Caitlin Braithwait Email & Phone Number

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Managed a team of 12 Data Stewards focused in two different areas, BOM Coordinators and EC Auditors
• Balanced workload across the team in the face of a changing workforce
• Created a process to manage the Change Queue during the peak volumes of a large project, worked with the Chief Engineers to identify priority levels by project, and managed the flow of which documents my team worked on
• Gained knowledge of Project Management milestones for Data Management as well as upstream… Show more
• Gained knowledge of Project Management milestones for Data Management as well as upstream and downstream actions, used that information to help identify potential problems/opportunities earlier in the timeline
• Improved communication and collaboration between Project Teams and Data Management by being an active participant in project leadership meetings Show less

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Collaborative Inventory Management (CIM) Lead
• Managed a team of 3-7 Retail Supply Planners (RSP’s)
• Lead team to improvement of CIM utilization with over 85% of the US dealer network
• Completed assessments and launched new Dealers onto the CIM and CIM+ programs Technology Lead during implementation of Retail Inventory Management Project
• Balanced role as individual contributor, tech lead, as well as continued to lead team of RSP’s
• Documented and implemented new… Show more Collaborative Inventory Management (CIM) Lead

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Primary liaison between H-D and syncreon to ensure a successful SAP launch
• Lead the BOM accuracy project between H-D and syncreon to reduce the errors from 11% to ~0%
• Recommended solutions to issues that would prevent launch as well as trouble shooting issues at launch then implemented
• Held syncreon accountable for an action register of issues that needed resolution prior to launch
• Evaluated the total product lead time of 14 commodities at syncreon and reduced them from… Show more
• Evaluated the total product lead time of 14 commodities at syncreon and reduced them from 16 hrs to 5 hrs

• Lead Parts and Accessories to the start of their lean journey by implementing daily huddles and coaching groups
• Implemented a freight reduction project with a supplier to save over $120k per year
• Managed cross-functional teams of people to complete projects by leading through influence
• Utilized the standardized CI Methodology to solve problems and bring cross-functional projects to completion
• Analyzed and provided recommendations to the VP’s of both Parts and Accessories… Show more
• Analyzed and provided recommendations to the VP’s of both Parts and Accessories and General Merchandise on their organizational design

Industrial And Systems Engineering

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Industrial Engineering