Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain transformations and omni-channel commerce fulfillment. Our end-to-end, cognitive business platform enables retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers to best fulfill customer demand from planning through delivery. With Blue Yonder, you’ll unify your data, supply chain and retail commerce operations to unlock new business opportunities and drive automation, control and orchestration to enable more profitable, sustainable business decisions.

• Oversaw USA operations to ensure efficiency, quality, service and cost-effective management of resources, while aligning with corporate objectives. Successfully managed a profitable and growing consulting organization with a $15M pipeline. • Developed, managed, and grew new clients and partnerships in alignment with EII’s corporate objectives. • Managed and fostered the professional development of a 20+ person Supply Chain Consulting Team responsible for Public and Private Sector projects and implementations.• Led Business Development tasks including Bid & Proposal Development, Pricing Strategy, Contract Management, SOW Development, implementation scoping, pricing and invoicing/collections.• Managed 3rd party relationships including: invoicing/billing to third parties, 3rd party relationships where EII was a subcontractor or prime, collections from 3rd Parties and customers in the US. • Developed relationships within the SCM Alliance Network.• Led the development of intellectual capital for EII’s public and private sector business unit, including white papers, methodologies, concept presentations, demonstrations, etc. Ensured the EII Methodology was standardized and properly managed across all projects by utilizing EII templates and models. • Member of the Executive Management Team to ensure that that all operational planning, budgeting, and execution are implemented from a corporate perspective.• Managed performance evaluations, assisted HR in recruiting, and supported other Executive-level HR-related functions for EII support personnel.• Managed the IT, Finance, and HR Teams to and ensure they are supporting EII from a Global perspective effectively and efficiently. This ensured that the EII Operational Staff is supporting their internal customers to the best of their ability.

Contract Employment at Gillette

•Manage, develop and support strategic and technical projects as well as cross-functional business process improvement initiatives for Demand Planning North America. •Conduct risk assessment and project mitigation plans to minimize user impact within the Manugistics Demand Planning solution.•Analyze Manugistics Demand Planning solution issues and recommend business process and application development changes. •Act as the liaison between the Demand Planning business unit managers and the IT support groups for all projects and issues. •Interacted with supply planning business partners to identify process gaps, define business requirements, and establish project timelines. •Acted as the liaison between the supply planning business partners and the systems development teams to ensure successful project execution and rollout. •Built and supported applicable system specification documentation for the Manugistics and SAP APO enhancement projects.

•Acted as the Supply Chain Materials Project Manager responsible for the collection, dissemination, and analysis of footwear raw material data for the Product Data Management Project (PDM) using Windchill/PDM software. •Managed a 5+ person team responsible for the evolution of process, procedure, and management of the Supply Chain raw materials long-term objectives. Collaborated with Product Teams to plan and execute strategic business objectives, such as Materials Complexity Management. •Contributed to the development of material product data systems (PDM) to facilitate strategic business process needs. Conducted internal PDM training and developed evolving Standard Operating Procedure manuals. •Established and oversaw strategy, development, and management of a physical Materials Library Room.

•Presented Logistics and Supply Chain best practice recommendations across Government, Retail, Manufacturing, & Logistics industries, both domestically and internationally, by identifying client business gaps and areas for improvement. •Acted as Lead-consulting resource in 10+ Transportation software implementations focusing on customer requirements gathering, business process design, software usage, application configuration, version migration and quality assurance testing efforts.•Managed a 5-person team responsible for the evolution of the Manugistics Transportation Consulting Practices by developing and updating best practice solutions within our client base as well as conducting organized classroom training quarterly to improve the internal and external knowledge base.•Acted as liaison between Engineering Development and Consulting Services to identify client requirements in an effort to incorporate enhancements and overall supply chain solution strategy into new products.