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• Managed the collection and validation of attributions from over 300 suppliers between 2 business centers for Sysco’s eCommerce platform to help inform and direct our customers to make better purchasing decisions• Collaborated with internal stakeholders to map all new sustainability attributes to all the different business centers • Onboarded, trained and coached suppliers through the Supplier Suite to ensure product attributes, sustainability attributes, features and benefits and images were complete, cohesive and accurate• Developed and maintain relationships with to effectively collaborate cross functionally with the business center partners to ensure items are properly slotted within our taxonomy to enable effective attribution collection• Utilized publicly scraped pricing data to match Sysco items to assist the pricing team ensuring competitive market pricing• Interviewed, trained and evaluated interns and contractors to ensure best practices were utilized to best assist the team in achieving goals

- Modeled, analyzed and compared various supply chain scenarios using JDA Supply Chain Strategist – tool based on mixed-integer network optimization for multiple categories- Optimized and recommended profitable and executable alignments for future state supply chain across 73 operating companies, 2 redistribution centers and 3 forward warehouses spread out over the US- Collaborated with cross functional teams projecting cost/savings impact for multiple categories with estimated annual savings of $23M- Analyzed and created business cases for new supplier adoption and current supplier evaluation (traditional and category management) into Sysco’s Regional Distribution Centers, Forward Warehouses and Central Warehouses finding $5M in potential savings- Active member of the Merchandising Work Climate Committee

San Felipe, Houston, Texas

Sourcing Systems Gap Analysis- Gap analysis of 4 legacy systems versus Ariba Sourcing, including legacy capability and legacy problems resulting in identification of benefits and implementation barriers RFX Template Consolidation- Initiated RFP/RFI/RFQ templates standardization project by consolidating 200+ templates from all different departments globally into 22 spend categories further developing common sections at the commodity levelAriba Deployment RFP- Served as an integral support function of the team in the creation and evaluation of the Global Ariba Solutions Deployment RFP SCMi Competency List- Confirmed and compiled Ariba competency survey results distributed to 503 P&S personnel who and identified 93 potential Ariba champions representing 6 of the 8 areas Supplier Consolidation - Compiled and matched 97,000 suppliers from 2013 supplier spend list with internal data resulting in making an 82% match sent to Ariba for indication of implementation efforts that will be necessary

Houston, Texas Area

- Audit and assess inefficiencies for our top 4 preferred freight forwarders freight bills, SLI’s, and waybills, and report finding to upper management and to the freight forwarders themselves. - Assist with finding potential savings for specific branches through the auditing process, to help these branches with their freight forwarder decision process - Extract and evaluate data from JD Edwards to support decision making

Houston, Texas Area

- Developed excellent multitasking skills from handling multiple customers orders - Extremely outgoing, trust worthy, and patient with customers and fellow staff - One of the highest sales ringers at Vue Night Club consistently

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Prepared slides and content for Tanaka San quality audit presentation for Home Depot and Dollar General accounts- Organized information for ISO14001 audit (Environmental Management Standards) - Conducted time and motion studies on receiving/loading dock teams and included the analysis of results in quality audit presentation. Also spoke with the employees on warehouse floor about the areas for improvement and also included the accumulated results in the quality audit presentation- Helped update the current process maps, using Visio, for the employee handbook

Houston, Texas Area

- Assisted with balancing check books of various estates and entities, and prepared spreadsheets for Firm’s 401K plan- Supported the office with paperless initiative by scanning and editing data into the database

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Spanish Language And Literature