Functional Skills

Agile Software Development
Data Science
Quality Management
Operational Efficiency
Data Engineering
Inventory Management
User Experience Design (UX)
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
Communications
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
E-commerce Implementation
Product Data Management
Operations Management
Predictive Analytics
Leadership Development

Sector Experience

Business Services
Manufacturing
Retail
Technology

Languages

English

Notable Clients

Amazon
Bain & Co
Boston Consulting Group
McKinsey & Company
PepsiCo

Fortune 500

Experience

MAP Supply Chain Transformations Management Consulting
Chief Product Officer
4/2023 - Present
■ Achieved an 85% retention rate with retail grocery and SaaS supply chain product teams through strategic and operational product management leadership on supply chain transformations powered by
● ■ 12% reduction in OpEX through the end-to-end adoption of Electronic Shelf Labels, centralized inventory management, and POS systems for a Chicago-based grocery store. ■ Evangelized a B2B SaaS ERP for a brewery using a hybrid of AI-based Bloomreach CDP and a dual delivery loop for GTM to accelerate time-to-money by 25%. ■ Ideated, iterated, and launched a retail store operations Super App for a regional
grocer, which included workforce scheduling and task assignment, resulting in 18% savings in annual labor costs.

Amazon/Whole Foods Market Product Management / Strategy
Director of Product + CxBR
6/2021 - 3/2023
■ Single-threaded product management executive for a team of 13 - 20 program, product, Data, and UX managers owning the price execution operations for a SaaS AI/ML pricing engine. ■ Replatformed WFM's item data catalog to achieve 99% labeling accuracy, averting $2M in FDA fines due to inaccurate ingredient labeling. ■ Reduced price execution cycle time by 98% (2 weeks to 1 day) leveraging predictive pricing models, Large Language Models, and AMZN proprietary tools - IoT Core, Glue, Kinesis, Sagemaker, Lex, and Supply Chain. ■ Leveraged predictive pricing models from Neilsen, Dunnhumby, and home-grown AI/ML SaaS tools, reducing shrinkage due to wastage by 13%.
■ Integrated Whole Foods' ecommerce platform with Amazon.com, achieving 85% adoption in 3 months, leading to a 65% increase in grocery orders and a 9% revenue boost.

Home Depot Product Management / Strategy
Director of Product - Supply Chain Operations
6/2019 - 5/2021
■ Expanded SaaS cloud-based Pro Xtra Configure Price Quote platform to sell products and services from HD Supply, adding $12.5M in yearly Net Recurring Revenue (NRR) from net new vendor contracts.
■ Boosted FY2021 sales by relaunching a volume purchase pricing strategy based on LTV for HD Pro brand products, resulting in a revenue increase of $25M. ■ Spearheaded the conception and launch of a centralized SaaS cloud supplier onboarding and analytics platform, slashing time to shelf by 75%.

Kroger Product Management / Strategy
Director of Product – Supply Chain Data Analytics
11/2015 - 6/2019
■ Spearheaded re-platforming efforts, leading 6 product teams to sunset outdated on-prem inventory management systems with GCP-based hybrid end-to-end systems that increased inventory turnover by 11% and reduced fresh produce shrinkage by 5%. ■ Improved product search accuracy to ~95% by incorporating data quality management, AI/ML Elastic Search, and real-time auto-suggestions to the item data catalog, doubling the BOPIS orders.

J.C. Penney Product Management / Strategy
Principal Product Manager- Inventory Management
11/2013 - 10/2015
■ Implemented reduction strategies to tackle high Excess & Obsolete (E&O) inventory consumption, slashing E&O levels from 15% to 7% of total inventory and liberating capital and storage space. ■ Rolled out advanced analytics to address poor demand forecasting and rectify stock imbalances, improving forecast accuracy from 70% to 85%.

Intel, Sony, Microsoft Engineering
Data Engineering
8/2003 - 7/2012
Built a strong systems engineering and data science foundation, architecting and launching ERP systems for hi-tech manufacturing ecommerce on Linux, Python,