Profile

Years of experience delivering insights, recommendations, and solutions to achieve business goals and strategies. Passion for transforming data into understanding, and communicating relevant insights to drive action and decisions. Visionary leader who anticipates potential challenges while envisioning future opportunities to leverage. Supportive coach, helping others realize their potential through mentorship, guidance, and teaching. Develops collaborative partnerships, recognizing the value of diverse thought and critical reasoning. Inherently curious and inquisitive. Constantly seeking the answers to why and how. Approaches problems from an objective position, using quantitative and qualitative means to arrive at systemic solutions.

Professional Experience
The Kellogg Company Battle Creek, MI Senior Business Analysis Manager Jun 2012 Current Lead the integration and adaptation of legacy Business Analysis systems and processes for the Pringles brand from P&G legacy into Kelloggs architecture. Elicit requirements from Pringles leadership and Kellogg executives for the development of IT and BI tools that are critical for maintaining and monitoring the business. Develop Master Plan for the Pringles Brand to integrate into Kellogg Data Management systems, and for Kellogg IT to enroll Pringles Best Practices that are deemed beneficial, along with a training program to facilitate adoption company-wide. Develop interim Master Plan to maintain End-User business-as-usual systems for Pringles outside of P&G systems. Construct Business Intelligence tools for the Pringles brand, including Executive Topline reports, Sales and Marketing Dashboards, and data/reporting warehouses. Drive the construction and restatement of Relational Databases for Retail scanner Point of Sale data to eliminate overlap and outages between the Kellogg- and Pringles-defined categories of Cookies, Crackers, and Salted Snacks, as well as to facilitate scaled deployment of Business Intelligence tools and techniques across multiple categories and Business Units. Procter & Gamble Cincinnati, OH Senior Business Analysis Manager, North Apr. 2009 Jun 2012 America Pringles Business Analysis Lead for the Pringles business, responsible for areas which included Business Intelligence, Commercial Analytics, and Market and Consumer Measurements. Worked closely with the Category Leadership Team (CLT) and commercial functions. Developed analytic tools and reports to meet business requirements. Facilitated the Strategic Revenue Management (SRM) process for US and Canada markets. Delivered quarterly Market Update to Leadership Team, enabling a holistic perspective of market dynamics, and conveying trends and potential challenges. Developed an effective distribution defense, which led to preserving 20% of SKUs in the Drug Channel. Proposed adjustments to the Trade Promotional Strategy, increasing promotional lift by 50% vs. the prior year. Integrated a consumption-based forecast into the monthly Demand Planning review process, improving accuracy by 10%. Managed Data Services Budget, vendor contracts, and contractor capacity. Business Analysis Manager, North America Sep 2007 - Apr. 2009 Beauty Care Commercial Analyst for Beauty Care GBU brands including Olay, Gillette, Old Spice, Venus, and Secret. Led the North America Market Measures component of the Global Beauty & Grooming organizational redesign.

 Executed Business Review Workshops for the Personal Cleansing, Deodorants, and Shave Care categories. Managed Data Services Budget, vendor contracts, and contractor capacity. Instituted a monthly data review process with Brand teams; created and produced market reports.

Engineering Research Analyst, CET Particle May 2005 - Sep 2007 Processing Corporate Engineering Technologies (CET) internal consultant to engineering and manufacturing leaders in the domain of processes involving the handling, manipulation, and transformation of powders. Recommended interventions, technologies, and system process modifications to troubleshoot, improve, and innovate manufacturing processes. Designed, conducted, and documented experiments at various scales. Lab owner - operated and maintained two labs with multi-scaled manufacturing equipment, product raw materials, and analytic equipment. Recommended process improvements to Cosmetic manufacturing, which led to nearly doubling throughput at a savings of $500M annually. Consistently received high marks for safety, cleanliness, and compliance during Lab Audits. Papa Johns Pizza Berea, KY General Manager Mar 1997 - Aug 2000 Supervised restaurant and delivery operations in excess of $500M annual sales. Maintained staffing, scheduling and training for 25+ employees, balancing labor cost, sales projection, and employee satisfaction. Managed inventory and supply chain to meet production demand and optimize cash flow. Deployed local marketing and promotion activities.

Education
University of Dayton Dayton, OH Master of Science Management Science / Operations Research Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY Bachelor of Science Major: Physics. Minor: Math Self-funded and supported through full- and part-time employment Elected to Sigma Pi Sigma, the Physics Honor Society Member of the Cincinnati/Dayton Chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) May 2010 Apr 2005

Accomplishments and Skills

Professional Recognitions Awarded with 3 Power of You Awards for contributing to organizational development by planning events for quarterly BASConnect events for the purpose of teambuilding, networking and building capability (2011-2012). Awarded 2 Gold Power of You Award for pilot-testing the deployment and adoption of Scaled Solutions (2009, 2010). Contributing to the Broader Organization Led the Market Measures component for acquisition of Pringles by Kellogg, contributing to the construction of the Transitional Services Agreement, identifying critical and non-critical services, constructing plans and systems for bridging outages, and integrating data and reporting systems, Nielsen Answers on Demand Lead User led group adoption training and offered individual coaching to enable conversion from legacy system. Obtained Ohio Volunteer Firefighter and First Responder certifications and served on the site Fire Brigade as Medical Captain. Software Highly proficient with Microsoft Office Suite 2003, 2007, 2010 including Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and Macro development. Analytic programs SAS JMP, MiniTab, Tibco Spotfire, Google Analytics, R, S-Plus. Experienced with many program, scripting, and shell languages. Familiar with SAP BI solutions.