JD DeRocco

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 PROFILE: 

Supply Chain management resource professional with experience in various departments, specifically surgical services, with an excellent understanding of the overall operations of healthcare organizations.  An organized and systematic thinker who makes sound decisions based on the analysis of data, seeking a position where my experience, management skills and training enable me to make significant contributions to the improvement of supply chain operations and contribute to the overall success of the institution and/or organization.

FUNCTIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over twenty-five years of experience in all aspects of supply chain operations management.
• Extensive knowledge of logistical operations in support of hospitals including operating rooms, clinics, warehouse management and shipping/receiving.
• Extensive experience with PeopleSoft as a super user. Also have experience and/or knowledge of SAP, Workday, Oracle, Lawson, Premier Connect, Ivalua, Soloman, Meditech and Manman inventory/procurement software systems. 
• Have worked with or have familiarity with RFID technologies such as Wavemark, Omnicell and InVita.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

August 2022 – Present Supply Chain Operations Consulting, Remote 

Position: Supply Chain Consultant –Network Supply Chain Operations Manager for Lehigh Valley Health Via Insight Global

• Project management of all new items and or equipment coming into all 14 hospital locations. Including the back and forth with multiple vendors on the use of current product totals to ensure to give accurate go-live dates for the use of the new items. 
• Lead in the creation of an auto-sub list for items on back order, that may have been recalled or were not available for immediate purchase.
• Assist in the creation of item setup for proper ordering of and tracking of usage by assigning internal numbers.
• Responsible for contract negotiation with vendors/manufacturers to help achieve the best pricing on supplies or services including equipment-related items. 
• To ensure the contracts are accurate and loaded properly in the system to avoid pricing and/or unit of measure issues upon items being ordered or at the time of receipt. 
• Work with the Finance team to ensure all items brought in and/or are used are built and set up properly with our ERP modules, as well as systems used in specialty areas for scanning in to show usage, to help ensure the proper procurement of, storage of and billing of these items going forward, to include the billing of the patient on finances end. 
• Work alongside corporate teams to help find saving opportunities for both the institution as well as at the corporate level to help bring opportunities to other entities as well.
• To assist in the procurement of and approval for use of all special order and non-stock items used in or requested for special cases to include life or limb varieties.
• Help to perform maintenance on the inventory/procurement system, such as looking at usage to keep the items needed as well as making sure mapping for the item(s) are set up properly. Also to help keep items active vs inactive in the system. 

February 2022 – August 2022 – Supply Chain Consultant, Remote 

Position(s): Supply Chain Consultant Roles –Vizient Inc – Integris Health and Cleveland Clinic Via Accede Solutions

• Collaborated with senior-level analysts on contract negotiations and projects ensuring all contracts were approved, uploaded and that communications were sent to end users.
• Coordinated contracts and sourcing events through entire life cycle. Initiated requests for

quotations on price, product availability, distribution method, risk, etc. 

• Continually notified corporate supply chain to verify they had the correct existing contracts uploaded to ensure invoices match up with contracted pricing. 
• Worked with vendors with whom had no contracts in the system to get their sign off on corporates templates to lock pricing in and to avoid uncommunicated price changes.
• Advised on items in the main off-site warehouse that could be used as a substitute for the hospital’s main supplies. This was in attempt to remove and clear out items in the warehouse left over due to Covid.
• Reviewed items that went on back order and temporarily replaced those with acceptable substitute product that was already in the off-site warehouse. 

March 2021 – August 2021 Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC

Position: Supply Chain Operations Manager (This was a temp role to assist in correcting inventory after Covid)

• Responsible for all Supply Chain Management and logistics activity in the procedural departments.
• Ensures the highest possible supply service levels while maintaining strong expense control to include managing the supply inventory, physician product preferences, and revenue generation, (patient chargeable items). 
• Responsible for the creation and the generation of an analytical report that shows which items have low usage, which items are used most and show which items have had recent spikes and may require par level adjustments within the unit supply rooms. 
• Manage a warehouse of over 1700-line items, of which have secondary bins locations in over 32,000 different bin locations within the different unit of the hospital.
• Utilizes our inventory/procurement system, PeopleSoft, to perform routine daily activities such as cycle counts, usage and/or transaction history such as issues and returns. This information, if needed is communicated to our MMIS team for item master maintenance
• Also oversee all activities of staff responsible for receiving, storing, back orders, stock outs, order discrepancies, distributing purchased items, purchasing, material requirements for such as forecasting/planning, inventory control and warehousing.
• Engages in hiring, orientation/training, staff development, team building, and mentoring of all Supply Chain department personnel with a strong focus on customer service excellence. 
• Works collaboratively with management, staff, physicians/nursing and the Value Analysis Team in the evaluation, trials, and conversion of supplies and equipment.
• Works alongside our Medstar corporate team to help find saving opportunities for both the institution as well as at the corporate level to help brings opportunities to our other entities as well.

