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Omaha, NE, US

Defining last mile, middle mile strategy for various client. Contract negotiation with regional carriers to lower cost by 20% and improving profitability. Lowering operational costs for six warehouse across the country.Launched last mile delivery network for heavy and bulky furniture manufacturer.Defined operational KPIs for the network and developed.

Lincoln, NE, US

Designed and launched last mile heavy and bulky network for Spreetail. Responsible for defining the product, process and execution. End to end P&L responsibility

Boise, Idaho, US

Led Network Design and Analytic to launch 1300 delivery locations covering 93% of US population.

Seattle, WA, US

Lead the launch of a 885K sq. foot Amazon Robotics building with 6 Senior Operations Managers, 22 Operations Managers, and 75 Area Managers with responsibility for building culture, performance, productivity, and safety of up to 3,000 Associates across 4 shifts with 7 day/week coverage. Manages and drives cultural and operational goals while managing.

Seattle, WA, US

Currently leading and growing a talented team responsible for providing customers with earth's most exceptional grocery delivery service at the lowest cost per delivery. Directly responsible for:- Technology initiatives/Product Management for transportation optimization- Delivery experience, including middle | final mile transportation and carrier.

Seattle, WA, US

Led a team of senior ops managers to improve vendor and transship productivity within NE region.Implemented lean receive process to improve monthly receive volume by 23% while improving productivity by 18.1 %.Collaborated with quality and support services team and engineered a proactive solution that reduced vendor complaints by 9%.

Seattle, WA, US

Launched a 1.2M Sq ft facility leading the 6 Operations Managers and 26 Area Managers with responsibility for performance, productivity, and safety of 900 Associates across 4 shifts with 7 day/week coverage. Manages and drives operational goals and metrics, labor plans, schedules, quality initiatives, process change initiatives, and assists the business to.

Seattle, WA, US

Led a team of 6 area managers and 300+ associates through 2015 peak at Amazon. Coached and mentored key leaders resulting in seven direct reports being promoted to Operations Manager, Area Managers and Process Assistants. Led a number of Lean/Kaizen teams resulting in increases in Case Stow to Prime throughput from 36 (CPH) to 57 (CPH)- 58% increase.Small.

Nanterre, Île-de-France, FR

Responsible for developing relationship with customer (Ford) on a world wide basis in order to find home for current production and pipeline innovation products.Successfully acquired 218 Million worth of business in BRIC market through product placement, optimized logistics and directing customer towards low cost manufacturing alternativesManage and.

Nanterre, Île-de-France, FR

Managing complex innovation project that are identified as priority-A within the company.Empower teams from around the globe and direct them towards a common goal of completing the project within the initial projected schedule and budget.Work with educational institution on research projects that would eventually lead to a product that would enhance.

Nanterre, Île-de-France, FR

- Located in Germany for developing a derivative program from the current running global platform.- Understanding customer needs both technical and business and preparing a detail plan to meet these requirement.- Prepared detailed project time line, validation plans for the project and identified critical path and steps to ensure the project meet it's gate.

Nanterre, Île-de-France, FR

- Responsible for developing comfort test lab in NA.- Answering questions related to comfort, ergonomics and safety for OEM's during RFQ technical presentations.- Technical benchmarking of competition- Packaging using CAD models for RFQ phase.- Handled short timing for technical reviews from customers.

Benchmark La-Z-Boy’s innovation process against a diverse set of industry innovation leaders, including but not limited to, primary and secondary research sources. Conceptualized a process, framework and methodology for identifying trends and/or new technology.Established tools to collect, distribute, pre-evaluate ideas from ideation process prior to.

Analyzed current cost and revenue streams.Identified maximum pay out revenue streams, and provided solutions that would help extract maximum WTP (Willingness to Pay) from the customer.Developed a cost model, to spread fixed costs over different business thus individually analyzing each business profit potential. Presented a tiered pricing model by.

Southfield, Michigan, US

- Validation of Innovative technology for seat senors.- Developed foam design standards for automotive.- Worked with foam supplier to overcome quality issues with seat foams for the project.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategy & Finance

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering