CRIS LINDSEY
BENTONVILLE,US
Summary
Experienced technologist and analytics professional with over 15 years of Walmart experience. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Loves data and analytics!
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager II
Global Procurement
01.2021 - Current
- FM): Business Analytics
- Perform different analytical techniques such as multiple regression, Pareto analysis, and scatter plots, to determine significant factors that impact pricing
- Perform data analysis to extract meaningful and actionable insights for the Sourcing and Operations Business Partners to maximize project savings
- Conduct spend analysis to identify the best strategy for the sourcing event
- Perform clean-sheeting for pricing strategy use for supplier negotiations
- Partner with the Global Sourcing team in supporting the global sourcing needs of business partners
- Manage the project timeline and the different deliveries for the project
- Lead the data governance adoption for the Global Sourcing and Procurement area to significantly improve the quality and management of data
- Successfully led multiple sourcing projects resulting in about $5M savings and $5M cost avoidance within one year
- Continued progress in leading projects with higher spends with a total of more than $600M for the two projects alone
- Led the automation of the supplier segmentation report that resulted in a significant process efficiency, US Learning: Academy Data, Analytics, & Reporting Strategy
- Managed, trained, grew, and inspired direct reports made up of 4 analysts
- Led the US Learning Data, Analytics, & Reporting Strategy team that supports the entire US Learning organization and its business partners
- Developed strategies and corresponding plans to drive maturity within the US Learning data and analytics program
- Managed, prioritized, and assigned projects and initiatives to the team
- Oversaw all data-driven analysis, insights, reporting, and visualization projects and initiatives
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams for the execution of strategies
- Managed vendor partners to ensure projects are getting executed as planned
- Provided technical guidance on improving current methodologies
- Ensured delivery of quarterly US Academy primary KPIs to executive leaders
- Designed the US Learning’s analytics architecture and managed the team that executed its successful implementation resulting in robust, reliable, efficient systems, and fully automated reports generation
- Executed strategies to significantly improve the accuracy of US Academy data and reports from around 50% up to at least 95%
- Created significant cost avoidance by training non-technical people to become high-performing analytics team resulting in the avoidance of hiring contractors to provide analytics need of the area
- Drove automation of time-intensive and error-prone processes resulting in their significant improvements, efficiencies, and accuracies
- Created significant process efficiencies by fully automating reports that enabled team to work on other analytics projects.
Senior Manager II - US Learning: Data, Analytics
Walmart
Bentonville, AR
05.2018 - 12.2020
- Managed inventory, production, workflow and distribution, analyzing each stage of product life cycle and recommending improvements to streamline processes.
- Oversaw reporting functions to executive leadership.
- Supervised and directed analysts and [4] teams to keep projects on-track and tasks prioritized.
- Evaluated hiring, firing and promotions requests.
- Collaborated with vendors, suppliers and transport carriers.
- Supervised and managed product-related communication to achieve messaging accuracy and product correctness.
- Reviewed current analytics implementations and provided recommendations for realignment to customer KPIs or technical best practices.
- Created business and technical requirements documentation and developed solution designs for analytics implementation.
- Captured and documented customers' business and technical requirements.
- Identified and documented detailed business rules and use cases based on requirements analysis.
- Researched and resolved issues regarding theintegrity of data flow into databases.
- Collaborated with business unit leaders to identify and prioritize problems.
- Created various Excel documents to assist with pulling metrics data and presenting information to stakeholders for concise explanations of best placement for needed resources.
- Used statistical methods to analyze data and generate useful business reports.
- Extracted and interpreted data patterns to translate findings into actionable outcomes.
- Identified, analyzed, and interpreted trends or patterns in complex data sets.
- Utilized data visualization tools to effectively communicate business insights.
- Documented project constraints business impacts and risks, noting potential impact on the organization.
- Upheld security and confidentiality of documents and data within the area of responsibility.
- Documented project constraints business impacts and risks, noting potential impact on the organization.
- Documented effective and replicable methods for extracting data and organizing data sources.
- Upheld security and confidentiality of documents and data within thearea of responsibility.
- Tested data prediction algorithms based on historical data.
- Worked with business intelligence software and various reports to glean insights into trends and prospects.
Senior Manager
01.2015 - 01.2018
- Health & Wellness Governance and Compliance Analytics, Insights, & Reporting Strategy
- Led the H&W Compliance analytics, insights, and reporting strategy program
- Partnered with all the H&W Compliance teams to understand, evaluate, and help mitigate/eliminate compliance risks using data-driven insights
- Analyzed data to improve business efficiency and effectiveness by using various advanced analytical methodologies
- Helped develop and execute strategies to drive maturity within the program
- Conducted research to help identify new H&W compliance trends and KPIs
- Provides data-driven analysis and insights to help drive business strategies by overseeing ongoing analytical needs
- Managed monthly delivery of KPIs and insights to executive leaders in the Compliance area
- Identified and drove process improvements in “special pharmacy project,” resulting in cost savings and cost avoidance by at least $200K
- Executed process efficiencies in Health & Wellness analytics program resulting in monthly time savings from two weeks down to 2 days.
