Edward Rodriguez

Current

Commodity Manager at First American Corporation

Past

Manager of Procurement Services and Strategic Sourcing at Fremont Investment & Loan
Procurement at Warner Bros. Studio Facilities
Procurement at Warner Bros.

Purchasing Management at Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union
Purchasing and Facilities Manager at California Mortgage (Sole Proprietorship)
Purchasing Manager at Guardian Federal Savings
Purchasing Manager at Resolution Trust Corporation
Purchasing Manager at Stolte

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Education

Orange Coast College
National University

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Connections

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Industry

Financial Services

Edward Rodriguez’s Summary

Experienced Procurement and Strategic Sourcing Professional with a proven success working in a variety of industries including Commercial Construction, Entertainment, Facilities, Financial Institutions, and Real Estate. Complex Contract negotiating and extensive cost savings experience in a variety of different projects, products and services as well as supplier consolidation initiatives for mid to large corporations consistently exceeding customer satisfaction and aggressive save targets.

Edward Rodriguez’s Specialties:

Competitive Bidding and Negotiating skills, Construction, Real Estate, well versed in computers with an emphasis on Oracle iProcurement, SAP (EBP/R3), Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, AIA and Purchasing Net Software.

Edward Rodriguez’s Experience

Commodity Manager

First American Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Real Estate industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Manager of Procurement Services and Strategic Sourcing

Fremont Investment & Loan

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

April 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 10 months)

Negotiated multimillion dollar contracts for large, complex sourcing transactions and competitive bidding enterprise-wide. Responsible for Project Management of all Corporate Real Estate/Facilities Contracts such as Construction Projects, Print Management Services, Building Maintenance as well as negotiating complex Contracts for the Loan Servicing, Retail and Commercial divisions. Assisted in creating and also re-created the Procurement Department, performed Strategic Sourcing activities and Bid Analysis, Managed the Contract Administrator and a Team of Buyers.
Procurement

Warner Bros. Studio Facilities

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

2001 — 2005 (4 years)

Bid construction projects & coordinate preliminary GC/Subs Job-Walks, resolve GC errors & monitor project punchlist. Issue Contracts, RFP’s, P.O.’s & provide cost analysis for Corporate Real Estate, Sign, Photo lab, Scenic Art & Plumbing Depts. in various States. Hiring GC's for various projects & materials, providing continual support to field Project Directors. Perform project presentations & costs analysis to Senior Executive teams for project justifications. Negotiating Contracts & coordinating with Attorneys & Finance to implement nationwide agreements. Monitoring expenses to meet budget goals & deadlines. Locate & analyze alternate cost savings solutions for all purchases. Negotiate, monitor, manage multiple Construction projects & MRO purchases between $10K & $30MM which included such projects as remodeling a Studio Cafeteria, building 11 residential type homes, Starbucks/Jamba Juice, a Retail store, an offsite six-story Parking Structure & a 50K sf. Post Production bldg.
Procurement

Warner Bros.

(Public Company; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

2001 — 2005 (4 years)

Bid construction projects & coordinate preliminary GC/Subs Job-Walks, resolve GC errors & monitor project punchlist. Issue Contracts, RFP’s, P.O.’s & provide cost analysis for Corporate Real Estate, Sign, Photo lab, Scenic Art & Plumbing Depts. in various States. Hiring GC's for various projects & materials, providing continual support to field Project Directors. Perform project presentations & costs analysis to Senior Executive teams for project justifications. Negotiating Contracts & coordinating with Attorneys & Finance to implement nationwide agreements. Monitoring expenses to meet budget goals & deadlines. Locate & analyze alternate cost savings solutions for all purchases. Negotiate, monitor, manage multiple Construction projects & MRO purchases between $10K & $30MM which included such projects as remodeling a Studio Cafeteria, building 11 residential type homes, Starbucks/Jamba Juice, a Retail store, an offsite six-story Parking Structure & a 50K sf. Post Production bldg.
Purchasing Management

Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union

(Banking industry)

1995 — 2001 (6 years)
Purchasing and Facilities Manager
California Mortgage (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years)
Purchasing Manager

Guardian Federal Savings

(Banking industry)

1990 — 1993 (3 years)
Purchasing Manager

Resolution Trust Corporation

(Banking industry)

1990 — 1993 (3 years)
Purchasing Manager

Stolte

(Construction industry)

1987 — 1990 (3 years)

Edward Rodriguez’s Education

Orange Coast College

Purchasing/Materials Management 1993 — 1996
National University

Technology , C.A.D.D. Mechanical Drafting , 1984 — 1986

Additional Information

Edward Rodriguez’s Groups:

OCEAN - Orange County Executives And Networkers
Visual Effects, Film and Games Professionals (www.vfx-recruit.com)
ThoseInFilm (Motion Pictures & Film Industry)
Procurement Professionals (#1 supply chain & sourcing group) Opportunities, network, career & jobs
Fremont Alumni Network
Warner Bros. Alumni
The First American Corporation