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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Chemicals Company - Business Case for TMS Implementation:•Compiled a business case to present the company’s baseline spend, that analyzed 13 potential cost savings scenarios, revolving around consolidations, carrier selections, demurrage reduction, and route optimizations, for a possible annual savings range of $13.1M - $55.2MConsumer Goods Company - Routing and Load Building Optimization:•Improved routing process by creating current state mapping based on interviews, walkthroughs, and creating a standardized centralized SOP, devising future state processes with goals to reduce freight spending, while developing training programs, and reducing manual work•Gathered and Cleansed transportation data to be loaded into Load Building Simulator, which was used to execute a pilot where annual savings of $21M - $25M were identified, with majority driven from cube variance adjustments, delivery window shifts, and loading optimizations•Developed KPIs and a Power BI dashboard to increase E2E transportation visibilityLife Sciences Company- Freight Order Management and Transportation Management Systems Implementation:•Business Process Designer/Lead for a Blue Yonder Inbound FOM and TMS implementation that covered E2E from Purchase Order Upload to Carrier Tender Acceptance•Configured FOM to meet client’s needs, structured out different roles for buyers and suppliers, as well as created the API uploads for master data to populate in the systems, while established relationships to connect the FOM-TMS Bridge•Oversaw and led multiple workstreams that involved: managing tariff team in their task to complete setting up all rates correctly and in time for Go-Live, 3PL team’s UAT progress and Go-Live troubleshooting, and working with Blue Yonder to create solutions where applicable, while pushing for technical changes and workarounds when business needs did not meet system ability•Trained client and 3PL on FOM, TMS, and how to troubleshoot unrouteables and exception scenarios

Plano, Texas; Dayton, New Jersey; Schaan, Liechtenstein

•Reduced bad quality shipments to downstream distribution centers by 75 percent through creation of a loader review process to collect data, build visualizations, and support action plan creation during collaboration meetings •Developing a tariff rate schedule for TMS (Blue Yonder) to be implemented for all global replenishments through completion of a pricing strategy and building of an operational model, creating optimal cost and workload balance•Created an equal work distribution process for my 20-employee team, tracking workload balance, while providing transparency, leading to every employee reaching their productivity KPI’s daily •Increased my product line’s availability-to-order percentage above target by compiling reports and analyzing for potential backorders, delayed shipments, and distribution center imbalances•Facilitated international procurement with Latin American material managers by analyzing inventory levels, shipping frequency, and mediating to provide satisfactory solutions•Implemented a project management evaluation process for current projects having materials in obsolescence over 1,000 dollars, to develop risk mitigation strategies to decrease overall obsolescence•Designed a carrier-customer report process to boost quality of sea-shipment track and trace data from 79 to 98 percent transport order trackability

Tucson, Arizona

•Directed a Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) that uncovered highest impact root causes of late-to-place PO’s, leading to cross-functional collaboration to develop action plans that focused on driving data effectiveness, while also increasing communication and collaboration touching points•Built Pareto and Gantt charts to present data to management, leading to understanding of the problems and creation of nine corrective actions the team could implement immediately to remove bottlenecks•Identified an error in the PO assignment process, leading to identifying multiple multi-million-dollar PO’s being assigned to wrong supplier team by building pivot charts and drilling down into the data

Germany

•Navigated in a diverse, multi-ethnic environment, where English was barely spoken through engaging in intense German language courses to better assimilate into the culture•Cultivated household schedules and responsibilities to better orchestrate the logistics and planning of the daily and monthly activities of the three children, which led to less hours wasted•Executed interventions between children when disagreements arose, as well as mentoring further positive behavior, causing a decrease of tension in the household•Planned the logistics and accommodations for six trips through Europe, focusing on efficiency, price awareness, and reducing chance of hindrances

Greater Chicago Area

•Strategically analyzed room reservation reports, leading to executing a team-wide plan that increased the number of perfect sell-outs by 400 percent, boosting our room utilization numbers to the 90 percent range•Reassigned job functions of employees and targeted trainings to meet needs of the customers, leading to less waiting time and higher satisfaction, launching guest service scores from the bottom 40 percent to the top 10 percent•Problem-solved discussions to defuse guest complaints, by listening intently and working together to find a solution that worked for both parties

Wisconsin Dells, Wi

•Evaluated plan sets, dictated equipment schedules, and prioritized items that needed to be completed •Directed the construction of a new reservation center, ensuring deadlines were being met•Assembled spreadsheets that listed the bidding contractors, their specifications, and price value; engineered formulas to show which bids satisfied our requirements•Partnered with subcontractors to establish that the company’s needs were being fulfilled in a timely and cost-effective manner

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 3.92

Bachelor Of Science, Hospitality And Food Management, 3.72

Activities and Societies: Co-hosted radio show 2 hour block every Sunday