DON SEWARD

Don leads Capital Edge’s Procurement Excellence services which complement and build upon our CPSR compliance and business systems implementation services. He assists clients implement procurement strategies focused on enhancing functional maturity and value creation.

Don supports clients visualize and realize sustained advancements in functional capabilities. Through applying Capital Edge’s Procurement Excellence framework and understanding client pain points, Don can quickly assess barriers to functional excellence and outline opportunities for the function to excel.

Professional Experience: Don’s experience includes supporting clients across industries including cities and municipalities, construction, consulting, defense, energy, engineering, food and beverage, manufacturing, oil and gas, and public transit. He has led complex transformations of direct and indirect procurement functions to significantly enhance capabilities, skills and productivity, procurement solutions effectiveness and adoption, supplier management and supplier performance capabilities, and value realization.

As the head of global procurement at a Fortune 500 Government Contractor, Don led the organization through transformation and established the Supplier Management, Category Management, Center of Excellence, and Global Shared Services functions. He has led functionally the implementation of on-premise ERP and Cloud-deployed procurement solutions.

While the owner of the Federal Purchasing and Federal Estimating Systems, he maintained continual approval of both systems and represented the company during CPSRs conducted by the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and estimating system audits by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA).

In addition to developing Capital Edge Consulting’s customized client training, Don is a member of the Institute for Supply Management, Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, and Project Management Institute.

Specific areas of government contract consulting expertise include:

• Procurement Strategy and Operations
• Procurement Transformation
• Program and Change Management
• Compliance and Controls
• Procurement Solutions
• Solution Adoption and Optimization
• Purchasing Systems
• Estimating Systems

Don holds a Bachelor of Science, degree in Finance from California State University, Sacramento, California.