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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Business Intelligence Strategy

Analytics Team Development

Application Creation and Deployment

Machine Learning Implementation

Automation Implementation

Operations Support

WORK EXPERIENCE

February 2020 - June 2020

PIKE ELECTRIC
DIRECTOR OF FLEET SYSTEMS AND ANALYTICS

  • Developed an analytics team with supporting core business operations through statistical models and analysis and working with an IT partnership team to support us

  • Created 5-year strategy and roadmap to move fleet towards a data driven & asset focused model supporting $1B in assets

  • Built and implemented first fully automated regressions and tree models

  • Member of business leadership team for enterprise data warehouse

  • Transformed fleet data entry and processes to mobile through forms, reducing data backlog from 3 months to instant and reduced data error rate by 98%

  • Conceptualized and led implementation of mobile application that handles all repairs for a 12,000+ unit fleet

  • Led automation push for all fleet reporting and moving metrics from ad hoc work to structured and defined calculations

  • Created model to estimate accruals for repairs that replaced manual top side accrual process

  • Developed inventory clearing house site and processes that have reduced spend by $100K per month

  • Supported Safety department for data capture, analysis, and reporting with a focus on reducing events 50% within 12 months

October 2015 - January 2020

PIKE ELECTRIC
FINANCIAL ANALYST

  • Co-created and lead development for a mobile application to transform field operations handling of fleet repairs

  • Co-led in development of custom software that combines over a dozen internal and external data sources to develop new productivity analytics

  • Product owner for a $3M project for transforming all GPS data from over 5,000 units into structured, understandable data

  • Developed data requirements, data modeling, and data visualization of all repairs for a fleet of over 10,000 units

  • Designed and managed 5 year bid model for $1B contract

  • Designed regression based method for costing a $10M annual expense to field projects

  • Developed revenue estimates for a less predictable line of business, presented for debt offering

  • Led implementation of Oracle inventory module, including requirements, launch, training, and care

  • Co-led 3 robotic process automation projects that covered $100M in cost annually

  • Implemented and customized 5 year company forecasting for creditors

  • Budgeted for $200M business unit, streamlining and implementing algorithmic forecasting for estimates

  • In the process of automating costing and variance analysis for $200M line of business

May 2014 – August 2014

INMAR
SUPPLY CHAIN MBA INTERN

  • Worked with warehouse to help bring data to decision making through visualization and clarification of data​

  • Created first internal stationary forecast, and found new revenues drivers that management is planning on focusing to exceed goals for 2014

  • Studied system actions and found ways to reduce keystrokes by 82% and saved 7.85 man hours per day, and will help on all clients on system after development

  • Managed $3 million dollar emergency project. Meet budget and timeline even with a 300% increase in shipments over estimate.

February 2010 – July 2013

KAYAK CAROLINA
GENERAL MANAGER

  • Oversaw logistics, staffing, booking and daily operations for a kayak tour operator while supervising five Guides.​

  • Managed the transition from brick-and- mortar store to web and phone sales, reducing overhead costs by 57%.

EDUCATION

May 2015

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Masters of Business Administration

  • Honors:

    • Merit Scholarship in the College of Management

  • Concentration:

    • Business Analytics

    • Consulting

December 2009

BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE

Bachelor of Arts in Business Management

  • Concentration: Motorsports Management

  • Honors:

    • Dean’s Lists

    • Hornet’s Nest Motorsports Merit Scholarship

SKILLS

Managerial Skills

  • Strategic planning

  • Tactical planning

  • Talent development

  • Project management

Technical Skills

  • Statistics

    • Bayesian​

    • Frequentist

  • Automation

  • Machine learning design​

    • Regressions (linear, generalized)​

    • Random Forest

    • XGBoost

    • Keras

  • Machine learning business deployment

  • Model development, testing, and validation

    • R, Julia

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