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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 analysis.• Built a framework to capture over 60 highlights, lessons learned, and challenges across a broad spectrum of processes that impacted our operations, people, and processes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.• Proposed and employed a series of continuous improvement practices to reduce annual OPEX ranging from $10K to $50K.

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