It all starts with a goal.
My professional experiences.
Nike
Materials Costing Manager, Apparel and Accessories (2022-present)
•Automated reporting flow for negotiation result calculations, resulting in over 200 hours saved annually
•Developed market models for commodities covering more than $8Bn in spend annually by utilizing financial market data, market intelligence, and historical records.
•Built an ETL process for over one thousand market indicies from external sources via APIs and Excel Scraping. Cleaned and structred the dat ain a user facing table to enable predictive price models and live dashboards
•Enabled accurate forecasting for commodities by building out a variety of time-series models with exponential smoothing to map the price level of commodities within 90+% accuracy on a time frame of 6 months
Insights Analyst — Services (2021-2022)
•Responsible for analytics on more than $65Bn in spend. Led a revamp of reporting mechanisms for Procurement, including a comprehensive KPI tracker that is sent directly to the COO every month.
•Analyzed payment term opportunities via SQL queries and Python to display more than $500M in cost avoidance opportunities—currently in charge of implementing a new negotiation framework
•Revamped the data ecosystem via knowledge of SQL and data ingestion to reduce average query time by more than 80%
•Wrote extensive documentation for the new data ecosystem restructure, with an emphasis on communicating the complex technical processes in an easily digestible format.
2019 General Motors & Wayne State Case Competition
My team was hand-picked to compete, and after three rounds of competition a panel of GM executives awarded us second place out of more than 35 teams.
Nike (2020)
Procurement Analyst Intern
• Implemented a spend categorization method to over $2Tn global spend and 1.5MM transactions by utilizing clustering algorithms and machine learning to understand global spend at a granular level
• Created and organized over 50 spend category definitions and ownership to eliminate overlaps and ensure data validation for accurate analysis
• Condensed spend databases from various sources into one user focused table for global analysis
• Built training documents to allow for frictionless onboarding of future interns, and analysts by identifying pain points within the system, and streamlining processes to reduce manual inputs
SC Johnson (2019)
Global Procurement Intern
• Strategically sourced a key component for multiple product lines by building a comprehensive forecasting model which enabled direct cost savings of $6MM over 3 years
• Coded a self-serving reporting tool within Excel which streamlined the manufacturing of reports, which led to direct time savings of ~530 hours annually
• Created, organized, and maintained a supplier audit database with over 100 different internal users.
• Managed RFPs for new products, analyzed quotes, and negotiated with suppliers to award final business
Stryker (2018)
GQO Materials Handling Intern
• Created and implemented a board ordering system on each manufacturing line to complement the move of inventory from the in-house storage area to a 3PL
• Enabled savings of $248K annually in direct cost by revamping the Kanban system and reducing the storage of inventory in each manufacturing section by a factor of 3
• Redesigned the layout of the plant floors to allow for only value-added movements, and reduced waste by an estimated $604K over the next three years
• Helped consult on the ERP transition from JDE to a new SAP system
2018 Summer Internship at Stryker
Every (2020-present)
Researcher / Writer
Conducted in-depth research for a variety of publications to ensure accuracy of articles and to provide background data.
Wrote for Divinations, a newsletter on business strategy, including a post that went #1 on Hacker News.
Developed an interactive dashboard to track the historical and live performance of more than 20 assets.
Helped streamline the publication process to allow for a smoother drafting experience
LinksDAO (2021-present)
Analytics Lead
• One of nine community members promoted to pod leader in charge of operations, recruiting, and mission.
• Created a Dune Dashboard for the community, which reached the #1 trending section on the website
• Developed an industry standard scoring tool aimed at evaluating the strength of Web3 projects
• Contributed to the pitch deck for VC fundraising by creating internal benchmarks, analyzing social media statistics, scraping the Discord, and compiling survey results.
Stocktwits (2020-2021)
Sr. Financial Writer
• Created "The Fresh Squeeze" newsletter aimed at morning investors. Experienced rapid growth through first 30 days, leading to 50k+ subscribers and over $1M in ad revenue
• Produced content for the "The Daily Rip" with 1.2M subscribers, and increased open rates by an average of 8% with subject lines aimed at intriguing the audience.
• Pioneered new writing templates to decrease friction and time loss by up to 50% in the content creation phase of each newsletter.
“The questions he asks are a clear indication of his desire to learn the business and understand the bigger picture. His passion and energy made a positive impact and it was a truly a pleasure to have him on the team.”