March 2020 – March 2021 Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Position: Supply Chain Manager Perioperative Services in The Zayed Tower, Weinberg and Johns Hopkins Outpatient Clinic

• Manage the inventories of all 3 on-site hospitals on the campus totaling 56 operating rooms.
• Currently manage an OR inventory value of over $21 million, plus a consigned value of over $7.3 million. 
• Managed over 14,000-line items, located in over 35,700 different bin locations with a value in excess of $28 million. 
• Ensured PAR locations are set up properly pertaining to perioperative inventory to include bin locations, min/max level, par level and any pertinent stock flags being checked.
• Responsible for the procurement of and approval for use of all special order and non-stock items used in or requested for special cases to include life or limb varieties.
• Serves as a department supply chain representative on the Value Analysis Committee for the OR. 
• Manage a team that helps to identify potential supply and/or equipment issues or concerns such as items on back order, discontinued items and recalls; communicate these issues to the Patient Care Managers whom the products may affect directly, as well as provide options to solve these issues.
• Ensure new product trials are coordinated within the OR by working with the supply chain department, the department educator(s), the physicians as well as OR staff. 
• Continually work to help set items up in the item master file with hospital item numbers making it easier for ordering as well as billing, for both the patient and the vendor invoices by working closely with the IS and Finance teams.
• Help to ensure the doctors preference cards are up to date in our system by working with the nurse managers, monitoring the returns data as well as the expiry data.

September 2014 – March 2020 Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

Position: Senior Supply Chain Operations Manager, Perioperative Services, Cardiovascular Cath Lab & EP Lab

• Managed an OR inventory value of over $7 million, plus a consigned value of over $3.6 million, a Cath Lab inventory of over $2.2 million with there also being over $2.4 million in consigned product and manage the EP inventory of approximately $1 million. All of which combine for an annual supply chain budget of over $109 million.
• Manage over 10,170-line items, located in over 27,500 different bin locations with a value more than $15 million. 
• Continually work to keep clean and maintain all the PAR locations and the item master files pertaining to Perioperative Services, the Cardiac Cath Lab and Electrophysiology Labs.
• Responsible for the procurement of and approval for use of all special order and non-stock items used in or requested for special cases to include life or limb varieties.
• Serve as the department supply chain representative on the Value Analysis Committee for the OR, Cath and EP Labs, with decision making capability. 
• Proactively identify potential supply and/or equipment issues or concerns such as items on back order, discontinued items and recalls; communicate these issues to the Patient Care Managers whom the products may affect directly, as well as provide options to solve these issues.
• Coordinate new product trials within the OR, Cath and EP Labs by working with the supply chain department, the department educator(s), the physicians and staff in efforts to realize cost savings, while at the same time continuing to provide our patient population with world class medical care. 
• Work closely with IS and Finance teams to ensure all items brought in and/or are used are built and set up properly with our ERP modules, to help ensure the proper procurement of, storage of and billing of these items going forward, to include the billing of the patient on finances end. 
• Responsible to ensure all service agreements on all equipment to include robots and machinery are current and that the service is provided. 

June 2013 – August 2014   MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

Position, Supervisor

• Responsible for the replenishment of all items used within surgical services, to include any special requests or case specific items. 
• Responsible for ensuring vendors receive prompt payment for items or services used in surgical procedures.
• Managed an inventory of over 2,500-line items, located in over 4,000 different par locations with a value in excess of $4 million. 
• Heavily involved in the transition from Lawson to People Soft.  Created templates in People Soft to improve efficiencies in ordering, receiving and managing inventory, while at the same time implementing a system change that communicated information such as items removed or returned to inventory that may have been pulled for cases or special items ordered for scheduled cases. Created reports that would indicate when certain items may have been used and require replenishment which significantly reduced stock outs.
• Worked with the vendors to ensure competitive pricing on items used in surgical procedures, such as implants or case specific items. 
• Worked closely with the Value Analysis team to find more economically priced items, while taking the patients safety and physicians use into consideration. 
• Ensured that items that went on back order were temporarily replaced by an acceptable substitute product.
• Instituted cycle counts and inventory controls such as min and max par levels that reduced stock outs and overstock within perioperative services.

