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Workplace development, operations, programming, and analytics leader for Giga Nevada with a focus on partnering with stakeholders to deliver a world-class Workplace experience to factory, construction, and administrative employees. Manage multi-million dollar quarterly budget, including forecasting, budgeting, spend approvals, and justification.Responsible for all Workplace scopes and personnel for GFNV campus. Responsibilities include people leadership, team development, financial forecasting and budgeting, supplier selection & management, and contract negotiation.Workplace scopes include Operations, Intelligence (Analytics and Solutions), Space Planning (occupancy and factory layout), Culinary, Janitorial & 5S, Transportation, Mail Services, Teamwear, Project Management & Workplace Design, Internal Content & Graphic Design, Site Programs, Employee Engagement, Community Engagement, and Factory Tours.

Development and implementation of scalable Workplace, Facilities, and Construction solutions (Ticketing, CMMS, FM, low-code application) to support a multitude of sites and programs globally. Creation of automation tools as a productivity multiplier to maximize efficiency of on-site Operations teams. Creation of BI reports based on data culled from internally-developed automation solutions to support business objectives, including identification and reporting of KPIs and SLAs for Workplace programs. Consultant to site leaders, project managers, and design teams for new facility development, including culinary, janitorial, and office planning programs, project management, and technology solutions to support business objectives.

Contributing to Tesla's mission through implementing innovative and progressive programming of Workplace spaces, services, and contracts. Focused on developing highly scalable solutions for Workplace programs via automation development (Power Automate, Azure Logic Apps, PowerApps, API integration), data collection & analytics (SQL, PowerBI), and creation of custom Workplace tools (e.g., issue tracking/ticketing, inventory management, etc.) to optimize spends, labor hours, and effort across myriad sites and teams. Site Workplace Operations leader for 1.2M sf facility, including management of on-site Workplace personnel, janitorial & culinary contracts, and project management to support company priority projects. Supporting multiple factories globally including design/build support to architectural teams, programming of culinary spaces, developing janitorial standards, creating office and break room layouts, identifying equipment specs and related purchasing, and the implementation of scalable global programs.

High-level and detailed project management at multiple high-volume sites globally. Skilled in building scalable Workplace/Facilities programs from the ground up to support rapid growth patterns. Focus on project management as a program as well as development of several highly-scalable programs to support business needs. Responsibilities include: workplace, culinary, and construction project management; program management & creation; purchasing & negotiation; vendor management; team management; data analytics; program & project forecasting, budget creation & management.

Developed & implemented a scalable culinary program dedicated to serving affordable, high-quality food by partnering with local restaurants, bakeries, and coffee shops and by taking a "first principles" approach to fundamentally rethink how a culinary program can better serve the business and the community.

Oversight of live-action baseball statistics input, error mitigation, and content partner communications for use in live broadcasts, online media outlets, and official MLB record-keeping.

Official scoring coordination for Minor League Baseball with a heavy focus on International League, Pacific Coast League, Texas League, and Midwest League.

Data input for Liga Mexicana de Beisbol, multitasked by coordinating multiple stringers simultaneously, translating from Spanish to English to a proprietary coding system, worked closely with scorers in Mexico as well as MLBAM headquarters in Manhattan. Also gained experience in working with Mexican Pacific (Winter) League, Dominican Winter League, Venezuelan Winter League, and the Caribbean Series.