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Beaverton, Oregon, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead analyst and data engineer supporting analytics efforts for a rapidly growing DTC company across all function of the business including growth / performance marketing, ecommerce and website optimization, product, and finance.Implement agile development strategies within analytics team creating better workload management across teammates and strategic visibility of outputs to leadership.Drive strategic prioritization and stakeholder management across workstreams including international and retail expansion utilizing Snowflake, Python, Heap, Shopify, and Tableau.Partner with senior leaders in organization in understanding of customers and sales across product, basket, and geographic lenses through dashboarding and analytical exercises

San Francisco Bay Area

Transitioned from product owner in an agile oriented sprint team to product manager working with end users and business leaders inside Levi Strauss & Co.'s regionally focused global business model.Within the first 90 working days in the role, developed and led a three day Business Intelligence gathering and subsequently developed a global BI roadmap for the year to come.Manage a team tasked with helping people access and utilize data faster to make more informed decisions through multiple platforms including the Microsoft Office suite, VBA, postgreSQL, Python, and Alteryx. The results of the first three projects included days of time saved across the business enabling levels of insight earlier in the go-to-market process than previously possible and enabling key global business intelligence objectives to be completed this fiscal year.Before departing the company, I was accepted to the advanced cohort of the Machine Learning and AI Bootcamp and was actively working with data engineering, product management, and business teams in developing datasets and dashboards to evaluate data science prediction accuracy against planner plans.

San Francisco, California

Partner with inventory management, inventory strategy, and systems teams to optimize business processes and deliver improved metrics and actionable intelligence to the Banana Republic and Banana Republic Factory Store brands.Specifically, this role focuses on providing unique business insights to various levels of leadership, creating tools and processes to support brand level initiatives at the pre-season and in-season planning stages, and optimizing conversion and system communication processes between the business and the advanced analytics and systems teams to ensure systems deliver the ability to meet business strategies.

Greater Chicago Area

Create the future of key Central territory marketplaces through analytics, cross-functional partnership, and consumer knowledge to drive the “win as one” strategy and create a seamless omnichannel experience at retail, wholesale, and digital. During this interim position, accomplishments include creating the foundation for a scalable capacity model through closed loop process including quantitative and qualitative consumer identification, location selection, and retail scorecard evaluation. Integral to the closed loop process is the creation and proof-of-concept for retail scorecard evaluation tool using multiple data warehouses, Visual Basic programming language, mapping technology, and advanced Microsoft Excel to actively identify sales trends by key consumer zones in real time that validates qualitative insight and improves overall market trend identification.

Greater Chicago Area

Lead account executives, sales management, and accounts in sales cycle from pre-season forecasting, in-season selling, and post-season hindsighting to deliver sustainable and profitable growth for accounts across multiple segmentations and geographic areas with differing demographics and psychographics.The role includes large amounts of high-level communication, influence skills, education, and internal and external partnership. Advanced quantitative analysis combined with qualitative insight guide planning and add hoc analysis for accounts to optimize inventory and sales, which are directly used to improve revenue and profitability and communicated directly to accounts at seasonal sales meetings.Additionally, my time in this role has led to significant process improvements resulting in over 400 hours of time saved across the territory planning organization. Through the use of VBA and creative and solutions-oriented processes that emphasize data visualization and process automation, territory business planners and account executives are saving time during critical peak periods in the sales calendar.

Analyzed wholesale, retail, and strategic markets and deliver recommendations and insight to senior leadership of Nike's primary innovation and growth category. The role included in-depth analysis and presentations of seasonal product assortments to optimize category performance. Multiple third-party data sources and the Microsoft Office suite were used to meet cross-functional and senior leadership's requests for information, context, and analysis behind marketplace metrics, including the creation of two best practices for North America on key marketplace analysis and standardized reporting for key initiatives for the North America leadership team.

Developed by door category strategies for the largest apparel business of a one billion dollar retailer using multi-level analysis based on volume, sub-department penetration, by-door trends, and sales history. Overall business performance was +7% to budget in fiscal year 2010.During FY'10, several key process I created optimized business performance and profitability. These included a 50% reduction in process time for allocating a 3.4 million unit tee business yielding a +24% improvement in sales and an 85% reduction in time on seasonal inventory forecasts yielding 28.5 weeks of saved time across the entire department.

Provided service to Nike employees and their families throughout both on-campus fitness facilities. Promoted to supervisory role and memorized over 150 employee numbers during my time in the position.

Graded memos on various topics relating to business leadership for both content, format, and structure, and tutored students as they prepared for finals.