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Campbell, Ca, Us

Lehi, Utah, Us

Oversee EasyPost’s data engineering and data science teams, building data products and helping internal and external stakeholders with all things data.

Lehi, Utah, Us

Responsible for the EasyPost Analytics Engineering team and help advise the data vertical at Easypost. Accomplishments:• Rebranded Elevate (acquired analytics product) to EasyPost Analytics and integrated teams -- dividing up responsibilities across various EasyPost functional teams (Security, IT Ops, Growth, Product, Marketing, Finance, Support)• Started the migration of Easypost core business data from on-prem to GCP. Successfully launched a new easypost.com shipper dashboard powered by Looker and BigQuery, with new insights. • Helped design and advocate for enhancements and changes to the SmartRate AI product• Launched new EasyPost Analytics product features -- notably global map support for Parcel Customers, Parcel Invoice Financials, and additional integration support for Manhattan Active customers.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Acquired by EasyPost in 2022. Elevate (now EasyPost Analytics), is a Supply Chain Analytics Platform that enables OmniChannel and Supply Chain operations teams with insights to run effectively and meet their customer’s increasing expectations.

Englewood, Colorado, Us

Launched Summit Advisory Team's Analytics practice to help organizations drive growth with data. Key projects:• Completed multiple network strategy engagements, advising retailers on the ideal network changes and distribution center make-up based on long-range business goals, facility capacities, store and digital geo-demand, and all in costs (fixed, variable, and transportation). • Built Snowflake-based data warehouse for large Logistics provider, sourced from multiple homegrown ERP and TMS systems, replacing a legacy SSRS process that had issues and took 6-12 hours to run over-night. New EDW updated incrementally hourly and took 6 minutes to update. • Advised on OmniChannel strategy and OMS implementations for IBM Sterling and Manhattan Active customers. • Built store allocation tool for large apparel brand, helping translate Excel based processes into an extract upload for SAP processing. • Built IBM Congos reporting to support BOPIS (OMS) go live. • Developed BigQuery EDW and Looker reporting for large franchisee based company, helping replace a legacy “cube” and integrating the analytics experience across multiple sales sources.

Indianapolis, In, Us

Responsible for Business Intelligence and Data Engineering for Finish Line and JD Sports in the US market. Successfully drove company strategy and business results through actionable and reliable dashboards, data platforms (Looker), and data infrastructure (ODS, DW, & Marts). Supported all business functions across multiple sponsors/clients; including Digital, Store Operations, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Customer Care, Marketing, IT Operations, and Finance. Led organizational data transformation efforts by empowering people at multiple levels (from Executive to associate) to be their own analyst. Key Accomplishments:• Developed and supported enterprise analytics Looker data platform, serving 900 users 3 million queries per month• Completed several Digital Analytics platform development projects, enabling actionable analytical insights for demand & booked sales, available inventory, channel performance, alternative payment methods, coupons, and product management. • Developed Merchandising BI platform & DataMart, enabling next-level insights on sales, fulfillment, and inventory by product and location to improve allocation strategy, markdown strategy, and business profitability.• Lead development of EDW cloud-migration, including architecture and engineering of new cloud ODS, EDW, and Marts in Google GCP that will serve as the foundation for all future analytics, ML, and Data Science.• Built and grew a diverse and collaborative 12 person data team consisting of data engineers, BI developers, product owner/scrum master, and analysts.

Indianapolis, In, Us

Responsible and accountable for the oversight of all business aspects of Data and Business Intelligence, including overall strategy and roadmap deliverables for all business areas.•Collaborated cross-functionally to drive the company forward with business intelligence and data visibility through BI/visualization and reporting tool development. •Lead Data Governance and Data Integrity to ensure long-term success and sustainability. •Partners with business leadership and data stewards to define business data objectives & desired outcomes, and oversees the completion of those objectives. •Maintained close relationships with Senior Leadership to ensure the data roadmap aligns with company initiatives as well as other roadmaps (such as the Merchandising IT roadmap & Analytics/Data Science roadmap).•Drove strategy and development of a unified cloud data ecosystem (GCP) and data visibility through BI development (Looker), connecting data points across business partners and empowering analysts and business objectives.

Indianapolis, In, Us

Responsible for all Supply Chain forecasts and execution plans; including DTC, Inbound, Retail Outbound shipments, and DC Capacity. Supply Chain Analytics business owner; responsible for defining Supply Chain KPIs, reporting, leading the build-out of Supply Chain data in an ODS, and leading and prioritizing future data-driven initiatives. Drove strategy through data for network fulfillment with the goal of improving speed to customer. •Performed extensive business case analysis for the cost of upgrading packages to air to hit specified speed goals. •Lead test concept of Super Fulfilling stores, with the goal of allocating hot product to specific stores within 1 day transit from expected destination zip code based on demand signals. Test resulted in a 1/4 day reduction in total transit and 3 day reduction in test markets.

Indianapolis, In, Us

Responsible for forecasting e-commerce demand at the daily and fulfillment location level to plan staffing and meet the goal of same-day shipping. Work with DC operations, Store Operations, Digital, and Merchandising to build alignment on strategy.• During holiday 2017, created an extensive UPS carton forecast by day by service level to secure UPS capacity and save surcharge expense•Recognized by UPS for top-5 of all customer accounts for forecast accuracy performance, saving Finish Line over $200k in surcharge expense• Revolutionized Supply Chain digital reporting through PowerBI and Looker Dashboards• Recognized an operational opportunity for the supply chain planning execution of launch products, created a new process and reporting to ensure hot products were in the right locations and online in time.• Developed processes and SQL to gather data for forecasting models. Experience with Manhattan EOM and WM systems, with a focus on order management and inventory.• Collaborated with consultant group to assess the processing and storage capacity of the Indianapolis distribution center, which included making recommendations for resizing locations based on cubic volume of inventory and sku density.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

Responsible for scheduling and coordinating the efficient production and distribution of containerboard products in order to satisfy customer demand. In this position I worked closely with customer service, manufacturing, sales, and logistics with a primary focus on extrapolating a master sales plan into a block schedule. In my 2nd year I lead the best practices team, developing processes to make better decisions through data.

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

Held various sales based roles with increasing responsibility starting as a Front Lane Associate up to a Magnolia Home Theater Solution Designer.