Systems & Data Analyst
01.2013 - 01.2015
- ISD Quality Assurance Governance
- Led the ISD Quality Assurance data, analytics, and visualization program
- Managed relationship with various stakeholders for the overall QA data, governance and alignments
- Managed an offshore team for project development
- Communicated executive-level summary for insights and actionable items
- Partnered with stakeholders to implement strategies for improving product quality being delivered by ISD to the business
- Provided support to the technology division on QA related data and metrics
- Partnered with all the ISD pillars to achieve common goals of eliminating software development wastes and improving software quality
- Received “Associate of the Month” awards two months after joining the team for executing transformational changes within the QA area
- Improved ISD Quality Assurance (QA) data accuracy up to 95% resulting in trusted reports and insights.
Programmer Analyst, Sr. Programmer Analyst
ISD Transportation and Logistics
01.2006 - 01.2013
- Managed projects and provided technical guidance to the team
- Helped build databases from the ground up, which also involved data architecture, modeling, mapping, and governance
- Designed and developed applications using various programming languages
- Partnered and communicated with stakeholders in various projects
- Received numerous performances based “Associate of the Month” awards
- Led transportation/logistics projects with a defect rate of less than 1%, leading to significant cost savings due to minimal rework
- Received “Excellence Award Concord NC Consolidation Startup” for successfully leading the DC Conversion project.
Advanced Programmer, Programmer
Walmart
- ISD Merchandising
- Designed and developed applications using various programming languages
- Interacted with various relational database management systems
- Managed small projects and provided technical guidance to the team
- Partnered with stakeholders in various projects
- Received performance-based “Associate of the Month” award
- Incorporated database technologies such as relational databases, SQL and [Type] into coding projects.
- Received accolade for quickly identifying the strategy gap on the Payment Card Industry (PCI) project, which avoided delays in getting Walmart in compliance.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administrations: Supply Chain Management, Procurement
Bellevue University Global
2017
MBA - Business Analytics
University of Arkansas Graduate School of Business
Fayetteville, AR2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
Southern Arkansas University
Magnolia, AR05.2005
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Mathematics
Southern Arkansas University
Magnolia, AR05.2005
Skills
- Descriptive and inferential statistics
- Analytical Thinking and Problem-Solving
- Organization and Time Management
- Agile Methodology
- Systems Analysis
- Critical Thinking
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Process Efficiency
- Applications:
- SPSS, SAS EM, Dataiku, Tableau, Alteryx, LeanKit, Power BI, QuickBase, DataStage, Power Bi, SQL, etc
- Programming Languages:
- HTML 5, R, Python, Dot Net, C, C, Java, Perl, Unix Scripting, XML, PHP, ASP, VBScript, DOS, Visual Basic, etc
- RDBMS, Data Warehouse, Data Governance, Data Lake:
- Teradata, Informix, HADOOP, Hive, SAP HANA, MS SQL, Oracle RDBMS, MySQL, DB2, Maria DB, data warehousing, dimensional, and relational data modeling, ETL, etc
Certification
Business Intelligence:
+ Data mining (Linear Regression, Logistics Regression, Random Forest, Decision Trees, KNN, Neural Networks, Classifications, Clustering, etc.)
+Data Visualization
+ Machine learning, Certification:
+ Business Analytics Certificate (May 2017)
+ Enterprise Systems Certificate (May 2017)
+ Six Sigma Black Belt Professional
+ Scrum Master
+ Cisco Networking
Additional Information
- Volunteer Work: (, 2018) Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (2017) Walmart Open Call (2015) Million Women Mentor (2014) ISD Typhoon Haiyan fundraising (2014) Bentonville First Friday
Timeline
Senior Manager II
Global Procurement
01.2021 - Current
Senior Manager II - US Learning: Data, Analytics
Walmart
05.2018 - 12.2020
Senior Manager
01.2015 - 01.2018
Systems & Data Analyst
01.2013 - 01.2015
Programmer Analyst, Sr. Programmer Analyst
ISD Transportation and Logistics
01.2006 - 01.2013
Advanced Programmer, Programmer
Walmart
Bachelor of Science - Business Administrations: Supply Chain Management, Procurement
Bellevue University Global
MBA - Business Analytics
University of Arkansas Graduate School of Business
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
Southern Arkansas University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Mathematics
Southern Arkansas University
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