Project 1: Radiology Clinic (Arkansas) – Contract Renewal Optimization
Challenge:
The clinic’s service agreement for imaging equipment had exceeded its renewal cycle, exposing it to unmanaged price increases and contract creep.
Solution:
I audited the vendor contracts, identified the oversight area, negotiated with the supplier at the optimal renewal point, and introduced a renewal-tracking system.
Results:
Savings: $2,690/month (~$32,280/year)
Established a proactive renewal schedule to avoid future price escalations
Strengthened contract terms, ensuring service quality and aligning vendor obligations with clinic operational needs
Radiology Clinic in Arkansas
Issue Found: Contract Renewal Oversight
Results: $2,690/Month in Savings generated
Contract Management and Re-Negotiating at the correct time can be paramount to cost management. Price Increase on neglected service agreements can easy compound and lead to exorbitant overhead.
Project 2: Illinois Foundry – Regulatory Reclassification & Waste Cost Reduction
Challenge:
A 100-year-old foundry was disposing of spent casting sand as hazardous waste, incurring high disposal costs, although its operations had changed and the material no longer qualified under the same classification.
Solution:
I researched the current environmental code, coordinated with a certified lab and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reclassify the sand as non-hazardous, and further brokered a beneficial-use status allowing the material for construction backfill.
Results:
Eliminated hazardous-waste classification, drastically lowering disposal costs
Created a pathway for future recovery and revenue generation via beneficial use
Demonstrated advanced regulatory sourcing analytics, compliance awareness, and environmental cost management
Foundry Savings and EPA Regulatory Compliance
A foundry in Illinois was disposing of it’s spent casting sand as hazardous material. The foundry has been in business for almost a century. Through some intensive research and communication with operators at the foundry, I was discovered that they no longer worked with the nonferrous metals that had initially led to the hazardous waste classification. After some research into the environmental codes regulating this waste, I was able to coordinate with the EPA and the foundry in order to get the appropriate testing done to reclassify this was as nonhazardous and therefore greatly reduce the cost of disposal and handling. After testing with a certified lab and working with a foundry to ensure they had policy in place to ensure no hazardous material made it into the waste stream, we were able to not only remove the hazardous waste requirement, but I even got the sands qualified for beneficial use status and therefore usable for backfill in construction projects - potentially eliminating disposal costs in the future if they were able to find the right contractor to handle removal and use. I generated massive saving and established a path to further cost reductions in the future.
Project 3: Denver, CO – Equipment Right-Sizing & Service Agreement Reduction
Challenge:
A client managing an entire Denver historic district was looking for potential savings to help offset the cost of new sustainability initiatives they wanted to incorporate in the district. Due to the volume of this waste service agreement, their standard Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) rate was the best I’d come across. Still, I conducted an audit of the waste stream and equipment and was able to identify inflated service fees for outdated 3-yd compactors.
Solution:
I was able to work with the vendor to remove the antiquated, overpriced, and unnecessary equipment and replace it with the appropriate front-load containers. I was able to facilitate the transition, renegotiated the contracts to reflect the optimized equipment, and ensure no issues during transition.
Results:
Savings: 20% cost reduction (~$1,600/month on ~$8,000 spend)
Streamlined operations and reduced equipment overhead
Improved vendor contract alignment, service accountability, and long-term cost management
Project 4: Automated Reporting at Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope (Denver, CO)
Challenge:
Weekly defect reporting required manual entry from multiple production lines, leading to hours of repetitive work and delays in root-cause analysis.
Solution:
I wrote a VBA program for Excel that automatically extracted data from our Warehouse Management System, populated my reports spreadsheet, and generated visuals with one click. This provided management with the information and visuals they required while eliminating the time requirements for tedious weekly data extraction, manual entry, and report building.
Results:
Reduced weekly report preparation to click-of-a-button
Enabled faster root-cause analysis for defects and quick action
Delivered insights that supported workflow changes, reducing re-work costs and improving production yield
Automated Reporting
At Oldcaste BuildingEnvelope in Denver, Colorado I was tasked with weekly reporting on breakage from each station on the factory line. We had scanners at every station of the glass process and if a piece was deemed defective, we could track quantities and which department that defective piece was discovered and restarted. This required manual entry of each datapoint throughout the week and was a time demand for whoever was tasked with it. I was able to code a program in VBA for Excel that automate the data retrieval, spreadsheet input, and visualization creation for reporting purposes. Effectively turning hours of work into a click of a button. These reports were useful tools in root cause analysis, enabling us to find problems in factory workflows causing defects and massive costs associated with repeatedly reworking pieces. One of such occurrence was identifying practices and equipment on the seeming line that were leading to scratches and defective pieces. We were able to make modifications to the line itself and then put into place some best practices for handling glass on the seeming line that made a huge impact on minimizing defective pieces moving forward.