Supply Chain Customer Service

Lester L. Shipman, PhD

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302-***-**** (cell), 302-***-**** (home)

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Keywords

Alternative Investments; Artificial Intelligence; Attrition/Retention Modeling; Business Development;

Business Management; Business Process Improvement; Complexity Science; Computer Modeling;

Demand Management; Distribution Requirements Planning; Economic Profit Optimization; Financial

Services; Forecasting; Hedge Fund; Inventory Planning; Management Consulting; Marketing/Sales;

Optimization; Production Scheduling; Quantitative Modeling; Research; Software; Startup Leader;

Statistics; Stock Market Models; Supply Chain; Technical Management; Trading

Demonstrated Transferable Skills

Able to design and implement predictive models of complex systems; Ability to assess client/customer

needs; Ability to develop products and services to meet client/customer needs; Ability to evaluate new

technology and understand/demonstrate how the business can employ it for competitive advantage;

Ability to manage a business for profitability; Analytical thinker – both conceptual and quantitative;

Change Agent; Effective leader of cross-functional teams; Effective leader of startup programs and

businesses; Excellent communication skills with all levels in an organization; Problem solver using

multidisciplinary approaches; Results-oriented

Technical and Business Experience

Includes: Chief Investment Officer of Investment Advisor Firm; Hedge Fund manager; Design and use

of Complexity Science-based stock market trading models; Founder/CEO of successful computer

software and consulting startup firm; Design and implementation of systems for maximizing Economic

Profit/Shareholder Value Add in Supply Chains; Design and implementation of demand forecasting,

inventory planning, and distribution requirements planning systems; Corporate developer/technical

leader for intelligent scheduling systems; Corporate tool developer/technical leader for expert systems;

Modeler of chemical and biological systems; Design, set up, and management of computer

graphics/molecular modeling Lab; Chemical and biological research

Complexity Capital Management, LLC; Wilmington, DE; 2001-present

• Title: Chief Investment Officer and Managing Member

• Managed a profitable hedge fund: The Complexity Fund, LP

• Managed family investments

• Designed and applied innovative Complexity-Science-Based stock market trading models

• Designed and applied advanced statistical stock market trading models

• Consulted in predictive attrition/retention modeling

• Consulted in Supply Chain modeling

• Passed NASD Series 65 Exam

Shipman Enterprises, Inc; Wilmington, DE; 1998-2002

• Title: Founder and CEO

• Managed company: profitable every quarter for 5 years

• Designer of unique and powerful algorithms for supply chain optimization

• Managed team of 6 people

Led sales and marketing effort

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Sold supply chain consulting services and software to over 10 companies and numerous sites

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• Led teams to improve demand forecast, inventory plan, production schedule

• Led teams to reduce excess inventory by over $50 million

• Dramatically improved customer service level for clients

E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co., Inc; Wilmington, DE; 1981-1998

• Title: DuPont Departmental Fellow

• Technical Lead for the corporate task force in Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems

• Technical Lead for the corporate task force on Production Scheduling

• Developed training program and taught many classes on Cash Flow Cycle Time reduction

• Manager of the corporate team for Customer Linking

• Corporate Liaison to the Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, NM) and leader of the corporate effort for

business applications of Complexity Science

• Introduced artificial intelligence into manufacturing planning

• Consulted in business process mapping and simplification

• Designer of new forecasting algorithms that reduced demand forecast error by more than 40%

• Led a consulting team that improved the supply chains of a number of key customers and key

suppliers

• Awarded a US patent for “COLT” technology for demand forecasting and inventory planning.

Used this new technology to remove many $millions of excess inventory for DuPont businesses

and their customers

• Introduced methods and tools for the direct maximization of Economic Profit (and Shareholder

Value Add)

Argonne National Laboratory; Argonne IL; 1974-1981

• Title: Chemist

• Over 50 scientific publications

• Conducted and published basic research in:

o Primary events of green plant and bacterial photosynthesis

o Structure-activity relationships

o Ab initio molecular quantum mechanics

o Chemical mutagenesis

Education

National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow; Cornell University; Ithaca, NY

PhD in Chemistry; University of Kansas; Lawrence, KS

BA in Mathematics; Washburn University; Topeka, KS

BS in Chemistry; Washburn University; Topeka, KS

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