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Program and Project Manager for Overseas and Domestic locations, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Preparation of the project schedule. Review the project plans and specifications and comment on the building design, scheduling, possible cost savings measures and potential construction problems. Assist estimator in preparation of project budget. Prepare the general conditions budget. Assist in assembling the job site office and equipment requirements. Have confidence in own ability to intelligently communicate with design team/client as well as effectively lead the trades. Expedite all shop drawings and approvals. Monitor and maintain the project construction schedule on a weekly basis. Raise and discuss relevant issues at the job site meetings. Prepare & issue minutes of all site meetings. Inform the Consultant/Client of any errors, discrepancies or omissions contained within the Consultant’s design drawings. Expedite all CCN & CO (change order) costs. Maintain current CO logs. Monitor site safety and ensure that the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act are enforced. Ensure completion of and track all independent testing and inspections as required. Issue monthly progress draws and invoicing to consultant and client including final holdbacks. Maintain and enforce good construction standards and quality control. Maintain control and responsibility for the security and operation of directly owned equipment on the job site in conjunction with site staff. Control and monitor labor, material and equipment expenses. Prepare monthly cost forecasting summaries. Ensure that “as built” drawings are prepared on an ongoing basis by all trades during the construction period and issue final close outs to consultant/owner accordingly. Ensure all required municipal inspections are performed. Prepare and expedite project deficiency lists. Review the work progress on daily basis. Prepare internal and external reports pertaining to job status. Plan ahead to prevent problems and resolve any emerging ones. Negotiate terms of agreements, draft contracts and obtain permits and licenses. Analyze, manage and mitigate risks. Ensure quality construction standards and the use of proper construction techniques.

 Acquisition Manager 1 for Veteran Affairs Strategic Acquisition Center (SAC) located in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which provides dedicated acquisition and program management expertise and support for life cycle management of non-IT enterprise-wide solutions for the VA’s highly complex requirements and strategically sound contracts. Directly support the Federal Government with cradle-to-grave procurements/acquisitions. This shall include providing senior management with the development of acquisition packages/documents (SOWs/PWSs, IGCEs, J&A, SSEP, Market Research, etc.); review of these documents for quality, clarity, and adherence to applicable regulations (FAR, VAAR, agency regulations, etc.) and recommendation of revisions; assisting with contract closeouts.
 Provide senior management with financial management support to analyze contracts, modifications, invoices, and other financial data; financial strategy and planning; track current contracts, modifications and new acquisition expenditures; assist in the preparation of cost estimates and analyses for acquisitions; prepare summary reports for review and analysis; compliance, monitoring and evaluation; review and provide comments on financial documents as requested.
 Provide senior management with cost and pricing support to provide full financial management and administrative support to include cost estimation and analysis, budget formulation and scheduling resource allocations; review cost proposals; assist in the preparation of independent cost analysis based on current market or other data; evaluate statistical analyses of financial data sets; prepare and maintain automated toolsets for cost analyses using automated project scheduling and cost tracking software to support critical data and integrated master planning analysis; perform economic analyses for evaluating the total and marginal costs of alternative ways to accomplish strategic business functions; assist in performing comparative cost studies to determine whether specified operations should be privatized or out sourced rather than remain in house.
 Provide senior management with Life-Cycle cost estimating/analysis to provide services in the development and analysis of the expected life cycle costs of a program, commodity or service as defined in the individual BPA Task Order.
 Provide senior management with requirements documentation support to provide advice, recommendations, and document support to multiple offices in all areas of the acquisition requirements phase.
 Provide senior Audit Department B-3 Chief and Senior B-3 Contracting Officer with audits of all contracts and BPA’s; for all Veteran Affairs Ordering Officers (OO) ensuring adherence to policies, regulations, and identifying any duplication of efforts across contracts.

Solicit, evaluate, negotiate, analyze, advise, close-out, and assist with awards and terminations on contracts for the procurement of supplies, services and goods for the activation of the new ACC hospital clinic. Research, analyze and review all applicable policies, guidance and regulations to support the customer and the Government Contracting Officer in their decision-making. Provide procurement assistance, advice, and guidance to the customer as requested. Advise acquisition team as needed on price, cost, and/or financial related matters throughout the development of sourcing strategies and throughout the solicitation, evaluation, negotiation, and award of contractual actions for supplies and services. Provide cost and price analysis recommendations as requested regarding independent government estimates. Recommend business solutions to day-to-day contractual challenges. Other specific tasks shall include: Acquisition strategy planning, requirements review and Performance Work Statement (PWS)/Statement of Work (SOW) development in collaboration with customers, source selection support, synopsis and solicitation development, preparing mandatory contract file documentation, contract management and administration.

General Manager for the United States operations for the company, based in Singapore, Delago Consultancy Pte. Ltd. specializes in contracts, subcontracts, acquisitions, and project management. Our team of six senior consultants represent over 200 years of combined experience in the private and public sectors, working with companies overseas. These include companies that deal with all branches of the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of State (DOS), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as the United Nations, Non-Government Organizations (NGO) and Foreign Governments (FG).
As the General Manager, consult with private companies that are considering bidding on contracts and subcontracts associated with U.S. Government agencies, NGOs and FGs outside the United States. I also provide companies, NGOs and NFGs with Project Management consulting and Design/Build Construction consulting, specializing in rural and remote sites development.

 Contracts Acquisitions Advisory Team (CAAT) Procurement Mentor assigned to the Ministry of Defense (MoD), Afghanistan National Army (ANA) 205th CORPS at RC-S HQ and NATO HQ Camp Baker (KAF).
 Mission of the Procurement Mentors is to assist, advise and mentor the Afghanistan National Security Force (ANSF) on a daily basis a full range of acquisition core competences to include, not limited to: requirements generation; contract process/procedures; policy generation; contract administration; contract inspection and auditing functions. Mentors are required to work with the Afghanistan MoD Procurement Committees and Evaluation Committees, and will additionally be required to assist the ANSF personnel in preparing for the transition of requirements from NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan (NTM-A) / Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A) to the ANSF. To assist ANSF officials with planning exercises, and with the development of acquisition strategies that require both contracted and organic solutions.
 Train ANSF in Afghanistan Procurement Laws, Decrees and Policies. Knowledge of the Procurement Policy Unit (PPU) Afghanistan contracts and acquisitions law.
 Contracts-Procurement Mentors are required to possess and maintain qualifications with the M4 rifle and 9MM pistol, as by US Military, NATO and Host Country requirements and legal standards. Completed over 450 successful missions within Afghanistan.

Contracts-Purchasing and Materials Agent, Martek Global contractor who has been appointed to procure goods and services for the Veterans Administration (VA), Las Vegas, NV. Development of Purchase Requests (PR), Request for Quote (RFQ), Request for Purchase (RFP), and Request for Information (RFI), based on analysis of VA Point of Contact (POC), conducts Market Research reviews from Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCE), creation of Statement of Work (SOW); vendor selection through System of Award Management (SAM), and budgeted IFCAP (Integrated Funds Distribution Control Point Activity Accounting & Procurement) levels; makes recommendations to management on issues concerning procurement and sources; provides expected delivery time information to the POC and Contracting Officer (KO) and administer set-up of PR for Purchase Order (PO); develop ongoing policies and procedures for the PR to PO; maintain working knowledge of current VA purchasing programs such as VistA and eCMS; minimize cost of inventory; minimize incoming freight costs; assist in negotiating prices and terms with vendors; track and pursue all available PO’s; place all orders via the Internet, fax and telephone; produce and close-out purchase orders; reconcile purchase orders to shipping documents and invoices; communicates status of all back ordered products to POC, KO and technicians; evaluates vendors service in relation to other vendors through procurement system; produce summary reports to management.

