new Construction Representative. Awarded the highest five year government clearance as now required by Homeland Security.

Completes on the average, over 43 projects per year, which is over eight times greater than in prior years. Interfaces with counterparts at all management levels in Federal Government agencies. Responsible for soliciting project funding.

Develops the scopes of work and creates the Independent Government Construction Estimates, which is used as the project budget.

Generates RFPs/RFQs/RFIs, evaluates bids, selects and recommends contractors or vendors for fixed price, lump sum, performance, time & material, cost plus contracts and purchase orders.

Approves completion of projects and authorizes applicable payments to close out contracts and purchase orders.

DME Corporation 2002 - 2003
ASSEMBLY PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST; Orlando, FL

Due to excellent earlier results, was recalled to DME. Located sources for nearly impossible to find critical engineered subcomponents, yielding a savings of $70K.

Estimated and budgeted projects. Evaluated quotes, negotiated, awarded and authorized purchase orders and contracts. Conformed to FAR regulations.

Placed Purchase Orders or acquired samples supporting vital schedules for prototypes of the highly visible Bowemann Communication and F22 Sub-assembly Projects and supported MRO/MRP requirements. Projected savings of $68K.

Driven to purchase within the confines of the project budget and schedule. DME operates on implementing ISO 9001 principles.

Utilized CAGE, Internet, and the company bidder list for sourcing. Initiated the RFQ process for the Design-A-Part Division.

Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation 1999 - 2002
SENIOR TECHNICAL BUYER; Orlando, FL

Recommended, purchased and expedited all fabricated, machined and other technical components, utilizing the ‘cradle-to-grave’ approach for the modernization and expansion projects for the Blythe and Wansley Power Plants.

As project team member, my activities improved the date of the startups of both plants, which resulted in savings of over $150K for the respective projects.

Resolved back charges due to errors in assembly, manufacturing and delivery.

Precision Technical Services, Limited 1993 - 1999
CONSTRUCTION & PURCHASING CONSULTANT; Delray Beach, FL

Supervised the budgeting, estimating, sourcing, inquiry, selection and buying activities of fabricated, mechanical and electrical component division in the energy and process venues. Assigned annual corporate purchasing responsibility for over fifty million dollars. Specific signing authority of $250K was per occurrence.

Trained and developed new employees in tasks, responsibilities, and the art of purchasing. Completed 2 of 4 modules toward CPM certification.

Created a new concept to companies, who prior purchased on an as needed basis.

Reduced the number of authorized purchasers from 9 to 4, resulting in quantity discounts, representing an annualized savings of $40K.

Wrote about contract purchasing, and started PTS. PTS provides purchasing, contract administration, construction management, vendor sourcing, rating, capacity & capability analyses, and training.

Negotiated, developed, and executed all types of contracts, ranging from $500,000 to $7 million. Supervised and managed contract changes and installation projects in hospitals, corporate headquarters, medical facilities and office buildings.

Excelled in team communications via chaired project meetings with architects, clients, company principals and union officials.

EDUCATION:

Monmouth College; completed core course requirements for an MBA

Fairleigh Dickinson University; BS in Industrial Engineering

New York City Community College; AAS in Mechanical Engineering Technology

Certificates from Management Games Institute: ‘Advanced Management Communications’ and ‘The Art of Negotiations’.

Torcon’s ‘Mechanical/Electrical Superintendent Seminar’.

Meridian KSI Knowledge Centre: ‘How to Become a Contractor – GSA Schedules Program Course’, ‘GSA Schedules Contract Pricing Course, ‘COR Mentor Program’, ‘Negotiations Module’, ‘Cooperative Purchasing Program Course’ and ‘Mastering the Federal Supply Schedule & E-Buy’.

Defense Acquisition University:, ‘Market Research’, ‘Contracting for the Rest of Us’, ‘COR with a Mission Focus’, ‘Contracting Overview’, ‘Performance-Based Services Acquisition’, ‘Contract Source Selection’, ‘Lean 6 Sigma’, ‘Buy American Act’, ‘Contingency Contracting Officer Refresher’, ‘Basic Math for Contracting’ and ‘Privacy Training’.

US Cost’s ‘Success Estimator’,

RS Means’ ‘Facilities Estimating Seminar’ and ‘Mechanical & Electrical Estimating Seminar’,

GSA’s ‘Lotus Notes 6.5 Overview’ and

META, Inc.’s ‘General Asbestos Awareness’

MILITARY: United States Navy- E4 - Honorably Discharged, Hospital Corpsman Third Class, HM-3.

INTERESTS and HOBBIES: Surf the Internet, golf, poetry writing & reading and self-improvement. Had my first book: Words of Love to My Family or Yours published in March, 1999, ISBN 0-7392-0382-7. Designed, maintains and updates four web sites on the Internet.

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