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Scottsdale, Az, Us

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Manage a team of SAP Functional and Business Analysts, focusing on optimizing and enhancing supply chain ERP solutions. Additionally, I am exploring how to incorporate generative AI capabilities into our business processes to enable employees to up-level their work and create a better UX for customers and store employees. I provide leadership, direction, and mentorship to the team, while fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.I actively partner with business stakeholders to understand their needs, identifying opportunities not only for process improvement but also for AI-driven innovation. This involves leveraging SAP capabilities to drive efficiencies and streamline operations, while also exploring how generative AI can transform our business practices.My role extends to fostering a collaborative partnership with SAP and the SAP ecosystem to initiate co-innovation engagements and pilot new capabilities. My focus is on harnessing the power of AI to not only improve existing systems but also to explore new, transformative approaches to business challenges.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Managed the Intel® IoT Market Ready Solutions (MRS) Get-to-Market team accelerating revenue growth by onboarding partners from Intel’s IoT and AI ecosystem. Influenced and enabled the ecosystem of customers’ and partners’ adoption, solution design, and platform partnerships of Intel AI and IoT technologies across Health & Life Sciences, Edtech, Smart Cities, Transportation, Retail, Financial Services, Hospitality, Manufacturing, and other industries. This program has generated over $1.5B in tracked revenue since its inception in 2017 and over $500M in tracked revenue in 2022, with 500 unique partners from thirty countries deploying their technology in more than 100 countries.• Co-founded the MRS program by collaborating with Intel’s Global Marketing Group, business unit stakeholders, and executive leadership. Defined the acceptance criteria, onboarding process, and the systems required to support it.• Co-designed and executed COVID Fast Track process to onboard 26 solutions from 4 continents at 3X usual speed, with 100+ global colleagues and external partners, then improved tools to cut intake time by 50%.• Sponsored effort to review MRS portfolio to identify potential discriminatory uses of facial recognition. Engaged multiple BIPOC Employee Resource Groups to get real-world input and provide feedback to senior leadership. • Led the IoT Technical Enablement team for one of Intel’s most significant independent software vendors, SAP. Developed demos and thought leadership presentations for SAP’s premier conferences, SAPPHIRE NOW and Tech Ed. Managed budgets and ensured activities aligned to industry trends.• Partnered with SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2) to deliver an AI (computer vision) prototype solution for the U.S. Border Patrol.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Identified and implemented pathfinding and innovation initiatives across the supply chain to address high-value business problems. Researched and initiated proofs of concepts for emerging technologies. Developed the strategy, architecture, and prescriptive guidance for new system capabilities to ensure alignment with existing infrastructure. Fostered relationships with strategic software vendors (SAP and Microsoft) and influenced future product features to align with business requirements. Managed various technical teams (directly and matrixed) to deliver supply chain related system capabilities.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Team Lead for multiple SAP implementations across the world. Documented requirements and implemented global solutions for ERP capabilities in production planning, inventory management, warehouse management, and logistics for both inbound and outbound supply chains.

Master Of Science - Ms, Management Of Technology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Technology