Experience

AP Professionals onsite at Nike

• Sustainability Compliance Reporting Analyst

  • Mar 2021 - Nov 2021

  Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area Provide Data analytics and process support for transition from a proprietary to an industry tools based solution for sustainability and compliance management with SLCP, FEM, and ZDHC tools using FFC as an accredited host.



Apex Systems onsite at Nike

• Technical Product Owner - Business Integration - Sustainable Manufacturing & Sourcing

  • Sep 2019 - May 2020

  Portland, Oregon Area Managed program backlog and provided feedback to stakeholders for Business Integration & Operations organization responsible for delivering systems & processes, setting & enforcing policies and standards, and measuring factory compliance with Nike's sustainability goals. Reduced backlog and improved technical team response time to target levels through strategic prioritization of stories and support tickets and collaboration with Product Manager, key stakeholders and the technical team



Personal Time Off

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Nov 2017 - Sep 2019

  Lake Oswego, OR Relocation to Oregon & ongoing classes & certifications in Project Management, Cloud Computing, Data Science, & Machine Learning



Cisco

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Lifecyle Program Manager

  • Nov 2008 - Oct 2017

  San Jose, CA Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead for Data Center Switching and Enterprise Wireless groups *Led cost reduction team identifying $17M in FY2018 cost savings for Data Center Switching products. *Led project team to implement new FCC regulatory requirements impacting $2B annual revenue on flagship wireless access points shipping to or through the US. Maintained leadtime and margin targets throughout project implementation timeline. *Led team that identified $57M in incremental savings… Show more Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead for Data Center Switching and Enterprise Wireless groups *Led cost reduction team identifying $17M in FY2018 cost savings for Data Center Switching products. *Led project team to implement new FCC regulatory requirements impacting $2B annual revenue on flagship wireless access points shipping to or through the US. Maintained leadtime and margin targets throughout project implementation timeline. *Led team that identified $57M in incremental savings opportunities across enterprise switching products. *Achieved $2M annual savings in mode shift from air to sea for wireless access points shipped from Asia. *Achieved $2M cost avoidance for 21K unit RMA by working with Customer Account Management, End Customer, Account Escalation, Remarketing, Manufacturing, and Manufacuturing IT and EMS Partner teams. *Achieved $1M annual savings from accessory kit optimization project for wireless access points. *Led Cisco's first General Electric Value Engineering Workout Cost Reduction Initiative. Cross functional team delivered 17% savings on the existing access point and delivered a new de-featured, lower cost wireless access point that captured the single largest unit order in the product line history. *The wireless products I managed consistently performed at the highest level of On Time Delivery, Customer Satisfaction, and Field and Factory Quality within Cisco. Show less

• Business Intelligence Analyst

  • Jan 2006 - Oct 2007

  San Francisco Bay Area Source to Record process for the Global Corporate Controllers Office Reporting *Led delivery, automation and adoption of the Cisco Global Corporate Controllers Office's Source to Record Executive Dashboard using Kaplan & Norton Balanced Scorecard methodologies. *The Executive Dashboard provided visual, actionable metrics based on the executive level vision and strategy with metrics that cascaded down from the executive level to first line manager level. *Transformed the business… Show more Source to Record process for the Global Corporate Controllers Office Reporting *Led delivery, automation and adoption of the Cisco Global Corporate Controllers Office's Source to Record Executive Dashboard using Kaplan & Norton Balanced Scorecard methodologies. *The Executive Dashboard provided visual, actionable metrics based on the executive level vision and strategy with metrics that cascaded down from the executive level to first line manager level. *Transformed the business process from high touch to automated while eliminating 80 hours of work each quarter, improving process cycle time by 5 days, and allowing key resources to focus on value add analysis rather than data gathering, scrubbing, and manual report processing.

• Business Analyst - Oracle Release Management

  • Dec 2003 - Jan 2006

  * Responsible for Oracle Purchasing Module, prepared Business Requirements Documents for off-shore development teams, test cases for release, and job aids for production support. * Delivered email and fax solution and customizations for transmitting more than 50% of all Cisco's Purchase Orders globally. * Business Owner for Oracle Purchasing for EDI and cXML transactions.

• Materials Manager / Program Manager – Multi Service Switching

  • Apr 2000 - Dec 2003

  San Francisco Bay Area * Managed multiple site transitions for $300M low volume, high mix, high value, high complexity networking products, solved multiple complex test & capacity issues while maintaining and improving operational metrics. * Led initiative that improved test yields from 20-50% to exceeding targets of 95%.

• Senior Program Manager, Supply Chain Ecommerce Group

  • Oct 1998 - Apr 2000

  San Francisco Bay Area *Led the conceptualization, development and delivery of a global outsourced manufacturing component quoting and product costing system that scaled with the business from $9B to $50B in annual revenue. *Delivered an innovative, foundation capability for quoting, negotiating, pricing, and costing components, assemblies, and transformation costs for all new and sustaining products across Cisco's entire Global EMS supply chain and financial reporting systems. *At time of implementation… Show more *Led the conceptualization, development and delivery of a global outsourced manufacturing component quoting and product costing system that scaled with the business from $9B to $50B in annual revenue. *Delivered an innovative, foundation capability for quoting, negotiating, pricing, and costing components, assemblies, and transformation costs for all new and sustaining products across Cisco's entire Global EMS supply chain and financial reporting systems. *At time of implementation system supported over 30,000 component, assembly, and product items and 6,000 queries and transactions per quarter by Commodity Managers, Buyer/Planners, New Product Engineers, Component Engineers, Hardware Engineers, and other stakeholders and decision makers.