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Winston-Salem, NC, US

Winston-Salem, NC, US

Winston-Salem, NC, US

• Digitized Forecasting Process Owner, responsible for producing and automating forecasts to support Financial Planning and Capacity Planning. Process consists of more than two-million analytical models utilizing.
• Developed 99% automated review process for forecasting engine so that analysts could focus on large drivers of forecast error. Process included automated PDFs with plots of critical issues and recommended remediation.
• Co-developed time-series clustering and neural network methodology to predict a product's demand as a product exits the market in order to reduce inventory risk.
• Partnered with sales team to recommend optimal inventory levels and identify inventory holes in our retail partner's brick and mortar stores.

Winston-Salem, NC, US

• Co-managed HBI’s Digitized Forecasting Engine.
• Optimized engine by developing SAS stored procedures for efficient data extraction, improving customer hierarchy, and determining effective allocation methodologies for forecast overrides.
• Managed integration of Hanes Direct-To-Consumer business ($400M in sales) onto the forecasting platform.
• Led summer intern project to develop ARIMAX time series models resulting in a 6% error reduction to shipment forecast.
• Continued financial forecasting support of HBI’s Basics business.

Winston-Salem, NC, US

• Financial Demand Forecast Lead for HBI’s Basic’s business ($1.25B sales). Quarterly publication of a 2-year shipment and retail sales forecast by product category at the customer level. Point of contact to solve demand.
• Enhanced ARIMAX forecasting models by adding features, such as door count and promotions.
• Automated data cleansing techniques such as removing zero-series and imputing missing retail sales data.

Reston, Virginia, US

• Developed SAS code in Linux environment to process randomly generated data and live survey data to verify surveys are administered precisely and accurately.
• Assisted the development and maintenance of weekly and monthly call center agent report cards for ~300 agents using SQL and SQL Report Builder.
• Created Survey Research deliverables such as formatted datasets, codebooks and reports.
• Maintained weekly Excel-base reports to Integrated Customer Service clients.

Greensboro, NC, US

• Analyzed Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) data to quantify gender bias in the US Private Equity Market
• Created, cleaned and maintained state-specific dataset of US proof-of-concept centers

Irving, Texas, US

• Developed regression models to understand behavior to direct marketing stimuli for a fortune 500 consumer packaged goods (CPG) client.
• Utilized custom consumer survey data to study and cluster the US chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) population in marketing segments for a multinational healthcare client.
• Provided ad hoc statistical programming and presentation development support to analytic project leads.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Applied Economics

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematical Sciences And Statistics