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As a seasoned professional in working capital management with a specialized focus on inventory optimization, I have a proven track record of helping organizations achieve significant cost savings and operational efficiencies. With over a decade of experience in this field, I possess a deep understanding of inventory management principles and techniques, and I am skilled at developing and implementing strategies that help organizations optimize their inventory levels and improve cash flow.

Sendero is a full-service management consulting firm focused on one thing: empowering rapid, significant, and measurable results. We provide large and mid-sized organizations with management consulting services that empower them to improve performance, increase efficiencies, and implement fundamental transformation. Our experts provide guidance in strategic planning, digital transformation, and organizational effectiveness across a variety of industries. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Dallas, Sendero has been named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies list for ten consecutive years and is routinely recognized as a best place to work by our people.

Managed projects in supply chain organizations at Fortune 500 clients leading to increasing profits and generating working capital. Provided functional project leadership and managed up to five internal resources per project.Notable Projects* Managed comprehensive inventory visibility and optimization project at a global manufacturer across NA, EMEA, and APAC; linked disparate ERPs to facilitate global inventory visibility and sourcing, reducing overall inventory levels, and developing strategies for last time buys and alternative sourcing.* Led the global team on multiple inventory optimization workstreams at a global industrial manufacturer across US, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, India, and Malaysia, leading to identifying more than $20M in inventory reduction opportunities.* Worked with leading chemical manufacturer to implement comprehensive, multi-echelon inventory optimization.

Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization: Managed multiple projects within leading medical devices manufacturer to model and analyze complete end-to-end supply chain. Oversaw teams of 3+ analysts and kept multiple workstreams on-schedule and on-budget over 9+ months of engagements. Projects identified over $50M in saving opportunities.Supply Chain Business Intelligence: Worked with leading industrial manufacturer to develop and implement world-class BI capabilities. Assisted BI team with identifying opportunities to provide value-creating analytics offerings and bringing those through development and into production. Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization: Conducted inventory optimization pilot at a leading CPG firm for their spray fragrance line. The project covered 21 products and highlighted opportunities to shift inventory for better customer service as well as inventory reduction.

Supply Chain Strategy: Comprehensive supply chain assessment for >$1B home goods manufacturer covered new product introduction, SC complexity, & production strategies.Supply Chain Complexity Analysis: Demand and supply variability analysis for multinational steel company identified low value finished goods causing disproportionate costs.Supply Chain Control Tower Implementation: Helped world’s leading manufacturer of heavy equipment to operationalize comprehensive supply chain control tower. Managed a team of 4 analysts to monitor real-time data flows and provide oversight for the entire end-to-end supply chain. Disaster avoidance and recovery procedures saved millions of dollars in excess costs and potential supply disruption by routing materials to avoid areas impacted by floods, fires, and financial upheaval. Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization: Modeled end-to-end supply chain for multiple product lines at leading heavy equipment manufacturer and identified >$50M in potential inventory reduction opportunities across the worldwide manufacturing and distribution network. Identified numerous areas for data quality/availability improvements.Inventory Optimization: Trained client team at $1B medical devices company on inventory optimization modeling software, leaving in-house team with an ability to maintain existing models and run future scenarios themselves.

Process Improvement (Product Development): Led new product development process improvement project at large telecom firm. Brought together multi-functional team including representatives from marketing, engineering, product development, project management office, information security, and procurement. Time-to-market was reduced by 30% by reengineering internal processes and overhauling hardware testing and defect resolution procedures.Software Modernization: Assisted in development of process to reverse engineer 1.3 million lines of COBOL code in order to develop comprehensive system documentation. Created complete system documentation for eight business processes in the form of over 100 use cases.

Managed employees who assist with daily operations and special projects involving USA PATRIOT Act compliance. In December, 2006, earned Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) designation from the Association of Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.