Adam V.

• Procurement and assured supply for all Meats and Dairy items in the US, Canada, and Europe • Create strategic 5-year plan for department and my associated categories while maintaining quality • Make high level decisions that affect both my category and the company’s direction of 2,400 restaurants • Strengthen existing relationships while pursuing new potential supply partners to support our growth • Tracking and providing insight into market trends of commodities in all categories • Negotiate more than $35MM in annualized savings. Managing approximately $825MM of annual spend. • Manage supply chain analytics, including supplier unbundling and freight optimization • Forecast and supply / demand plan volumes of all items associated with categories • Develop supplier scorecard with KPI’s to evaluate and incentivize stakeholders • Manage other categories following employee departures including: Paper & Packaging, Other Foods (Additional $600MM in annual spend)

• Procurement and assured supply for all Meats and Dairy items in the US, Canada, and Europe • Contract agreements, volume planning and pricing for all commodities. • Strategic sourcing and network optimization resulting in over $500k in logistics savings. • Initiate fair cost reduction strategies resulting in over $15MM in annual savings. • Implementing and improving our animal welfare standards at existing and potential suppliers • Responsible for all stock recoveries, verifying ingredient specs and recipes • Work across departments during Chipotle’s crisis to maintain and build sales.

• Manage $23 million annual freight spend, including inbound freight into 24 distribution centers • Optimize supply lanes and manage supply chain network from vendor to distribution center • Developed supply chain scorecard with KPI’s to evaluate and incentivize key stakeholders • Oversight of network inventories to ensure supply for $1.5 billion in annual product spend • Created and implemented inbound logistics and safety stock policies across our network • Present project viability, profit reports and strategic logistic plans to executive leadership teams • Provide strategic direction to the third-party logistics company, continually work to improve supply chain efficiency and correct systematic issues

• Solution and problem solve all over, shorts and damages • Work within, benchmark and implement Supply Chain Data Intelligence system • Implement policies and processes necessary to open restaurants in Canada and Europe • Set up new restaurant concepts within constraints of our Supply Chain • Establish procedures and policies for new item roll outs • Establish pricing compliance system for all concepts and categories

- Balancing outstanding accounts for a large corporate project currently under construction. - Coordinating meetings with the accounting department and project managers. - In charge of creating, managing, and researching discrepancies in extensive excel spreadsheets; and then comparing the results to actual invoices and construction contracts.

- Conducting market research for startup companies using various methods, techniques and tools. - Compiling this information into a business proposal and helping the startup company present the business proposal and market information to potential investors.

Marketing for a small firm, building and maintaining company webpage. Helping maintain owner’s other company as well – Government Benefit Analysts, LLC, searching for potential clientele and promoting Veteran’s pension benefits. Suggested client money re-allocations. Reviewed and published client holdings and published comparison reports for evaluation. Helped the owner as well as the secretary in everything from filing to filling out client comparisons. Intensive use of Microsoft Excel, Word, Publisher, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities: Safety management and coordination with OSHA mandates using MSDS sheets, proposition and completion of experiment for which data is still being used, compiled a final experiment report that was published in monthly science magazine and presented to the Deputy Lab Director as well as the head of the biology division at ANL.

Concentration in Finance, and Agricultural Economics