Reginald Oneal

About Reginald Oneal

As a highly resourceful and performance-driven professional, I have extensive experience researching and evaluating suppliers\' profiles, creating estimates, negotiating contracts, generating orders, and monitoring purchases during delivery processes. Throughout my stellar career, I have excelled at improving procurement processes, decreasing company purchasing costs, and increasing supply chain efficiencies. By leveraging my knowledge of policies and procedures for delivery orders, I purchase various complex and highly specialized services, supplies, equipment, and systems that support a full range of delivery programs and activities.My most recent roles showcase my expertise in spearheading purchase operations across the national market. I have excelled at utilizing agency procurement and acquisition regulations to identify possible sources and other pertinent information related to purchases. I have provided administrative support to purchasing leaders and many general offices support deemed necessary by divisional management. One of my career\'s pillars is my ability to interpret and apply company policies and procedures. No wonder I have earned the trust of superiors and therefore been severally hand-picked by top management to represent the company in negotiating new deals, renegotiating expiring contracts, and placing products and services orders. As a people-centered leader, I boost morale to build resilience and enable teams to thrive in complex and challenging business environments to achieve competitive pricing and quality products. In optimizing option costs, I estimate the construction cost of new products, resulting in accurate takeoffs via compiling material and labor unit price takeoffs and performing other estimates. Whether hiring and negotiating contracts with new vendor partners or leveraging available resources to address situations before they occur, I go the \"extra mile\" to improve outputs, expand the company\'s operation and secure the best prices. To others, I am known for my affinity for critical thinking, utilizing systematic, efficient, and organized approaches to ensure highest quality and accuracy of results.I always enjoy connecting with like-minded people. If we share the same vision, contact me or send me a direct message to start a conversation!Specialties: Supply Chain Operations | Contract Negotiations | Conflict Resolution | Relationship Management | Cost Control | Process Improvement | Database Management | Construction Procurement Strategy

Experience

1. Purchasing Agent

   Ashton Woods Homes

   Nov 2021 — Present · Alpharetta, GA, US

   As Purchasing Agent, I support the purchasing manager in reviewing budgets for monthly pricing adjustments and performing review and accurate takeoffs required by problem area reports (PAR), field contact, frame walks, and variance purchase orders relating to bids and estimates.To meet the design studio and purchasing manager\'s expectations, I activate structural and non-structural option catalogs and material takeoffs.Moreover, I reconcile escalated errors relating to estimated field variances and remediate escalated problems with purchase orders. I contribute to value engineering while assisting with the bid process, awards, and system setup.

Education

• Southern Polytechnic State University

  Bachelor of Science in Construction, Construction

  1993 — 1998

Skills

• Process Scheduler
• Construction
• Purchasing
• Project Planning
• Project Estimation
• Budgets
• Subcontracting
• Management
• Submittals
• Software Documentation
• Change Orders
• Pricing
• Proposal Writing
• Accounting
• Project Bidding
• Blueprint Reading
• Feasibility Studies
• Time Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Contract Management
• Construction Management
• Value Engineering