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Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Shawnee, Kansas, United States

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Kansas City

Leading the efforts of design, development, and enhancement of data and business intelligence solutions. Executing complex data related analytical projects to drive business decisions and efficiencies. Working effectively with C-level and senior leadership gathering business needs, transforming into requirements, and delivering analytical insights to.

Lawrence, Kansas Area

• Reporting to the startup CEO, responsible for the daily operations for all aspects of the online driver marketplace and real-time driver accountability applications. Serving as the business liaison, building alliances.
• Defined project scope, goals, and deliverables for teams to ensure alignment with company strategy and commitments
• Developed KPIs and dashboards to provide relevant view of data and visibility of all aspects of the business
• Reduced customer support hours by over 60% by implementing streamlined operating procedures for day-to-day interactions with customers and mobile users
• Reduced monthly operating expenses 28% by restructuring software licenses and eliminating non-value adding costs
• Implemented Agile development process increasing productivity and visibility to work in progress

Overland Park, KS

• Responsible for working across multiple automotive product lines and business units, leveraging Agile methodologies to deliver process and system improvements. Eliciting requirements from stakeholders for a variety of.
• Integrated market statistics within an internal advertising tool allowing automated adjustments to bidding strategies and the optimization of display ads based on the comparison to the local market
• Gathered requirements and designed data mining and sales opportunity tool allowing CRM users the ability to identify high-quality leads by leveraging historical information and anticipating their customer’s needs
• Developed complex CRM utilization report enabling CRM users the ability to monitor the follow up performance on leads throughout the entire sales process and identify where business processes should be improved to.
• Proposed and implemented new Agile system development process which decreased work in progress, increased visibility of project progress, and helped to ensure that expectations are effectively managed

Lawrence, Kansas Area

• Responsible for managing the domestic and international pricing and analytics for over 2,000 customers and 1,000 parts with annual sales reaching $40 million.
• Established data migration plan used to transfer customer and group pricing to the new ERP system while allowing the ERP transition to remain invisible to the external customers
• Developed pricing tool used for new price requests in order to gauge current market pricing broken down by country, market segment, customer type, item type and item for all current customers
• Designed and created several SQL reports to increase visibility of system data and decrease the overall time required to enter an order into the system

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Reporting to the VP of Sales, managing the Replenishment Analyst and replenishment processes, directly responsible for the day to day analysis and business processes related to the domestic and international Walmart.
• Managed implementation of Shiloh Retail Intelligence software package, daily data loading, automation of key business analysis reports, and development of exception alerts for critical business notifications
• Integrated multiple data sources enabling root cause analysis of supply chain deficiencies and the ability to quickly identify as a forecast, transportation, production, or system setting error
• Streamlined customer order process by mapping current state, identifying waste, and eliminating ten hours per week of manual processing now used for analytical support to create value for the customer
• Developed and manage store level analysis of sales and inventory data enabling the identification of inventory discrepancies resulting in a ROI of over 300% within the first month of project completion
• Awarded AIPC’s first supplier of the quarter honor for both Walmart and Sam’s Club as a result daily collaboration with the customer’s buying, replenishment, merchandising, and transportation departments

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Implemented, managed, and utilized the Logility Demand Planning solution increasing the item level forecast accuracy of over 2,000 items by 17%
• Redesigned and implemented a new forecast hierarchy reducing the forecast records by over 10%, increasing forecast accuracy by 5%, and decreasing the amount of safety stock necessary at each facility
• Designed item transition interface to accurately transfer sales forecast to the MRP system and record historical shipments for future forecasting purposes
• Decreased budgeting processing time by 70% by integrating process within the Logility forecasting solution

• Provided multi-tier technical support for specialized bankruptcy software while serving in an electronic data interchange leadership role.
• Served as the subject matter expert for electronic data interchange
• Communicated solutions for existing software defects to the development team
• Analyzed and troubleshot various bank reconciliations reports and account ledgers
• Analyzed business processes in order to identify possible areas for improvement
• Proposed ideas implemented by managers that reduced issue resolution time

Masters Of Business Administration, Operations Management / Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Golden Key International Honour Society

Bs, Business Administration / Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity