{"id":27639,"date":"2026-09-02T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=27639"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:27:53","slug":"welcome-randy-prater-director-of-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2026\/general\/welcome-randy-prater-director-of-procurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Randy Prater &#8211; Director of Procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Prater brings more than 30 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, contract management, and supply chain leadership. A proud Tennessee Tech alumnus, Randy earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, majoring in Business Management with an emphasis in Decision Sciences. He also served more than 20 years in the United States Army and Army National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in welcoming Randy Prater to Tennessee Tech. We look forward to the leadership, expertise, and collaborative spirit he will bring to our university community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Prater brings more than 30 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, contract management, and supply chain leadership. A proud Tennessee Tech alumnus, Randy earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, majoring in Business Management with an emphasis in Decision Sciences. He also served more than 20 years in the United States Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,24],"class_list":["post-27639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-facstaff","tag-rs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27640,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27639\/revisions\/27640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}