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Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Spearhead forecasting, capacity planning, and S&OP teams for $500M business of repair service centers across Asia, Middle East, Europe, and US. Direct ongoing operational strategies and tactics to support sales, revenue, cost, manpower and supply chain plans. Created and implemented all demand planning and S&OP processes. Deploy reports, analysis, KPIs and data visualizations used for tactical daily planning and strategic decision making, business management, and process measurement / improvement.• Reduced initial scenario-planning phase from 3 weeks to 3 hours by providing leaders a Dashboard that provided instant visibility into complex questions through combining 7 data sources. The interactive dashboard combined 5 years of historical and 2 years of forecast data into 10 trend graphs that filtered on technology, contract type, region, and service center.• Saved more than $30M by performing detailed scenario planning to compare multiple cost-reduction options.• Achieved higher than 90% forecast accuracy for each of last 5 years through applying best practice forecasting methods including time-series analysis, market factor analytics, and new product sales estimates. Applied learnings from forecast accuracy analysis to improve such as adjusting for supply chain issues due to COVID.• Minimized overhead and inventory, improved on-time delivery, and boosted customer satisfaction by performing quarterly root-cause analyses on forecasting misses and applying corrective actions.• Realized 95% OTD by identifying issues and partnering with service centers, technology, productivity, and sales teams to identify solutions such as manpower, equipment, and productivity improvements.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Managed 5 engineering managers directly with dotted-line oversight of 19 engineers who worked directly withcustomers to understand their specific technical requirements and ensure correct capital parts were delivered on time. Successfully migrated team to Oracle ERP.• Reduced rework of projects between purchasing and engineering 25% by ensuring engineers could identify viable suppliers before recommending parts.• Slashed time to set up new parts in ERP 50% by creating templates that uploaded into ERP vs. working directly in ERP.• Improved cycle 30% by implementing lean line that separated large tasks from small tasks and ensured equal takt time.• Improved throughput of quotes, enabled more quotes to be processed more quickly, and cut cycle for setting up new parts 50%, which helped boost sales 12% YOY.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Managed team of 5 direct reports and 31 contract engineers in creating recommended spares lists for gasturbines used by sales and marketing for new and existing assets. Ensured team had tools and expertise needed to identify all critical parts needed for disassembly, maintenance, and reassembly of gas turbines.• Reduced error rate in creating lists 60% by replacing team of contract engineers with field service engineers who had firsthand knowledge of needed maintenance parts.• Decreased cycle to create lists 25% by scrapping existing IT solution and leading development of drag- and-drop VB.net / Oracle solution.• Saved approximately $2M via reducing team size 67% by modifying new IT solution to automatically apply recommended spares from turbine section to all other turbines with similar designs and replacing labor-intensive hard-copy binders with electronic lists.• Increased spares sales 16% YOY by getting more accurate lists to customers faster.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Led team of 2 direct reports, 2 IT resources, and 1 Oracle consultant to successfully convert order management, data warehouse, and reporting from COBOL mainframe to Oracle ERP. Directed all aspects of project including documentation, setting and tracking milestones, client engagement, change management, and testing.• Grew sales 70% in 5 years following conversion from mainframe to ERP.• Improved order managers’ productivity 20% by creating better visibility to supply chain and inventory.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General