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New York, United States

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

• Supporting Global Supply Chain and Product Operations to enable Demand-Driven Buying across the Gap Inc. $16b portfolio of brands. • Product manager for custom-developed supply chain software used by merchants, planners, inventory management, strategy, and sourcing to enable flexible buying tracks resulting in optimized inventory management. • Work cross-functionality across multiple geographies (Asia, South America, North America) with strategy teams, sourcing partners and scrum teams to define the product vision, clarify requirements, and deliver product iterations on time.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Design Thinking & Lean Startup Coach• Created and delivered interactive user-centered design and lean startup training content to groups of 25-60 participants, including executive leadership• Coached Design Leads by providing direction and feedback during the Design & Define phase of a company-wide initiative involving 7 business areas working to identify $50m in cost savings in 2019• Planned and led over 50 design thinking and lean startup-style workshops to drive user-centered and tested digital and process solutions, including:>Five lean startup-style three-day innovation workshops, including evaluation of key business model components, identification of risks and assumptions and associated test plans, and identification of next steps >Ten Discovery Sessions with business area executive leadership to identify the largest areas of opportunity for operational efficiency through digital solutions>Six Design Sprints, three-to-five day workshops based on the Design Sprint method deployed at Google Ventures to go from problem statement to user-tested prototype in less than a weekInnovation Strategist• Led an 8-person SVP-sponsored cross-organization innovation strategy team charged with recommending solutions to current innovation delivery challenges to drive better decisions, faster when taking solutions from concept to scale• Delivered a common innovation framework detailing the roles, tools, metrics and activities to support continuous innovation, and accepted by customer, growth, and operational organizations for immediate implementation• Created and trained management on strategy for product team lifecycle and implementing Scrum @ Scale for 400+ team members across several organizations identified for transition to a newly-leased Innovation CenterScrum Master• Acted as Scrum master for two Agile development teams of 5+ members developing web and iOS applications

London, Gb

• Responsible for formal performance management of three direct reports and day-to-day team management of various teams numbering 5-15 members across geographies to deliver projects to clients on time and budget • Served as workstream lead for a complex multi-year cybersecurity compliance transformation, including drafting and driving consensus on cybersecurity standards. Defined and implemented the approach to prepare 30+ stakeholders across five Business Areas for an upcoming audit against the implemented cybersecurity program• Planned the scheduling, training and management structure of an 80+ person EY team charged with implementation of a cybersecurity program across multiple organizations and 50+ direct stakeholders• Acted as workstream lead coordinating a cross-global team performing IT/OT cybersecurity assessments at multiple mine sites for a top 2 global mining company• Selected as a Community Facilitator for competitive EY Aspire program, leading a group of 10 Managers through a three-year professional development program

London, Gb

Masters In Accountancy, Accounting

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting