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Tampa, Fl, Us

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Lead team of Demand Planning Managers and their direct reports in ongoing maintenance of forecasts, product lifecycle planning, and master data maintenance • Evaluate complex business processes and existing standards and define initiatives for continuous improvement opportunities• Support supply planning strategies through unprecented challenges related to supplier shutdowns, raw material shortages, and container booking constraints• Mentor team to develop new technical skills in SQL and Power BI for self-service analyses and automation of manual reporting• Lead redesign of Logility Demand Optimization implementation. Redefining the forecast hierachy and S&OP processes away from product centric toward customer centric planning through collaboration with consultants, internal and external IT organizations, and other Supply Chain Leaders

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Ensure all reporting development and analytical responsibilities are completed in a timely manner through leadership using Agile principles in support of sourcing, purchasing, manufacturing, and demand planning departments• Empower team to balance creativity, situational awareness, and organizational goals for delivering value to the business• Developed best practices for CI/CD in Power BI Premium service for data flows, datasets, reports, and dashboards and provided training and implementation across the Supply Chain, Retail, Marketing, and E-commerce analytics departments• Oversaw design and development of purchasing optimization project that enabled an annual material waste reduction of $2.7M

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Design and implement reporting solutions defined by the supply chain stakeholder's business needs, as well as, conduct statistical and trend analysis to identify unknown opportunities, all for improving tactical and strategic decision making and outcomes• Develop large datasets using Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Provide scripts to data warehousing to implement stored procedures for populating database tables• Implement new KPIs such as weighted mean actual percent error for measuring forecast accuracy and delivered new datasets and metrics for measuring supplier performance

Tampa, Florida

• Lead the integrated business planning process through collaboration with sales, finance, product marketing, and the supply chain to reach consensus on one demand forecast. • Complete detailed analyses of historical sales data for guiding data driven decisions. • Support supply chain operations through creation of ad-hoc and daily reports using Excel, PowerQuery, and multi-dimensional models in Excel Data Model and PowerBI.• Build complex queries using Oracle Essbase and writing SQL queries; including joins, filters, and aggregations. • Provide market intelligence through statistical forecasting of housing, construction spending, retail spending, and other economic indicators using R for machine learning techniques including neural network auto-regressive and ARIMAX modeling. Use those as external indicators for modeling and forecasting unit sales to within +/-5% accuracy. • Created time savings of 50+ hours per week across diverse roles within the department by automating tasks with VBA macros.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Conduct one-on-one and group tutoring sessions for Intermediate Macroeconomic and Intermediate Microeconomic courses. • Reinforce mathematical understanding of linear algebra and differential calculus for their applications to the study of economics. • Coordinate with economics department faculty to align tutoring sessions with lesson plans and course progress.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Collaborate with management team to analyze financial performance indicators, and to develop and execute SMART business plans• Lead sales team to achieve over 60% year over year growth in Mobile department net operating profit. Maintained NOP growth of 10-20% yoy thereafter• Respond to market challenges, and coached out company objectives• Create Excel scorecards to communicate business opportunities• Seek continued professional development through stretch assignments: District SOP Trainer, Best Buy Mobile Induction Leader; traveled to other stores to coach other managers in operations. • Worked in 4 different stores throughout my career, and partnered well with each new team. Each location was recognized for overall store performance: Top 25 in territory performance in multiple fiscal quarters. EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT• Completed weekly one-on-one meetings with associates focused on individualcontribution and creating specific actions for improvement.• Maintained quarterly check-ins with with each associate to gauge their professional development andimprovement with a theme based on career planning. Provided specific feedbacktowards the next step in their career path, customer experience, and merchandising execution.• Responsible for all hiring, training, and scheduling of the Best Buy Mobile staff.• Ensured inventory integrity through stock counts and raising shrink awareness.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Econometrics And Quantitative Economics, 3.78 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Economic Scholars Society.Specific coursework included: Statistics; Econometrics; Forecasting and Time Series.

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Economics, 3.9 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society