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United States

I provide data analytics support to clients seeking to balance inventory strategy with purchasing/production, using advanced techniques such as market forecasting and supply chain simulations.

Geneva, Switzerland, CH

Minneapolis, MN, US

Atlanta, GA, US

Six Sigma Black Belt, Data Analyst for CCI, Cox network systems.

Norcross, GA, US

Run MRP and manage vendors, schedule and forecast shopfloor orders.

Norcross, GA, US

Lakeland, Florida, US

Assist Operations Manager in forecasting, ordering, and stocking purchased items.

• Collected lithology samples and maintained drilling logs. Monitored gas levels to maintain a safe work environment and assisted directional driller in determining kick-off point for curve and geosteering of bit during.
• Because of prior expertise, provided technology support for databases, software, and hardware.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Maintained and analyzed raw time-motion data of store merchandisers and presented findings to four workflow teams on the merchandiser optimization project. Authored standard operating procedures (SOPs) based upon best.
• Provided information that led to more efficient ways to transport, load, and stock variety of retail locations.

• Directed crew of 7 purchasers, planners, and cycle counters; managed materials budget for a build-to-order storage solutions company. Prepared daily shipment, weekly shop floor completion and monthly inventory status.
• Reduced inventory by 11% while improving order fill rates from 45% to 85% by implementing new purchasing quantities from oversea providers based upon open orders. Oracle system maintenance and queries.
• Improved count accuracy from mid 70% to nearly 95% by part location consolidation, resolving duplicate part numbers, better labeling and improved physical counts of inventory.
• Repurposed or sold slow moving and obsolete inventory as a key member of an inventory improvement team.
• Identified an accounting issue where raw materials converted to work in process were not properly costed.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Performed variety of nuclear medicine scans, working for several Ga hospitals, notably Athens Regional Hospital, one of the top ranked hospitals in Georgia. Responsibilities: V/Q, Cardiac, HIDA, Bone scans on Siemens and GE equipment, also investigative and ablative thyroid studies.

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Forecasted, at corporate level, consumer demand for contact lenses. Performed Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) and bias study to measure model accuracy.
• Reduced forecast error by 15% and inventory costs by $750K annually through retuned regression models. Other experience includes Materials and Logistics Planner for telecommunication manufacturer, Materials Manager and.
• Reduced raw inventory by 45% ($1.5M annually) by establishing a new forecasting procedure.
• Implemented a monthly rolling forecast that provided materials to the over-seas customer on-time while reducing the shipping rate previously incurred of $750 to $85 per pallet.
• Highlighted inventory turns issue and reduced inventory of raw materials by $1M annually, reduced buys, and eliminated unnecessary SKUs as a result of data mining 5 years of sales history.
• Cpk and Pareto cause-of-defects analysis uncovered workstation issues that when remedied resulted in winning back $30M in business lost due to previously failed quality audit.

Master'S Degree, Operations Research

Master Of Science (Ms), Industrial Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Geological Engineering

Masters, Industrial Engineering

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