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US FoodsVice President Program Office - Governance
Jan. 2022 - Nov. 2023• Championed governance, change management, and continuous improvement initiatives, enabling centers of excellence to drive enterprise value.
• Assumed leadership responsibility for 5 enterprise project managers overseeing top ten projects, collectively valued over $400 million.
• Pioneered the establishment of the first Portfolio Advisory Council. The Council reviewed overall project portfolio health, financials, status, and trade-off analyses. Provided executive leaders with comprehensive insights, facilitating well-informed prioritization decisions.
US FoodsSenior Director, Program Office Governance
Jan. 2021 - Jan. 2022• Established first enterprise project prioritization process involving over 20 executive stakeholders.
• Implemented Monday.com as the enterprise portfolio project management system of record. • Consolidated project portfolio from over 400 to 110 initiatives while maintaining a total value of $1.3 billion
US FoodsSenior Director, Replenishment CoE
Jan. 2019 - Jan. 2021Rosemont, Il• Set strategy of all teams to maximize performance metrics and delivery of process improvement projects that create value and time for demand planners and buyers.
• Established replenishment optimization team focused on developing standard best practices, consulting to leadership on maximizing use of JDA platform, and performing ad-hoc strategic analyses to improve overall performance.
• Completed cloud migration and platform upgrade for primary forecasting and fulfillment systems for replenishment department (Blue Yonder-SCPO).
• Served as senior leadership sponsor of Collective Asian Network, Asian affinity group providing strategic vision and thought leadership.
US FoodsDirector, Inventory Optimization and Demand Planning
Jan. 2017 - Jan. 2019Rosemont, IL• Assumed responsibility for demand planning, replenishment optimization, and chain buying teams. • Built a total organization size of 95 associates and managers.
• Delivered strategic change initiative to replenishment and sales organization (5,000 employees) that improved demand change communication process and technology. This improved forecast accuracy by 200 bases points.
US FoodsProgram Manager - Chief of Staff
Jan. 2016 - Jan. 2017Rosemont, IL• Oversaw cross functional project teams, organized plans, and communications for multiple initiatives, including centralized replenishment deployment, logistics gap, customer realignment, national sales communication, and multiple market service level improvements.
• Performed chief of staff duties for VP Replenishment, which included offering thought leadership across host of issues, driving department initiatives, and ensuring effective communications.
• Organized, facilitated, and ensured delivery of commitments for replenishment leadership team, including employee roundtables, leadership staff meetings, department town halls, and effective use of resources.
• Served as supply chain culture champion which included consulting to other champions with their local programs and with HR on culture strategy.
Clerestory ConsultingManager
Jan. 2015 - Jan. 2015• Led IT Transformation initiative for a privately held Insurance company. Primary activities include: designing and facilitating working sessions for IT Senior Leadership Team, researching IT governance frameworks and providing recommendations for implementation, providing thought leadership on CIO Office design and scope
• Successfully leveraged Agile framework to brainstorm details on 6 major processes in under 2 hours with 4 SLT members.
US FoodsSenior Manager - Process Improvement
Jan. 2013 - Jan. 2015Rosemont, IL• Led and managed Process Improvement / Project Management team to plan and execute process improvement and deployment projects, leveraging Six Sigma methodology and tools. Examples include: Establishing portfolio management framework, Division transfer reduction, full deployment to approximately 9 divisions, Center of Plate full deployment and process control and efficiency among roles
• Consulted to leadership team on team building and effectiveness strategy. Examples include rollout of Strengths Based Leadership to entire management team, interviewing process and guidelines, and 9-Box
• Facilitated VP and Director team in problem solving sessions while driving execution of plan with cross-functional teams
US FoodsReplenishment Efficiency Project Manager
Jan. 2012 - Jan. 2013Rosemont, IL• Designed and executed change management and communication plan for the Replenishment department. Specifically focused on organizational changes, recurring updates and project impacts
• Designed and executed on-boarding program for over 200 people joining Replenishment department. Specifics duties included: managed a cross-functional team of Operations and Training professionals to execute on-boarding plan, communicated with Executives from across the company to present to new employees, and collaborated with Corporate Real Estate and Technology to ensure seamless Day One
• Performed ad hoc analysis for Vice President and Chief Supply Officer with regards to management reporting. Examples include current headcount, turnover analysis, overtime and financial impact analysis, and year-over-year performance analysis
• Selected as representative at Women’s Foodservice Forum, national women’s leadership conference for foodservice professionals
W.W. GraingerSenior Business Intelligence Analyst
Jan. 2011 - Jan. 2012Lake Forest, IL• Consulted on enterprise wide rollout of Critical Role analysis linked to Human Capital Management Strategy
• Led enterprise wide Voluntary Turnover project. Goal is to create and maintain a predictive model for Voluntary Turnover within the U.S.