May 2011 – June 2013 Frederick Memorial Healthcare System, Frederick, MD

Position, Contracts Analyst Operations Coordinator 

• Coordinated in excess of 300 contracts whose dollar amounts, based online item pricing, totaled over $9 million, by reviewing expiring contracts and seeking out alternative contracts in effort to minimize spend on products and equipment.
• Performed financial analysis of 10 to 30 plus existing contracts per month to find alternative products at more economical cost, while utilizing our GPO database.  Maximized organizational rebates and cost savings. Some examples would be the successful transition of surgeon and exam gloves, IV start kits and changes to custom procedure packs to reduce spending.
• Member of the hospital Value Analysis Committee, responsible for providing the Committee with opportunities for cost savings by making sure samples, documentation, and financial savings forms are all available.
• Worked with the Materials Management Information Systems team to maintain the proper pricing on all items within the database, to ensure proper payments of purchase orders to avoid credit holds and over payments. 

2007 - 2011 Adventist Healthcare, Washington Adventist Hospital, Takoma Park, MD

Position: Materials Management Coordinator

• Sought existing contracts due for expiration, while performing a purchase order history or annual usage report in efforts to activate a new contract at lower prices. By utilizing the tools on the “My Spend” features under Premier’s website, the Group Purchasing Organization, which allows for specific reports on usage along with our internal inventory systems. Calculated ROI and cost savings by providing cost comparison between competing vendors.
• Coordinated with the corporate supply chain to verify the maintenance of existing contracts to ensure invoices match up with contracted pricing. 
• Worked with Premier to ensure the proper utilization of products under contracts to maximize rebate dollars.
• Chair of the Product Review Committee charged to work with end users, such as physicians, nurses and educators to coordinate trials for new or competitive product evaluations.
• Responsible for the issue, storage, rotation and procurement of all supplies within the facility supply warehouse.

2006 - 2007   Lifebridge Health, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD.
Position: Corporate Buyer, Perioperative Services 

• Responsible for the perioperative supply inventory more than $12 million.
• Ensured all pricing was current with all contracts and GPO negotiated pricing.
• Served as member of the Value Analysis Committee in a capacity to initiate new product lines that will promote cost savings and maintain inventory balances.

2004 - 2006 Adecco - GE Medical/Healthcare, Laurel, MD
Position: Expeditor/Buyer/Planner

• Responsible for contacting various vendors to place purchase orders, make changes to existing purchase orders or to move in the due dates, to help meet month ending or quarterly deadlines in production to maximize purchasing efficiencies.
• Helped to implement a just-in-time inventory system, while working with the Process Improvement team, which helped to save approximately $50,000 annually in time spent pulling/picking items for sales orders.
• Issued materials to production, to help fill critical shortages or stock outs.

2000 - 2004      Applied Systems Inc. (ASI), Millersville, MD
Position: Shipping and Receiving Supervisor

• In charge of all shipping and receiving duties, to include safest and most economical ship to methods, as well as documentation for international shipments with values more than $.5 million. 
• Responsible for the rotation, issuing and replenishment of over 3,000-line items. 
• Negotiated contracted shipping rates for international as well as domestic shipments.

1995 - 1998      US Army-Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 
Position:  Logistics Support Branch Coordinator

• Responsible for the implementation and management of over 5,000-line items to meet hospital requirements and guidelines. 
• Responsible for the training of the materials control team.  Implemented an employee “shadow” program which was used to assess the proficiencies of new employees and assign them to ability appropriate tasks. 
• Other responsibilities included planning, coordinating, and purchasing. Implemented and managed a just-in-time inventory system, which resulted in a savings of nearly $1 million through inventory reduction.
• Managed and the inventory team and scheduled work assignments to ensure all clinics and wards received supplies needed on a daily basis.
• Managed linen personnel to ensure all areas within the hospital had adequate amounts of linen for patient use/care.

1994 - 1995 US Army, 331st Army Supply Hospital, New Hartford, NY
Position: US Army Distribution Center Technician

• Conducted inventory management to include the forecasting of requirements in order to have the proper materials or equipment ready, on hand and available at the time of need.
• Acquisitions, receipt, storage, quality control and issuing of all supplies and capital equipment to support activities totaling well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
• In charge of approximately $2 million in supply costs.
• Implemented a just-in-time inventory, which helped to reduce inventory on hand as well reduce stocking time.

EDUCATION:

• 1992 - 1993 Hudson Valley Community College,  Troy, NY

Studied Business Management, 1 year-Non Degree

• 1994 Academy of Health Sciences, San Antonio, TX

Studied Medical and Hospital Logistics, Diploma - Medical Supply Specialist 

REFERENCES:

• Available upon request.

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