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SENIOR CONTRACT SPECIALIST
Professional Summary

Senior Contracting Specialist with over 13 years experience  in various phases of the contracting and budgeting processes including drafting, execution, allocation, and reconciliation. Well versed in contract management including contract strategy, internal/external audits, compliance, and reconciliation. Advanced Excel skills; Advanced SAP and contract management data-base skill Adept at handling multiple projects well and completely under high-pressure deadlines. Detail oriented and organized, extensively trained in spreadsheets and word processing. Advance experience with business and technical writing.

Skills
  • Budgeting and finance expertise
  • Process improvement techniques
  • MS Office
  • Financial monitoring and forecasting
  • Program evaluation
  • Contract Admnistration
  • Project management
  • Technical writing
  • Staff development
  • Internal/External auditing
  • Grants management
  • Data/Records management
Work History
SENIOR CONTRACT SPECIALIST, 06/2014 to Current
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY – Newark, New Jersey
  • Individually responsible for multi-million dollar cost-reimbursement and vendor contracts from inception to close-out.
  • Strong understanding of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and local government contracting policies.
  • Prepares, evaluates, negotiates, and monitors the compliance of large local and state-wide contracts including overseeing the planning, administration, and revision of contracts to make sure all parties' needs are met.
  • Actively participates in drafting contract language, developing evaluation criteria, reviewing and scoring bidder documents, and drafting award and denial documents when necessary.
  • Performs reviews of scope of work and expenditures to ensure costs are allowable and reasonable.
  • Works closely with State and Federal entities to provide fiscal advice for contract proposals and initiatives to ensure feasibility.
  • Develops contract payment schedules and estimated claims schedules upon renewal and modification of contracts.
  • Reviews quarterly and final expenditure reports to perform contract close-outs, and recoupments when necessary.
  • Provides support and prepares presentations for top management including forecasts and business updates/reviews.
  • Extensive utilization of Microsoft Office Suite, including advanced Excel including creating datasets, creating pivot tables, performing v-lookups/h-lookups, etc.
  • Responded to all inquiries from the general public in a prompt and professional manner.
SENIOR BUDGET ANALYST, 04/2007 to 06/2014
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY – Newark, New Jersey
  • performing programming, budgeting, execution, and review of the multi-year/multi-million dollar state/federal appropriated budgets.
  • Daily conducts department-wide activities included planning, developing, and implementing technical requirements for complex procurement programs; conducting requirements analyses and cost estimates; advising customers, supervisors, and personnel on procurement issues; and composing reports and documents for a variety of procurement actions that affect my Central Business offices, as well as my subordinate local offices.
  • Routinely provides technical budgetary and programmatic analysis during the establishment and execution of the department's planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation (PPBE) process.
  • Viewed as an expert in tracking internal transactions, such expenditures and reimbursements.
  • Provides fiscal policy oversight to ensure expenditures and costs are allowable and reasonable in accordance with State Government and Federal guidelines.
  • Additionally responsible training staff on policy, while adapting trainings and training materials to the skill level of a diversified audience.
  • Individually, with minimal oversight from supervisors and upper management, created policy, and coordinated activities aimed to create consistencies in the contracting process.
  • This has included creating inter-agency level of service reporting, collection and review of quarterly expenditures, contract reconciliation and closeout, and conduction on-site audits with vendors to assure compliance with State/Federal regulations and policy.
  • Carefully presents information in fiscal logistic format- using detailed spreadsheets and graphical calculations-, using various financial models , reporting tools, and software to obtain, analyze, provide managers with information required to make sound fiscal/budget decisions.
LITIGATION SPECIALIST, 04/2004 to 03/2007
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY – Newark, New Jersey
  • Litigation case management as a liaison between the department and municipal superior courts.
  • Researched cases in order to compose complaints, ordinances, and petitions while under very stringent deadlines.
  • Frequent database record input and maintenance, as well as reliance upon these systems to perform statistical case analysis and report composition.
  • Utilized case management system to manipulate sensitive data to compile reports detailing ligation case statuses for review by management.
  • Litigation case management as a liaison between the department and municipal superior courts.
  • Researched cases in order to compose complaints, ordinances, and petitions while under very stringent deadlines.
  • Frequent database record input and maintenance, as well as reliance upon these systems to perform statistical case analysis and report composition.
  • Utilized case management system to manipulate sensitive data to compile reports detailing ligation case statuses for review by management.
SERVICE BANKER , 07/2003 to 04/2004
 WELLS FARGO BANK – Westfield, New Jersey
  • Functioned as a client relationship manager and service banker with a deep understanding of financial institutions and financial specialists; thereby using this knowledge to build relationships with clients and financial institution consultants to drive overall branch revenue and operational activities.
  • Extensive experience with preparing financial reports for customer project managers and service performance managers disseminated and interpreted financial center policy to employees in training-like settings, as well as in one-on-one coaching sessions.
  • Prepare and provide financial reports for customer project management and service performance measurement regarding financial service planning and administration, cost estimating, control systems implementation, compliance reviews, performance monitoring, data analysis, and status reporting.
Education
MBA: Finance, 2006
 SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY - Jersey City, NJ
  • 3.75 GPA
  • Coursework in Business, Management and Finance
Bachelors of Science: Marketing & Economics, 2003
 SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY - Jersey City, NJ
  • Coursework in Accounting, Management and Finance
  • Coursework in Business Administration
  • Minor in Economics
Graduate Certification: Accounting, 2008
 RUTGER'S UNIVERSITY - New Brunswick, New Jersey
  • 3.8 GPA
  • Coursework in Government Financial Management
  • Coursework in Cost Accounting and Finance
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • STATE OF NEW JERSEY
  • WELLS FARGO BANK

School Attended

  • SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY
  • RUTGER'S UNIVERSITY

Job Titles Held:

  • SENIOR CONTRACT SPECIALIST
  • SENIOR BUDGET ANALYST
  • LITIGATION SPECIALIST
  • SERVICE BANKER

Degrees

  • MBA : Finance , 2006
    Bachelors of Science : Marketing & Economics , 2003
    Graduate Certification : Accounting , 2008

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