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San Francisco Bay Area

• Developing and documenting processes, policies and governance across our enterprise data• Enabling product excellence across lifecycle milestones

San Francisco Bay Area

Program Manager at a multinational technology company:• Drove metrics, strategies and roadmaps in the context of broader client goals• Managed team backlog, and impact to program priorities• Provided status and daily reporting KPIs to key stakeholdersMaster Data Consultant at a multinational technology company:• Coordinated test plan development and execution of UAT in a SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) implementation• Collaborated on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data cleansing, migration, integration and design• Created and tracked progress in tickets / bugs for each PLM attribute that needed clean-up or follow-up discussions• Drove requirements-gathering workshops and daily managed an offshore team with agile framework for prioritizing tasks

Greater Los Angeles Area

Business Senior Analyst at a leading aerospace & defense company:• Built a reusable framework for analyzing key metrics around demand planning• Defined requirements from business and end user perspective for new roles in LN Infor ERP• Successfully ran pilots that enabled enhanced visibility and shop floor optimizations• Provided recommendations / analyses to key stakeholders to improve enterprise data management for better outlier identification• Enabled accurate inventory level control and configured with technical team the system parameters on item data and warehouses• Improved item master and bill of material attributes by creating an audit methodology and support documentation

Houston, Texas Area

Supply Chain & Operations Analyst at leading multinational technology companies:• Outlined project needs and supplied daily status reports with incident counts and trend graphs for new, open, closed and fixed incidents• Worked with the business leads and the IT configuration teams to develop plans and test cases for a successful testing execution• Analyzed and documented the current state and "to be" processes to identify areas of improvement• Supported an SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) implementationBusiness Analyst at leading global oil and gas companies:• Guided and supported the workstream through scoping, design, build, test and cutover phases • Delivered project overviews that included content from numerous sources on business strategy, project scope and known risks & issues• Provided analytical support to identify and implement process improvements for an outbound logistics process of a supply chain• Assisted project management in an initiative focused on a mobile application implementation

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

•Support the management of primary source change requests•Establishing improved visualization tools around sourcing performance •Drove the leading effort to update the company's primary sourcing data including customer master and information record data

Houston, Texas

•Provided Mechanical Engineering support for instrumentation efforts in the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) •Designed a 3D model that included sensor locations, cable routing and mounting brackets for transceivers and accelerometers•Used 3D printer to convert detailed CAD model of transceiver brackets to scaled replicas to be used for engineering evaluations

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Performed the optimization of thermal and rheological performance of Amine curing agents mixed with Epoxy resins• Carried out Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) tests for Glass Transition Temperature (Tg) research calculations• Completed physical testing (Flexural, Compression & Tensile) for various group projects

Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

• Completed 100% kitting & supermarket integration on Legacy Small Frame Breaker production line• Delivered $38K VCP by achieving 98% Takt Time attainment• Implemented rail system to convert to a complete Moving Production Line

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Developed and maintained process and equipment design software for use by engineers and scientist throughout the corporation• Systems Engineer in the GEO Asset Creation Engineering Services (ACES) Simulation and Design Systems group• Converted PDMs (Process Design Methods) and software tools from Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET

Wallops Island, Va

• Provided support to the Mechanical Systems Branch Code 548• Test Director of the Small Satellite Advanced Technology (SmallSAT) 6U Deployer• Designed Ground Support Equipment for the International Space Station Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (ISS-CREAM) payload to be used during test phases

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

Honors: Cum Laude

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