 Acquisitions, Contracts & Subcontracts, Procurement Senior Consultant for the Under Secretary of Defense, Defense Procurement Acquisitions Policy, Program and Development & Implementation (PDI) and Acquisition, Technology & Logistics (ATL).
 Research, review, brief contracts-acquisitions-procurement-compliance-finance, wrote white papers for USGOV SES and Military General Staff, Manage and conduct bi-weekly VTC IPRs with OCONUS AOR personnel, to include Pentagon and other Department of Defense (DoD) & DLA departments on several Contingency Acquisition Support Tools and Systems to aid all DoD personnel.
 Provided expert consultation on a diverse range of acquisition polices, subjects focusing on acquisition strategy, implementation activities and Information Assurance policy and engineering. Subject Matter Expert (SME) on contracts, acquisitions, policy matters, FAR & DFAR regulations and policy.
 Management of training for personnel using DAU training courses to keep up-dated on education, rules, regulations, policy and procedures within the DoD and military disciplines. Courses taken on contracts & subcontracts, FAR & DFAR, acquisitions, and position related subjects.

* Validation and Administration of over 480 CARB Packets (Contracts) with a total of $14.4B dollars during 2009 to 2010 for Horn of Africa, Mid-Eastern, and Asian countries within the Area of Responsibility (AOR) OCONUS for United States and Coalition Forces.
* Contracts Manager for the Coalition Acquisition Review Board (CARB), United Stated Army Central Command (USARCENT), G-4, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
* Multi-taskings with CENTCOM Contracting Command (C3) for USFOR-A. Provided daily briefs for General Staff of C3, USARCENT and 1st TSC.
* Provides validation of all requirements, recommends an appropriate acquisitions method of satisfying the requirements while stewarding several government sources.
* Ensures that inappropriate or unauthorized acquisitions are forbidden, and document the validation recommended process, and submit completed sourcing research to the Chief of Staff (COS) and upper General Staff (GS) of USARCENT.
* Chaired and Coordinated General Staff meetings between the CARB and C3, USFOR-A, USF-I, USARCENT, 1st TSC, Pentagon, DoD, DOS, DCMA, DCAA, GAO, LOGCAP, and AAA.
* Coordinate with Staff Judge Advocate (SJA) for legal compliance and Comptroller (G-8 Finance) for proper funding of acquisitions.
* Manage all admin of packets going before the Board, create a written summarized report of all (SuperCARB - over 10M) and (CARB - under 10M) acquisitions. Create TASKERS for staff and have acquisitions tracked through USARCENT system. Resolving issues as warranted.
* Subject Matter Expert for contracts, acquisitions, procurement, policies and procedures, FAR/DFAR/AFAR/ITAR.
* Oversaw monthly CON COP meetings with all Military and Department of Defense Civilian (DAC) Contracting Officer Representatives (COR) and Technical Monitors (TM) for up-dates, resolution of issues, appointment orders, review SOW/PWS for existing and future contracts, reporting to Chief of Staff and General Staff.

Pacific Architects and Engineering, INC. MARCH 2009 to JULY 2009
* Supply Chain and Procurement Manager for TEAM - CHAD - Africa Project.
* Manager of Projects Supply Chain with a staff of 35 expats and 45 Host Nationals, all warehouse, transportation and logistics functions. Deputy Project Manager of Construction for five United Nations sites within Chad. Manager of Projects Procurements with a staff of 20 expat and 10 Host Nationals, with over $9M in Task Orders monthly, and over 100 subcontracts worth $220M.
* Oversaw weekly executive meetings with upper PAE staff and United Nations personnel.
* Managed execution of all contract services and procurement duties. Oversaw Finance operations and Budget projects with present & future expenditures.

