Miriam Singer, a twenty-five year veteran of Miami-Dade County, was appointed Director of the Department of Procurement Management (DPM) in March 2005.  Prior to this appointment, she served as Acting Director of DPM for six months and Deputy Director for four years.  Having joined DPM within the first six months of the Department's formation, Ms. Singer was responsible for implementing the financial, staffing, operational and administrative functions.  She successfully implemented a Board approved revenue producing program which has generated in excess of $32 million.  The Department is self-supporting and no longer relies on general revenue funding.  This has allowed additional general fund support for other service priorities.

Ms. Singer has served the County with distinction in a number of progressively responsible positions since 1982.  Prior to working in DPM, Ms. Singer was responsible for restructuring and managing the County's Contract Review and Compliance Division as Assistant Director of the Department of Business Development. In this position, she was charged with compliance management of $1 billion annually in construction, procurement and professional services contracts.  Additionally, she has worked for the Miami-Dade Transit Agency, the County Manager's Office, the Department of Justice Assistance and the Miami-Dade Criminal Justice Council.

As Director of DPM, Ms. Singer oversees a staff of 114.  She is responsible for executive management and operations of a department responsible for the centralized purchase of goods and services with a workforce of over 30,000 staff serving 2.5 million citizens. DPM awards over $1 billion in contracts annually for 60 County departments.  Under her leadership, e-procurement, enhanced competition policies, progressive customer service initiatives, enhanced professional development and certification incentives, and other "best practices" have been implemented to facilitate best value purchases for the public's dollar.

Ms. Singer graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Public Administration.  She has led volunteer community and statewide efforts aimed at ensuring equity, fairness and opportunity.  Ms. Singer is a past president of the Coalition of Hispanic American Women, founding chair of the Florida Supreme Court Commission on Fairness, a former member of the Judicial Management Council and a past gubernatorial appointee to the Governing Board of the South Florida Water Management District.

Currently, Ms. Singer is a member of the Greater Miami Chapter of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP), NIGP's National Education and Professional Development Committee, the Florida Association of Public Purchasing Officers and the Institute for Supply Management.  Under her leadership, the Department of Procurement Management has been recognized as a the first County in North America to receive the highest form of peer recognition, the NIGP Pareto Award, as well as awards for innovation and best practices from the National Association of Counties (NACO), and a recipient of the National Purchasing Institute's Achievement of Excellence in Procurement Award for four years.