Sagar Kumar Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

 Leading a EMEA/APAC/NA cross-functional, external contract manufacturers (CM)/supplier team on a New Product Introduction (NPI) project ‘PSU transition’ impacting 85 sustaining BOMs to meet new EU/UK market requirements; ensuring EU/UK datacenters are equipped with compliant products. Saving multi $MM of scrap by strategically consuming 250K left over PSU units in compliant regions.  Managing lifecycle of 6 NPI programs which lowers the cost of business/customers; provide extensive capabilities to customers. Act as a liaison with Original Device Manufacturer (ODM), OHD to align NPI BOMs with materials availability/readiness for NPI builds and ensure supply continuity into production. Mitigate risk with strategic large production risk buys and buffer.  Leverage Agile BOM tools to track single sourced items in ~50 product BOMs, lead efforts with Sourcing managers to find backup material source to meet increasing product demand, avoiding product shortages, and sticking to the delivery schedule.  Overseeing NPI project ‘Asset-Id - PDU’ with External/Internal stakeholders to ensure PDUs are easily traceable at datacenters.  Quickly adapted to the changing needs of business (an initiative to save Oracle and vendor $MM) – closely worked with internal and external stakeholders to drive BOM restructuring of 10 switches, ensured easy EM transition, and established a concrete business process to which Oracle and vendor mutually agreed upon.  With PE and SSM engagement, analyzed/calculated data to reduce cost during Racks Testing/Power consumption, resulting over $MM (USD) savings per year.  Own 15 sustaining Storage-Compute racks/models – quickly manage end-to-end changes to meet business and customer needs.  Own a weekly Product Validator report to ensure attributes of ~50 products align with the customer/business requirements.

Austin, Texas, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Staffing agency: Insight Global. Client: Costco Wholesale Collaborated with APAC vendors, Order Management, Logistics, and fulfillment on action items/updated order data to ensure smoother supply chain activities.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

 Led the Billing bundle of e-SIM M2M CAPEX project and ensured that stakeholders are aligned with the core requirements.  Owned and launched the onboarding roadmap (new product) for the organization enabling process improvement.  Assisted in the execution of a roaming class enhancement requested by one of the largest MVNO partners.  Managed day-to-day activities - defined product requirements as capabilities, stakeholders, and business teams’ alignment, etc.  Collaborated in technical design and architecture with broad cross-functional teams –architects and engineers, creative, engineers, operations, compliance, etc. for successful development and implementation of the requirements.

San Francisco, California, Us

 Enhanced satisfaction of over 80 customers daily by proactively engaging and helping them to meet their financial needs.

Snohomish, Washington, Us

 Leveraged end-to-end expertise in project management – led the team of 7 people to successfully rebuilt the local distribution system by implementing new ways of recruitment through monthly information events and collaboration with local partners.

Bothell, Wa, Us

• Organized and hosted hybrid outreach events, information sessions, orientations, student programs, and enabled great experiences for 100s of prospective students, through Zoom and in-person.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

• Achieved excellence in interpersonal, written, and verbal communication by designing and delivering informational presentation to 100s of prospective students, monthly.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration (Management Information Systems)

Minor, Computer Science

Associate'S Degree (With Distinction), Arts And Science

High School Diploma