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Louisville, Co

Coordinate supply chain related activities including:Procurement of capital and expense items - coordinate purchasing of capital and expense itemsAccounting and Finance Liaison - Analyze business plan - coordinate accounting activity with financeOperations Support - assist in creation and testing of production equipment

Broomfield, Colorado

Provide financial, accounting and budgeting support to local Colorado governments

Thornton Co

A key member of the Maintenance Supply Chain Operations team, performing business problem analysis while serving as a critical interface with cross functional operations and finance teams to improve communication of inventory movements, and related expense to senior leadership• Implemented operational analysis on vendor packaging and repair charges, created a model to evaluate vendor billing data sources resulting in over $300K in annual savings• Collaborated with field support teams and IT product support to identify, define, and implement a global purchases tool to automate global purchases reporting that improved accuracy and reducing processing time 4 hours / month • Managed global monthly inventory reviews with cross functional operations and finance teams to advise business on inventory movement issues, related costs & risks vs benefits• Designed, developed, and analyzed a simplified excel inventory reserve valuation model to calculate the P&L impact of inventory based on product aging resulting in a process improvement that reduced calculation time by 50% and improved cost forecast accuracy• Project managed a quarterly excess inventory review process with internal inventory managers to create quarterly inventory reduction goals of up to $2M• Identified new data sources and definitions, to improve global warranty expense charge back process, reducing data sources from 10 to 2 and analysis time from 2 days to 2 hours • Led an SAP shipment demand team to understand, identify, and document end customer shipment reporting that reduced process time from 2 hours to 10 minutes• Created an aggregate service inventory demand forecast model to calculate annual demand by region including seasonal demand trends facilitating more accurate forecasts• Collaborated with a cross functional SAP IT & Supply Chain team to simplify customer shipment reporting - filtered non hardware shipments eliminating manual review & reducing process time from 2 hours to 10 minutes

Broomfield Colorado

Identified, defined and reported global supply chain metrics including global monthly and quarterly expense and inventory actual and forecasts to senior leadership and finance• Led cross functional project team to understand, identify, and document metric reporting requirements recommending an enhanced global operational KPI metrics package• Created an Activity Based Cost model to identify total costs to support end of service life products influencing the decision not to move EOSL repair offshore saving over $300K• Correlated customer demand with supply chain expense categories and revenue trends to guide senior director in making required cost cutting decisions by cost line item by region• Generated a global inventory turns calculation at the part number level reducing Last Time Buy purchases by nearly $100K / quarter while maintaining customer on-time ship metrics

Broomfield Colorado

Provided financial and operational KPI metric support to senior director of global customer services • Managed a Six Sigma DMAIC project to reduce parts ordered per service request communicating recommendations that resulted in saving $8M in annual parts purchases in North America, earning a Six Sigma Green Belt• Conducted research to determine if solution to SUN customer support for Hitachi product line was more profitable within SUN or outside using vendor owned inventory• Created a global outsourced warehouse cost model and related monthly reporting process reducing monthly warehouse reporting cycle time by 3 days• Prepared business model for Operations team that reduced forward and backward logistics processes decreasing the spare part pipeline from 8 days down to 2 • Managed Field Change Order process, acquiring executive approval, coordinating seed stock procurement & material purges reducing inventory purchases nearly $0.8M annually

Mba, Finance

Activities and Societies: Academic Adviser to 300+ undergraduate Business studentsSummer Internship at Blue Cross / Blue Shield

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics

Activities and Societies: Beta Kappa Phi

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics