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Redmond, WA, US

• Drives long term business strategy, growth incubations, and market insights across Windows, M365, and Edge + Bing.
• Trusted advisor to engineering, marketing, and finance leadership to facilitate decisions regarding new business models, financial plans, product roadmaps, competitive responses, and new investments.

Greater Seattle Area

• Compete lead driving Microsoft Surface and OEM device and services strategy and growth.
• Drove product investments and roadmap decisions through deep quantitative and qualitative analysis of the market and key competitors.
• Led forecasting for 1st party and competitive device sales.

Greater Seattle Area

• Designed and drove product roadmap for ERP and business intelligence systems in support of new product introduction.
• Opened new markets for Xbox and Surface hardware in collaboration with the supply chain team (ex. Launching Xbox in China, Launching Surface Hub, and selling 3rd party products through Microsoft Retail Stores).
• Decreased time-to-market and increased margin by reducing compliance costs and streamlining operations (ex. Direct Ship, Trade Classification, Screening Hit Rate Optimization).
• Drove transition to a paperless import and export process via automatic electronic import and export document generation, transmission, and status tracking reducing time and cost for Microsoft and its partners.

Greater Seattle Area

• Managed outbound logistics vendors in the Americas with a focus on reducing transportation related costs and ensuring great customer experience.
• Improved overall network utilization by leading a cross functional initiative with channel, planning, and logistics teams. Increased North America network utilization by 80% in 4 months, reducing lead time and saving.
• Created transparency for stakeholders inside and outside supply chain by modeling cost drivers and tracking costs in BI dashboards.

Greater Seattle Area

• Selected for the inaugural rotation program within the Supply Chain organization.
• Rotation 1: Setup repair programs for new hardware launches in Xbox and Surface.
• Rotation 2: Led demand planning for PC software and Xbox games.
• Rotation 3: Managed distribution of 1P hardware into Latin America.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Poseurs is a donation based yoga community focused on making yoga accessible to all.
• I specifically teach "Dope Moments" classes where all proceeds go to a rotating charity advocating for social change.

• Researched materials and manufacturing techniques and helped redesign Nike shoe boxes to reduce total material usage by 30%.

• Gathered detailed data on driver routes and behavior and recommended improvements to optimize driver workload, driver safety, and customer experience.