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Mount Holly, Nc, Us

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 time-series, regression, and neural network techniques. • 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 steps, reducing overall model evaluation time by 90%. • 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 related inquiries for marketing, sales and planning teams. • 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