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Palo Alto , Ca, Us

At The Accidental Ally, we're on a mission to do more than create jobs for people with cognitive and intellectual disabilities. We're committed to changing the game and crafting a blueprint for a new way of thinking about careers for these individuals.- Paradigm Shift Blueprint: Develop a comprehensive plan for transforming the disability employment space, moving beyond job creation to building long-term career pathways for people with cognitive and intellectual disabilities. We also want to enable employers to develop a suitable model for hiring and growing this untapped talent pool.-Beyond Careers: Emphasize the importance of building self-worth and a strong sense of identity, recognizing that our mission extends beyond conventional career paths.-Empowerment: Empower individuals with cognitive disabilities to aspire for more and actively pursue their aspirations.-Action-Oriented Approach: Encourage individuals to believe in their potential and take proactive steps toward achieving their goals.-Connecting Contributions to Business Value: Establish a clear link between the contributions of individuals with cognitive disabilities and the tangible business value they bring.-Transformation, Not Change: Commit to delivering a transformative shift rather than just incremental change, redefining societal perceptions and opportunities.-Innovation through Extreme User Perspectives: Enable innovation by drawing inspiration from the unique perspectives of extreme technology users within the community of individuals with cognitive disabilities.-Shifting Focus: Reorient the narrative from disability to the exploration and celebration of inherent abilities, acknowledging the untapped potential within this community.

Satellite Beach, Florida, Us

Focused on working with product executive leadership at companies such as Intuit , Sam’s Club, Brambles, on deliverable and timeline based strategic projects.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

- Chief Evangelist and Product Lead for the Web Accessibility Initiative at Sam's.- Considered the face and voice of Accessibility within the organization.- Changed the narrative on Accessibility by introducing the 'voice of the customer', bringing in Sam's Members with disabilities to provide valuable feedback on the digital experiences the team is building. - Developed a framework to build accessibility into the fabric of the culture vs viewing it as a liability or legal/ compliance requirements (and with very little funding).- Engaged the Design community in the creation of a design system that includes Accessibility requirements.- Engaged the developer community to embrace the 'Shift-Left' mindset with tools, training that would help them build accessible code from the ground up and make it drop-dead easy to practice accessibility principles. - Rolled out a test automation framework that would catch accessibility issues before release to production.- Developed training materials and checklists, universal test cases for accessibility components and developed in-house expertise on how to do manual testing.- Engaged the product community, ensuring product leads understand the importance, take ownership of and prioritize accessibility issues - Organized several accessibility events in honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Accessibility Pop Labs to engage the employees in the Accessibility initiative.- Hosted Accessibility Gallery walks and Dine in the Dark event for Sam's executive team members to help create awareness of the impact of making our digital experiences accessible to our members with disabilities.

Mountain View, California, Us

Led the product vision and strategy for ‘Data Driven Intelligent systems’ aiming to delivertimely, important and relevant insights to QuickBooks users so that they can run and growtheir business.Led product strategy for Brainstorm,an internal tool for innovation, driving change in theform of hypothesis driven rapid experiments to gain a better understanding of targetcustomers and the benefits they care about. In just 3 months, the team was able to rapidlyiterate and learn from lean experiments that informed a clear product strategy and path forexecution.Led product strategy and vision to grow the Intuit Commerce Network, a 200M-usernetwork effects business that aims to strengthen the QuickBooks ecosystem of SmallBusinesses, their customers and vendors via invoice based payments.

Cupertino, California, Us

-Managed the global supply base of all board electrical and specialized component manufacturers with a commodity spend of over $5 billion across all Mac, iPhone and iPod products.-Bridged the gap between engineering and ops teams by demonstrating and building credibility through early involvement in the development process, delivering cost savings and developing commodity expertise.-Developed a reliable and resilient supply chain for board electrical components that could withstand the pressure and demands of the Apple ecosystem.-Delivered numerous cost savings and supply chain optimization initiatives to meet the growing demand for Apple products.

Foster City, California, Us

Hired to support the sourcing needs of the various business units within Visa. Developed a client based support model in an environment of “skepticism” related to the sourcing function. Adept at negotiating master service agreements and developing supplier performance metrics.-Negotiated and executed the partner agreements for the Visa rebranding effort, the launch of the new Holographic Magnetic Tape, sporting events such as the FIFA Sponsorship, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, Beijing Olympics and the re-design of Visa.com website.-Delivered the enterprise launch of the Visa International Supplier Diversity Program.

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Hired out of business school to manage the volatile and high visibility Safeway private bottled water category. In the first year as the sourcing lead, developed and delivered a robust market-driven sourcing strategy and distributed supply chain delivery model to meet the growing demand, a regional supply base that could withstand the volatility of demand/supply. Delivered $7 million in Cost Savings initiatives for Safeway private label products in under 12 months. Executed a consortium buying deal resulting in a cost avoidance of over 20% of the planned capital budget for a manufacturing facility.

Mba, Supply Chain Management

Diploma In Special Education, Special Education And Teaching

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Management And Finance

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business/Managerial Economics

High School Diploma