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St. Augustine, Fl, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Maintaining a pivotal role in driving revenue growth by contributing to the successful launch of the ViewFlex Eco reprocessing business, managing reprocessed catheter compliance, initiating and managing strategic pricing programs, developing and managing a Python-based competitor job listing web scraper for real-time competitor intel, maintaining a pivotal Tableau dashboard for surgical trends, and driving targeted strategy via data-driven ad-hoc analyses.

Austin, Tx, Us

Managed global pricing strategy, analysis, and execution for the top two-selling categories at Whole Foods Market, driving $2 billion in yearly sales despite global cost increases. Optimized pricing investment projects to ensure competitive parity and balance between price and value. Additionally, developed and debugged database-focused Alteryx data workflows, using SQL/Python queries to automate crucial pricing analytics executions. Employed new technologies to convey critical financial metrics, bolstering trust between category merchants and achieving record profit increases.

Austin, Tx, Us

Led innovative pricing projects for Amazon, ensuring competitive pricing parity and driving consistent profit growth. Managed and optimized server-based Alteryx data workflows, utilizing SQL queries for crucial pricing analytics. Formulated and executed weekly pricing scenarios during the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring compliance with state-of-emergency pricing laws and minimizing company liability. Established and led weekly Alteryx office hours, fostering continuous learning and technical development within the pricing team.

Austin, Tx, Us

• Spearheaded the development of a competitive matching audit system, which utilizes Teradata SQL and Alteryx to ingest raw data, scale sizes, flag potential errors for review, and output for manual review.• Co-developed competitive match submission and auto-match Alteryx workflows, resulting in a substantial increase in the quantity of new competitive matches.• Executed strict rules-based research to competitively match WFM private label products to similar competitor offerings, resulting in an increase in like-for-like matches and a greater understanding of competitor pricing and business strategies.• Engaged in competitor research to visualize competitor commodity cheese offerings and enable higher-level executives to determine the monetary efficacy of WFM’s decision to offer non-GMO cheeses.• Maximized the number of competitive private-label matches by collaborating with third-party data mining services to improve the quantity and quality of competitor website data scrapes.

Austin, Tx, Us

• Formulated pricing lines for all WFM items to replace UPC-centric pricing management and centralize global pricing initiatives which ultimately resulted in clearer pricing schemas for customers.• Engaged in thoughtful, in-depth product research to determine the differentiating and profitable characteristics of special categories based on consumer preferences.• Established concise pricing rules for thousands of items for an investment project aimed at reducing confusing pricing differences between similar items.

• Continually maintained an easily-accessible database of thousands of biological specimens stowed in laboratory storage facilities.• Performed experiments and collected data relating to nematode ascaroside signaling, nematode-bacteria symbiont switching, and quantitative transcriptome analysis.• Assisted in laboratory management, including compiling supply order lists, managing the hazardous chemical database, and adhering to mandated laboratory safety protocol.• Applied results-driven processes of phenol-chloroform extraction, PCR, gel electrophoresis, and DNA sequencing to speciate unknown organisms for outside collaborators.• Presented NCBI Nucleotide BLAST data analyses and acted as an ambassador to educate the community on the applications of entomology research in finding alternatives for insecticides.

• Analyzed tree core samples and scrutinized statistical inconsistencies within collected data sets in a nationally-recognized research laboratory.• Enlightened incoming tour groups on the prominence of tree ring research in understanding the effects of global climate change on tree growth and forest fires, as well as the importance of regularly performed prescribed burns.• Resolved Java programming issues with the on-site Java developer to enable improvement of Tellervo, a Java program used to perform statistical analysis of tree core samples.