• Provided ongoing operational support for creation and delivery of HR Monthly Reports. Reports include but are not limited to: Active Headcount, Terminations, New Hires and Promotions/Transfers
• Leveraged Six Sigma tools to frame the story of HR Operations business unit. Reworked current metrics/scorecard to clearly tell audience what the relevant, key metrics are for operational efficiency
AllstateIT Governance Analyst
Jan. 2011 - Jan. 2011Northbrook, IL• Consulted on technology wide Human Capital Management Strategy. Provided detailed role analysis for resource utilization and forecasting. Recommended opportunity area to improve forecasting capabilities.
• Consulted on enterprise wide financial modeling and data governance model. Provided analysis specific to internal processes of Infrastructure Services teams. Recommendations resulted in streamlining of processes and global understanding of IT expenses by using data from 3 unique systems
• Provided governance support for IT project management mandates and standards. Consulted to IT business units on mandates and how to manage within their projects
Allstateco-Executive Director of Allstate Asian American Network (affinity group)
Jan. 2011 - Jan. 2011Northbrook, IL
AllstateBusiness Intelligence Consultant
Jan. 2008 - Jan. 2011• Utilized functional, business and Six Sigma knowledge to create and deliver IT Service Improvement and Marketing plans. Provide consulting to IT department on implementation of Improvement plans and communication of Marketing plans
• Conducted IT Supply Chain analysis on fulfillment performance, quality and cost. Combine Six Sigma methods to uncover root causes and recommend solutions
• Collaborated across 3-8 functional teams to cost IT services – Service versus Organizational view. Gathered and assemble data from 3-6 external sources in order to report and benchmark IT services
• Successfully delivered Standard Service Analytics scorecards to IT leadership. Leveraged skills across 3 functional teams to deliver basic, alerting scorecard on IT supply chain delivery and performance
• Successfully managed relationship with IT Hosting cross functional teams (roughly 5-8 unique teams under various leaders)
• Successfully volunteered on IT-wide initiative to measurement technology’s impact on the bill paying customer. Provided consulting and analytic services to display Application downtime relative to customer impact in Sales and Service functions
• Served on core team of Allstate Asian American Network (3AN) affinity group. Successfully organized and ran professional development panel discussion.
AllstatePortfolio Management Advisor
Jan. 2004 - Jan. 2008• Provided strategic thought leadership on direction of Governance team. Examples include performed as adjunct lead over Portfolio Management Advisors, led 2 major initiatives (Resource Management Process and Work Intake Simplification) to increase Portfolio Management maturity, created and drove out strategic roadmap for Governance team
• Provided insight into divisional IT portfolio based on data analysis from Changepoint tool and leveraging Six Sigma tools. Examples include understanding the amount of time IT resources spent on core versus non-core work, IT spend on strategic versus non-strategic work
• Performed business analyst role for Changepoint tool. Examples include created regression test scenarios, requirements gathering for reporting, consulted to business clients on how best to leverage tools, functioned as level 2 technical support for business clients
• Successfully created the first Technology Solutions performance scorecard
• Successfully led 2 Six Sigma projects centered on cycle time reduction and reallocation of talent – combined anticipated savings of roughly $3 million, implementation in April, 2009 with roughly $1.3 million in savings
KaplanCenter Manager
Jan. 2003 - Jan. 2004• Managed daily business activity and tracked financial performance of Chicago-North and Chicago-Downtown location
• Developed and led team of 10 employees to create work process flows and implemented efficient systems to improve student experience
• Identified market trends and created monthly marketing plans accordingly, with corporate and area support; tracked business growth due to market plan
• Organized and ran marketing events with university-based student groups
• Successfully led team to transform Chicago-Downtown center as one of the top performers in 1st and 2nd quarter 2004
• Successfully organized effort to become top performer in customer service business metric
• Successfully ran premier Medical program (offered in 2 locations nationwide) for 2 years in a row
• Organized and conducted Kaplan’s first Associate Manager’s meeting for Chicago and Michigan/Ohio area
AccentureFinancial Analyst
Jan. 2000 - Jan. 2002• Served as main liaison for account for Extended International Assignment (EIA) costs for US expatriates
• Maintained regular reconciliation of all balance sheet and income statement accounts in Global Market Unit (GMU)
• Supervised pay-agent accounting activities for Central Europe and Australian assignments (and other assignment where the U.S. will be identified as the pay agent)
• Successfully cleared nearly $3 million of ages accruals from U.S. permanent transfer balance sheet; created solid process to maintain steady accrual flow
• Successfully maintained relationships with U.S. and Asian controllerships, Americas Service Center, and Finance Market Unit contacts
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