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Sunnyvale, California, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

• Establish depth and strong business acumen in multiple core process areas to deliver business outcome level results through advanced analytics, process modernization tools and domain expertise• Link how modernization of our processes and tools will serve customers at the velocity they need with quantifiable transformation• Engage with end to end functional leaders, end users, and partners across the company to develop a deep understanding of process modernization needs • Establish modern methods, advanced analytics, and tools to both provide new insights into current state and redesign for transformative outcomes• Define how we will transform and lead this process modernization across core business processes

Austin, Texas Area

• Lead the effort around analytics transformation directly supporting the VP and assisting the broader leadership team to digitally transform the supply chain• Manage product portfolio strategy for data science, application development, and BI development products in global supply chain planning • Transform organizational operating model to effectively scale Agile development and Scrum processes across technical development teams• Create and govern organizational management system working with and influencing Director-level team members to achieve organizational strategy• Deliver new disruptive demand planning tools as Product Owner for scrum team of data scientists, application developers, and data engineers

Austin, Texas Area

• Manage global manufacturing lead time performance for Servers, Storage, and Networking products to optimize Dell's lead time competitiveness• Enabled 30% increase to standard manufacturing lead time performance within first 60 days of role• Lead weekly executive forum analyzing the state of the business for Dell's Enterprise supply chain performance• Lead team business management structure (BMS) focusing on process automation, alignment, and best practice sharing among global performance management leads

Austin, Tx

• Led the end to end North America Lead Time Council to ensure continued accuracy in Dell’s customer delivery commitments (~10-15M annual orders)• Enabled 18% improvement to on time performance and 75% improvement to lead time adjustment reaction time through daily cycle time monitoring, predictive analytics and interactive Power BI dashboards • Improved on time performance for Q4 holiday shipment by 3-4% through end-to-end RAPID playbook development for extended supply chain teams• Reduced reporting workload by 70% for North America Client BTO lead time coordinator through automated data aggregation and analytics

Austin, Texas Area

• Managed $200M of annual ocean freight spend carrying $4B of ODM and VMI inbound inventory• Reduced average shipment delay by 50% through daily/weekly collaboration with DHL and creating a multiple regression model to better predict container ETAs in the ocean pipeline• Reduced inbound ocean operations reporting workload by 60-75% through process automation via Excel and PowerPoint• Led organizational workshop on automation and process improvement techniques

Austin, Texas Area

• Managed $400M of global annual spend on Intel and AMD chipsets• Ensured zero major chipset stockouts during Intel Skylake 14nm industry supply constraint through daily collaboration with Intel, Dell global platform supply chain managers, and Dell demand planners• Utilized Design Thinking methodology to establish guiding principles and process flows for new product transition planning for the Global Commodity Managers to use for future technology refreshes (10nm CPUs, 7nm CPUs, etc)

Austin, Texas Area

• Managed $500M of annual POs across 200 configurations of North America consumer finished goods• Reduced DSI and aging inventory by 45% by operationalizing dashboards identifying DSI projections, aging inventory items, and forecast changes to enable better collaboration between supply chain and merchandizing through weekly S&OP forum• Enabled 95% stock availability during Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales by identifying at-risk inbound ocean shipments during 2014/2015 LA port strike, mitigating risk through appropriate air POs, and establishing daily governance and monitoring of promo demand/supply positions

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

• Developed analytical dashboards in Excel for consulting KPIs • Managed business requirements and captured use cases for transforming a healthcare management tool from Excel to a web-based application• Created marketing material on behalf of PYA Analytics, LLC to present to external customers and stakeholders • Learned basic Python, R, and SQL

London, United Kingdom

Created and managed company's distributor database along with inventory spreadsheets. Created and implemented a marketing campaign including slogans, advertisement design and placement, newsletters & E-blasts, and general sales.