career objective

 

driven, versatile leader with broad business background eager to contribute healthcare, supply chain management, and surgical services talents toward actively supporting a progressive organization in maximizing operational performance within a consultative / global medical supply chain role.

 

profile

 

ø  offer over 20 years of combined experience in purchasing, medical supply chain, sales, and healthcare roles, including extensive expertise within vendor relations, contract negotiations, and roi analysis capacities.

ø  proficient at seamlessly blending strong decision-making abilities with exceptional leadership attributes and successful interpersonal relationship-building techniques.

ø  demonstrate dynamic time management skills, including quickly identifying and resolving daily problems in a proactive manner while maintaining a consistently commendable professional work ethic.

ø  adept at creating and implementing best practice methodologies and continuous improvement programs to achieve strategic and cost-effective alignment with overall corporate goals.

 

professional experience

 

community memorial hospital, ventura, ca                                                                                 2008 c present

director of purchasing surgical services

ø  successfully facilitate all planning, organizing, and managing of surgical service supply chain and fiscal processes within premier medical facilities, including coordinating all essential materials and capital resource activities and ensuring necessary contract compliance to facilitate a seamless organizational process.

ø  effectively perform charge master management and cost-effective value analysis to improve operational efficiency.

ø  provide optimal vendor-related negotiations, cost benefit, and roi support, as well as successfully contributing effective negotiation skills and networking abilities toward implementing all corporate initiatives to maximize overall success.

ø  contribute dynamic monthly presentations to board of directors regarding innovative new supply chain development, including creating a comprehensive supply chain management system and serving as a proactive organizational consultative liaison during essential implementation phases.

 

surgical assistant / clinical resource specialist

ø  supported main operating room, obstetrical, and outpatient activities within fast-paced healthcare facilities, including serving as a first assist for wide-ranging general surgery, pain, ophthalmology, urology, thoracic (vats), gynecology, vascular, orthopedics, neurology, trauma, plastics, pediatrics, otolaryngology, and podiatry procedures.

ø  utilized outstanding organizational and interpersonal relationship-building skills to maintain effective supply chain communication with hospital staff, while concurrently retaining profitable contacts with sales representatives.

ø  created dynamically effective training programs for new surgical technologists, along with developing and maintaining high-quality standards for all hospital personnel to provide consistency within healthcare operations.

ø  contributed proactive leadership skills by conducting valuable individual reviews in order to facilitate cooperative team building, improve communication measures, and encourage useful staff feedback.

 

~ additional key experience ~

 

obstetrical assistant, hackensack university medical center, hackensack, nj                               1997 c 1999

national sales manager, bankers investment and loan, new york, ny                                            1988 c 1997

 

education

 

executive master of business administration                                                                  pepperdine university

bachelor of arts in economics                                                                               california state university

associate of arts in economics                                                                             santa barbara city college