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Livings, Dennis R. Resume dated 11-30-2002
Dennis R. Livings

8110 S Houghton Rd #156-180, Tucson, AZ 85747

(520) 820-0591 mobile / (520) 437-0007 office
dlivings@propinar.com








http://www.propinar.com



S
UMMARY


A Strategic Sourcing, Procurement and Supply Chain Management professional with demonstrated global
experience in supply chain management, supplier selection, development & management, contract
development, negotiation, & administration, Procurement, Supplier Total Quality Management and
Enterprise Resource Planning implementation within a variety of companies.

A proactive change agent who develops policies, procedures & processes and strategies to maximize global
strategic sourcing, procurement & supply chain management operations efficiencies, top line growth and
bottom-line profitability.

Adept in change management, building strategic sourcing, procurement and supply chain management
professional teams, bridging cultural barriers, influencing company cultures, establishing relationships with
suppliers and negotiating benchmark, best-in-class, win-win global purchase agreements.

Proven ability to hire, educate, train and mentor strategic sourcing, procurement, supply chain management,
and cross-functional teams and team members leading to streamlining sourcing processes, raising staff
professional levels and enabling the identification, creation and capture of significant and verifiable cost
savings.


E
XPERIENCE

PROPINAR LLC, a Global Strategic Sourcing, Procurement and Supply Chain Mgmt Consulting co.
M
ANAGING
D
IRECTOR
,

Tucson,
AZ,
area
Present
Founder, business manager and Principal Consultant for an established global strategic sourcing,
procurement, master scheduling, inventory control, supply chain management and supplier quality
management consulting firm targeting rapidly growing, startup, turn-around, pre-IPO, privately held and
other SME companies in industrial manufacturing, 3PL and wholesale distribution with annual revenue
between $50 million and $500 million.

CAPSTONE TURBINE CORPORATION, a $25 million turnaround MicroTurbine System mfg. co.
D
IRECTOR
,

S
UPPLY
C
HAIN
M
ANAGEMENT
, Chatsworth, CA
2005

Responsible for strategic sourcing, procurement, production planning and control for a turn-around company
reporting to the Sr. VP of Operations.

Hired and trained a professional supply chain management team of sixteen members.

Established Supply Chain Management Sarbanes-Oxley and ISO 9001:2000 policies and procedures.

Re-implemented SAP R/3 Enterprise Resource Planning Materials Management application and established
a strategy to implement mySAP Supplier Relationship Management and Supply Chain Management
business suites.

Initiated supplier rationalization action to reduce supply base from over 150 suppliers to 30 or less suppliers
for direct materials and services

Developed, drafted, reviewed, obtained Leadership Team approval and began implementing Long Term
Purchase Agreements to leverage the direct material spend, to establish strategic alliances in principles and
to reduce Direct Material Cost (DMC).

Sourced high tolerance air bearing, castings, turnings and other machined components, sub-assemblies and
assemblies for the gas and liquid fuel turbine engines. 60KW and 30KW Capstone MicroTurbine engines
rotated at 96,000 RPM and contained proprietary and patented air bearing technology and heat recuperation
system components manufactured from high temperature engineered materials.

Sourced Power electronic components for the power switching electronic systems in the microturbines
system.

AMGEN, INC., an $8+ billion high-growth biotechnology co.
2003 2004
S
R
.

C
ATEGORY
M
ANAGER
,

Thousand Oaks, CA
Responsible for strategic sourcing analytical, measurement, instrumentation and processing capital
equipment for research, development, and quality for all location throughout the United States and Puerto
Rico.

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Implemented Strategic Sourcing, Category and Supplier Management, Total Cost of Ownership, Contract
and Fact Based Negotiation processes and initiatives to enable achieving substantial year-over-year cost
savings.

Lead negotiator that negotiated contracts with major high-end analytical capital equipment and for multi-
million dollar robotics & automation technology acquisitions.

