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• Managed key strategic projects focused on improving pricing, fulfillment and merchandising strategies.• Led the pilot and roll out of location level pricing for both Macys and Bloomingdales Inc., resulting in $15M increment in gross margin.• Successfully executed the Omnichannel roll out of the Markdown Recommendation tool to all areas of the business that resulted in savings of $99M in the markdown budget over first two quarters post deploy.• Led the development of Price Markdown Optimization algorithm, which manages over $5B worth of Macys' markdown budget annually.• Chaired bi-weekly review meetings with Sr. Executives and Business partners to assess project performance and issues.• Developed Product Seasonality Model in collaboration with cross-functional team from Price Operations, Strategy and Finance to improve forecast accuracy.• Built analytical model that calculates Price Elasticity by Product type and location to enable smarter pricing and promotion decisions.• Managed team of 3 technology consultants to successfully deploy the Price Markdown Optimization model into production.• Integrated Macy’s large scale data sources to streamline ~10 legacy reports and launched portal to create a single source of information, enabling rapid self service reporting of Sales, Receipts, Sell Through and Inventory flow across Climate zones.

• Produced new Tableau KPI dashboards, to enhance Merchants’ daily detailed data access, with sub-30 seconds drill down capabilities across product, pricing, vendor, web/digital metrics (Clickstream, Traffic, Conversion) and location for 60M+ data records.• Leveraged large and complex data sets to analyze competitor’s assortment, pricing and promotion strategy and presented insights to key decision makers.• Conducted analysis to predict pricing sales lift, to assess various marketing promotions. Targeted incremental sales of $2.5M• Developed Tableau based dashboard to identify customer demand trend by attributes like Size, Color, heel height, fit etc. • Successfully executed the migration of data visualization platform from Tableau to TIBCO Spotfire, in order to meet dashboard specifications.• Partnered with Macys Technology teams to roll out and automate several pilot project dashboards.• Ad hoc reporting and quantitative Analysis to support Macy’s Retail Sales, Macy’s Backstage, Omni-Channel strategy and Marketing teams.

• Designed and optimized the Distribution Network for the TrainGuard PTC On-Board Unit.• Developed and optimized the Reverse Supply Chain (Returns) Concept for the PTC project.• Authored the RFP for Locomotive Messaging Server component of the PTC system and worked with local and international vendors to successfully source the component.• Interacted with various company suppliers to optimize key supply chain parameters like cost, lead time and batch sizes.• Analyzed facilities across the country for manufacturing capabilities, testing capabilities, size and labor cost to identify ideal manufacturing location for On-Board Unit production in 2014.

• Used Statistical process control tools and performed FMEA to identify wastes in manufacturing processes.• Identified and corrected loopholes in warehouse operations to reduce warehouse turnover times by 15%• Used MRP software, EZ-MRP to maintain optimum inventory levels at all times.• Redesigned facility floor layouts using AUTOCAD and implemented changes to improve production efficiency by 10% and reduce WIP.• Performed Time Study and process analysis to identify process wastes and implemented changes to reduce cycle time by 20%• Performed Cost-Value analysis of NYCIB product line and recommended appropriate resource allocation.

• Completed detailed market and financial analysis to justify the viability of the company’s new product development project.• Part of the team involved in construction of a $300,000 grant application.• Interacted with company suppliers for potential partnership opportunities and to discuss supply chain parameters like lead-time, cost, warranties etc.• Performed project scheduling tasks and documented them for future use in similar projects.• Used CRM software salesforce.com, in maintaining customer database and documenting client outreach.

• Reviewed and approved process change documentations and product drawings.• Used statistical process control tools to improve manufacturing processes for a new product for the CNC machining unit.• Improved Manufacturing processes that saved over 15 man-hours per unit and reduced waste by 16.66%, this process became pivotal in meeting the final assembly requirements of cost per unit.