Devan Graham Email & Phone Number

Decatur, GA, US

Decatur, GA, US

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Lead company’s supplier diversification and expansion efforts to ensure supply chain resilience and continuity
• Analyze global trade data to identify market trends and to discover prospective suppliers
• Developed Raw Material Traceability and Supply Chain Mapping program as part of vendor requirements in order to achieve N-Tier supplier visibility and to prevent illegally harvested products and products of forced.
• Created and successfully implemented a supplier pre-screen workflow to enhance process efficiency and increase the team's capacity for evaluating new supplier candidates

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Manage the procurement process for marketplace orders, including RFP submission/evaluation, PO issuance, invoice management, vendor payouts, and order acknowledgement.
• Define design requirements for CANOA platform features and collaborate with digital product team to ensure successful implementation
• Improve internal processes to ensure efficient and accurate flow of project data from the beginning of the sales phase through order fulfillment
• Drove immediate impact within first five months:--- Created dashboard to monitor status of vendor POs and real-time metrics throughout fulfillment process--- Defined KPIs to track both external (vendor) and internal.

• Led the launch of Vroomies™ Snacks for Dogs - one of the USA's first insect-based dog snacks - from ideation to commercialization, marking Grubbly's entrance into the companion pet market segment --- Defined ingredient.
• Defined the newly added Product Development division of the company
• Created repeatable project workflow to facilitate successful future product launches, providing requirements, timelines and roadmaps for all areas of consideration, including: --- Market research --- Ingredient and.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Drove company's revenue growth by 12x over 3 years by building the foundations of the company's supply chain
• Led the development and implementation of the company's Quality Management Program, including the creation of Product Specifications, Supplier Scorecard Program, and SOPs
• Led the implementation of ERP system (Cin7) and corresponding integrations with accounting and third party logistics (3PL) platforms
• Developed a supplier funnel by developing and issuing RFIs and RFPs to prospective suppliers
• Led the negotiations, qualification, and onboarding of new vendors from multiple industry sectors (ingredient and packaging suppliers, contract manufacturers, 3PL partners, and logistics brokers) by evaluating supplier.
• Analyzed landed costs and profitability by evaluating inbound/outbound freight (including ocean freight and drayage), warehouse storage/accessorial fees, and fulfillment services

Greater Atlanta Area

• Hired and led team of engineers in the design and construction of a pilot insect-manufacturing facility capable of recycling 5 tons of food waste per day
• Defined facility production areas and created road map to ensure construction deadlines and milestones were successfully met: --- Hatchery / incubation --- Fly-breeding --- Larvae-rearing --- Post-Processing.
• Created and maintained equipment procurement and installation budgets by developing operational and process requirements and managing the procurement process from RFP to equipment commissioning
• Established production targets and KPIs based on a variety of input variables (nutritional profile of food waste, fly-breeding efficacy, larval growth, etc)
• Troubleshot and modified processing equipment in order to optimize production performance

Alpharetta, GA

• Developed and introduced five (5) new equipment technologies to market, each with multiple installations
• Successfully executed two (2) of the largest projects in group history, each valued at $2.8MM
• Led the business group with number of projects executed, with 126 total projects and $30MM in revenue during tenure
• Managed and executed up to 25 simultaneous projects involving equipment fabrication, construction, and field service work (most project values ranging from $50,000 to $2.0MM+)
• Developed scopes of work, cost structures, and timelines according to customer specifications and requirements
• Submitted and managed RFPs to potential fabricators, sub-contractors, and vendors based on customer requirements

Atlanta, GA

• Supported research engineers with carbon nanotube (CNT) synthesis and processing to achieve a functional CNT-based cold cathode
• Created design template for the fabrication of nanocomposite organic thin film transistors

Oxford, AL

• Developed and produced FAA-approved repair procedures for aircraft components
• Generated technical substantiation reports for aircraft components using fundamental engineering methods and finite element analyses

Valdosta, GA