Head of Design at a Cutting Edge, 7 Figure, Men's Apparel Brand Start-up. Blending Flexible Materials and Cutting Edge Designs to Fit the Diverse Shapes and Sizes of All Men.

Lead Finance, IT, HR, Demand Forecasting and Customer Service teams.

Lead the Aftermarket Pricing Team - Set, monitor and manage market-based pricing on 750,000 SKUs - $1B+ annual part sales - Optimize sales, volume, revenue and margin - Supervised Machine Learning - Revenue Optimization

Operational responsibility for CNC machining operations. - Led a staff of 180 skilled machinists across a 3 shift operation - Fully commissioned 23 large CNC assets - 3-Axis and 5-Axis Mills & 5-axis Mill-turns - Helped drive the selection process and deployment of a new 4 machine Makino Mag 3EX machining cell - Decreased Scrap by over $500K a year - Reduced manufacturing behind schedule hours by ~66% - Achieved efficiency gains on new machining cells of 250%+ above prior processes - Helped drive the deployment of standardized fixturing and cutters across work centers - Helped manage the $5M renovation of 100K sqft of new machining footprint and transition of 65 major CNC and fabrication assets while continuing to support production operations

Led a team of Finance Business Partners in the support of Integrated Supply Chain (Operations) located in the US and Mexico with financial responsibility for $2B+ of annual overhead, direct labor and supply chain spend.Helped lead the operational planning and integration of Beechcraft operations after the acquisition by Textron. Helped drive $100M of annual savings within 18 months after acquisition through operational and supply chain rationalization and optimization.

Led a team responsible for Procurement of Global HR and Employee Services for Textron and it's business units. Commodities managed include Employee Benefits, HR BPO Services, Payroll, Recruiting, Contract Labor, Travel and Training with spend levels exceeding $200MM annually.Drove $2.8MM in annual savings across our commodities in the face of escalating industry costs during 2012.

Lead a cross functional team with representatives from Engineering, Procurement, Business Development and Operations from across Koch's portfolio of companies in developing a forward-looking PoV (Point of View) of market conditions impacting global market prices and availability of key capital project components. This information was utilized by senior executive management on down across functions throughout Koch Industries. Developed and maintained proprietary economic forecasts on building materials (concrete, stainless and carbon steel), industrial equipment, engineering and skilled trade labor using econometric forecasting techniques.Helped implement and administer a company wide spend analysis tool including several million transactions equating to $50B+ in spend annually.

Consolidated projected financial statements of potential M&A targets and new programs into corporate financial statement model. Modeled earnings accretion/dilution and DCF of combined entities. Communicated directly with debt-holding banks to provide financial forecasts in support of the firms current debt obligations. Developed and consolidated corporate forecasted GAAP financial statements (5-year detailed & 10-year strategic view). Performed strategic project modeling and sensitivity analysis which highlighted the actions needed to be taken in order to maintain long-term profitability.Coordinated evaluations to transfer work globally to improve program profitability. Performed in-country supplier development evaluations throughout Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand & Vietnam) with an external consultant; assessing production capability, quality, availability and pricing.

Managed a wholesale/retail warehouse selling high quality home furnishings. Managed all aspects of sales, inventory management, product delivery and installation. Sales >$500K and profitable in first year of operation.

Worked directly with Spirit and Onex management to develop detailed 5-year LBO model ($1.1B deal value) used to obtain $700M in senior bank debt and set initial company budgets. Helped develop Spirit's Financial Planning organization after the spin off from Boeing. Developed quick turnover "What-If" analysis on cash flow, earnings and debt covenant impact during 2005 Boeing IAM strike.

Business Career Foundations Program (BCFP). Two-year finance rotational development program. Held positions in cost accounting and procurement cost analysis. Chose to leave the BCFP program mid-way through in order to stay with Spirit AeroSystems after the split from Boeing.

Developed detailed manufacturing plans for structural aerospace components and small sub-assemblies per customer specifications. Duties included creating shop production instructions, production routers, blue prints, designing fabrication tools and CNC holding fixtures and programming CNC equipment (waterjets, 3 & 5 axis mills). Design packages used: AutoCAD, CATIA V4, CATIA V5 and Unigraphics

Worked with manufacturing, research and development group in procurement organization handling technical supplier manufacturing issues.