Kevin Bowser

Current

• Strategic Sourcing Advisor at ExxonMobil Global Services Company

Past

• V.P. & Manager of Small Business and Consumer Lending Systems at Bank United
• V.P., Small Business and Consumer Lending at Washington Mutual
• Contract Administration Manager at OAO / Maxima

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Education

• Eastern Nazarene College
• Penns Valley Area High School

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Industry

Oil & Energy

Kevin Bowser’s Summary

An IT guy with almost 20 years of experience at all levels of the IT process and lifecycle. I have worked in data center operations, application design and programming, systems support, vendor management, strategic planning and strategic sourcing.

Kevin Bowser’s Specialties:

Strategic planning, strategic sourcing, IT planning and implementation.

Kevin Bowser’s Experience

• Strategic Sourcing Advisor

  ExxonMobil Global Services Company

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XOM; Oil & Energy industry)

  July 2001 — Present (7 years 4 months)

  Provide global sourcing strategies for IT hardware and software across multiple platforms and for all global affiliates of a major integrated oil company.
  Managed internal customer relationships with global business units of a major oil company to provide IT hardware on a global level.
  Managed external and vendor relationships to maximize the partnering relationship for the mutual benefit of the business unit, procurement organization and the vendor/supplier.
  Negotiated global agreements with tier one IT hardware organizations for both hardware and services resulting in 18%-27% savings annually.
  Consolidated multiple OEM hardware service agreements into one third-party agreement resulting in:
  Reduced contracts from 15 OEM suppliers to 1 Key supplier and one Strategic supplier
  Annual spend reduced 33% per year and locked those savings in for 3 years.
  Recently reworked the same effort and reduced costs an additional 30%

• V.P. & Manager of Small Business and Consumer Lending Systems

  Bank United

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

  October 1997 — June 2001 (3 years 9 months)

  Managed internal customer relationships with consumer and small business lending units.
  Supported auxiliary lending units such as Loan Origination, Closing Document Preparation and Loan Servicing business units.
  Managed technology infrastructure aspects for a multi-branch bank acquisition in Texas.
  Supported technology environment allowing Bank United to be number four SBA lender in the nation.
  Some current uses of key technologies employed are:
  2 Lending Centers supported via legacy and client/server systems
  165 traditional and non-traditional branches supported via legacy and client/server systems and corporate intranets
  12 to 15 remote loan sales origination offices supported via dedicated circuits and extranets
  Internet loan application submission supported via the web

• V.P., Small Business and Consumer Lending

  Washington Mutual

  (Public Company; Banking industry)

  1997 — 2001 (4 years)

• Contract Administration Manager

  OAO / Maxima

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1990 — July 1998 (8 years 2 months)

  Managed a full data center outsourcing project with staff of 104 including two subcontractor organizations.
  Managed team of developers to create 5 client/server applications, inclusive of needs analysis, design, development, testing, marketing and rollout, resulting in implementation by other state and local government facilities.
  Ensured client satisfaction across multiple technical disciplines including mainframe, client/server and LAN/WAN.
  Led team to incentive-fee awards in excess of 90% for nine consecutive quarters resulting in incentive revenue of more than $585,000.
  Created initial model for entire desktop modernization effort, including system configuration and infrastructure impact statements.

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