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California, United States

Foster City, California, Us

Responsible for development and iteration on the strategy for Zoox’s R&D testing with cross-functional stakeholders (engineering, operations, finance, procurement), including process documentations as well as roles and responsibilities. Responsible for management of relationships with external testing providers at proving grounds and test equipment suppliers.

Mountain View, California, Us

Responsible for leading engineering projects from design through development, test and validation, to integration into autonomous driving vehicle fleet.● Technical program management of hardware development projects for cameras and vehicle controls, driving architecture/design/test and validation reviews, working with Electrical/Mechanical/Optical engineering leads to meeting review approval criteria.● Responsible for driving weekly priorities, monitoring progress of cross-functional multidisciplinary team of hardware, software/firmware and operations teams for all internally developed hardware (compute/sensors/vehicle interface) to be retrofitted onto the vehicle fleet.● Managed PCB/PCBA, optical and mechanical assembly builds and reworks.● Supported bill of materials and product lifecycle management for engineering prototype builds.● Created integrated JIRA/Smartsheet project schedules to track issue progress with teams.● Led the hardware team adoption of JIRA and Confluence pages to run weekly managementupdate meetings and project team meetings, tracking project progress and monitoring resources.● Implemented system testing to process for new vehicle interface and radar hardware.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Drove change in operational excellence through data analytics to help achieve revenue growth goals. Responsible for program managing projects data mining information and designing data visualization dashboards to help illustrate stories which help the business make decisions efficiently and effectively. Projects encompass the areas of purchasing metrics, inventory management metrics, forecasting tools, and vendor management.● Integrated enhanced ad hoc supplemental forecast request process and tool which will save 20% time efficiency compared to existing process.● Integrated method to monitor contract manufacturing MRP data to proactively identify potential part shortages. Provided value to previously raw data being provided by CMs which was not previously being reviewed.● Designed dashboard, led collaborative effort between IT software developers, business leads to create a key commodity inventory tracking and monitoring dashboard helping purchasing teams manage their raw inventory through visualizations of their inventory distributed across various storage locations.● Designed visualizations to help quickly identify metric health and drill into details of opportunities for improvement with open purchase orders. Helped teams to improve data accuracy by 10%.

Austin, Texas, Us

Leading worldwide initiatives with cross-functional teams to automate processes and improve efficiency in all areas of the supply chain. Analyzing non-technical business user needs for information, documenting requirements and driving prioritization of improvement projects with Product Development and Oracle Application Labs teams on tools and processes supporting Data Center Servers and Racks. Managing project schedules, identifying and communicating risks weekly to executive stakeholders. ● Leading the Jira Center of Excellence for the Supply Chain Organization. Driving adoption of Jira in all departments by leading roadshows to educate teams and providing training. ● Established the Project Portfolio Review Process and facilitated the ccmmittee review meetings for cross-functional project proposals. Established a central repository of all projects in Jira for the entire supply chain organization. Enabled portfolio visibility and transparency, increasing awareness within the organization on project status and issues. ● Managed external manufacturer supply visibility project to collect the proper data to enable supply analysis. ● Initiated a process for monitoring KPIs to track performance in the transition from the On-Premise to Cloud Supply Chain Management system (Fusion). The end goal of an automated system is near completion to allow early warning of application latency to be identified and addressed before it becomes an issue. Significant efficiency improvement expected. ● Worked with business architects and global process owners to define KPIs and key features desired in the future E2E supply chain architecture for supply/demand planning, procurement, master data management, order fulfillment, logistics, and quality.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led projects teaming up with Information Technology (IT) Hadoop Scrum Teams and Global Process Owners. Provided data requirements for the SQL code to the IT team to pull proper data elements into data source views to use in Tableau dashboards. Evaluated current and future business systems supporting product data management strategy. Enabled global process teams to automate processes and boost user efficiency. ● Orchestrated the creation of a portfolio health indexing tool to automate the manual data collection and analysis of product cost, quality, fulfillment, and component risk data. Improved user efficiency by 80%.● Designed interactive multi-level visual dashboards using Tableau to display a new service metric for product portfolio health, enabling users to prioritize their efforts. This required joining and blending of data from several data sources.● Led Agile product lifecycle management changes with the security team for tracking compliance on shipped software accompanying new product releases. Presented change details in stakeholder reviews, designed UAT test cases to validate function, performed demonstrations to stakeholders.● Created a Tableau dashboard that enabled data analysis to identify the percentage of Software product revenue that potentially could be a security risk to malicious software.● Established a Tableau Capability Center supporting Product Operations dashboard creation and management requests, freeing up to 20% of tool owner’s time.● Analyzed and identified duplicate tool capabilities, authored plans to consolidate or decommission certain tools to reduce support costs and streamline the tool portfolio. Expected decrease in tool support efforts by 23%.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Directed product data and tool maintenance, tracked engineering change management metrics and improvements. Supported Cisco Partners during implementation of new systems. ● Managed a $200K quarterly budget shared by multiple departments for tool enhancements. Facilitated negotiations with tool owners to prioritize funding requests. ● Established a reporting and governance process for a key supply chain attribute resulting in 30% improvement in data accuracy. ● Successfully resolved issues at worldwide partner sites with Cisco’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system upgrade.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Headed operational projects from managing order backlog through logistics. ● Reduced average inventory holdings at the logistics centers by 28% through chairing a project to extend Lean Manufacturing concepts through the Logistics sites. ● Collaborated with Information Technology (IT) on a project to enhance planning report content to include new data providing detail on order shippability. This was critical to enabling the process flow changes to reduce logistics center inventory by 28%.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Leader of a cross-functional manufacturing team launching and sustaining products. Drove process improvements, cost avoidance, and bill of materials changes. Partnered closely with Engineering and Marketing teams to successfully bring products to orderability and volume.● Team won a Cisco Pioneer Award for Teamwork and Collaboration with the Integrated Services Router program, launching highly successful router families ($1.2B quarterly revenue, fastest Cisco product family to reach $1B revenue, lasting over 10 years.)● Reduced the cost of product accessory kits by analyzing the content usage and updating the bill of materials, saving $3M a year for the business unit.● Decreased product packaging material usage, saving $1.5M annually for the business unit. ● Coordinated activities for establishing new payment process to support Cisco’s conversion to lean manufacturing, allowing Cisco to pay for material used at time of shipment instead of owning the material up front.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical And Materials Science Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba