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The Sidell MethodCEO of The Sidell Method, a boutique professional services firm.
Sep. 2018As a CEO of a boutique professional services firm, The Sidell Method, Ellin Sidell’s heartbeat for leadership flourishes on guiding professionals and managers - at all levels - to advance their careers and enhance their organization’s outcomes. The Sidell Method is dedicated to assisting smart organizations maximize human potential at all levels.
Costco WholesaleProduct Owner / Business Analyst (BA)
Oct. 2015 - Sep. 2022IssaquahResponsible for facilitating business change management by developing vision and scope of new modernization projects and driving the requirement elicitation process. Skilled in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Attained Scrum Master, SAFe 5 Product Owner/Manager, and Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (ACSPO) certifications. Solid knowledge of writing User Stories and tracking progress in ADO and JIRA systems. Establishes strong customer stakeholders relationships throughout the project life cycle to help realize business benefits and define a set of business requirements that will translate into valuable business solutions and technology systems.
Costco WholesaleBusiness Process Analyst (BPA)
Dec. 2013 - Oct. 2015IssaquahResponsible for facilitating enterprise level process improvements. Contribute to strategy development through cross-team engagement and creation of artifacts that promote business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration into modernized technologies. BPA will support and engage multiple stakeholders toward the goal of implementing continuous process improvement. BPA will analyze, implement, and evangelize process improvement opportunities in all stages of the project life cycle.
MicrosoftSr. Program Manager
May. 2002 - Apr. 2004Managed multiple vendors and programs that had positive corporate-wide Customer Partner Experience and Continuous Fiscal Improvement impact.
MicrosoftSr. Manager of Retail Operations
Jul. 1999 - Apr. 2002Managed a team of Operational Account Managers who were responsible for the overall purchasing, communications, inventory management, and operational relationships with direct, key, strategic, retail customers.
MicrosoftSr. Solutions Manager
Sep. 1997 - Oct. 2013May 2004 - October 2013 - Sr. Solutions Manager As Senior Solutions Manager with Microsoft’s Manufacturing Supply Chain Information Solutions Group (MSCIS), works as a consultative partner in the success of clients, interfacing regularly to attain strong understanding of business structure, strategies, marketing opportunities, performance gaps and objectives. Serves as the voice of the client in evangelizing development of multi-million dollar solutions across myriad applications and functions. Successful implementations have spanned eCommerce, manufacturing, operations, retail and supply chain areas. Internal (MS) clients include CSS (Customer Service Support), www.microsoftstore.com, Supply Chain, Xbox and others. Driver of software requirements elicitation process, collaborating with SMEs to facilitate comprehensive global business process architecture, user acceptance testing and training. Advocate for Scrum Agile SDLC management methodologies and for ensuring testability and traceability of requirements. Serving as a de facto business and systems analyst, leading numerous digital and physical supply chain IT projects resulting in improved supply chain systems (SAP R/3, CRM, proprietary systems).
Nestlé USAForecasting Manager of Friskies PetCare Division
Apr. 1996 - Aug. 1997Oversaw forecasting processes for a $1.3BB annual sales division. Served as Program Manager for an operations-critical forecasting system implementation, translating internal customer needs to features and requirements. Greatly streamlined and simplified company’s consensus forecasting process, consolidating numerous functions to a unified corporate demand plan.
Nestlé USAProduction Planning & Logistics Manager
Mar. 1995 - Mar. 1996Led integrated team of production planning, deployment, and forecasting personnel. Improved finished goods inventory turns by 16% over the prior year while maintaining 98% service level and generating $6 million dollars in freight savings. Managed $50 million dollars in finished goods inventory and $33 million dollars in annual freight budget.
Nestlé USAForecasting Supervisor of Friskies PetCare Division
Sep. 1993 - Feb. 1995Supervised implementation of major process improvement project. Streamlined procedures resulting in significant analyst time savings. Instituted metrics. Used data to improve forecast accuracy.
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