Network of data and tech professionals putting data to use for SMBs by providing reporting and analytics, closing technology gaps, and consulting on operational improvements.

-Responsible for building and leading our analytics and merchandising data platform, team and process. Including full life cycle of data from defining raw application event data capture, 3rd party ingress, ETL, storage, aggregation, analysis and presentation.-Deliver results vs. goals, ROI evaluation and actionable insights for internal and external client applications.-Identify trends and actionable insights around product utilization and interaction.-Manage sprint and task life cycle toward short term client deliverables as well as long term company goals.-Define roles, recruit, hire and train the analytics and merchandising teams.

• Plan, execute and manage large scale, long term retail CRM campaigns• Fine tune and manage internal algorithms for clustering, planning and forecasting campaigns.• Interface with sales team and directly with clients to sell, plan, customize and review campaigns.• Use a whole range of technologies - SQL, SAS, R, Netezza, Unica, a little VBA and excel, SFDC etc.

• Manage inventory control and ordering data systems• Created and manage inventory ordering and tracking algorithms• Lead company wide margin and inventory budget review• Gather requirements and implement changes in reporting and monitoring systems• Lead data studies for pricing structure conversion, customer segmentation and CRM initiatives• Generalist analyst liaison between IT and sales, Finance or production solutions

• Gathered and documented requirements from consultants and project managers on the specifics for customized pricing programs• Cleaned, aggregated and analyzed large data sets for project proposals to clients• Translated conversation transcripts to system requirements• Implemented and reviewed performance of customized pricing systems• Corrected bad data issues or troubled pricing files when they arose.

• Managed team of over 200 people• Responsible for trending, analyzing, tracking, and impacting operational and financial performance• Responsible for financial goals, upholding Target’s brand and managing all aspects of the business.• Contributed to an improved controllable profit by over 1% of sales at my location• Addressed market, regional and company wide operational deficiencies on special projects

• Managed a department and then a whole store.• Assigned specific task of turning around a failing business to profitability. Turned around bottom line from loss of 2% of sales into a profit of 2% of sales• Implemented pricing standards and QA process• Set up daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly routines across all functions• Developed a new scheduling system that improved service, morale and budget goals• Responsible for system and training to lean out buying practices and achieve all inventory to be “just in time”

• Anything and everything you can do in a grocery business