Senior-level procurement and sourcing advisor to utilities and infrastructure owners. 20+ years across transmission, construction labor, and regulated procurement, helping clients cut cost, risk, and secure best value.
End-to-end leadership of complex sourcing initiatives for construction labor, services, and infrastructure-related procurements in regulated and high-risk environments.
Design and lead competitive RFPs and RFQs, develop sourcing strategies aligned to market conditions, manage bidder engagement, evaluate proposals, and support best-value award decisions. Advise on reverse auctions, multi-round negotiations, and defensible outcomes.
Utilities, infrastructure owners, public-sector entities, and private organizations managing recurring or high-dollar construction and services spend.
Advisory support focused on structuring, negotiating, and managing contracts to balance cost, risk, and constructability—particularly in complex labor and construction environments.
Support contract scoping, commercial term development, pricing structures, and negotiations. Identify and mitigate risk tied to scope gaps, labor assumptions, escalation, and market volatility, with particular expertise in union and mixed labor environments.
Organizations entering high-value construction or labor agreements that need experienced commercial support without adding permanent headcount.
Independent, data-driven analysis to validate pricing, understand market conditions, and support fact-based decision-making.
Analyze labor and services pricing using public and industry benchmarks (e.g., BLS, CPI, EquipmentWatch), evaluate contractor estimates and build-ups, and identify cost drivers, escalation exposure, and pricing outliers. Translate market data into practical guidance for negotiations and leadership decisions.
Owners, procurement teams, and project leaders who need credible pricing insight but lack internal market intelligence or benchmarking resources.
Structured approaches to managing critical suppliers beyond the initial contract award, with a focus on long-term value and performance.
Help design and implement strategic supplier programs, define performance metrics, support contractor evaluations, and establish governance models that align suppliers with cost, schedule, safety, and delivery expectations.
Organizations with recurring contractors or long-term supplier relationships where consistency, performance, and accountability matter.
Practical advisory support for improving procurement processes and enabling tools without sacrificing governance or compliance.
Advise on procurement workflows, contract lifecycle management systems, and integration between sourcing, contracting, and asset management tools. Help organizations document processes, refine governance, and support adoption through training and change management.
Utilities and infrastructure organizations modernizing procurement systems or processes in regulated or audit-sensitive environments.
Knowledge transfer and advisory support to strengthen internal capability across procurement, project, and leadership teams.
Deliver training on sourcing, contracting, and pricing fundamentals; provide executive-level briefings on market conditions and risk; and support stakeholder communications, including vendor-facing strategy discussions and industry engagement.
Leadership teams, procurement organizations, and project teams that need clearer understanding of market dynamics and commercial risk.
Career History
Education
Community Engagement