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Texas, United States

Irving, Texas, United States

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Developed and orchestrated a global program geared towards promoting knowledge sharing and problem solving amongst field logistics teams.
• Oversaw inbound and internal logistic processes at scale and implemented several key improvements to increase efficiencies within the data center spaces.
• Created process documentation and SOPs across inbound, internal, and outbound lanes which served as a scalable resource for new techs to be onboarded and trained to standard practices.
• Conducted audits across 5 data centers within various regions to ensure local operations upheld business non-negotiables of SOX compliance, data security, safety, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborated with global Data Center EHS teams to review standards to ensure compliance with OSHA regulations.
• Worked with managed service providers (MSP) to establish and define a global safety program that incorporated thorough investigation and RCA on incidents as well as sharing safety insights by way of reporting and data.

Houston, Texas Area

• Provided leadership, motivation, direction and training to team of 8 to serve customers profitably.
• Managed customer and service center KPIs as well as P&L operations.
• Managed supply chain of Key Branch Customers which included establishing and maintaining key vendor relationships, identifying key parts for overseas COGS deflation and owned execution of deflationary efforts.
• Successfully maintained customer and company inventory levels while meeting trade working capital goals.
• Coordinated all aspects of the business-related functions to include sourcing, inventory control, blanket order maintenance, and spot purchases while maintaining the highest level of customer service.
• Negotiated and executed national contracts, winning $3MM of new business within the first year

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Performed due-diligence to generate proposals in response to domestic and international customer RFP/RFQs winning up to $6MM of new business per contract.
• Defined and proposed as-is and to-be processes as well as roadmaps to execute program-wide vendor managed inventory solutions.
• Directed customer-facing site meetings to outline implementation action plans and detail timeline for tasks and involvement for each new opportunity.
• Developed and designed training documentation and controls to guarantee sustainability of changes from their current state.
• Worked with company leadership and internal functional teams to understand complex business processes for program execution to effectively deliver communications to customers.
• Strategized and implemented customized vendor managed inventory solutions (kanban, eVMI, kitting, etc.) at manufacturing facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Participated in two year rotational leadership program (four 6 month rotations) including: Sales, Operations, Sourcing & Procurement, and Project Management.
• Ownership of the Bucket Hardware Program including, order entry, expediting and financial claims resolution contributing to overall sales growth of the account which ended the year at $1,604M on a plan of $1,587M
• Led LMS systems implementation reducing ship time by 30% for warehouse personnel; Executed 5S lean practices for local facility to improve efficiency and eliminate waste
• Strategically purchased inventory to service core customers, which positively affected S&I goals of reducing DOH and increasing inventory turns
• Successfully trained Global Commodity Leaders on reporting techniques to drive growth of pricing agreements with strategic suppliers

Simpsonville, SC

• Gained hands-on experience in each facet of the company’s SCOM process including Sales, Warehousing Logistics, Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing, Distribution, Transportation and Delivery.
• Provided feedback to 5 entry level managers of insufficient processes based on in-class knowledge
• Proposed a project to CCBCC executives that would increase the utilization of the company’s hard assets by 20 percent
• Obtained limited exposure with the SAP business managing software

Clemson University

• Served as Clemson University’s sole ambassador for Sony’s inaugural program
• Conducted visual demonstrations for Sony Electronic on campus for products on their education site.
• Planned and coordinated events with 8 campus organizations in efforts of making the brand of Sony current to college age consumers.
• Collaborated with ESPN 3D network to promote Sony products at various sporting events