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Texas, United States

WM2019 Conversion Slotting and Capacity Team Lead. Comprehensively reviewed existing site configurations and strategies to identify optimization opportunities and resolve operational barriers. Orchestrated strategic re-slotting for entire buildings, updated putaway/pick prioritizations, and created zone specific sequencing paths for hundreds of thousands of locations. Collaborated with internal stakeholders to ensure the viability of configuration changes and secured buy-in from cross functional partners and local teams to ensure a smooth conversion. Established standardization for bulk re-slotting efforts. Densified pick areas to delineate zones based on Material Handling Equipment (MHE) and sorted SKUs by sales velocity. This approach significantly reduced pick path footprint and resulted in a productivity increase of nearly 18% Units Per Hour (UPH) in bulk areas. Pioneered innovative capacity solutions for oblong in Legacy sites, introducing hybrid oblong-type locations for high density oblong SKUs. Additionally, successfully rolled out Oblong-Short Locations (OBS) across the network to effectively double capacity for shorter oblong SKUs. This led to a nearly 25% reduction of oblong capacity in the most constrained markets. Engineered solutions for varying volumes of inbound doors at a large market site by assessing typical inbound putaway quantities and proposing appropriately sized locations to address capacity constraints and putaway issues. This approach reduced putaway time and complexity, resulting in a nearly 23% increase in productivity and a reduction of over 30% in manual putaway transactions, creating a smoother inbound process.

Pflugerville, Texas, United States

SME – Inbound Strategy. Developed staging methods based on lean methodologies to optimize warehouse layout and reduce associate footprint. Decreased inbound staging time by up to two hours daily. Selected by leadership to spearhead the launch of Pflugerville's Local Box Delivery (LBD) initiative. Collaborated with Field Ops team to troubleshoot issues and integrate the new process seamlessly into daily warehouse operations. Achieved a UTR controllable exit assessment score of 97%, the highest in the market at that time.Developed a refreshable Inbound Dashboard tool which facilitated communication between office staff and warehouse associates and allowed for the proactive planning of Inbound Trailers. This resulted in the virtual elimination of SLA misses due to labor misappropriation and was rolled out to the greater market.

Lead a Fulfillment Center staffed with over 400 part time and full time associates, including Assistant Managers, driving accountability with site safety, quality, culture, compliance, and costReport daily on underperforming site metrics, developing action plans and driving execution to measure immediate impacts and following up to gauge long-term sustainabilityEvaluate and Staff critical roles while developing talent, resulting in four internal promotions across the Amazon network and significant improvements in process executionLaunched a site-wide “Back to Basics” initiative aimed at educating leadership and aligning expectations regarding day-to-day execution and standardization. This helped improve our site’s compliance metric on average from 87% to 96% Owned UTX9’s launch of guided batching and the post-launch optimization of the batch path, decreasing batch time by 26%Regional Site Security Facilitator, regularly assisting with camera audits, business investigations, and advising on site risk mitigation by partnering with regional LP to execute security-focused action plansSelected by leadership as Site Safety SME, regularly championing network safety initiatives and partnering with regional EHS promoting recognition as a top safety site in the networkSite Learning Coordinator, responsible for outlining standard operating procedures exclusive to our fulfillment center and organizing new hire orientations. Increased new hire baseline performance by 16% overall

Austin, Texas, United States

Directly supervise teams of up to 80 associates per shift, balancing flow between inbound and outbound to meet daily outbound critical pull times and inbound service-level agreement goalsLaunched an inventory health initiative, which initially increased pick rate path productivity by 33% and saved the site over $12k in otherwise lost inventory. The process was integrated as a monthly recurring practice Appointed Launch Team Captain for UTX9 launch, guiding the site to the top UPH network wide for a week one launch siteCreated an ambassador guide and checklist, supporting new hires with all-encompassing training and leading to immediate and sustained success Established problem solve standard work, to promote associate learning and developmentPerform weekly quality and productivity reviews, identifying associates with strong opportunities for development and assigning coaches or personally providing feedback to those associates, setting goal expectations and creating performance improvement plans. Have seen as much as a 30% growth in associate performance

Austin, Texas, United States

Coordinated daily demand schedules for six different delivery stations in the AMZL Network, working in tandem with Delivery Station management to produce effective schedules based on available resourcesOperated quickly and in often short time frames to create dispatch plans for 60K+ packages per StationDrove standardization across the AMZL network reducing last mile cost while fulfilling customer delivery promise

Cranbury, New Jersey, United States

Change Team Captain – Reviewed process paths for continuous improvement opportunities partnering with leadership to roll out new process changesFPY Analyst – Analyzed First Pass Yield trends, identifying opportunities to provide corrective actionsProblem Solver Lead - Appointed onboarding captain by leadership, regularly onboarding new team members and directly responsible for their initial growth