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Bellevue, Washington, United States

Lead a global shared services organization focused on accelerating sustainable packaging and automation solutions.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Driving initiatives to reduce costs and waste while launching innovative packaging products.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Seattle, Wa

Lead a team of customer-obsessed Lab Technicians to test and certify items to ship with less or zero (SIOC) packaging. Managed an advanced industrial testing and design lab and launched a materials testing lab while expanding a team to 24-hour operations and scaling 3rd party testing.

Greater Seattle Area

Project Management focused on supply chain improvements for oversized (heavy / bulky) products.

Seattle, Washington

Managed cross-functional projects to achieve logistics cost savings and unlock new capabilities. Focused on Transportation scheduling and consolidation, distribution best-practices and network analysis.

Seattle, Wa

Managed cross-functional projects focused on freight-consolidation, customer experience, and distribution network and fulfillment modeling.

Seattle, Wa

-Implemented Warehouse Management System (WMS) and provided key deliverables in a number of areas of the project including requirements gathering and design, configuration and testing, change management and user training, go-live performance monitoring and reporting.-Worked cross-functionally to coordinate logistics for five different seasonal promotions, as well as a number of new product and new customer launches.-Drove adoption of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool dramatically improving customer service level performance across all North American regional distribution centers. -Helped coordinate Hurricane Sandy logistics relief effort for Northeast distribution center -Held regularly scheduled weekly and daily calls with field management to better prepare distribution network and address operational issues. -Developed standard operating procedures, queries, reports, and documentation to empower other employees with information and process consistency. -Improved execution and capabilities with regards to order fulfillment to B2B customers, reduced fines, and drove financial growth for the channel business units.

Usa And Canada

Implemented warehouse management software and industry best practices in multiple channels including direct-to-consumer, B2B, retail distribution, reverse logistics, and omnichannel fulfillment.

Atlanta, Ga

Implemented Manhattan Associates Warehouse Management for Open Systems WMOS v2008 and v2009 software. Also developed skills in command line and pulling data (PL/SQL Developer, Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Tools, Aqua Data Studio.) Gained technical proficiency Microsoft Office suite.

Columbus, Oh

-Handled technical queries for site accessed over 50,000 times daily.-Tested software integration and fix-tested new versions and updates.-Innovated Help system by building a Knowledge Base of common issues.-Developed Wiki page and over 100 articles to allow users to share helpful tips with others.-Administrated over server outages and performance issues.

London, United Kingdom

International Internship / Special projects manager-Proofread legal and marketing documents-Managed storage, transportation, inventory control of promotional materials-Took minutes at top-level executive board meetings-Prepared presentations for air-finance conferences such as the Paris -Air Show and Middle East and Africa Airfinance Conference

Bellevue, Wa

Worked a variety of front-of-house and back-of-house functions including: Sales Floor (Hardlines, Consumables, and Softlines,) Backroom, Guest Service, Cashier, Asset Protection, Telephone Operator, Fitting Rooms, Cart Attendant.Trained dozens of other employees in the above functions.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, International Business

Dual-specialization in Logistics and International Business