Christine Masztal
Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics at The University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc.- Claim this Profile
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Stephanie Morris
Christine is an expert Business Analyst with skills including building Access queries and generating reports. She has a great attitude and demonstrates maturity on the job. Very talented and a pleasure to work with.
Stephanie Morris
Christine is an expert Business Analyst with skills including building Access queries and generating reports. She has a great attitude and demonstrates maturity on the job. Very talented and a pleasure to work with.
Stephanie Morris
Christine is an expert Business Analyst with skills including building Access queries and generating reports. She has a great attitude and demonstrates maturity on the job. Very talented and a pleasure to work with.
Stephanie Morris
Christine is an expert Business Analyst with skills including building Access queries and generating reports. She has a great attitude and demonstrates maturity on the job. Very talented and a pleasure to work with.
Credentials
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Certified Master Gardener
University of ConnecticutOct, 2019- Nov, 2024
Experience
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The University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc.
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United States
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Philanthropic Fundraising Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics
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Jul 2017 - Present
Responsible for the vision, leadership, and strategic direction for the Business Intelligence department the UConn Foundation. Identify and engage new opportunities to optimize outreach engagement through data-driven analysis, statistical modeling, and business insights and ultimately to include support of targeting and personalization into relevant channels to drive audience engagement and growth across digital experiences. Develop strategies to leverage data in the donor and alumni database in support of UConn Foundation goals through the delivery of easy to use reports and dashboards, sophisticated data analysis, and advanced data modeling efforts. Establish and execute a vision for the delivery of information and analytics platforms and recommendations to drive engagement and growth. Design, build, maintain, and optimize data visualizations and other tools to provide actionable insights that enhance business decision making.
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Staples
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United States
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Retail Office Equipment
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr. Manger, Supply Chain Data Analytics
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May 2016 - Jun 2017
Responsible for making stocking decisions across North American Delivery, including; weekly and daily activations/in-activations, changes needed to support new SKU stocking strategies, validation of network projects, improving inventory productivity through flow path optimization efforts and ensuring appropriate actions are taken in response to these changes. The importance and accuracy of these tools can be seen by the annual inventory savings of $40 million. Evolving Cost to Serve model into a weekly financial reporting application, increasing accuracies at the most granular level of detail and incorporating scenario based modeling. Communicating with Sales, Pricing, Finance, Merchandising, Logistics, and Fulfillment Centers to effectively manage supply chain processes for short term and long term strategic planning to improve margin, reduce cost and improve operations. Lead, mentor and coach for members of the team utilizing my strong technical and analytical skills, project management skills, and facilitation/collaboration skills to teach and challenge them.
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Manger, Supply Chain Analytics and Deployment
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Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Built teams core skills for advanced analytics, including utilizing applications such as Teradata, R, Hadoop and predictive analytics, along with recruiting and training analytical talent. Global Engagement results for my team, by category scored the highest score of 100% for recommending my manager to others, compared to a score of 94% for manager values.We designed and developed a Cost to Serve Model for North American Delivery by product, flow path and business unit. Providing product profitability insight to the entire organization, which was previously unavailable. This includes; sales, product margin, adjusted margin, and variable contribution margin dollars. We worked across multiple-cross function teams to obtain requirement's as well as final validation and sign off.User dashboards built in Tableau with drill down functionality to view high level totals down to individual products (with options for breakouts by Business Unit, by Department and by Vendor). Training was provided to each end user through small, hands on sessions.Design and tested a new application for Promo Deployment called the Enterprise Promotion Planning (EPP) application. Worked directly with Global Technology and Supply Chain business partners to design the flow and logic for Promo Deployment. This was done by using previously built tools as a guide, while introducing new and updated logic that improved accuracy and inventory metrics including turns and inventory investment $$. Involved in the design of Incremental Carton Expense (ICE) by mapping requirements, defining data definitions and providing data. SQL infrastructure improved by expanding SSIS packages, normalized tables structures and Teradata enablement.
