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OBJECTIVE PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT, where demonstrated performance working for major oil and gas corporations in procurement, purchasing, strategic sourcing, contract administration supply & logistics, will contribute to the overall profitability and efficiency of a growth-oriented company.

QUALIFICATIONS Twenty-eight years of purchasing and supply chain management experience; a current passport

EDUCATION BBA in Business Management and Minor in Economics
West Texas A&M University

PROCUREMENT SUPERVISOR
Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP)

November 2006 to Present
Responsible for onshore/offshore GOM upstream/downstream purchasing, logistics, sourcing, and procurement operations. Supervise buyers, expediters, procurement, and purchasing assistants. Areas of operation are GOM, CA, NV, WY, GOM, CO; LA.
Work with the major service Contractors: Schlumberger, Weatherford, Halliburton,
Baker Services, BJ Hughes, FMC, and OCTG, tubular, MRO, equipment, suppliers, and interface with senior management, VP's, drilling managers, contract administration, legal & risk mgt, production, EH&S, production managers, QA/QC, inspections, and project managers.

SR BUYER/CONTRACT SPEC
Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corporation – KMG (contract position)

May 2006 to July 2006
Responsible for MSA/SA agreements for upstream operations including GOM. Use Oracle, PeopleSoft, and LiveLink systems. Provided operational support for materials and contract services requested by KMG upstream operations. Requested and evaluated proposals, dealt with policies/procedures, material transfers, pre-qualified Contractors and suppliers for onshore/offshore use, monitored Company insurance requirements for Contractors and suppliers.

SR PROJECTS PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST (contract position)
Chevron Pipe Line Company (CPLC) – Houston, Texas
April 2004 to February 2006
Responsible for USA Pipeline Group's major capital construction project procurements. Worked with SAP, Strategic Sourcing, D&B reporting for pre-qualifying new contractors, work with BSA, MSA, and MA agreements, responsible for using appropriate CVX terms & conditions for RFP's, service order execution and material purchase orders. Performed expediting, sent out RFP's, did Bid Tab Analysis, worked with AMCS, OSHA, Ariba eProcurement, PACL, CSM, and HES. Projects procurement coordinator and main focal point for CPLC project managers and their lead engineers. Managed spends from $100K to $200M USD sealed bid projects and provided project costing for budgets.

SR CAPITAL PROJECT COORDINATOR (contract position)
OPE, Inc. - Houston, Texas
2003 - 2003
Capital project procurement for $250M Sonatrach Algerian onshore/offshore pipeline project.

PROJECT PURCHASING REPRESENTATIVE
Saudi Aramco – Dhahran, Saudi Arabia - Overseas Central Area Oil & Gas Projects Group
2002 – 2003 (Left due to Iraq War II situation)

PROJECT PROCUREMENT MANAGER – PPM
Pride International - Houston, Texas
2001 – 2002 Managed procurement for offshore XOM Kizomba Topside WA TLP $125M EPC

JAMES W. GRAVES
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EMPLOYMENT REGIONAL PROCUREMENT MANAGER
(cont'd) Stolt Offshore, Inc. - Houston, Texas
2000 - 2001
Managed offshore Gulf oil & gas pipeline EPC construction project procurements for major oil company clients. Was also involved in purchasing support for marine vessel supply and logistics operations. Supervised buyers, expediter, procurement engineer, and purchase order data entry personnel. Responsible for procurement policies, procedures, vendor reduction, QC supplier and Contractor monitoring programs, sourcing strategies, and hiring staff. Also closely interfaced with Stolt contracting legal department, and upper management.

SENIOR INTERNATIONAL BUYER
Global Marine, Inc. - Houston, Texas
1997 - 2000
Purchasing responsibility for international offshore drilling contractor at their corporate Houston headquarters. Bought all types of oilfield equipment for deepwater offshore rigs in Africa, Trinidad West Indies, Gulf of Mexico, and South America. Handled MRO, and capital equipment purchases. Bought all types of equipment and supplies including oils & chemicals.

SENIOR INTERNATINAL OFFSHORE BUYER
Atwood Oceanics, Inc. - Houston, Texas
1989 - 1997
Purchasing and logistics responsibility for international drilling and production rig operations in Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia. Performed all types of procurement, analyzed market trends, contracts for suppliers and services, submitted written reports and recommendations to upper management, and conducted meetings with engineering, maintenance and accounting personnel to review company policies.

SENIOR PROCUREMENT ANALYST/Q.A. ACQUISITION SPECIALIST
U.S. Government - Department of the Interior/U.S. Air Force
Bureau of Internal Affairs (BIA) - Washington, D.C.
1987 - 1989
Assisted higher-grade managers in the evaluation of policies, organizational structures, functions, procedures and planning for the purpose of enhancing operations. Dealt with FAR, DAR, FPMR, UCC, and other governmental regulations. Also involved with administrative policy-making decisions affecting $700 million yearly procurement and contracting plans. Negotiated prices, terms and conditions, and approved vendor sole- and single-source selection. Handled contracts such as capital equipment, construction, FFP, cost re-determinable, labor-hour, T&M, repair and maintenance, service and equipment rental types. Sent out RFQ's, IFB's and SOW's to suppliers and analyzed same once they were received back for sealed bid opening and review.

General Dynamics Plant - QA/ACQUISITION SPECIALIST, Fort Worth, Texas
Quality assurance and vendor acquisition responsibility for the U.S.A.F. F-16 and F-111
Fighting Falcon and advanced tactical fighter manufacturing programs. Also performed SPC, contracting duties, operational auditing and prime contractor monitoring.

SENIOR BUYER/ASSISTANT PURCHASING MANAGER
Atwood Oceanics Inc. - Houston, Texas
1980 - 1987
Purchasing responsibility for international offshore drilling rig fleet operations.
ASSISTANT RIG MANAGER – Singapore temporary management assignment.
PURCHASING & INVENTORY CONTROL MANAGER
Delta Safety & Supply Co. - Houston, Texas
1973 - 1980
Purchasing, expediting, and inventory control manager for safety and supply company selling to the oil and gas, refineries, fire departments, and chemical companies in the Houston, Texas.

JAMES W. GRAVES
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SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

* Completed IQPC Advanced Oil & Gas Industry Contracting Seminar at the Derek Hotel Houston, while with KMG.
* Completed CVX Strategic Sourcing and Ariba e-Sourcing Seminar at THP Houston 2005.
* Completed SAP R3/4.60 Aramco training course for purchasing and procurement modules 2003.
* Completed XOM procurement and contracting seminar in Houston 2000.
* Completed Karrass Negotiating Seminar in 1998 and earned certification while at GSF.
* Communicated well with vendors and overseas field operations in order to resolve problems with equipment defects, warranties, maintenance, inventory levels, logistics, and delivery delays AWTD 1980-1987.
* Solved a major vendor problem and saved the company $40,000/day in rig downtime by resolving a ballast pump spare parts problem with supplier's CEO to our mutual satisfaction AWTD 1990-1997.
* Made administrative recommendations to upper management regarding changes in procurement policies, procedures, operations, and computerized purchasing techniques for 12 U. S. DOI/BIA/DOD Government area offices.
* Organized overseas transportation of rig materials with freight forwarders. This improved delivery times up to 30% and reduced shipping costs by initiating computerized freight consolidation purchasing techniques ATWD.
* Improved operational use of rig's satellite communications system, thus saving the company approximately $8,000 per month in phone and telex/fax charges per drilling vessel by using correct ground Earth stations ATWD.
* Solved purchasing problem with mainframe IBM computerized purchasing system for supplier cross-reference program.

ADDITIONAL EXPERTISE SUMMARY:

Procurement, Purchasing, and Contract Administration EPC experience with offshore MODU, TLP, SPAR, FPSO, SBM, pipeline construction, and topside drilling rig packages. HP Compaq computer component purchasing for manufacturing operations using Commodity Supplier Analysis and Inventory Control methods. U.S. Government Procurement experience DOD/FAR/DAR/UCC/DOIAR/BIAR/Executive Orders acquisition regulations for the USAF/AFPRO and DOI/BIA government agencies. Contract Administration experience offshore drilling exploration services Contractor set up for XOM in Brazil and TWI. West Indies offshore Supply & Logistics drilling program for BHP. Provided Contract briefing to find synergies and cost savings for COP in their well head services group covering MSA, B.O., GSAA, BBA, and for First Choice Supplier and capital equipment contract types. These were for the Big 5 suppliers Schlumberger, Halliburton, Wood Group, Cooper Cameron, FMC, Baker Hughes, Weatherford, Smith International, B.J. Services, and other OEM's. Dealt with Free Markets and Trade Ranger reverse auction strategies. XOM worked in Global Drilling Services Contracting Purchasing Group as Contract Specialist helping them set up a new offshore Brazil deep water drilling program. Put together RFQ contract language for bid packages, performed bid analysis, progress tracking, and sending out GSA's to the Big 5 suppliers. Commodities and services procured were: valves, flanges, fittings, storage tanks, fabricated equipment, UPS, switchgears, MCC, compressors, pumps, instrumentation, cable, wire rope, fire safety systems, electrical components, OCTG, line pipe, casing, hangers, jars, fishing tools, coiled tubing, bowels, traps, mud pumps, cranes, handling tools, MRO supplies, rig engine spare parts, lubricants, chemicals, oils, accumulators, radiators, motion compensator parts, office supplies and various wellhead upstream services from Contractors. Supply & Logistic Operations coordination with ocean/air freight forwarders.

COMPUTER SAP R3/4.60 MM, Ariba, Oracle, AS-400, JDE, Maximo, IMS/MMS, PeopleSoft, LiveLink,
SKILLS Internet, XP, Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Microsoft Project, Access, and Lotus Notes

MEMBERSHIPS NAPM - National Association of Purchasing Managers
NIGP - National Institute for Government Procurement

STRENGTHS Hard working, flexible, team player, work well with multinational groups, good character; integrity.
Good leader - lead by example; conscientious, enthusiastic, dependable, will go-the-extra-mile, do-it-Right-the-first-time, and a quick study.

MILITARY Army National Guard - Medical Corps for six years SP-5

AWARDS Golf college scholarship - West Texas A&M University

PERSONAL Excellent health; Hobbies include golf and tennis
Interclub Doubles League Captain - Westside Tennis Club
Organized River Ridge GC "Oilfield Trash" Golf Tournament for 38 teams

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