In a client-facing role, developed new industries and clients for computer vision and Smart Manufacturing applications centered on improved efficiency, safety, and carbon reduction.
• Developed a majority of new customers across all industries.
• Researched and rationalized the ROI potential for new industries to use computer vision applications with a focus on the interactions between people, materials, and equipment or vehicles.
• Deployed the first computer vision applications for 3 of the top global cement/aggregate providers.
• Piloted computer vision to shorten passenger loading and unloading cycle times at two major commercial airports.
• Prototyped computer vision which improved utilization by 15% at the largest machine shop in the Western US by analyzing the interaction of operators with their equipment and materials.
• Composed blogs and white papers articulating application use cases for Smart Technologies.
• Created and managed the company's Industry Advisory Board t

Created new classes for the Levi Graduate Business School's MBA, and Business Analytics programs.
• Developed and taught the school's first risk management class for finance as well as the first supply chain risk management class.
• Devised and delivered Lean Six Sigma professional training for corporate clients that included 18 hours of seminars, mentoring five projects, and awarding 20 Green Belt certifications.
• Provided a free Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification that helped business analytics majors increase their analytical and project management credentials and receive job offers.
• Designed and implemented the school's first Smart Manufacturing professional training and certification program which included 12 hours of on-site training and the awarding of 25 Yellow Belt certifications. The program received positive reviews and was the first of its kind in the US.

Led over 25 process improvement projects tackling some of Cisco's most complex cross-functional and multi-organizational issues in one of the largest supply chains in the world. A representative sample of projects:
• Lunch and Learn Continuous Improvement Training: Ran over 50 lunch time seminars to introduce Lean Six Sigma tools and methodologies over a 3-year period in which over 2500 attended. Employees were motivated to continue their training leading to a 35% increase in Green Belt signups.
• Meeting Reduction and Optimization: Project lead for a major initiative to reduce the length and improve the productivity of meetings. The project reduced 7,000 workdays per year in meeting attendance. 700 employees attended the training which received an overwhelming positive response.
• Engineering Change Notice Optimization: Led a project across all 40+ business units to reduce the time product engineers spent doing low-level ECO processing. Recommendations were accepted leading to outs

Worked with IBM clients to optimize processes used with their IBM hardware and software.

Managed over 15 client-facing consulting projects as a project lead with a focus on supply chain systems integration and process improvement. Implemented a variety of ERP systems and helped clients to adopt best practices using their new ERP systems. Collaborated with clients in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Responsible for sourcing, negotiation, purchasing, production & inventory control, warehousing, shipping & receiving, ERP & ISO 9000 implementations. Converted a traditional ERP system running on an IBM mainframe computer to a JIT pull system using Kanbans running on a minicomputer at half the cost.