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Northville, MI, US

Springdale, AR, US

Leading a team of dedicated professionals within Tyson Foods’ 6,500-strong warehouse workforce. Responsible for the comprehensive maintenance and operations of our extensive cold storage network, including the management of all third-party offsite cold storage facilities. Overseeing warehousing analytics to identify trends, optimize performance, and.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

Selected to lead Billion Dollar Challenge, an aggressive initiative to save $1B in supply chain costs. Effective results transitioned into full time responsibility of reverse logistics and quality team, including $200MM operations P&L. Developed and implemented omnichannel strategy for improved payback on nearly $6B in returns and improved store resale YoY.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Promoted based on work leading automation engineering with scope increase to include all of ecommerce product team building custom Warehouse Management System (WMS). Designed and implemented end to end solutions across.
• Slashed costs through negotiations with CEO and executive team of more than $1.5B in ecommerce automation contracts with major supplier.
• Oversaw nearly $4B worth of ongoing automation building construction, starting with selection of real-estate and buildout of largest commercial building in the state of Indiana (2.2M sf).

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Led a team through design and implementation of solutions across the existing and greenfield sortable buildings and sortation centers.
• Oversaw concepting, development, and deployment of highly automated fulfillment centers (FCs) across the North American Walmart fulfillment network.
• Engineered capacity and throughput improvements to 2nd generation FCs including: 20% reduction in footprint, 15% reduction in capital, and 14% increase in cube.
• Partnered with Goods-to-Person automation supplier to develop fulfillment concept with a 26% reduction in Variable Cost per Unit versus manual buildings.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Oversaw efforts to modernize grocery supply chain through implementation of trip optimization with potential for 20% reduction in travel. Estimated increase of 10 cases per hour and corresponding $30M in annual savings.
• Facilitated introduction of regional freezer strategy to solve network capacity constraints and remove associates from freezer working conditions.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Recruited to Walmart by SVP of Fulfillment, a former colleague, to lead and transform operational excellence in the fulfillment space after a disastrous 2017 peak.
• Streamlined put and pack processes through installation of put-to-light retrofit paired with mounted devices and scanners. Resulted in 30% decrease in put and pack takt times.
• Incubated benchmarking and analytics teams as key pillars of operational excellence organization.
• Deployed operational and technology solutions to sortable network resulting in 40% gain in throughput and 25% improvement in on-time shipping.

Seattle, WA, US

• Oversaw automation deployment of over $100MM in automation across the NA Amazon network, optimizing processes in pack, robotics, sortation, and mobility solutions.
• Spearheaded cross functional efforts to design, build, and deploy Amazon “SmartPac”semi-automated bagging system. Project was an S-Team level Jeff Bezos initiative. Achieved 85MM unit stretch goal saving network $7MM.
• SmartPac team won Door Desk Award, Amazon’s highest awarded honor, a signed mini desk presented at company all-hands meeting by Jeff Bezos and his executive team.

Seattle, WA, US

• Responsible for labor planning, operational goals, and staff development for outbound operations in a 1.2MM sq ft Amazon Robotics fulfillment center. Led a team of 1000 associates and 18 salaried managers towards.
• Championed pack improvement initiative, an aggressive overhaul of training and operational strategy, resulting in 7.5% rate increase and $55K in monthly labor savings.

Seattle, WA, US

• Managed a team of 5 area managers and their 500+ direct report hourly associates responsible for picking, sorting, packing, problem solving, and shipping orders in one of the highest volume Amazon fulfillment centers.
• Co-Led Kaizen event producing a 33% increase in AFE large chute capacity and 5% increase in AFE shipment limiter, resulting in a 1 EPPH increase in expected pick rates.
• Implemented collate strategy change which nearly eliminated the non-peak requirement to run larges through batchy, a VCPU savings of $0.09 per unit processed.

Seattle, WA, US

• Created standard work through a Kaizen event for peak season (November - Christmas Eve) in trailer yard that reduced check-in times by over 40%, alleviated gridlock, and eliminated trailer overflow.
• Identified deficiencies in software managing sorter operations and worked with SME team to employ changes, increasing overall throughput by 11%.

Washington, DC, US

• Collaborated with industry partners to help write the interim and final Voluntary Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) rule, creating greater liquidity for small producers in the RIN market and helping make the RFS program.

Washington, DC, US

• Analyzed data, performed testing, and achieved 22% increase in engine efficiency, leading to $250K research project with major heavy duty truck manufacturer.
• Led team throughout build-up of Ford Expedition hydraulic hybrid vehicle which demonstrated 82% fuel economy gain over a traditional Expedition.

Washington, DC, US

Washington, DC, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Optimized drive motor setup and timing on six different packaging lines, increasing overall capacity by 60,000 packages per day, a collective improvement of 28%
• Discovered and corrected sorter logic flaw preventing packages from diverting to their intended destination, rescuing an average of 200+ daily shipments from delayed delivery, saving $400K in yearly shipping upgrades.

South Burlington, VT, US

Detroit, MI, US

Master Of Business Administration, Strategy And Operations

Mse, Mechanical Engnieering

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering