Mid-career break to conclude MBA - Graduating Dec, 2024

• Created and led weekly “Opportunity to Revenue” meetings & Exec reviews, involving CTS, PM, Sales, Operations and Biz Dev teams, and overseeing the full spectrum of SSD Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), encompassing customer design engagement, qualification tracking, contract negotiation, mass production, and sales strategy to drive revenue growth. • Led team of onshore & offshore data scientists, full stack developers, data engineers & analysts reporting to CIO responsible for leading… Show more • Created and led weekly “Opportunity to Revenue” meetings & Exec reviews, involving CTS, PM, Sales, Operations and Biz Dev teams, and overseeing the full spectrum of SSD Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), encompassing customer design engagement, qualification tracking, contract negotiation, mass production, and sales strategy to drive revenue growth. • Led team of onshore & offshore data scientists, full stack developers, data engineers & analysts reporting to CIO responsible for leading companywide digital transformation initiatives, deploying advanced analytics and business intelligence, enforcing data governance and migrating legacy CRM, ERP and Forecasting systems to a cloud-based web app infrastructure to drive a customer obsessed, data driven and transparent corporate culture.• Executed key executive initiative replacing a legacy Oracle ERP IT system with Python Flask microservices ecosystem saving $500,000/yr while improving the S&OP execution speed and flexibility by 85% in a multi-year initiative. Show less

• Planned, Pitched to CEO, and deployed an IT infrastructure & analytics ecosystem (MSFT Azure & PowerBI) rollout companywide across 200+ employees, to enable executive insight and management of critical business processes.• Expanded in-house teams by 3x while saving $1M+/yr, by pioneering & implementing company first outsourcing initiatives with 3rd party offshore development teams of ~10 app developers, data engineers and data scientists.

Founded environmental development company and think-tank to mobilize luminaries to solve the water wars in the US southwest leveraging The Boring Company’s tunnel boring and Charlie Paton’s saltwater farming innovations.• Recruited and built a global team of domain experts in Hydrology, Civil Engineering, Regenerative Agriculture, and Environmental Regulation including luminaries Ryan Gravel (TEDx) and Charlie Paton (Seawater Greenhouse Ltd).• Team developed with the UCSC Expert panel… Show more Founded environmental development company and think-tank to mobilize luminaries to solve the water wars in the US southwest leveraging The Boring Company’s tunnel boring and Charlie Paton’s saltwater farming innovations.• Recruited and built a global team of domain experts in Hydrology, Civil Engineering, Regenerative Agriculture, and Environmental Regulation including luminaries Ryan Gravel (TEDx) and Charlie Paton (Seawater Greenhouse Ltd).• Team developed with the UCSC Expert panel to provide $5B proposal to the State of California to restore the Salton Sea, IID farming & rescue the Colorado River in response to the CA 2021 RFP, generating only approach deemed feasible out of 20+ proposals in $3M CA State feasibility study, beating out industry notables including AECOM. • Mobilized international experts and developed a 3.5MAF water infrastructure proposal under new $1B Long Term Water Augmentation Fund, on personal request and invitation by the Water Infrastructure Fund of Arizona (WIFA) Show less

• Responsible for $2B/year biannual SSD org Budget development and executive reviews, consensus supply and demand plans (tops down & bottoms up, 1, 3 and 5 year) and market models of $11B TAM to inform and rationalize product development and targeted marketing efforts.• Led development of CRM, Qual Tracking, Demand Forecasting and Supply Allocation processes, managed forums, executive reviews, and sustained by digitizing to drive business impact across all customers, 60+ product lines and… Show more • Responsible for $2B/year biannual SSD org Budget development and executive reviews, consensus supply and demand plans (tops down & bottoms up, 1, 3 and 5 year) and market models of $11B TAM to inform and rationalize product development and targeted marketing efforts.• Led development of CRM, Qual Tracking, Demand Forecasting and Supply Allocation processes, managed forums, executive reviews, and sustained by digitizing to drive business impact across all customers, 60+ product lines and 50,000+ SKUs. Show less

