Worked with the City of Edmonton from November 1975 to June 2000 in two departments (names changed several times):

• Water and Sanitation
  Administrative Supervisor
  Wrote first Administrative and Operational Policy and Procedures Manual for the department
  Researched projects in the business equipment field, including reprographics, which induced approach from Finance Department to become City's first Photocopying Coordinator.

• Finance Department
  • Photocopying Coordinator
  • Field Buyer, Central Stores
  • Senior Materials Management Specialist

  See Reprographics for information on achievement of $400,000 annual cost savings.

  First "Field Buyer", allocated to the Central Stores facility, increased productivity by being one-man operation, processing all paperwork and award of all orders for this location in a new electronic process using City-designed system called PINS.

  Subsequently covered a wide variety of commodities and services for all departments; rewrote standard clauses for purchasing documents; represented Purchasing for six months on the introduction of the Purchasing Module of SAP, writing requirements and scripts; wrote step-by-step procedures for all aspects of purchasing and SAP procedures for City staff; wrote step-by-step procedures for vendors using the MERX system of tendering on the Internet; evaluated tenders; wrote contracts; trained staff in purchasing procedures.

  Other projects included CPPC - the introduction of the first government VISA purchasing and procurement card.

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