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Inventory Modeling, Lead
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Jul 2014 - Feb 2015
As lead of a new Inventory Modeling team, I was responsible for finding and retaining talent, defining clear goals and creating an environment with balanced workloads by skills and experiences to challenge my team as well as set them up for success.PRISM updated with over 80 change requests and enhancements. These enhancements aided in an inventory reduction of $35 million and a $3.5 million margin benefit.Primary responsibilities included successful completion of the MS Access Remediation Project - migration to SQL server. Through this initiative, I partnered with over 30 associates (my team, Global Technology, GTO Storage & Provisioning, HCL and Spantech) from coordination to conception through completion. Utilizing my project manager experiences, I defined tasks, priorities and strategies, and held those accountable to bring this project together and to completion, resulting in 130 Databases migrated to SQL server.
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Program Manager, Inventory Management
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Apr 2013 - Jun 2014
In this Program Manger role, I utilized the learnings and design work from my Optimization Analyst role, to develop the first versions of the Progressive Regional Inventory Stocking Model (PRISM). A new heuristic based flow path optimization tool used for creating a balancing between inventory reduction, delivery cost and the customer experience.Designed and developed customer demand capture by order and ship date, inventory source and flow path, utilized for analytics and data discovery.Trained analysts on how to use PRISM, which resulted in improved product profitability by $8 million.Delivered results by working cross-functionally and building relationships between the Supply Chain business and Global Technology, conveying complex technical concepts in business terms and executing to the software development life cycle model (e.g. requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing, and documentation), along with accompanying execution models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, Iterative Development, etc.).
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Sr. Analyst Optimization, Inventory Management
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Jan 2012 - Apr 2013
Researched, Documented, and Modeled Staples Supply Chain flow paths and costs by channel. This includes; product level, sales prices, product cost, vendor rebates, inbound transportation costs, Inventory Holding cost, Fulfillment Labor costs and Final Mile Delivery costs. Designed technology solutions to optimize product margin by flow-path, partnered with Llamasoft initially but ultimately built an in-house application that continues to be used today.Designed technology solutions that enabled Staples to simulation scenario modeling for both existing and future scenario's to measure value for the Supply Chain Strategy team, utilizing Llamasoft's Supply Chain Guru optimization modeling applications.
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Inventory Management Project Team, Business Analyst
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Apr 2010 - Jan 2012
Managed Supply Chain support and tasks required to consolidate Fulfillment Centers, open new Fulfillment Centers and Warehouse Management System conversions.Owner of SKU deployment and stocking decisions, to maintain optimal inventory levels and excellence service to customers.Took the initiative to take on the role of Project Manager of the Arden Hills, MN Warehouse Management System conversion, while managing the tasks owned by the Business Analyst.
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Inventory Management Operations, Associate Analyst
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Sep 2008 - Apr 2010
Managed the New SKU activations process, and created an automated application using MS Access, SQL, and VBA code. Removing the manual Excel based processes. Generated core reports such as Order Fill Rate and Daily Inventory reports for all of North America Delivery.Provided Adhoc analysis on a per requests basis, processed inventory transfers across business channels, supported Supply Chain applications, and managed Help Desk Tickets across Staples Advantage, Staples.com, and Quill, resolving issues for Merchandising and Inventory Management.Designed and developed new applications and reports for the Inventory Management Team.
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Inbound Receiving /Vendor Compliance/Orientation Clerk
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Jun 2005 - Sep 2008
Provided assistance in creating and maintaining the training database.Participated in organizing and streamlining training materials and processes.Performed all functions of the receiving office inclusive of inbound scheduling, vendor compliance and customer service.Created an application to manage inbound productivity, as well as, many other management tools.
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Education
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2006 - 2008
Eastern Connecticut State University
B.S., Business Administration -
2003 - 2006
Quinebaug Valley Community College
A.S., Liberal Arts and Sciences
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