"I was able to present and implement one specific change in the office this past year. It was a recycling program which I felt was very important, even for our smaller office. I'm pretty proud of it. We had significantly less waste after my initiative was implemented and I enjoyed seeing others take pride in helping our environment."

"This year I asked my manager if we could look at some new options for parts vendors. Our previous vendor started to exhibit some unethical behavior, promising an order to us, then not delivering and experiencing significant delays. I eventually was talking to a previous client who was doing business with them, and learned they were selling our orders to our competitors, which were contracted at a higher rate. Before presenting this to my superiors, I ended up finding a couple of vendors who were even more competitive with their pricing and had a better track record of exhibiting integrity. So, I informed them of what was happening, and we made the switch. I am estimating that the change saved us close to 1000 per week."