Purchasing Specialist / Chemical Technician / Technology Entrepreneur

Seeking procurement and materials career through progressive technical education and increasingly challenging professional responsibility.

Purchasing Manager
September, 2000 to February, 2010
Nucsafe, Inc. Oak Ridge, TN
o Product Technician (Scientific Instruments) by contract for two years ordering components and sub-assemblies, building prototypes and shipping instruments.
o Purchasing Manager supporting product development manufacturing for production, engineering and administration groups as sole buyer
o Research engineering solutions, evaluate vendors and materials,
o Create bills of materials and cost assessments,
o Verify authorization, availability, and delivery for purchase requests,
o Enter, place, confirm and monitor purchase orders for electronic assemblies and components, reagent chemicals and machined goods.
o Utilize Quickbooks, MAS and Deltek Costpoint, ERP/MRP software,
o Comply with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).

Owner and General Manager
October, 1995 to October, 2000
Transaction Equipment Co., Oak Ridge, TN
o Supervised eight (8) sales representatives in cellular retail and outside sales of MasterCard/VISA merchant accounts and processing systems, specializing in mobile merchant systems.

Assistant Engineer / Scientist
September, 1992 to October, 1995
IT Corporation, Knoxville, TN
o Performed treatment research and compliance tasks related to radioactive and mixed waste remediation studies.

Chemist
October, 1990 to July, 1991
CDI / Boeing, Huntsville,AL
o Extracted and prepared aqueous samples for instrument analysis.


Quality Control Chemist
October, 1985 to April, 1986
Cumberland Manufacturing Corp., Smyrna, TN
o Analyzed samples by wet bench and instrument methods.

Nashville State Technical Institute, Nashville, TN US
Associate in Chemical Engineering Technology
Degree – January,1983