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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Spearheading the Strategy, Consulting, Data Science, and Software Engineering departments with full P&L responsibility, leading all core functions in alignment with the CEO's vision. Successfully grew the business from inception to over $20M in revenue. * Pioneered and launched a machine learning-based promotional forecasting and optimization software for Tier-1 and Super Tier-1 retailers, affecting over $100BN in revenue. This groundbreaking work set new industry standards for retail analytics. * Managed and nurtured a dynamic department of over 140 professionals, fostering an environment of innovation, collaboration, and excellence in software development and data science. * Oversaw global software engineering teams in the conceptualization, design, and deployment of a Cognitive Analytics Platform leveraging modern big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Scala, Cassandra, Kubernetes, Docker, Node.js, React), enhancing our ability to process and analyze data at scale.* Directed the Data Science teams in executing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning research projects, alongside developing predictive models that propelled the organization forward.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Build a long-term mentoring relationship with a Village Startup Founder by regularly meeting and supporting them through personal and professional growth.1. Anything from hiring your first employee to getting your first customer to scaling out. (Operations & Leadership)2. Be a founder-to-founder sounding board for the issues you are facing, and champion (and challenge) your ideas. (Strategy)2. B2B product, go-to-market, and sales

New York, Ny, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Develop Manhattan’s strategic road map and vision for Inventory Management ,Optimization and Forecasting• Serve as Manhattan’s inventory optimization ‘evangelist’ with customers, prospects and media• Create internal development plans• Support sales and marketing with product collateral, presentations and demonstrations• Review designs and functional specs for adherence to product requirements

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

- Worked on proposing, closing and planning a $40M+ software implementation project for a major luxury fashion retailer. - Delivering business benefits to Retailers through business transformation projects involving Oracle Retail solution implementations. - Specializing in designing, implementing and delivering predictiveand analytical software solutions with experience in Oracle Advance Inventory Planning(AIP), Retek Retail Demand Forecasting (RDF), Promote, Financial and Item Planning, Replenishment Planning, Batch Processes and RPAS Platform.

• Responsible for several multi million dollar delivery projects from inception to delivery.• Senior Project Manager responsible for pre-sales, designing and architecting, implementing and delivering predictive and analytical software, deployed on cloud and delivered as a SaaS solution to Tier-1 retailers around the world.• Achievements included leading efforts in conceptualizing, designing, developing and and delivering an integrated Planning, Promotion, Forecasting and Fulfillment solution for Direct Wines (world's largest online wine retailer) • Managing the first 2 phases of Assortment Planning and Analysis solution development, design and deployment for The Home Depot. • Participate in C-level communications, responsible for budget, planning, controlling and execution of projects.• SCRUM Master

Led multi million dollar project from inception to delivery that provided a cloud deployed pricing, modeling and policy issuance and management solution to a large insurance company. Product Management for Web Based, Cloud Deployed Policy Issuance and Policy Management Software (SaaS), Requirements Management, Project Management, Client Relationship Management, Pre-sales ,Sales, Agile software development

Consultant specializing in designing, implementing and delivering predictiveand analytical software solutions with experience in Oracle Advance Inventory Planning(AIP), Retek Retail Demand Forecasting (RDF),Promote, Financial and Item Planning,Replenishment Planning,Batch Processes and RPAS Platform.• Application consulting and configurations, specifically in the areas of Retail Predictive Application Server, Planning, RDF and AIP Configurations.• Clients including but not limited to; Oracle, Toys'r Us, Edcon, Wegmans, Walgreens, Top Kniga(Russia), ShopKo.• Consult with Predictix clients around Planning Strategy (Financial, Item, Assortment, and Replenishment) and technology options.• Demonstrated high quality of work, adherence to ethical business standards, and efficient project management.• Worked as a part of Oracle Advance Inventory Planning Product Development group (6 months)• Worked with Oracle Services and Development to define standard implementation processes for AIP.(4 months)• Managed development of a system to process and underwrite commercial property insurance for complex, multiple location exposures across a broad range of occupancies and exposure classes. The business will target Fortune 1000 type companies with complex and significant location schedules and tough to underwrite property exposures.

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• Led company-wide IT development projects involving mainframe, web and handheld technology through the design, development and implementation phases. Planned, scheduled, budgeted, executed and controlled projects with teams of 6 to 14.• Analyzed business processes of several departments, proposed and implemented improvements using Information Technology and business process engineering practices. • Improvements included reducing average redelivery time to customers by 40%. Web customer acquisition project using ASP.net brought more than $750,000 additional revenue and 10,000 subscribers in 6 months. Data entry automation process eliminated the need for a department of 11 employees.• Member of the core team that developed an IT Project Management Office

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Taught MBA/MS Course “IT Project Management” as a substitute to Dr. Mark Keil.• Assisted Dr. Keil in research for several papers that were published in IEEE and several other journals.

Mba, Information Systems And Management

Bsc, Bsc In Computer Science And Bsc In Mathematics

High School, Mathematics And Science