Operations professional who drives on-time business results and project completion to facilitate predictable gross margin and EBIT growth. Strong experience in developing creative approaches to process development, negotiations, market analysis, and problem solving. Key strength building strong relationships and aligning goals with international vendors, customers, and internal stakeholders. Broad experience in Ops and Product Development allows for deep understanding of cross functional business operations highlighted by proven ability to launch key development and operational initiatives to improve processes, reduce waste, and drive gross margin growth.To generate something great requires one to balance innovative ideas with thorough execution or the idea will remain just that. My experience highlights my ability to manage this balance and bring grand ideas from conception to reality to drive a company’s growth.I have been able to lead organizations from a handful of employees through rapid growth to multiple IPOs. In my time at these organizations, I have been able to focus on driving customer profitability, company-wide system/infrastructure design, KPI development, cost optimization, and business alignment. I embrace the early stages of building a company and enjoy using an entrepreneurial mindset to approach problems and build durable businesses. In doing so I drive process standardization and remove variation to allow the company to maximize cash, protect EBIT, and control OPEX while providing exceptional service to customers and retail partners. I take an optimistic realist approach to any problem I face. There is a solution to any problem, it is a matter of balancing time and resources to find an effective outcome.