Supply Chain Project Manager

Geoffrey Clark

**** ** ****** ***.

Portland, OR 97211

503-***-**** mobile

503-***-**** gvoice

**********@*****.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jofkuraaku

SUMMARY - I offer excellent analytical and data management skills focusing

on quality, coupled with solid business experience and insight. I value

proactive planning, long-term thinking, and clear communications.

EXPERIENCE - selected list; a complete history is available.

Senior Business Intelligence Manager, Con-way Freight

(Portland, OR / Ann Arbor, MI) - February 2010 to Septermber 2010

. Our team of BI analysts works with C level executives and functional

directors to clarify objectives, designing metrics to measure processes,

negotiate priorities, estimate timelines & set expectations, build &

maintain reports, dashboards & scorecards for:

. City Pickup & Delivery Operations Performance Management

. Linehaul Operations Simulation, Decision Support & Performance

Management

. Pricing Strategic Decision Support & Performance Management

. Sales Productivity Tools & Performance Management

. Marketing Segmentation & Customer Behavior Predictive Analysis

. Safety Policy Compliance & Performance Management

. We collaborate with & mentor our IT partners in these critical areas:

. Normalized, Integrated, low latency EDW design

. Clear, Usable, Comprehensive BI semantic layer

. Reliable, Scalable, High Performance, In-Memory BI operations

Awards & Recogntion:

. CIO100 Advanced Predictive Analytics and Strategy Execution Award

. Netezza in Action at Con-way Freight Case Study

Business Intelligence Manager, Con-way Freight

(Portland, OR / Ann Arbor, MI) - November 2007 to February 2010

. I lead a team of eight BI Analysts, mentoring them in BI and database

technologies, to prioritize and answer tough business questions

accurately and quickly.

. We collaborated with our IT team to design our data infrastructure,

implement that design in our EDW (Netezza), and design and build a

complete semantic layer in our BI tool suite (MicroStrategy).

. We listened to business users frustrated by data quality challenges, and

tracked issues back to the source, to be resolved through technology or

process improvement.

Awards & Recogntion:

. MicroStrategy Advanced Analytics at Con-way Freight Annoucement

. Third Place Manager, 2009 Voices Survey at Con-way Freight

Enterprise Project Manager, Con-way, Inc.

(Portland, OR / Ann Arbor, MI) - April 2007 to November 2007

. I participated in corporate strategy sessions, illustrating choices with

data visualizations.

. I responded to competitive challenges by creating monitoring reports

using regression analysis to help make time-critical pricing decisions.

. I led the technical evaluation of Business Intelligence tools through a

POC with our data.

Data Architect, Vector SCM (Portland, OR) - March 2004 to April 2007

. Our team transformed data into information. Through analysis and

business knowledge, we designed the integrated information infrastructure

all functions within the company.

. We created an integrated logical model describing our business, then

designed physical database structures with standards and architectural

knowledge.

. I formed and led a virtual, global and cross functional team of data

stewards, which identified issues, assessed risk, then prioritized and

resolved data quality issues.

Systems Analyst II, Vector SCM (Portland, OR) - October 2001 to March 2004

. I liaised between supply chain partners, including the client, 3PLs,

carriers, technology service companies and internal functional groups.

. I provided content design and requirements for high volume B2B interfaces

and application network were provided.

Systems Analyst I, Vector SCM (Portland, OR) - May 2001 to October 2001

. We collected, analyzed and rationalized data from multiple complex legacy

systems across GM's global divisions.

. I studied, selected and applied logistics industry data standards to our

data infrastructure.

. We defined and built global supply chain design, sourcing, visibility

compliance software.

Logistics Engineer, Vector SCM (Portland, OR) - July 2000 to May 2001

. We performed data analysis to generate business cases for improvement of

the General Motors global supply chain. Several examples follow.

. We modeled and optimized North American distribution networks,

synchronizing our model with transport route optimization models to form

a holistic solution ~ $1 million per year.

. We modeled and optimized the International Operations network, reducing

consolidation centers in Europe from seven to two ~ $20 million per year.

. We acquired and analyzed data on expedited shipments, re-engineered

processes, and implemented systems, the use of which reduced air charters

~ $12 million per year.

Breakbulk Agent, Expeditors International (Portland, OR) - September 1998

to January 1999

. I tracked global air cargo and related documents with airlines & freight

forwarders.

Assistant Customs Broker, Seino America (Renton, WA) - March 1997 to April

1998

. I prepared US Customs filings using the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

(USHTS), monitored the clearance process, tracked global air cargo,

managed multi-mode cross-country transportation and related accounting.

. I worked closely with Japanese nationals.

EDUCATION - selected list; a complete history is available

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Portland State University, June

2000

Supply Chain Management & Logistics, International Finance, Cost-Based

Accounting.

Bachelor of Arts in Economics (BA), University of Washington, August 1996

Econometrics, Game Theory, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy,

History, and Japanese.

RELATED SKILLS

Operating Systems & Desktop tools:

. MS Widows (3.1, 95, 98, NT, XP, 7), DOS command line

. MS Office ('00 > '07) - Excel, Access, Word, Visio, Powerpoint, Outlook,

Project

. Mac OS X (10.3 > 10.6), UNIX command line

Relational Database Systems:

. Oracle (7i > 11g): Oracle standard SQL expert, Toad & SQL Developer, SQL

Loader

. Teradata (V2R3 > V2R6): ANSI standard SQL expert, SQL Assistant user

. Netezza (4.5.2 > 6.0): physical design for MPP, AQT and Aginity user

. ERwin (3.5 > 4.1 > 7.2): Logical model design & Business Process mapping,

Physical design, performance indexing and compression, DDL generation,

UDFs for data mapping.

Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools:

. MicroStrategy 8/9 Business Intelligence suite - all aspects, expert

. Tableau - expert

. Qlikview - evaluated

. Pentaho - evaluated

. Cognos - evaluated

. MS Access & MS Excel expert - Macros, Graphs, Formulas, Data Analysis

Functions

Modeling & Analytics Tools:

. Teradata Data Miner

. GIS systems - MapInfo, Google Earth, MS MapPoint

. GAMS (Generic Algebraic Modeling System) for optimization with CPLEX

. CAPS Supply Chain Designer and Transpro

. Multiple logistics vendor evaluations including Synquest, Descartes,

Inttra, and many other supply chain, logistics and transportation

systems.

Data & Standards:

. UN/EDIFACT standards - DELFOR, DELJIT, IFTSTA, IFTSAI, DESADV, RECADV

. ANSI/X12 standards - 830, 862, 856, 214, 315, and others

. ISO standards, including:

. iso31 uom

. iso3166 nations & subdivisions

. iso4217 currencies

. iso6709 geo location data

. UN/ECE - UN Location Codes

. WCO - Harmonized Tariff Schedule and product classification techniques

. NMFTA - Standard Carrier Alpha Codes (SCAC)

. SMC3 - NMFC Freight Classification

. SMC3 - Czarlite tariff, and other LTL tariff data

. IATA - Flight data (from OAG or Innovata), Dangerous Goods

. JOC - Ocean Sailing Schedules

. INCO - International Commercial Terms

Languages:

. English fluency

. Japanese proficiency

MEMBERSHIPS

VP Communications, DAMA Portland, October 2006 to April 2007

Nidan, Shotokan Karate of America, July 1995 to present

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