• Led demand planning and forecasting for highly complex portfolio of mobile devices / tablets exceeding 10 million units ( >$4B) in net purchases annually for fulfillment to Sprint dealer and U.S. big-box retail network.• Vendor management, purchasing responsibilities and key relationship lead across all handset OEMs.• Managed ~20 FTE's including demand planning and vendor management directors and their respective teams.• Outperformed against KPI's ; forecast accuracy, retail in stocks and working capital optimization (turns, inventory E&O) to unlock value for Brightstar, Sprint and their shared parent company, Softbank.

General Manager for Brightstar's engagement with Cricket (NASDAQ:LEAP), with additional responsibilities including:• Account P&L Management • Team Leadership of 8 direct reports geographically split across San Diego & Denver & dozens of indirect staff at 3PL facility in Libertyville, IL.• Performance governance and contract management across broad scope of 3PL+ contract engagement: supply chain planning & portfolio & lifecycle management advisory services, 3PL (warehouse management & transportation), accounts receivable, contact center support for 2k dealership across US & device insurance program partnership via subsidiary. eSecuritel.• Commercial management and negotiation, QBR's, financial & management updates back to Brightstar corp.• Exit negotiations (Cricket Wireless purchased by AT&T in March 2014, Brightstar acquired by Softbank at similar time) & service disengagement program management.

Continued global owner of several Brightstar products, now tasked with selling, customizing and implementing for major US corporations (Cricket Wireless and Target Mobile)• Led client facing team of product management and supply chain professionals. • Redesigned, implemented & provided ongoing business support to client S&OP process. • Reporting & analysis down to SKU level for mobile portfolio. • Inventory management & excess & obsolete planning (analytics, business cases) and execution.• Hiring & management of account team based in client HQ.

Secondment in South Africa, working with African carrier group MTN:• Implemented Portfolio Management & Supply Chain product suite for customer. • Outlined a corporate device strategy; a collaborative framework with cross business agreement on device selection (previous to arrival was a free for all with no corporate controls for selection & buying). • Consulted and provided change management solutions to align business unit sales & network technological requirements.• Designed and installed a device selection and inventory S&OP management cadence. • Hired & trained local team to continue on account.

Responsible for delivering supply chain products & services to CSL (a leading Hong Kong based telco carrier) whom outsourced S&OP planning, range selection & analytics, demand planning, warehouse management & retail fulfillment to Brightstar.* Continued product ownership of the services I built with Telstra and now taking to global markets. • Key relationship manager with client CMO / CFO and teams.• Maintain bi-annual device strategy / business selection framework; tablets, smartphones & accessories.* Built & maintained S&OP cadence with strong executive attendance.• Dramatically lowered number of active SKU's, basically eliminated inventory obsolescence, maintained highly accurate SKU forecast & >99% retail in-stock rates.* Performance management for ~10 supply chain & telecom professionals. • Business development work across China, Thailand & Vietnam.

Product Management in the mobile devices supply chain, providing portfolio management & analytical services for Telstra to help optimize their retail selection:• Built a "Device Business Case product, encompassing sales unit forecast, unit subsidy, obsolescence & warranty exchange allocations, providing a procurement department a full device P&L solution to help drive negotiations with manufacturers/OEMs.• Built a "Device Contribution Margin" analysis product, providing weekly snapshots of active SKUs and their relative per unit profitability to each other. Built a decision cadence around this product driving pricing & EOL decisions. • Weekly handset & carrier competitive intelligence & store insights (utilizing my old retail network).

• Led Telstra group mobiles executive performance reporting (Subscribers, Revenue, CPGA and other management metrics). Scorecards and insights used at CEO and Investor Relations level.• Pioneered new forecasting processes for wireless growth products (wireless broadband dongles, connected IoT devices etc), driving robust target setting & sales tracking on key growth portfolio.• Automated reporting through Hyperion integration & advanced excel. • Significantly increased handset subsidy reporting and forecasting, providing insight into the company's number one OPEX line item.

• FP&A role: weekly & monthly financial and management reporting for Telstra's consumer mobile business (subscribers, activations / upgrades, ARPU, revenue etc).• Adhoc analysis utilizing TM1/Cognos/Hyperion Essbase.

Customer sales & service across retail suite of products and services (mobile, fixed, broadband) at Melbourne flagship store. Part time whilst studying business degree. Fantastic compliment to degree, gaining deep understanding of retail store operations, customer service, sales strategies and retail systems (POS, activation / provisioning systems, e-learning, returns etc). Recruited out of store into finance department.

Gap year in London. Teaching the aquatically challenged British how to remain buoyant & travelling.