DWG NO. TP-2026 · Strategy · AI · Supply Chain

From the warehouse floor to the AI era.

I started scanning packages in an Amazon fulfillment center. Now I help enterprises rebuild their supply chains for what's next — as a supply chain & operations consultant at Bluecrux in New York, with a master's in Supply Chain Analytics from Rutgers. I like problems that are messy on the whiteboard and measurable on the P&L.

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Fig. 01 — Consultant Scale: NTS
Sheet 00 Profile Rev C · T. Patel
$1.1M+Annual savings — AT&T RFP
20K+Items planned end-to-end
99%+On-time delivery held
08Career stops · NJ → NYC

Operator's instincts, strategist's ambition.

I'm 24, based in New York, and I've spent every year since high school inside supply chains from a different altitude — founder, floor associate, co-op, intern at a Big 4, and now consultant on enterprise transformations. The pattern: I learn a level, then move up one, and keep what the floor taught me.

My generation is entering operations just as AI forces the biggest rethink in thirty years. I think that's the opportunity of a career: the instinct to optimize what exists is being replaced by the question of whether it should exist at all — and I'd rather be one of the people asking it than one of the people defending the old answer.

BaseNew York, NY
OriginNew Jersey
RoleConsultant @ Bluecrux
EducationM.S. SCA, Rutgers '25
HonorsDirector's Award
StatusIn transit
Sheet 01 Journey — Tracking History Rev C · T. Patel
  • Supply Chain & Operations Consultant — Bluecrux

    Sep 2025 — Present · NYC
    Manifest pending — details to follow
  • M.S. Supply Chain Analytics — Rutgers

    2025

    Director's Award — top cumulative GPA.

    Graduate work at the junction of operations and data, capped by an AI analytics capstone for Mars — Sheet 02.

  • Logistics Strategy Intern — LBA

    Summer 2025 · Chicago

    Steered investment strategy across a 400-asset industrial portfolio.

    Synthesized tariff, outsourcing, and 3PL trends; invited to present the findings to a broader audience.

    "Curious, driven, and a true self-starter" — supervisor's recommendation, LinkedIn
  • Advisory Intern — KPMG

    Summer 2024 · NYC

    Cut SKU-level waste in a life-sciences supply chain.

    Diagnosed planning and forecasting gaps; structured findings into executive-ready recommendations.

  • Supply Planning Intern — AT&T

    Dallas, TX

    $1.1M+ annual savings from an RFP/RFQ transformation.

    Planned 20k+ legacy items end-to-end while holding 99%+ on-time delivery; grew supplier-diversity spend.

  • BI & Supply Chain Co-op — Johnson & Johnson

    2022 — 2023 · New Brunswick

    Dashboards and solution validation for project-management teams.

    Power BI across integrated data; earned a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt along the way.

  • FC Associate — Amazon · Floor Scan

    2021 · Somerset, NJ

    The floor education.

    Rotated through inbound, order picking, and inter-facility transfer — the reason I never design a process without asking what it feels like to execute it.

  • Co-Founder — SparkChange · Origin Scan

    2017 — 2020 · MIT LaunchX

    First build — a climate venture founded in high school.

    Shaped concept, design, and strategy for an early-stage venture aimed at cutting household emissions — first proof I'd rather build the thing than study it.

Sheet 02 Work — Manifest Rev C · T. Patel
Item 002 · Sourcing · AT&T

RFP Transformation, $1.1M Saved

Rebuilt the RFP/RFQ process end to end — faster cycles, broader supplier-diversity spend, and $1.1M+ in annual savings.

Item 003 · Strategy · LBA

Forecasting Demand Across 400 Assets

Modeled how tariffs, outsourcing, and 3PL shifts would move logistics demand across cold storage, cross-dock, and automated distribution — to steer real investment dollars.

Item 004 · Advisory · Rutgers

Strategy for Six Industry Executives

Assessed and presented strategic solutions to executives from AMEX, Sanofi, and others — built to help VPs secure internal buy-in, not sit in a deck.

Sheet 03 Dispatches — Writing Rev C · T. Patel
D-001 · Medium

The Sushi Model

An original framework applying pull-based, sushi-counter economics to insulin cold chains — what Kanban distribution could do for medicine access in underserved markets.

Read on Medium ↗
D-002 · LinkedIn

The Optimization Trap

Thirty years of optimization instinct built modern supply chains — and may be the biggest obstacle to what's next. On AI, CSCOs, and why my generation grows up on the other side of that instinct.

Read on LinkedIn ↗

More dispatches in transit.