Left WD to join revolutionary Y-Combinator (YC) startup SpoonRocket, then rejoined WD following a year at the startup to assist WD executives in integration of $1.1B acquisition of startup FusionIO which pioneered the PCIe interface now industry standard for SSDs.• Developed and managed TAM/SAM/SOM industry models of then $2B SSD market across all PCIe/SATA/SAS product segments to enable unified product roadmap & marketing strategy across 3 recently acquired companies, including $1.1B… Show more Left WD to join revolutionary Y-Combinator (YC) startup SpoonRocket, then rejoined WD following a year at the startup to assist WD executives in integration of $1.1B acquisition of startup FusionIO which pioneered the PCIe interface now industry standard for SSDs.• Developed and managed TAM/SAM/SOM industry models of then $2B SSD market across all PCIe/SATA/SAS product segments to enable unified product roadmap & marketing strategy across 3 recently acquired companies, including $1.1B M&A of FusionIO following the exit of Steve Wozniak as Chief Scientist. Show less

Joined Y-Combinator (YC) startup that was YC’s fastest revenue growth company (at the time) leading the “Uber for X” on-demand delivery revolution unleashed by the iPhone, leveraging Uber drivers (W2 contractors) to pioneer food delivery to any GPS location in an incredible 10 minutes or less from order. • Built and led operations team of ~100 contractors & employees, executing 3k orders/day, coordinating with CTO to develop digital, production and delivery infrastructure development to… Show more Joined Y-Combinator (YC) startup that was YC’s fastest revenue growth company (at the time) leading the “Uber for X” on-demand delivery revolution unleashed by the iPhone, leveraging Uber drivers (W2 contractors) to pioneer food delivery to any GPS location in an incredible 10 minutes or less from order. • Built and led operations team of ~100 contractors & employees, executing 3k orders/day, coordinating with CTO to develop digital, production and delivery infrastructure development to achieve pioneering last mile delivery service.• Developed revolutionary mobile food retherming & distribution hubs leveraging converted food trucks, to drive down distribution costs by a factor of 10x from $1.5M/site to $50k/hub, decoupling from highly regulated and costly brick and mortar locations in key enabling innovation of Series A growth strategy.• Achieved key investor Series A milestone of positive contribution margins, through aggressive inventory management, high margin product launches and strategic supplier partnerships to drive down spoilage and increase pricing power.• Founders declined an Uber acquisition offer from Travis Kalanick, inspiring the subsequent launch of UberEats several months later. Coupled with the (later failed) California State Government campaign to end the W2 contractor category, fierce competition from UberEats, Munchery, Sprig, Blue Apron, DoorDash and others led to eventual IP sale & exit to iFoods. Show less

Responsible for global $6B NAND chip supply allocation execution, meticulous investigation and analysis to resolve production bottlenecks, and weekly presentation and reviews with all BU heads.• Automated supply allocation & demand planning systems, reducing S&OP process times by 40% with 110,000-variable Linear Programming models to enable objective and optimized solutions for BU executives across entire $6B/yr global NAND supply. • Program lead for two international distribution… Show more Responsible for global $6B NAND chip supply allocation execution, meticulous investigation and analysis to resolve production bottlenecks, and weekly presentation and reviews with all BU heads.• Automated supply allocation & demand planning systems, reducing S&OP process times by 40% with 110,000-variable Linear Programming models to enable objective and optimized solutions for BU executives across entire $6B/yr global NAND supply. • Program lead for two international distribution center setups, facilitating contract redlines with legal, ensuring project delivery to schedule, cost and risk targets. • Awarded two spot bonuses in a year in recognition of outstanding contribution on two high impact projects (one listed above). Highest number of spot bonuses awarded at company in a single year. Show less