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Chicago, IL, US

Thousand Oaks, CA, US

• Responsible for forecasting across a portfolio of products worth $600M in annual sales for 18 metrics
• Presented key forecast changes to executives monthly and drove alignment across multiple departments
• Optimized various Excel reports and SQL codebases via enhanced formulas and coding best practices
• Created monthly manufacturing forecasts and presentations for the supply chain team to execute upon

Deerfield, IL, US

• Reduced excess inventory while maintaining sales and in-stock levels across 9,000 US Walgreens stores by introducing new safety stock levels in JDA and forecast values for 200M SKUs via automated SQL scripts
• Managed and led a $2.5M machine learning (ML) project which saved the company $63M by reducing excess inventory and collaborating with partners while using SQL, Microsoft Visio, Azure Databricks, Jira, and Scala
• Responsible for 2 direct reports, mentoring new employees, and hiring for open positions
• Presented key project milestones to senior leadership from data science, IT, and supply chain

Deerfield, IL, US

• Created new forecasts using exponential smoothing which reduced excess inventory by $3M in 2 months
• Coded in SQL, Azure Databricks, and Scala daily to create, validate, and improve forecast changes
• Collaborated with senior supply chain managers bi-weekly to introduce new forecasts, gain buy-in, and quantify inventory replenishment impact of forecast changes to key KPIs

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Increased sales revenue by $150K and in-stock metrics (customer service levels) by 10% within 6 weeks by building analytical forecasts using SQL, creating Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes, and Excel sales.
• Collaborated weekly with senior leadership to devise an inventory management strategy
• Built an inventory replenishment system in production from scratch by using both R and SQL with a team
• Raised vendor fill rates by 11% within 2 months by sending vendors weekly purchase forecasts for OTC items

San Jose, CA, US

• Reduced inventory by $1.2M and minimized aging inventory by optimizing lot sizing decisions
• Presented business case to senior VPs for reducing excess inventory. Gained buy-in, reached consensus and selected to deliver final recommendations to C-level executives
• Created the Tableau dashboard which increased supply constraint transparency. Recognized for designing the most widely used report in supply chain (out of 590 reports with 190+ daily views)
• Increased OTIF prediction accuracy by 28% (delivered on time, in full) by developing a machine learning algorithm

Tampa, FL, US

• Modeled and 3D printed an iPad case design utilized by citizens to cast votes at county centers

Tampa, Florida, US

• Managed a university residence hall floor of 30 undergraduate students
• Planned and prepared campus-wide events with a $4,000 budget in a staff team

Master’S Degree, Operations Research & Information Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering