Consultant for IBM

I am currently working as a Business Transformation Consultant for IBM, working with WL Gore & Associates in their North America accounts payable group. 
I have over a decade of direct oil and gas experience, with 9 years being in supply chain. I was previously the lead buyer at Liberty Oilfield Services where I connect every day with our districts and vendors in purchasing products for our maintenance and district warehouses. 
Previously, I was the proppant buyer for Liberty, where I purchased and worked with the districts to coordinate the proppant (sand) delivery in every district we had running. I started at Liberty working on the engineering team where I helped develop a database of well completion data that is still used today.
I love working with people and enjoy the analytical side of my job - data and people, they're all interesting! I am proficient at all Microsoft Office programs and have used both Oracle and SAP as the ERP system.

Working with W.L. Gore & Associates’ Accounts Payable team

● Provide assistance to the the IBM accounts payable teams located in India, China, and Hungary processing thousands of invoices a day
● Subject Matter Expert for all processes covered by Gore Associates on the North American Accounts Payable team
● Problem solve invoice processing issues and questions with the Gore Hypercare team
● Developed the knowledge transfer plan to cover all contractual processes
● Schedule and coordinate daily meetings with all leads at Gore and IBM
● Collaborate regularly with project managers and leadership to ensure successful handoff of duties
● Assist the IBM team of 25 people with daily invoice processing in Tungsten and E1/JD Edwards, submit
reports for month end close, and close tickets submitted to Gore’s ServiceNow portal
● Wrote more than a dozen process flows and Desktop Procedures for all operations taken over by IBM
● Tracked over 30 Desktop Procedure approvals in Microsoft Teams
● Submit new vendor requests in Monday.com
● Ensure all knowledge transfer items are covered and understood
● Traveled multiple times to Bangalore, India to be on-the-ground support for Ramp Up and Go Live

Business Transformation Consultant

Spending most of my time doing procurement for this group: everydayrobots.com and x.company/projects/mineral/

Procurement specialist for multiple Google X projects, with primary focus on Everyday Robots and Mineral
● Create POs requested by business leaders of each project
● Lead daily team meetings, focusing on problem-solving and communication to partners and suppliers
● Initiated new procurement process between Google X and Amazon.com
● Collaborate with colleagues across the United States, Philippines, and India
● Resolve invoice questions and errors with suppliers
● Send RFQs directly from suppliers for Everyday Robots
● Track contracts and POs for multiple projects through SIMBA and other dashboards and tools
● Manage ad-hoc invoicing for Google X, including customer creation and invoice generation

Worked with Google, LLC

● Resolved tickets for PO failures in Ariba and Oracle
● Processed contracts, proofreading, and sending for approval signatures
● Collaborated with colleagues across the United States and India
● Facilitated daily communication with Contract Execution team

Buyer, Contract Execution

•	Supervise group of up to 12 buyers, overseeing purchase order creation in Oracle for maintenance and warehouse purchases in Colorado, Wyoming, North Dakota, Texas, & New Mexico
•	Facilitate relationships and communication between our corporate office and the district warehouses
•	Negotiated price reductions on our highest-moving products, setting up to save the company over $600,000 a year
•	Tracked consumable spend, saving the company 23% in only 3 months
•	Helped secure price reductions of long-term contracts for safety products
•	Coordinate with auditors for SOX compliance for vendor set-up, PO creation, and purchasing approval authority of all employees
•	Create POs, resolved invoice discrepancies, and help with vendor management for all districts
•	Implemented a min/max report for all districts, and both warehouses in those districts, to create an easier purchasing method
•	Represent Liberty with our biggest MRO suppliers, with around $5 million of annual spend 
•	Implemented tracking for major component repairs, connecting with vendors weekly to ensure consistent communication and updated timelines
•	Lead twice-weekly meetings of up to 16 people

Lead Buyer, Parts/Warehouse

•Managed the purchasing of proppant (material for fracking) in Colorado, Wyoming, North Dakota, & Texas
•Negotiated pricing for all purchase orders and contracted work
•Assisted in negotiating terms for new and existing multi-year contracts, worth several millions of dollars
•Tracked all proppant usage and trained multiple users to receive proppant into ERP system
•Collaborated with Union Pacific and BNSF railroads to provide fast service and lowest pricing for the thousands of railcars shipped from multiple vendors every year
•Developed up-to-date tracking for inventory management for all basins 
•Worked with field coordinators on a daily basis to get all jobs completed to design
•Forecasted proppant usage through interactions on the Demand Management Team
•Reported pricing trends in all basins over weekly, quarterly, and yearly terms
•Managed vendor relationships, which ensured best pricing and service, as well as shared market intel 
•Trouble-shot with managers, sales, and field coordinators when problems arose during well completions


Supply Chain Specialist, Proppant

•Developed comprehensive databases and multiple analytical correlation charts containing all historical fracturing data for over 9,000 wells
•Facilitated the implementation of a SharePoint calendar to manage all past and present jobs using CRM
•Supervised and trained of over a dozen people to maintain all databases and helped implement new         databases for two new projects
•Coordinated the schedules and training of over 20 field engineers
•Analyzed the testing results of materials, comparing field data to reported data sheets
•Assisted in data comparison for professional papers for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (163827 & 169497) and an article in the Oil and Gas Reporter (January 2013)
•Plotted cumulative monthly production for all wells in North Dakota
•Distributed the weekly reporting of stage count, revenue, and safety rating for all four crews to all employees
•Collaborated in performing multivariate analysis data using Transform
•Trained multiple coworkers how to fully utilize and understand Access 2013 


Engineering Tech

Managed the front desk by answering phones, greeting visitors, and providing general assistance to executives, Generated and distributed daily drilling and completion reports, Maintained accurate wellbore diagrams in the Production Access/ Petris Technology Database, Responsible for field production chemical tracking database, Data-mining in DrillingInfo, Composed various regulatory forms, Organized LOE reporting, Updated and monitored daily production volumes and monthly production allocations, Created a comprehensive fracturing database containing all historical fracturing data as well as multiple analytical correlation charts

Administrative Assistant/ Engineering Tech

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Katie McKay: Consultant for IBM in Denver, Colorado

Katie McKay

Colorado State University