• Responsible for planning and space optimization analysis of planograms and floor plans and enhancing the customer experience for a leading automotive aftermarket retailer with over 5300 stores.• Business Team Advisor for leading upgrades, integration, and QA testing of Blue Yonder (JDA) Category Knowledge Base, Space Planning software and. RGIS SmartSpace floor planning software. The successful integration automated several repetitive tasks of updating and keeping planograms and floor plans current.• Lead the integration of Blue Yonder (JDA) Space and Floor Planning systems for 1250 newly acquired company owned CARQUEST stores and 1300 Independent stores.• Subject matter expert in the design and development of home-grown electronic web publishing system for plan-o-grams and floor plans. The reporting feature gave field leadership the ability to track planogram execution and the store team members to provide feedback to Corporate.• Created and implemented several programs and queries to provide accurate reporting and data for Category Managers and Executive team, increasing efficiency when looking at categories at the planogram level.

• Managed planogram team of 11 team members responsible for analyzing, developing, and producing planograms involving 95 categories with an average of 8200 sales floor SKUs for 2500 plus store chain.• Successfully launched Blue Yonder (JDA) Space Planning software and Category Knowledge Base within the Visual Merchandising Department, creating efficiencies, and increasing productivity by 10 percent the first year.• Put into operation a detailed plan-o-gram process utilized in conjunction with the Corporate-planning calendar to ensure all product categories are updated in a timely and accurate manner.• Developed Space Automation Scripts for planogram team automating repetitive space planning tasks and improving efficiencies.• Created a plan-o-gram checklist as a project management tool to aid plan-o-gram techs in managing their assigned categories. Checklist is driven by product lead times and is used by the inventory teams as well to ensure delivery and execution.