Bradley T. Pope, CPIM, PMP
6102 S 39th St. 479-685-5698
Rogers, AR 72758 Pope@BradleyPope.com
SUMMARY Accomplished program manager, highly skilled supply chain analyst and proven team leader
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Retail Solutions (RSi)– RFID analytics start-up company; Bentonville, AR
10/06 – Current Senior Analytic Consultant
· Lead consultant on three strategic customer accounts. Provided cutting edge RFID and out of stock analysis to executive level customers using a variety of data visualization and statistical tools. Drove successful merchandiser intervention at Wal*mart stores by sending data based alerts which directed resources where they were most needed.
· Managed all aspects of opening a branch office of a California based start-up company. Duties included facility selection and contract negotiation, interviewed and hired additional staff members to build out the company, and secured additional space for branch expansion
INTEL CORPORATION Chandler, AZ
12/05 – 9/06 External Silicon Planning Manager
· Managed an international staff of five employees in three continents responsible for supporting $88 million in annual sales
· Interviewed, hired and trained three new employees
· Integrated statistics into team processes and provided quantitative justification for recommended actions
11/02 – 12/05 Supply Chain Program Manager
· Led a cross-functional resource management team in creating a dynamic headcount model for fabrication material handlers
· Facilitated working sessions with internal Intel personnel and 3rd party logistics providers
· Captured and measured current activities and summarized the results in a format that was easy to understand and proliferate
· Challenged existing assumptions and identified 3rd party logistics providers as 21% overstaffed
· Drove a rebidding decision that ultimately saved Intel over $5,000,000 dollars
· Led a team of worldwide stakeholders in re-engineering Intel’s foundry planning processes used to manage $250 million in annual sales
· Mediated brainstorming and work-sessions that led to drastically improved process flows
· Planned and developed a centralized repository to eliminate significant data redundancies and data quality issues
· Reduced the overall process time by 1,400 hours annually
· Developed a new capacity planning methodology which reduced process time by 50% and removed 60% of the steps from the critical path, eliminating the need for a full-time planning position
· Led a worldwide team that delivered a program to monitor Intel’s shipping lanes and proactively identify and eliminate product handling issues
· Transformed a rough idea into a worldwide program complete with procedures, controls and a supporting team
· Rallied 30+ worldwide stakeholders and managed a core team of 7 people
· Created and delivered procedural and statistical training
· Identified logistics capacity planning as a function ready to be decentralized and led the internationalization effort
· Redesigned the work flow and tools
· Created and delivered worldwide training
· Monitored progress and communicated status updates and results to executive stakeholders globally
7/01– 11/02 Logistics Analyst
· Developed and delivered worldwide volume, labor and capacity plans and solutions for finished good warehousing
· Researched, forecasted and presented space requirements of new logistics hubs and third party warehousing locations
· Directed the Recent College Graduate Network for Intel in Arizona
· Published weekly e-mails to 600 employees about current events and activities
· Coordinated community service, social and recruiting events
· Chaired regular meetings with the four committee chairs
HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR COMPANY Milwaukee, WI
January 2000 Intern – Buyer/Planner
Summer 2000
· Used Manugistics software to identify obsolete parts within existing inventory. Reduced inventory from $1,031,500 to $704,000 in two months
· Reduced drop shipments by designating certain vendors as tier one suppliers
· Used Manugistics software to maintain 500 individual SKU’s. Forecasted, released orders, and reviewed backorders for the Controls and Electrical division of Parts and Accessories
KIMBERLY CLARK CORPORATION LaGrange, GA
Summer 1999 Intern – Production Planning
· Identified discrepancies in raw material consumption figures. Worked with process engineers, financial analysts, and production planners to locate the source of problems
· Used Excel to develop a new process for making weekly production forecasts for a rewinding machine. Reduced the original process from three hours to fifteen minutes
· Discovered 160 rolls of old inventory. Developed and implemented a company-wide process for re-work. Inventory was reduced to 50 rolls in 30 days
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
MULTIPLE REAL ESTATE COMPANIES Phoenix Area; Madison, WI
11/02 – Current Real Estate Professional
· Managing four real estate companies and multiple rental properties
· Led the landlord group for the Arizona Real Estate Investors Association
· President of The Haven at Chandler Ranch homeowners association
MATERIAL MANAGEMENT GROUP Appleton, WI
1991-1998 Service Technician
· Traveled throughout the United States setting up new customer accounts
· Checked inventory levels, ordered product and stocked work cells at multiple customer locations
· Decided the proper “point of use” inventory levels based on past usage and forecasted requirements
EDUCATION
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Tempe, AZ
Masters of Business Administration, December 2004: Supply Chain Management
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Madison, WI
Bachelor of Business Administration, May 2001 Double Major: Production/Operations Management, and Marketing with a specialization in Supply Chain Management, Overall GPA 3.8/4.0
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT / TECHNICAL SKILLS
Spotfire Data Visualization, Advisor Data Visualization, Data Analyzer, Gemini, Nexus, Sharepoint, Experienced in Microsoft Suite, Expert with Excel – currently teaching Excel for analysts course, OneNote, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, JMP Statistical Software, Retail Link
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Instructor in the Retail Program at NWACC; Passed 5 APICS exams - achieved CPIM certification, previously instructed APICS classes; Certified Project Management Professional (PMP); Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course; 7 Habits of Highly Effective People