Corporate IT Procurement Analyst with 16+ years of experience. Focus on establishing and maintaining relationships through vendor management to ensure cost effectiveness, reliability, and company standards are met. Interests include developing, documenting, implementing and managing procedures for Corporate IT quoting, purchasing, receiving, and contract procurement.
Specialties: Procurement, IT asset management, IT Project Management, negotiating, vendor management, customer service, A/P Workflow coding/approving/routing
Senior Procurement Specialist @ •Provided the purchase order process for networking materials needed for multimillion dollar LAN/WAN installation projects for many high level customers such as Verizon, Sprint, US Cellular, AAFES, and JC Penny.
•Provided the order fulfillment process for top salesmen in the company. Worked closely with them and their admins to ensure proper billing to customers for all purchased hardware/software/materials.
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Connect with me to learn more about GDT's solutions and workplace or visit us at www.gdt.com. From December 2011 to Present (4 years 1 month) Dallas/Fort Worth AreaWorship team/Keyboardist @ Member of worship team and Keyboardist for worship services From February 2011 to Present (4 years 11 months) Consultant @ •Design, market and sell all types of printing for churches and non-profit organizations.
•Provide computer and network consulting for churches, non-profit organizations and corporate distributors. From June 2007 to Present (8 years 7 months) Procurement Systems Administrator @ •Managed Procurement access for entire company within multiple computer systems (i.e. CPRO, SAP and eBuy).
•Conducted Procurement software training for ALL new Procurement personnel and refresher classes for existing users. Various training, whether it was one on one or in a group setting, was conducted with the realization that uniformity in the way users at each location did their various tasks was crucial in order to ensure compliance with current policies and Vought Work Instruction (VWI) procedures.
•Provided ongoing daily support for Procurement personnel in the use of CPRO and SAP. Helped users inputting POs, change orders to POs and finalizing POs.
•The interface between the mainframe CPRO Procurement system and SAP Financial systems often resulted in interface errors (SAP IDOC errors). Resolved those errors on a daily basis to ensure that the receipt, invoicing and payment could be processed properly in SAP and to be able to remain within SOX requirements.
•Provided required testing and documentation to auditors for various quarterly and yearly audits (both internal and external) for the Procurement systems.
•Provided testing, training & support for online eProcurement system (eBuy) for over 300 users for non-production items.
•As part of the Central Procurement Compliance Department, I participated in the Procurement review change board for the existing CPRO system. Submitted program change requests to IT and approved needed changes. From July 2008 to July 2010 (2 years 1 month) Network Services Asset Administrator/IT Procurement Administrator @ •Developed, documented, implemented and managed procedures for Corporate IT quoting, purchasing, receiving, and contract procurement.
•Managed all components of request for quotations (RFQ) and purchase order process for IT hardware/software for corporate and 25 distribution center locations.
•Evaluated and developed corporate purchasing standards for personal computers, other hardware peripherals, and cellular phones.
•Selected potential vendors and negotiated various contracts (i.e. Microsoft, Dell, HP, Cisco, and Symantec), request for information (RFI), service level agreements (SLA), request for proposals (RFP), and corporate discounts to ensure consistent pricing for hardware and software licensing agreements, daily IT purchases, as well as many WAN/LAN projects.
•Responsible for all delinquent, damaged (RMA) or duplicate deliveries and resolved discrepancies between invoices and purchase orders to allow for prompt payments to vendors.
•Maintained asset inventory database for all procurements/purchases.
•Managed over 1200 Nextel & Cingular (AT&T) phones at all company locations. Quoted, purchased, deployed and provided user support for various models of Nextel and Cingular (AT&T) phones.
•Performed site surveys at all 25 locations (included sales offices and warehouse facilities) to determine needed cell phone model and phone plan for each user.
•Tested and managed cell phone inventory.
•Prepared and analyzed monthly user cost center disbursement reports for all locations for Nextel and Cingular (AT&T) invoices so that phone charges could be more easily managed. These reports were also sent to managers at each distribution center location.
•Indirectly managed responsibilities for 5 network techs.
•Performed new PC installs and operating system upgrades for 15 distribution center locations.
•Utilized company issued procurement card for most IT purchases. Coded incoming invoices for payment. From January 1998 to February 2007 (9 years 2 months) Co-Music Pastor @ •Directed church band rehearsals for worship as well as an 80 voice choir for a growing 1700 member church.
•Planned music for all worship services and production of special events.
•Helped in equipping those with clear callings and talents in music ministry.
•Principal keyboardist and co-leader of worship for all main services. From August 2001 to August 2005 (4 years 1 month) Programmer @ •Upgraded, installed, and tested both hardware and software components.
•Installed, trained, and provided tech support of Win95, Win98, Lantastic, and WinNT 4.0 networks involving a wide variety of different types of hardware.
•Directly involved in sales of in house configured computer systems (mainframes & PCs) contributing over $50K in revenue per year.
•Performed software development for existing church based accounting/membership tracking system that had been previously designed by the company. Programmed in ICOBOL for Data General Mainframe systems. From May 1985 to January 1998 (12 years 9 months)
BS, Computer Science, Math, Business, Music @ Oral Roberts University From 1982 to 1985 Accounting @ Dallas Baptist University From 1980 to 1982 Duncanville High School From 1976 to 1980 Terry Hollis is skilled in: Virtual Teams, Communication Written, Professional Communication, Project Management, Vendor Management, Software Documentation, Leadership, Management, Training, Networking, SAP, Budgets, Procurement, Human Resources, System Administration
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