Sourcing indirect products and services to support the Home Depot Distribution and Subsidiaries by driving cost efficiencies and innovation.- Manage enterprise supplier relationships with an indirect annual spend of $100M across Supply Chain categories. - Led targeted negotiations with five Material Handling Equipment manufacturers to right size MHE fleet and to reduce annual lease expense by $3M.- Led a sourcing effort to convert all distribution centers to LED lighting resulting in $3.2M in annual energy savings- Led a sourcing effort to optimize janitorial service providers and staffing levels, resulting in $1.3M annually in cost avoidance and $500K in sales to one of our subsidiaries.

Sourcing and targeted negotiations with vendors to drive cost out and cost avoidance for The Home DepotSupport variety of business partners and subsidiaries including distribution, asset protection, and Interline See less

• Manage and administer all functions of Salesforce.com/Sales, Marketing, Service Cloud, Knowledge, and the Company’s Accounting Software in conjunction with each respective department director.• Develop logistic work flow processes for the functionality of Salesforce.com.• Develop warranty cost analysis to be tracked via Salesforce.com.• Develop and implement supply chain management system and process to be implemented Companywide.• Develop inventory planning for all products to properly manage company cash-flow and inventory balances.• Manage and administer Customer and Prospect database.• Develop management reports and dashboards in Salesforce.com.• Develop logistics process for customer order fulfillment.• Liaise with the Company’s Finance Department to continuously evaluate pricing and costing.

• Planed and managed both manpower and product processing on one of the largest tilt-tray piece sorters in the country installed in PVH’s largest distribution facility in North America.• Charged with staffing and developing plans to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in everyday operations.• Personnel responsibilities included managing, training, and coaching 60+ hourly associates and two salaried associates.• Provided strategic analysis to senior leadership recommending leaner processes on a continual basis.• Exceeded fill rate goal of 98.5% by ensuring accuracy of orders.• Chairman of the PVH Safety Committee.

Production Highlights: Under my leadership as an assistant supervisor, the Piece Sorter crew set the current UPH (units processed per hour) record for a single shift. In one day, exceeded the production plan by 24%Personnel Management Highlights: Proud to have 3 associates promoted/selected as department trainers, and 2 associates qualified and selected for advanced material handling positions in Quality Control/Special Handling Selected as the first college intern at PVH’s McDonough Distribution Center and worked with Human Resources to develop the new internship program Have been selected to participate on college recruiting trips as part of the Human Resources recruiting team Special Projects Highlights: Designed and implemented two new corrugate sizes resulting in an estimated annual cost savings of $50,000o Improved cubingo New design is 15¢ less per containero Reduced the number of chargebacks Identified Piece Sorter corrugate staging/storage issue and worked with the Maintenance Department to design and implement a solution, resulting in more efficient use of corrugate storage space and time saving for equipment operators’ pulls/put-aways. Selected to participate on the migration project team for Warnaco product after PVH’s acquisition of Warnaco. Lead a migration team of 8+ associates through all phases of product migration within the DC (receiving, palletizing, re-labeling, systemic migration, etc.)

Assisting in all aspects of order fulfillment. This includes order picking, quality control, shipping, and computerized personalization

Wrote test scripts, created data and product for testing. Assisted in the implementation of daily testing objectives and communicated testing results with the testing staff. Participated in defining and writing methods and procedures. Trained and lead test team associates.

Collected and analyzed research on patent licensing programs and presented such research to the head Principals of the company. Assisted with various patent licensing programs and patent sale opportunities.