CAREER SUMMARY Supply Chain Executive, builder of strategic differentiation using pride, purpose, and passion with a collaborative methodology proven in large organizations, family enterprises, and non-profits. Creator of transformational change in supply chains where meaningful growth comes from appreciation of people realizing outcomes as individuals, on their teams and throughout organizations. Proven ability to enhance contributions from 360 degrees by achieving employer of choice, supplier of choice, customer of choice, investment of choice and by being a leader of choice. Established track record with expertise in the following: * Leading Sourcing Category Strategies * Price Forecasting * Risk Management * Strategic Supplier Relationship Management * Negotiation * Contracting * Purchasing * Food Safety * Specification Traceability (GS1 Standards) * Sales & Operations Planning * Supply Management * Logistics * Product Supply * Inventory Optimization * Distribution Operations * Purchasing Operations * Demand Forecasting, Sensing, and Shaping * Continuous Improvement * Transformations * Distribution * Logistics * Route Sales * Manufacturing * Warehousing * Transportation * Production Planning * Collaborative Planning KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS * Developed supply chain performance management structures and methods for mid-scale to global restaurant companies aligning success measures in Safety, Service, Cost, Quality, and Growth outcomes with corporate and brand strategies across Purchasing, Supply Management, Demand Management, and Quality Assurance. * Implemented purchasing practices aligning category specific strategies, supplier stratification & strategic relationships with risk management tools providing a line of sight to financial, operational and innovation outcomes in direct and indirect categories. * Led the sourcing teams in bakery, produce, smallwares, capital equipment, international franchise support, transportation, distribution, seafood, warehousing, energy, waste, facilities services, linen and pest control. Saved $25 million annually for a decade with repeatable margin expansion approaches delivering $40 million save in 2015 alone. * Developed and leveraged vested and strategic partnerships bringing the best of category experts accelerating achievements in supply management and sourcing of seafood, produce, capital equipment, smallwares, linen, and energy. Effective partnerships improved results across Safety, Service, Cost, Quality, and Growth with partner assets aligned to meet brand objectives. * Led creation of Darden Direct Distribution & Logistics, a structural change and operating strategy, resulting in a competitive set of performance advantages measured in safety, service, cost, quality and growth achievements of world class performance. * Architected, piloted and built a supply chain transformation improving support of a growing $8 billion multi-brand operating company with $60 million in reduced infrastructure costs. We improved inventory turns, returns on assets, in-stock rates with a more aligned team and lower transaction, overhead and obsolete inventory costs. * Implemented sales and operations planning processes (S&OP) of demand management and supply planning that increased in-stock rates while reducing system-wide inventory, obsolescence and expediting costs for brands relying on national advertising & promotions as well as local and social media events. * Merged supply chains of RARE Hospitality ($40MM synergy), Yard House ($4MM synergy) and Eddie V's acquisitions. Divested supply chains of Smokey Bones and Red Lobster operating companies.

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• Forecasting
• Manufacturing
• Management
• Sourcing
• Transportation
• Integrate
• Logistics
• Packaging
• Planning
• Process Improvements