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Lewisville, Texas, United States

Provide mentoring to engineering teams and problem solving services to those in need.Rogz USA - developed and expanded Rogz eCommerce business on Omnichannels of Amazon, eBay, Buyrogz.com and retail on Faire.com and direct.

Lewisville, Texas, United States

Led the Development and Integration of BakerIQ (formerly tou.solutions) as well as other logistics and integration services.Architected and developed BakerIQ, an AWS cloud-based solution for accurate energy cost forecasting under time-of-use rates.Utilized Ruby on Rails, AWS (RDS, Elasticache, Sidekiq), and other technologies to build a robust and scalable platform.Integrated with various APIs, including utility providers (SDG&E), Salesforce, OpenEI, AuroraSolar, EstateD, and others.Implemented advanced algorithms to predict future consumption/production patterns for diverse energy scenarios.Extended the system to provide a dynamic pricing tool for detailed estimates and bill of material generation.Integrated Helioscope with SalesforceSuccessfully implemented a MuleSoft-powered integration between Helioscope and Salesforce.Designed and developed APIs and data flows to seamlessly transfer critical data between the two systems.Enhanced efficiency and accuracy in data synchronization and reporting processes.Key Achievements:The BakerIQ solution helped drive the company to achieve #1 status in the Southern California Home Solar market with the most detailed and accurate calculations of energy use For Solar, Battery and EV as well as additional future changes.

Engineer simple solutions for complex problems.Solutions which can be repeatedly performed with reduced failure rates through quality architecture and rigorous testing, whilst being agile and flexible enough to change over time.Products include:-- Eventory.io - Designed and built with W3villa team a solution to Integrate multiple selling channels (orders, inventory, messaging) using API first technologies. Manage pricing, description and related information for multiple channels. Solution helped launch startup companies to successful launches. 2015 - Commonstake.com - Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) monitor of Companies/Organizations. Putting people back in charge of our MAS (mutually assured survival.) 2015- Simmpli.com - Design it, Build it and Run it! a delivery solution for agile projects. Get the most important stories done! For project and product life cycle management. I helped with changing the focus to getting ship done through adding prioritization matrix and other refinements. 2015-2016 Skills used include Ruby on Rails, Node,js, CSS3, HTML5, Ionic, Mysql, AWS EC2, AWS S3, Github, Rubymine and Simmpli.comProvide support and guidance to highly skilled team of developers, engineers and project managers.

San Diego

Established procurement and logistics processes for national solar integrator helping grow the business from $9m to $64m in 12 months. Designed and built material requirements planning (MRP) solution to integrate sales data from Salesforce.com with organizations ERP (Timberline). Appointed to additional role of Business Analyst to assist the organization transition to modern information technology solutions.Promoted to additonal role of Business Analyst, helping organization grow 900% under challenging circumstances of the Great Recession.From Chaos to Organization in less than 90 days. Salesforce and ERP integration to balance demand and Supply leading to $10m savings in inventory holdings.Promoted to helped organization grow 900% under challenging circumstances of the Great Recession. From Chaos to Organization in less than 90 days. Salesforce and ERP integration to balance demand and Supply leading to $10m savings in inventory holdings.Skills: Manufacturing · MRPII · Communication · Cloud Computing · Excel Modeling · Accounting · Software Development · Lean Manufacturing · Material Requirements Planning (MRP) · Data Science · Energy Efficiency · Lean Process Improvement · Sustainability Consulting · Ruby · Analytical Skills · Start-ups Management

Team lead on acquisition and merger of a Franklin Templeton mutual fund company into Anglorand Securities, a leading brokerage and asset management company.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Legacy systems were not generating sufficient level of detail for IT Division projects. Designed, commissioned and implemented projects ledger for 850 strong IT division at this leading global insurance company. The system resulted in savings of over $4 million in costs over alternative solutions that was proposed and delivered maximum results with minimum changes.

Group Finance Manager of manufacturing group (Plastics, Metals, Foam, Fiberglass.)Lean accounting principles and intelligent design implementation converted financial and balanced scorecard reporting from 3 months 90% accuracy to 3 day 90% accuracy and 98% accuracy within 14 days. "You need information first, then history." - Gary Ferguson

Mba, Strategy, Finance

Activities and Societies: Cum Laude in MarketingDissertation on Stakeholder performance management, which resulted in an improvement.

Cpim, Operations Management, Lean Manufacturing

Activities and Societies: American Production and Inventory Control SocietyStudied Lean manufacturing techniques, production management.

Bachelors, Economics, Commerce

Activities and Societies: Top 2nd year Economics student out of 3000 students.Studied Operations research, Economics, Accounting.

Bcom, Commerce

Activities and Societies: Windsurfing teamStudied thermodynamics and weather / wind pattern recognition and forecasting. Specialised.

Business Model Generation, Reinventing Innovation.

Activities and Societies: Mentor with CEO's and leaders to adapt for lean mindset.Learned the principles of lean startup.