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The Moksha Group partners with companies to cultivate more positive organizational cultures and higher performing organizations.While at the Moksha Group, I worked with medium and small companies with an emphasis on Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Team Building, and enhancing Cross-Team collaboration. My expertise is helping to create high-performance leaders and teams.

San Francisco Bay Area

Working on a very cool project aimed at helping to positively transform the workplace environment on a global scale by building upon Plantronics' expertise in acoustics combined with research in productivity, wellness, and soundscaping.

San Francisco Bay Area

Santa Cruz, California

• Closely monitored key customer accounts, sales trends, and global market dynamics for a consumer technology company.• Coordinated with Product Development, Marketing and new product operational teams to set new product launch quantities and to ensure smooth product transitions.• Acted as a liaison between Manufacturing, Procurement, and Sales to ensure the alignment of forecasts and proper inventory planning.• Forecasted total demand for assigned products by interfacing with Marketing, Sales, Product Management and our customer base.• Worked closely with Marketing, Sales, and Manufacturing to determine impact of upcoming promotional events and holiday inventory planning.• Helped manage product end-of-life strategies to minimize inventory through strategic promotions and placements.• Reported revenue forecasts to senior executives on a monthly basis.• Gathered and reported company-wide weekly gross bookings data to high-level executives.

Various Locations Across The Western United States

Led groups of teenagers on the experience of a lifetime on multi-state outdoor adventure trips. Taught leadership, personal growth, outdoor skills, and mindfulness techniques. Mediated conflict. Managed social media and expense accounts and was designated trip blogger.

Saint Louis, Mo

Innovated and tested several projects for global food chains including Subway, Wendy's, Burger King, and Popeye's as detailed by some of the following projects: • Contributed collaboratively to the design, feel, and functionality of Subway's first touchscreen graphical user interface, which utilized my strengths in creativity and bringing a balanced focus to both engineering and business. • Assisted in the ideation and iteration of design prototypes to extend the holding time of Wendy’s fries. Contributed design ideas, ran tests, and analyzed data. • Contributed to the development of prototype components to improve Burger King’s flame broilers.

Peoria, Illinois Area

During my internship with Caterpillar I worked in the mining truck transmission division where I gained experience running tests, analyzing data, and writing technical reports. I learned about drivetrains, transmissions, hydraulics, and shift control logic. • My biggest accomplishment at Caterpillar was leading a test that compared performance, quality, and cost among several different brands of transmission valves and selecting the best fit in order to save the company over $5.8 million in component costs annually.• Started and completed three major projects that required extensive cross-team collaboration, communication, customer interaction, data analysis, and technical reporting.

St. Louis, Mo

Acted as liaison between the sales and engineering teams to communicate customer needs and engineering limitations. Bid jobs and closed sales.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.77 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Pi Tau Sigma (Honors Mechanical Engineering Society for MU) Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society)

High School

Activities and Societies: Varsity Football Team