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Corpus Christi, TX, US

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• First in the role for a firm with 900+ employees to provide technical leadership, improve efficiencies for over 50 managers, including business and technology stakeholders.
• Launched data science initiative and building center-of-excellence in data intelligence
• Redesigned assembly training process that reduced trainer workload by 93%; presented case study at Stanford Design Thinking Bootcamp
• Built an internal team and contractors to launch a Business Intelligence Center of Excellence, delivering over $1 million of return annually
• Deliver architected data and warehouse within three months of launch, reducing business unit data acquisition time from weeks, and sometimes months to on-demand access
• Engaged all business units in data visualization platform evaluation, resulting in the adoption of Tableau

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Selected as the firm’s first hire in this high visibility role reporting into the CFO.
• Actively engaged with C-Level management, interviewed the entire executive and 50+ middle management teams, identified requirements and influenced approvals
• Introduced long-term visioning processes, facilitated workshops and meetings, and one of five resources participating in a 15-year vision refinement initiative with the CEO

• Led a team of planners responsible for creating a forecast and actionable production plan to support up to $200 million in annual sales
• Automated a manual production planning system, with error detection, logging, and email notification
• Performed root cause analysis on planning system errors that reduced nightly system crashes from more than one a week to once a quarter
• Implemented a testing framework that eliminated the need for a test ERP environment, and reduced simulation times from 4 hours to 5 min, dramatically reducing the time to test system changes
• Implemented an automatic database snapshot of the planning system that made slowly developing system problems visible, reducing time-to-insight from days and sometimes weeks to hours
• Mentored group of 5 power users in SQL, enabling self-serve data analysis on core systems

• Founding member of Sales & Operations Planning team
• Created and implemented a transparent, collaborative forecasting process that partnered closely with Sales and Supply Chain
• Grouped over 15,000 products into families, enabling comprehensive demand analysis
• Created intuitive visualizations that radically altered Kimray’s understanding of product trends
• Created and implemented a data warehouse to support the forecasting process, with an automated ETL from Kimray’s ERP system
• Forecasting’s data warehouse became the primary source of sales information for Kimray because of the time-to-value

• Managed the entire application life cycle of many custom software projects. Examples include:Interactive Product Catalog
• Presented solution concept which transformed a simple web application into a visually driven catalog
• Led a cross-functional team to build supporting infrastructure on a compressed (three month) timeframe for an international conference
• Deliverables included interactive online catalog, product metadata repository, and image processing workflow with custom visual matching algorithmSolidworks drawing viewer
• Imagined and built an CAD drawing viewer in three days to mitigate a vendor error that would have kept access to a mission-critical CAD system offline for over a month
• Viewer was preferred by Kimray users and remained in use for almost two years

Tyumen Region, Russian Federation

The US–Russia Impact Bridge brings together entrepreneurs and companies in the Central Texas and Central Russia regions to promote the ideals of working globally together. The impact is sustainable economic growth and stronger partnerships between the U.S.A. and the Russian Federation.https://techranchaustin.com/bridgerussia/

Norman, OK

• Research & Development on proprietary software applicationResearch included:
• Creating high performance compression and encryption components inheriting from System.IO.Stream
• Writing T4 code templates that output SQL, VB.NET, and WWF activities and workflows
• Creating frameworks compatible with the.NET Compact Framework and SilverlightTechnologies used during development included.NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Framework, Microsoft Silverlight 1.1, Microsoft Compact.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Managed the entire development cycle for multiple products, which included:
• Web application that integrated billing from multiple wireless carriers, enabling client cost-savings of over $100k a year
• Created auditing engine that was used to import and analyze over 1 billion call detail records from multiple carriers, identifying over $3 million of overcharges
• Telecom contract repository that automatically collected and parsed over 18,000 contracts in multiple document formatsTechnologies used in product development included Microsoft SQL Server 7 / 2000 / 2005, Microsoft.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Met with prospective clients to gather requirements
• Presented concept solutions to client stakeholders
• Created statements of work and negotiated terms
• Full stack software developmentTechnologies used in product development included Microsoft SQL Server 7 / 2000, and Microsoft Visual Basic 6