Member of a Strategic Sourcing & Procurement team that developed Supplier Management policies,
procedures and processes, and will train, pilot and implement Supplier Management company-wide.

Lead strategic sourcing professional that sourced analytical laboratory equipment service that is over $10
million annual spend with the objective of improving equipment service and lowering total cost of ownership
by 25% or more using eSourcing RFI/RFP tools and cross-functional and cross-site process.

FAMILY LEAVE, reason - family obligation.

2002

DYNO NOBEL ASA, a $0.8 billion pre-IPO global (Norwegian) commercial explosives co. 2001
VP,

G
LOBAL
S
TRATEGIC
S
OURCING
,

Salt Lake City, UT

Company-wide P&L responsibility for purchasing, procurement and supply management involving 33
countries in Europe, South Africa, Asia-Pacific and North/South America.

Established a new global sourcing and supply management organization, policies, procedures, strategic
sourcing (commodity management) processes, project management and cross-functional team formation
and management.

Managed $0.4 billion procurement spend, 500+ direct and indirect goods and services suppliers and 17
international procurement professionals.

Global process owner - logistics (purchasing, inventory and inbound logistics) for a global SAP ERP
implementation.

$8.5 - $14 million projected yearly savings by developing and implementing strategies to leverage global
spend.

UNISYS CORPORATION, $7 billion global IS/IT Hardware, Software & Services co.
1996 2000
D
IRECTOR
,

C
ONTRACTS
&

C
OMMODITY
M
ANAGEMENT
, Blue Bell, PA

P&L responsibility for procurement and supply management throughout 55 countries in Europe, South
Africa, Asia and North/South America.

Managed $1.5 billion procurement spends from 500+ software, hardware and service suppliers.

Hired, managed, educated, trained, and mentored 25 international procurement professionals.

Worked closely with the Unisys Office of General Counsel, created, negotiated, and administered software,
hardware and services contracts.

Identified, documented, captured and reported over $80 million annual savings.

D
IRECTOR
,

P
ROCUREMENT
, Blue Bell, PA

Global Procurement leader within a corporate team that implemented Oracle v11 ERP company-wide, i.e.
North/South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific regions.

Streamlined global procurement & purchasing operations by developing and implementing integrated
business processes, policies, procedures and systems.

Key leader in initiative to develop B2B and e-Procurement strategies.

$45 million savings projected after rollout of e-Procurement plan that facilitated online requisitioning,
purchasing, and receipt of indirect goods and services ordering for 36,000 global staff members.

D
IRECTOR
,

P
RODUCTION
C
OMMODITY
O
PERATIONS
, San Diego, CA

Sustained $1 billion annual revenue stream by rebuilding supply chain, restructuring manufacturing
purchasing team and Global Procurement team.
Implemented commodity management, project management and cross-functional team management
processes.

Managed 15-25 procurement professionals, $200 million production material spend and 75 suppliers for 3
mainframe, enterprise server and document processing manufacturing facilities.

Optimized productivity by educating, training, and mentoring purchasing/procurement staff, identifying and
adopting best practices, creating coalition and consensus business environment and managing critical
suppliers.

Improved on-time delivery from ~65% to >95%, delivered quality from <85% to >95%, and customer
satisfaction by 18% by implementing improved supplier delivery forecasting process, resourcing critical
assemblies, implementing supplier quality initiatives, improved supplier electronic assembly testing
methodologies.
XEROX CORPORATION, $17 billion Fortune 100 The Document Company
1976 1996
A
SSOCIATE
M
ANAGER
,

C
OMMODITY
M
ANAGEMENT
, El Segundo, CA, and Rochester, NY


Managed 5 direct reports and 65 international suppliers, with $140 million procurement spend.
Member of cross-functional team (R&D, Eng., QA) that delivered enabling technology for digital
copiers/printers.

Created, negotiated and administered a multi-national contract with a high-technology European company.

Implemented Total Quality Management, Statistical Process