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Sacramento, California Area

• Tax strategy development that synthesizes HPE value drivers with external legal and regulatory requirements; maintaining uncompromised customer experience, optimizing tax benefits, assuring regulatory compliance and aligning to overall HPE cost structures• Leads free cash flow initiatives and optimizes projects through analysis of company trading structure and trade-offs; analysis requires cross-functional alignment across the value-chain with emphasis on cash flow improvement and maintaining the customer experience• Program Management Office (PMO) leadership for high value projects, including IT oversight• Conducts foreign government negotiations to acquire cost saving incentives• Audits management supporting cost saving structures NOTABLE PROJECTS: • Led team that constructed a value-add resource model that supports tax advantaged manufacturing and delivers significant benefit to the company’s earnings per share annually• Established a robust governance structure that supports value chain strategic changes and new foreign tax regulations, mitigating internal and external disruptions which imposed significant risk to the overall tax benefits supported by value chain activity in foreign jurisdictions

Sacramento, California Area

• Managed a hardware and software deployment strategy team that worked closely with product engineering, R&D, and business strategy teams on product fulfillment recommendations that balanced cost, customer experience, and long-term strategic plansAreas of responsibility included: • Revenue expansion to emerging markets including China and Brazil • Overall inventory reduction and significant improvement of cycle times to meet customer requirements• Driving continuous improvements to ensure proactive operations that reach strategic targets

Sacramento, California Area

• Managed a 30+ team with a $1.5 billion annual turnover for the company’s software supply chain, focusing on strategic development and alignment, operational efficiency, business process development, and program/project management Areas of responsibility includes:• Product and process engineering for new product introduction, current product changes, factory enablement and quality management• Software product deployment, delivery, quality, product holds, hold mitigation, factory enablement and DfX• Software supply chain transformation, IT capability enablement, and IT plan of record inclusion and/or submission

Sacramento, Ca Area

• Responsible for software supply chain, focused on strategic development and alignment, operational enablement of strategy, business process development, and program/project management • Managed product and process engineering for new product introduction, current product changes, quality of deliverables, factory enablement, quality management and DfX

Sacramento, California Area