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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

Lead Blink North America sales teams for Amazon.com, Retail partnerships, and New Business development. Responsible for P&L management, sales and promotional strategy, and business development strategy.

Greater Seattle Area

Senior Manager in Amazon's Devices organization. Lead Amazon’s relationship and strategic direction with Best Buy, Strategic partnerships, Emerging devices and Accessories. Responsible for Echo / Smart Home products, Fire TV, Fire Tablet, Kindle eReaders, Eero and Blink product lines at Best Buy.

Austin, TX

Dell's Retail Account Executive for Best Buy, with special focus on Laptops/2in1s. Managed all aspects of Account including Product and Placement Strategy, Sell-in, Marketing, Sales Velocity, Forecasting, and Operations. Leadership lead account to record growth, driving 100% revenue gains and 4x margin improvement in a 2 year period. Exited 2016 delivering.

Austin, Texas

Dell Retail Merchandising Manager for Best Buy, Staples, QVC, HSN, and Micro Center. Drove customer negotiations, developed customer strategy, diagnosed Retail channel in terms of size and potential, planned product portfolio/offers, and created promotional plans to ensure maximum sales velocity.Key focus on Product Development. Worked with cross.

Merchandising Lead for Retail Laptop & Desktop systems. Scope included diagnosing Retail channel in terms of size and potential, planning product portfolio, driving new product development, promotion/event management, Retailer/Sales coordination, and pricing/up-sell influence.Created unique Campaigns and Offers to generate incremental sales velocity and.

Managed Dell's forecasting of Corporate Mobile Specialty Products, Optiplex Desktops, Workstations, and Laser devices.Scope included diagnosing market size, influencing product feature sets, marketing interaction, sales coordination, pricing/up-sell strategy, mitigating launch risks, driving accurate sustaining forecasts, and end of life management..

Responsible for managing the world wide supply of Intel and AMD processors on Desktop and Mobile platforms. Job scope included direct negotiations with Intel/AMD on supply, cost, new launches, etc. Other aspects included Forecasting, Market analysis, Project Management, and Inventory Management.Project lead for deployment of worldwide vendor managed hubs..

Experience planning supply of AMD and Intel processors. Main duties included ensuring continuity of supply, planning demand, negotiating supply lines, driving new product launches, and mitigating part shortages.Co-lead for AMD processor launch within Dell's Regional supply chain. Proactively lead the integration of AMD into Dell's planning structure, tool.

Main point of contact for mission critical component supply to Dell's factory while a member of the Supply Chain Logistics team. Project lead for the enhancement of material transfers between Dell Asia and Dell Americas manufacturing sites.Prior to this worked in both Technical and Operations Support roles.