Kevin Breslin Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Senior Analyst on the Building Materials Pricing team• Price Testing: Work with merchants & leadership to brainstorm, create, pitch, implement, & track price tests for various products across the building materials department. Discover ways to drive units, sales dollars, gross margin dollars, & average unit retail depending on the current business needs of the merchant & the company as a whole.• Competitor Price Tracking: Track major competitors' product assortment & retail prices to understand our pricing position in the industry. Adjust prices as a result of recognizing specific business needs & goals, recognized by collaborating with company merchants & leaders, in order to lead the market in a certain direction, gain/retain market share, & drive sales & units.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Senior Analyst for Supply Chain Infrastructure Systems at The Home Depot.• IBM Maximo Implementation: I assisted with implementing a new, more robust, & more powerful computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) for logging & tracking work orders in all distribution centers across THD’s entire supply chain network.• Distribution Center Asset Tagging: As part of the Maximo implementation, I led the project of getting all valuable assets in the entire THD distribution center network tagged & logged so that the new system could track the end-to-end work history of every piece of company equipment.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Member of the Global Lab Operations & Innovation team• Worked on multiple efforts to reduce costs, streamline communication, & alleviate other challenges presented by NCR's ~100 labs around the world• Using HTML, redesigned the Lab Operations website from scratch, which is the main point of lab communication for hundreds of lab owners & employees globally• Turned the site from being a hard-to-navigate document dump to an aesthetic & simplified one-stop shop for documents, patches, training portals, & contact information. Document search time has been reduced by >90%.• Collected & analyzed extensive data to create a Global Lab Map showing a 1st-of-its-kind interactive worldview of the number of devices & functionality (banking, retail, &/or hospitality) at each lab location. NCR senior management became able to view key data in minutes to aid in major decision-making.• Spearheaded an initiative to improve the global tracking of NCR lab devices to reduce security vulnerability & improve asset allocation with a three-part approach: creation of a manual barcode tracking system, analysis of device data from auto-scanning software (ForeScout & Rapid7), & compiling of first-hand data from hundreds of employees globally• During the COVID crisis, helped track the rapid & widespread shipment of assets & firewalls to lab employees' homes to set up crucial in-home labs

Atlanta, Ga

Member of the Emerging Technology team in NCR's IT Services department• Uncovered & evaluated current as well as developing software & technology relevant to our industry for innovative ideas & improvements to our processes to better serve our clients.• Led cost & capability evaluations for third-party vendors of process improvement software• Ongoing efforts selected a supplier. Once implemented, the software will improve resource allocation, save time, & reduce costs

Atlanta, Ga

• Fitness Attendant for the GIT FIT department of the Campus Recreation Center (CRC)• Enforced gym policies, assisted patrons throughout various stages of their workout regimen, & ensured the overall safety of the CRC's members

Atlanta, Georgia

Industrial & Systems Engineering Senior Design Project - team of seven students• Worked to resolve food & beverage operational issues in the new stadium (queue wait times, inventory supply, logistics, warehousing, etc.).• Personally identified, established communication with, & met the client• Focused on identifying problems, data collection, analysis, & data visualization for reports & final presentations to both the client & Georgia Tech faculty. Hosted frequent brainstorming & problem-solving meetings.• Developed five workstreams: (1) queue redesign, (2) mobile ordering improvements, (3) enhanced signage, (4) manpower revisions, & (5) optimized warehouse layout/inventory management• Solutions led to a customer wait time reduction of approx. 51% (35 second average reduction in service time per fan) & optimized warehousing layout• Recommendations presented to Mercedes Benz management are still being used to this day

Duluth, Ga

• Learned & applied intelligent automation software as a part of NCR's Emerging Technology team• Proposed a more efficient internal business process by applying UiPath's robotic process automation (RPA) software to a pre-existing on-boarding workflow• Presented to the CIO & other management about my RPA project as well as how UiPath would integrate with NCR infrastructure if it were purchased & installed. UiPath was purchased in the coming months after my internship.

Lawrenceville, Ga

• Project planner in Cisco's Global Logistics Supply Chain department• Helped lead an analysis of supply chain data to determine if a shift in manufacturing from China to Mexico saved Cisco overhead costs & reduced shipment velocity in the previous fiscal year• Created, designed, & presented recommendations as part of a five-person team to senior management at Cisco's global headquarters in San Jose, CA to reduce expedited shipments & lower overall supply chain costs

Suwanee, Ga

• Promoted from cleaning & organizing the gym floor to recruiting, training, scheduling, & directing student employees to assist with cost-saving initiatives & membership growth• Helped the owner & staff with after-hours gym planning & reorganization

Suwanee, Ga

• Worked various roles in the restaurant & on catering deliveries, including managing inventory, working the cash register, serving, cleaning, & resolving general customers' issues