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San Diego, California, Us

Omnics is a supply chain and operations data platform that is used by Brands of all sizes across multiple industries for their supply chain planning, visibility, decision-support and analytics.

Boston, Ma, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Helping to create and scale great innovation companies through access to the resources that entrepreneurs & growing companies need most – People, Capital, & Technology.

Allen, Tx, Us

Lead the supply chain consulting and solutions business for the company with teams in USA, China, Mexico and Russia. Specifically engaged with electronics hardware clients on supply chain strategy, supply chain design and landed cost analysis, Sales & Operations Planning, best-practices and process implementation and related IT/Technology advisory services. Conceptualized the ‘M5’ supply chain software solutions platform and built a team to develop and implement the solutions company wide. Lead the company turnaround to profitability and significantly contributed to doubling company’s revenue in the first year with greater than 60% gross margins.

Austin, Texas, Us

Lead strategy design and developed innovative supply chain solutions across all business segments of $29 Billion global electronics industry leader, Flextronics, that optimized operational and financial performance and provided a competitive advantage to the company and its customers. Identified strategic issues affecting growth and optimized returns, and worked with cross-functional teams to define, develop, and implement initiatives enabling profitable growth via increased business efficiencies and market expansion for Flextronics. Key customers included BlackBerry, Apple, LG, Huawei, HTC, Microsoft and Google.

Austin, Texas, Us

Lead multiple supply chain improvement projects across all business segments that included operational performance improvements, inventory optimization, total cost reductions achieved through optimal network design and logistics improvements, innovative business models and contract negotiations• Head of the SimFlex Group, a business unit of Flextronics providing supply chain solutions and software services to global companies with offices in USA, Finland, Russia and Singapore• Developed and deployed supply chain solutions that resulted over $1B incremental revenue at more than 3% operating margin, minimum 25% ROIC, inventory reductions over $200M and 20% improvement in service levels• Lead a cross-functional team for business process design and improvements, IT assessment and related technology implementation for improving supply chain visibility, enable multi-site integrated planning and collaboration with trading partners• Part of the core team that developed FAST, a ‘Control Tower’ solution that provides end-to-end supply chain visibility and collaboration platform for Flextronics and its customers• Lead a team that developed an internal knowledge management and collaboration platform with social networking technologies that resulted in over 15,000 users in Flextronics within 6 months of launch• Lead a team that developed and deployed ENVI, an energy and carbon emissions monitoring and business intelligence solution, over 75 Flextronics sites

Austin, Texas, Us

Directed worldwide supply chain consulting and software services for the SimFlex Group with a highly specialized and coordinated team of 20 supply chain experts• Lead over 25 major global supply chain strategy and implementation projects having $100 million to $4 billion supply chains• Key customers included Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Solutia, Cisco, Dell, Lego, Kodak, Alcatel-Lucent, Sun Microsystems, Research In Motion, Johnson & Johnson and Abbott• Interfaced with the Senior Executives and operations teams of Global 500 companies and developed supply chain solutions that helped reduce costs by 10% to 30% with significant improvement in service levels, financial and key operational performance metrics• Deployed a methodology and software solution at Flextronics sites for determining optimal inventory safety stocks that results in greater than 98% service levels while reducing inventory exposure by over 30% • Increased group revenues by 200% through software license sales and consulting engagements • Increased productivity by over 30% and lowered total cost by successful setup of an offshore analytics team

Austin, Texas, Us

Directed North American operations of the SimFlex Group. Responsible for end-to-end supply chain strategy development for global electronics OEMs. • Designed supply chain and logistics networks, including supply, manufacturing and channel distribution strategies, that resulted in over $500M cost savings for Flextronics and its customers• Developed ‘Sales & Operations Planning’ (S&OP) business processes for Flextronics consumer business segment and its major customers including forecasting, demand planning, supply-demand synchronization, capacity planning and ‘what-if’ analyses capabilities• Built a partner eco-system for SimFlex business unit by establishing technology (SAP, Oracle and IBM) and service partnerships• Part of the core team that successfully developed and deployed supply chain planning software, SimFlex, which has delivered tangible results in over 100 customer engagements and used by global companies

Austin, Texas, Us

Lead over 15 major global supply chain improvement projects for consumer electronics OEMs. Provided optimal solutions to clients by identifying total cost reductions, improved supply chain flexibility and financial performance using data analytics and optimization models. Supported software product planning team and played an advisory role in key software features development.

Responsible for supply chain network design and optimization in global supply chain improvement projects. Responsible for full data collection, model building and performing analyses on multiple supply chain scenarios. Supported development of supply chain simulation and optimization software. Provided technical support to sales teams and key customers.* Established North American operations for the company* Part of the core team and project that resulted in successful acquisition by Flextronics

M.S., Industrial Engineering

B.E, Production Engineering