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Joe Carson has been recognized as top practitioner and thought leader when it comes to transforming Operations and Supply Chain organizations for today's challenges. As a transformational leader, Joe knows how to apply new productivity software tools, coach and uplift teams, and how to work across diverse global functions to develop and deploy world class supply chain operations, procurement excellence, manage risk and ensure compliance.Recognized by Thinkers360 as a Top50 Thought Leader in areas such as Procurement, Risk Management and GovTech.Joe has real-world procurement operational leadership (CPO 2X, VP Supply Chain2X), supply chain consulting (3X), and an understanding of how new Procurement A.I. tools will support all the above. He has also developed extensive expertise establishing Compliance, Risk, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility programs inside of Sourcing Strategies.Example engagements include:Expert Advisor for start-up AI companies targeted corporate operations centers – Work with CEO's of Silicon Valley innovation companies to launch new software products focusing on productivity and improved effectiveness in operations functions. VP of Global Operations and Services - Executing a supply chain planning and operations transformation of global producer of video equipment.Establish an internal Governance Structure that supports managing your multi-tier supply chain risk. Key to managing tariffs and trade impacts.Industry contributions include:• Business Development for ExperienceFlow, an advanced decision intelligence platform company• Expertise and experience in establishing a world class Supply Chain Risk and Operational Compliance programs• Procurement Transformation framework, process and experience.• Speaking engagements on the future of Digital Supply Chain tools and impacts• Translating software tools into actual program governance that drives business results

San Francisco, Ca, Us

ExperienceFlow's AI-based technology, Digital Nervous System(DNS), offers enterprises an entirely new way of driving intelligent decisions and actions in real-time across their organization. This system consists of a trio of situation-aware bots, which mimic human cognition to assist each role at the management and operations level for planning, reviewing and interjecting corrective decisions and actions.

Boise, Idaho, Us

Installed a world class procurement structure. Directly led development of category sourcing strategies and global deployment throughout company. Established global supplier relationship management framework for R&D and High-Volume Manufacturing. Achievements include:• ~$12+B in spend covering all areas of Capital, Indirect and Direct Materials. • Led complete restructuring and alignment of global procurement resources for optimizing efficiency and effectiveness. Resulting org delivering >1,200% Procurement ROI at <.4% expense to spend.• Exceeded savings goals in each period. 7-10% savings. Managed $1.5B of cash deferral payments. • Directed the Risk and Operational Compliance program. Risk program recently won the Industry Leader of the Year award for the Semiconductor Industry from the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council.• Ex-pat in Singapore with a global team of 400+ based in Boise, Singapore, as well as site procurement support at all Micron locations, fabs and back-end factories in Japan, Taiwan and China.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Operational Excellence – Accountable to lead supply chain strategy and drive operational excellence within the World-wide Operations team, as well as support operating margin improvements in alignment with company-wide business goals.Results include:• Operational Risk Management Program & leadership - Program Start-up to include supply chain mapping, event management, proactive risk mitigations and business continuity planning. • Operational Compliance Program & leadership - Program Start-up to include Compliance Dashboard and Corporate Governance• Establishment of Value Engineering & Collaborative Margin Planning functions - Program Start-up to Year-over-year contribution to the bottom line.• Integrated Supply Chain Simplification - Cross-company leadership for programs targeting Sale & Operations Planning efficiencies, SKU reduction, part-number reduction, hardware design rules.• Change Management - Utilizing Change Management practices to drive performance and impact.

Morrisville, North Carolina, Us

• Sales & Operations Planning – Established new demand planning process between sales forecast and demand plan resulting in improved customer on-time customer deliveries. Implementing Available-to-Promise (ATP), and other planning regiments. Resulted in virtual elimination of Past Due order balance.• Production - Consolidated contract manufacturing to two top-tier companies. Delivered record revenue during first fiscal year in addition to establishing KPI’s, QBR’s and other better management routines.• Supplier & Component Management - Staffed and directed supplier and component management teams which delivered a 50% COGS improvement in addition to creating first sourcing strategies and disciplines for both direct materials and indirect expenditures.• Integrated Business Strategic Planning - Leveraged consulting and data analysis skills to assist leadership team members with a variety of business issues in marketing, business planning, and organizational development.

New York, Ny, Us

AlixPartners is an elite global performance improvement, corporate turnaround and financial advisory services firm.Experiences include:• Launched key supplier development activities at a $39B European aerospace company.• Outsourced a NE-based manufacturing operation to an outside contract manufacturing service provider. Identified EBITDA savings of 25% of total costs and generated significant free cash.• Implemented cost improvement strategies at $3.8B book retailer. Optimized merchandising programs, franchise agreements and supplier contracts generating three times target savings. • Lead of High Tech practice team including business development and sales funnel management.• Independent work with an alternative energy fuel cell company with operations in the U.S. and Israel needing vendor management support in advance of company closure.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Managed an award-winning transformation of a decentralized, tactical purchasing function to a centralized, strategic, highly-leveraged procurement organization with 350 global reports extracting value on up to $10B in spend (direct, indirect, and 3rd party).• Developed, implemented and managed a complete overhaul of sourcing strategies, organizational competency, and supporting processes for entire procurement spend.• Delivered $250M+ in cost reductions each year through various eProcurement and cost reduction programs. Extended savings potential by working with suppliers and each business unit team on specific price reduction proposals or redesign programs. The result contributed significantly to increasing Lucent’s contribution margin from single digits to 40+%. • Achieved 72% reduction of discretionary overhead expenses in two years. Expanded company-wide impact of indirect strategic sourcing team to manage spend $’s (~$2B) versus price only.

Durham, Nc, Us

• Managed all marketing programs for $400M business through company-wide marketing efforts to include Market Research, Marketing Communications as well as Branding Strategies.• Turned around previous marketing efforts by initiating Market Research function that delivered first-ever data on customer demographics, Customer Satisfaction, and Competitive Benchmark, as well as by revamping trade show processes and updated company internal and external web site.

* Managed marketing programs, pricing and sales tools for Exide's $75M global service business. Overall services revenue grew ~50%;* Established and staffed Exide's first direct Service Sales organization as well as Channel programs for Agents. In its first three years, this newly-created organization doubled (100% growth) its service contract sales to $30M. (Versus 3% decline in the previous year);* Turned-around failing parts center. Accomplished customer satisfaction and financial goals in 9 months.

Mba, Marketing

Bachelors Of Science, Electrical Engineering