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Tell Us About You/Your Company or What Type of Work You Do if Seeking Employment: Residential Construction, Purchasing, Estimating, Remodeling, Commercial Construction

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Regency Walk LLC
Purchasing Manager
• Managed vendor contracts and scopes of works documents
• Established vendor metrics to measure vendor performance of delivery and quality.
• Researched product performance and quality for each product used on project.
• Managed a procurement budget of $10.5 million dollars for apartment rehabilitation.
• Managed construction schedule for 606 apartment rehabilitation.
• Managed supply chain and logistics to decrease costs and maximize overall value.
• Continually work to maximize and achieve efficiencies through value engineering, continuous vendor correspondence, and market research.
• Reviewed material takeoffs, vendor bids, and construction budgets to verify material and labor pricing.
• Manage and oversee all supplier contracts and negotiations
• Managed itemized floor plan takeoffs from foundation to roofing.

September 2007 – January 2009
Pulte Homes
Senior Purchasing Agent
• Managed vendor contracts and scopes of works documents
• Continually work to maximize and achieve efficiencies through value engineering, continuous vendor correspondence, and market research
• Conducted and attended meetings with vendors and sub contractors to maintain good working relationships and ensure best service and prices available
• Reviewed material takeoffs, vendor bids, and construction budgets to verify material and labor pricing
• Managed supply chain and logistics to decrease costs and maximize overall value
• Established vendor metrics to measure vendor performance of delivery and quality.
• Managed floor plan takeoffs for over twenty five plans and 50 elevations in over 10 communities ranging in price from $125,000 – $800,000
• Managed cost and price data for community specifications and standard option
• Created itemized floor plan takeoffs from foundation to roofing.

January 2007 – August 2007
Taylor Morrison Homes
Senior Estimator
• Maintain variance purchase orders and update takeoffs as necessary
• Managed vendor contracts and scopes of works documents
• Continually work to maximize and achieve efficiencies through value engineering, continuous vendor correspondence, and market research
• Managed floor plan takeoffs for over thirty plans and 40 elevations in over 15 communities ranging in price from $225,000 – $800,000
• Managed itemized floor plan takeoffs from foundation to roofing. (Saved on average 12 percent per house)
• Created custom takeoffs per customer requests.

May 2004 – November 2006
Centex Homes
Senior Estimator
• Provided vendor training for the division and managed vendor contracts
• Mentored and trained up to four junior estimators at a time.
• Followed up on any outstanding purchase orders, change orders, cancellations
• Managed vendor contracts and scopes of works documents.
• Managed supply chain and logistics to decrease costs and maximize overall value
• Managed itemized floor plan takeoffs from foundation to roofing.
• Field verified estimate quantities and updated options as necessary
• Established and maintained a value engineering procedure for estimating department
• Established vendor metrics to measure vendor performance of delivery and quality.
• Researched and implemented new products, construction processes and/or services (Saved on average 15 percent per house)
• Managed cost and price data for community specifications and standard option offerings
• Created estimating template to streamline estimating process
• Updated custom options per customer request

Education

2008-2010
Houston Community College
Associates - Business Administration

2010-2012 Est. Graduation Date
University of Houston -- Downtown
Bachelors - Supply Chain Management

Qualifications
• OSHA Certified
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access)
• Microsoft Project
• Autodesk Auto CAD
• Autodesk DWF Composer