* Director of Acquisitions, Contracts, Logistics, Prime Contractor Oversight, and Risk Management.
* Oversaw weekly meetings of the Groups Executive Owners and Contractors, Subcontracts and vendors. Monthly meetings with Clients Upper Management teams.
* Managed the execution of contract services and procurements for the United States Military contracts. Resolved contract and procurement issues, contractor/subcontractor and vendors.
* Managed Market and technology research for future projects and solicitations, formulation of strategy with the US Military clients, Distribution channel analysis and development for all logistics projects, new project development planning and management of all existing and future projects.
* Partnership assessment and development with clients that are not the US Military, Marketing and Advertising and Promotion planning for all projects.
* Manage of exploration of new emerging services, products and technologies to provide insight into new trends or product lines to continue the growth of the company.
* Managed service contracts and procurement for Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, and Kyrgyzstan. Yearly contract services and procurement of over $100M.

 Subcontracts, Procurements and Materials Manager for nine US Military sites in AL ANBAR Province, Iraq. Managed and Responsible for the performance of all KBR contract services and procurement functions for all of AL ASAD, Iraq (plus eight other US Military sites).
 Managed all functions related to Cradle-to-Grave subcontracts and procurements, expediting, document control, and badging cell. Managed all Construction, Labor, Heavy Equipment and Operations & Maintenance for all nine military sites.
 Managed the negotiating team for all contract-subcontract services for AL ASAD AB, Iraq with nine US Military sites. Cost savings to the client of over $1.9M during the year.
 Managed and trained 25 subcontract administrators in close-outs, heavy equipment, construction, labor and operations and maintenance while at AL ASAD, Iraq. Indirect manager for over 1500 subcontractor employees throughout the nine US Military sites.
 Managed AL ASAD AB, Iraq subcontracts (235 total) in value of over $4B and monthly procurements of $1M.
 Managed and trained over 45 subcontract administrators, procurement and materials staff while in Kuwait. Ensured the performance of all KBR subcontracts services, procurement functions and material management were compliant to KBR’s rules and regulations within the LOGCAP contract for Kuwait.
 Managed Kuwait subcontracts (185 total) value exceeding $1.6B and weekly procurements of over $800K.

 Manager of Contracts Subject Matter Expert Auditor/Close-out Team. Managed team of 12 Contracts and Procurement auditing/close-out professionals.
 Client was KBR and responsible for the audit/close-outs of over 9, 500 subcontracts and 21, 000 purchase orders for LOGCAP I-II-III and all TASK ORDERS. Managed reimbursement back to the US Government General Fund of over $2.4B dollars for future Task Orders and contracts.
 Worked with DCMA and DCAA with audits/close-outs to ensure acquisitions compliance with FAR and DFAR policies and procedures.
 Management position to interact with Executive Staff of KBR, US Military and US Government on a weekly basis.

 Owner/Operator of company - Fredericksburg, Virginia. Yearly company contracts worth $500K yearly.
 Project Director for day-to-day operations. Managed over 45 employees. Managed contracts, wrote bids and proposals for contracts and subcontracts, estimated cost/price for refurbishments of houses, procurement of all supplies and materials for projects.
 Worked with Real Estate companies to refurbishment of houses and apartment complex. Worked with HUD to refurbish homes in Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC.

 Support Officer - Directorate of Operations and Directorate of Science &Technology: Managed overseas projects, contracts, acquisitions, logistics, communications, transportation, finance, security, and construction for OCONUS bases, warehouses and safe houses, other projects dealing with US intelligence matters.
 Contracting Officer - performed all warranted duties as USA KO, both Domestic and Overseas. Warrant for 25M for Services and Goods. DAWIA level III certified by the US Government.

 Enlisted Instructor, The Basic School, Quantico, Virginia.
 8th Marines, Weapons Company, STA Platoon, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
 Marine Barracks, NCOIC 2nd Section Operations, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.
 Weapons Training Battalion, Primary Marksmanship and Weapons Instructor, Quantico, Virginia.
 6th Marines, Weapons Company, STA Platoon, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
 Combat Action: Beirut (1982-83-84) and Grenada (1983).