Understanding complex situations and breaking them down into bite sized pieces is a part of who I am. While I have always excelled at just understanding complex situations, I have since been given the tools and know-how to truly help reduce complexity in the long term. I face each hurdle with thoughts of “How can this be improved upon?” Complexity reduction, continuous improvement, and cost savings work hand in hand as good systems will reward those who take the time to initiate them.I was originally brought into the Whirlpool Corporation as a contractor. I was asked, along with my coworkers, to help develop a new system for managing literature. This was something originally put forward by my leader, but was expanded upon in my year long contract. I was skilled enough, or at least lucky enough, to be asked to join the official team. From there, we worked to help save millions of dollars for the company over my relatively short tenure. We utilized the whole team and various ideas, even allowing our team’s customers to give us direct feedback, so we could see how others saw us and what needed to be done. The literature team was one of the top teams for continuous improvement and cost savings. Our work was so effective, that I began using these concepts in my day to day as well.My deepest passion is board games, and with that, Dungeons & Dragons. I lead my games the best I can, but when I consistently got stuck trying to create characters and worlds, I turned to my experience with Whirlpool. From there, I developed Waldo’s Guide, a group of randomly generating spreadsheets to make my life easier. Once others saw it, I started making more versions, and now my spreadsheets have been used by hundreds of thousands of people.Here is a list of my continuous improvement and complexity reduction highlights:• Helping to save over $750k each year• Reducing 500+ work hours with updated procedures initiated yearly• Having a nearly 100% accuracy in data analysis• Obsoleting more than 250k parts and processes that were no longer in use