Jeff Higginson

Leading a global organization of commercial and technical procurement and supply operations professionals charted with acquiring and delivering innovative, industry leading enterprise server solutions that power AWS’s world-wide IaaS cloud hyper scale data centers. Responsible for sourcing strategy, procurement and capacity fulfillment of compute, storage, networking and edge device verticals building the earth’s largest and most advanced IT infrastructure fleet. Over my 5 years tenure, I supported growing AWS’s equipment foot print 250% while shortening lead times and reducing host cost by employing LEAN Six-Sigma principles eliminating waste in extended factory complex across Asia, North America and Europe regions. Scope includes: Managing multi-$billon Capex spend of server and communications technology components, integrated design and contract manufacturing services, and intellectual property licenses spanning category segments of custom rack systems, printed circuit boards, power-supplies, thermal-mechanicals, robotics, and market commodities (substrates, integrated circuit digital logic and analog chipsets, interconnects, passives, and sensors/imaging). Architecting transformational, scalable business models that foster durable, differentiated competitive advantage by enhancing resilience, accelerating velocity, and maximizing efficiency and productivity performance metrics yielding superior output, quality, improving client experience satisfaction and returning best-in-class profit margin results for the enterprise. Incubating nascent technology start-up initiatives including DC security appliances, AWS branded internet-of-things (IoT) devices and quantum computing that promote big data workload, machine learning and artificial intelligence use case cloud services. Creating and implementing agile organizational design, capabilities and mechanisms aligning Purchasing, Engineering, Legal, Planning, Logistics, Finance & Analytics functional disciplines.

Core Competencies and Skill Mastery: • Engaging supplier account C-suite by articulating compelling business case that promotes influential business relationships, engender trust, and enable synergistic ecosystem partnerships. • Negotiating commercial agreement terms, IP rights and pricing. • Optimizing value-chain to capture entitlement, mitigate risk and minimize friction. • Specification, Multi-sourcing, Geographic Diversification, Competitive Tender, Selection/Award, On-Boarding, Inspection Audit, Qualification, Regulatory Certification, Performance Score-Carding, Should-Cost benchmark analysis, & Market outlook research • Enforcing confidential information security, trade compliance, environmental and ethical social accountability governance. • Executing NPI life cycle developments to intercept time-to-market launch milestone targets and ramp deployment of x86 Intel Xeon, AMD EYPC microprocessor and ARM SOC platforms. • Aggregated multi-echelon inventory policy that attenuates volatility to achieve customer service fidelity at low aging cost. • Exerting controllership to ensure investment affordability and asset utilization. • Role modeling corporate culture and writing white-paper studies, reports and proposal narratives. • Recruiting, vetting and coaching talent to reach full potential and impact.