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High energy executive in leading high-level planning processes that applies innovation and operational planning to ensure projects have greater chances for success. Combines corporate business strategies with military discipline in streamlining operations, optimizing costs, and solving global issues, all while developing new generation employees to assume future leadership positions. Core Competencies: Multidisciplinary Team Leadership - Streamlining Decision-Making Processes - Developing Teams Focused On Common Goals - Vision Development- Rapid Growth Initiatives - Holistic & Strategic Thinking -Business Planning & Execution - Business Processes & Procedures - Dynamic Speaker & CommunicationsMost Impressive Contributions: * Senior Operations Manager for Inbound and Outbound Operations that reduced operational complexity which enabled more streamlined process improvement and drive cost reduction.--Led the start-up of Amazon’s newest generation Fulfillment Center resulting in identifying and correcting operational infrastructure and mechanical bottlenecks for future builds and 52% improvement within first 9 months.--Improved customer order defects by 33% through revised standard of work for exceptions handling and conveyance operations.--Improved outbound shipping performance by 13% YoY by removing non-value-added activities.* Operations Integrity & Reliability Project Leader for over 1200 miles of pipeline: streamlined operations that were running 30% over industry average to yield more predictable project execution with $150% improvement YOY.* Requirements & Funding Manager for Major Defense Acquisition Program: identified root cause for interoperability and justified unfunded requirement. Reduced spending by 17% for integrated air defense function with $37.4M cost savings via improved processes.* Engineering Director for crisis response plans and change management for $4.5B facility and 5000 employees: created training process to streamline direct management of 1100-person team. Established Continuous Improvement Process that increased performance by 140% and subsequently adopted by three other organizations. Recognized as #1 of 11 organizations in mission readiness by four separate institutes.

Listed skills include Operational Planning, Military, Leadership, Military Operations, and 25 others.