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Bertram, Tx, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

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Advise clients in areas of process, organizational design and integration of supply chain technology to maximize efficiency and profits.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Provided product management leadership for key supply chain planning suite in a cloud, PaaS environment for two release cycles. Particular focus on Demand Sensing, Network Planning (Constrained/Unconstrained), and Retail Solutions.

● Started software and consulting services company. Guided client through multiple competitive software evaluations and multi-year global ERP project. Enabled client to consistently maintain both best-in-class customer service and be benchmarked among peers as the low-cost manufacturer.● Designed, developed, and implemented advanced, daily demand “sensing” module to predict short-term customer demands. Daily, memory-resident module analyzed 200K+ customer/material combinations in minutes to identify shipping patterns, special events, and savings opportunities.● Refined high-level global network re-design proposal for $5B manufacturing company. Over three-month period lead a small team using my company’s modeling technology to create multiple scenarios that ultimately lead to proposal that reduced supply chain complexity by 40%.

Bedford, Ma, Us

● Lead AspenTech’s effort to build a competitive offering for the consumer products and durables markets. Defined core components of proposed product offering. Developed delivery timeline and budget. Identified and hired key personnel for sales and product development roles.

● Formed supply chain planning and execution software startup company to address deficiencies in offerings of commercial packages. Reverse-engineered key execution aspects of supply/demand planning, transportation, and warehouse operations into new, proprietary planning algorithm. Client documented $4M of savings in first year just from intelligent transportation mode selection. Ultimately, the extended, fully developed suite generated $15M per year in incremental profits over 18-year life cycle (tot: > $270M)● Conducted a comprehensive design review of the supply chain planning suite of one of the world’s largest software vendors. Introduced key upgrades to modeling and solver methodologies. Reduced solve time for key components by 99.5 percent.● Rescued failed $1M software development effort intended to support client’s new pricing strategy. In six weeks, lead team that met client’s immediate business requirement and developed a sub-second, simulation tool to evaluate every sales order received to identify low-cost, service consistent source. Solution saved client $3-5M annually in supply chain costs.● Designed and lead team to develop a customer collaboration and replenishment application in compressed 9-month period. Within eighteen months, the client company ($4.5B CPG) had 35% of total volume managed via the module and was repeatedly named Vendor of the Quarter by the world’s largest retailer. ● Designed, developed, and implemented intelligent inventory optimization module using product life cycle and facility roles to set target inventory levels throughout multi-echelon distribution network. Customer services levels were sustained at 99.5% while inventory levels were reduced by 25%.

Austin, Texas, Us

Conducted comprehensive reviewed of Oracle's early supply chain solution. Advised to strategically redesign significant components and to adopt in memory solver architecture as opposed to 100% reliance on database calls.

Oakland, Ca, Us

● Lead the design, testing, and implementation of all extended supply chain components of a corporate ERP project. Integrated marketing and sales product volume planning (statistical forecasting) and Distribution Requirements Planning with customer service, warehouse operations, and transportation.● Analyzed recommendations from an optimization study commissioned by Division Manager as justification to warrant creation of new, separate physical distribution network. Identified invalid assumptions and data flaws in the model. Avoided an incremental $4-5M annual cost.● Designed real-time user interface to close major gap in newly installed corporate-wide ERP system. Transparency of inventory, movements, orders, and quality was integrated into single global view. Resulting transaction immediately became single most heavily used transaction in company.

Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Fr

● Lead the North American Distribution Requirements Planning project. Implemented commercial software and developed processes to integrate forecasting, distribution operations, and master production scheduling activities between four previously autonomous operating divisions.● Developed and implemented planning and communications processes between North America and Europe and Japan. Resulting transparency and equivalent quality information exchanges allowed effective management of local production capacity to increase from 65% to 100%.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

● Turned around failing personnel support center. Introduced technology, training, and structure that transformed center in ninety days from being consistently the worst performing group in the brigade to being recognized for superior soldier support levels in every successive quarterly review.● Commanded the most combat-ready heavy weapons company in the 101st Airborne Division. First officer in the Division to integrate digital technology into all areas of company-level operations: property accountability, training, maintenance, and personnel.