ROBERT W. WHEELER, SR.
OBJECTIVE
To be a contributing team member in a position that would utilize abilities and experience to make a significant impact on achieving company goals, and provide the opportunity for mutual growth.
QUALIFICATIONS
• More than twenty years of progressive responsibilities in the leadership capacity for both governmental and private sectors.
• Performed ROI analysis on process improvement projects to determine priority and feasibility.
• Extensive project management experience.
• Certified Purchasing Manager
• Fiscal responsibility for P&L to include department equipment purchases.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Education Management Corporation (EDMC)
A leading provider of career-focused education for over 40 years. One of the largest providers of private post-secondary education with over 170,000 students on campus and online in 28 states.
Process Engineer
• Collaborated and drove projects with the organizations functional leaders to create, refine and monitor operating procedures for the Operations teams to assure quantitative and qualitative standards are met or exceeded.
• Developed, implemented and maintained the preventive and corrective action program.
• Performed ROI analysis on process improvement projects to determine priority and feasibility.
• Identified savings / improvement opportunities and solved challenging technical, process-flow and resource-limitation problems.
• Relied on as one of the teams’ primary trainers of newly hired process engineers. Led comprehensive training on topics including operations, work instructions, process software and business process methodologies.
Ariba, Inc.
Leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions that accelerate and facilitate effective spend management. Ariba was able to combine industry-leading technology with the world's largest web-based trading community to help companies discover, connect, and collaborate with a global network of partners. More than 500,000 companies-including 94 of the Fortune 100 use Ariba's solutions to manage their business commerce initiatives.
Engineering Data Manager
• Responsible for managing E-sourcing projects that allowed Fortune 100 and 500 clients to purchase high quality products and services at market prices through the use of online auctions.
• Successfully completed numerous online auctions for Emerson and Oshkosh Corporation.
• Served as the primary point of contact for customers on all sourcing engagements and led weekly meetings with internal team members and external buyers. Created client specific Requests for Proposals, Requests for Information and Requests for Quotation for all sourcing projects.
• Independently managed the collection, analysis, and publication of data and the design of documents ensuring the technical completeness of Request for Quotations and provided key input into the lotting structures for each project.
• Interacted with various people in supplier organizations to ensure proper bid structure and availability of all pertinent information enabling suppliers to create accurate quotations.
• Aided sales team in developing new accounts and manage existing client relationships and lead collaborative strategy discussions to design optimal solutions for each client.
• Responsible for ensuring project management milestones are met and deliverables are on time and high quality.
• Executed projects as diverse as United Technology Corporation Aerospace to packaging materials for Tyson Foods.
Lockheed Martin, Inc.
Major provider of defense, information technology, aeronautical equipment, and supplies. Lockheed provides contracting to governmental agencies globally, Military organizations and the private sector, providing cost effective cutting edge solutions.
SASR Deputy Team Leader and Logistics Manager
• Responsible for the establishment and implementation and of the Transportation Security Agency.
• Transition from private security contracts to TSA control across multiple sites.
• Coordination and faci...
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