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 as a consultant at Bluecrux in New York, with a master's in Supply Chain Analytics from Rutgers, a Gartner Top 5 program. I like problems that are messy on the whiteboard and measurable on the P&L.

Business Process Mapping Company Restructuring Tariff Strategy
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About Snapshot
Fortune 50Client scale · Enterprise transformations
$1.1M+Annual savings · RFQ automation, AT&T
Top 5Gartner N. America · M.S. SCA, Rutgers
2021Started on the Amazon warehouse floor

Operator's instincts, strategist's ambition.

I'm 24 and based in New York. I've worked supply chains from every altitude: warehouse floor, co-op, Big 4 intern, and now consultant on Fortune 50 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. That's the opportunity of a career. The old instinct was to optimize what exists. The new question is whether it should exist at all. I'd rather be one of the people asking it than one of the people defending the old answer.

BaseNew York, NY
FromNew Jersey
RoleConsultant @ Bluecrux
M.S.Supply Chain Analytics, Rutgers '25
B.S.Rutgers Business School
HonorsDirector's Award ×2 · Top 5 in Class & Community Impact
FocusSupply Chain × AI
Experience Floor to Consulting
  • Supply Chain & Operations Consultant · Bluecrux

    Sep 2025 – Present · New York Metro

    Consulting on a global SAP supply chain transformation.

    My first engagement. I map how the client's supply chain actually runs, end to end, lead the working sessions that turn stakeholder noise into clear problem statements, and put recommendations in front of leadership.

  • Logistics Strategy Intern · LBA Logistics

    Summer 2025 · Chicago, IL

    Steered investment strategy across a 400-asset industrial portfolio.

    Synthesized tariff, outsourcing, and 3PL trends to forecast where logistics demand would move next. The findings guided real investment dollars, and I was invited back.

  • Advisory Intern · KPMG

    Summer 2024 · New York, NY

    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

    Summer 2023 · Dallas, TX

    Led an RFQ automation initiative that saves $1.1M+ a year.

    I also planned 20,000+ legacy items end to end, held 99%+ on-time delivery, and grew supplier-diversity spend. My first proof that fixing the process beats working harder inside a broken one.

  • Supply Chain and Engineering Co-op · Johnson & Johnson

    2022–2023 · New Brunswick, NJ

    Dashboards and solution validation for project-management teams.

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

  • Fulfillment Center Associate · Amazon

    2021 · Somerset, NJ

    The floor education.

    Inbound, picking, and inter-facility transfer in a high-volume fulfillment center. Most consultants have never stood where the work happens. I have. It's why I never design a process without asking what it feels like to execute it.

Education M.S. · B.S.
  • M.S. Supply Chain Analytics · Rutgers Business School

    2025 · New Brunswick, NJ

    Gartner Top 5 program in North America.
    Director's Award ×2: top 5 in class and biggest impact on community.

    Capstone with Mars: AI prototypes for a global supply chain. Power BI dashboards unifying maintenance and production data across manufacturing sites worldwide, plus an LLM chatbot that let planners query the data in plain English and catch equipment problems before they become downtime.

  • B.S. · Rutgers Business School

    New Brunswick, NJ

    Where supply chain became the plan.

    President of Road to Supply Chain Leadership. Led the executive board through the program's first cohort and set up the structure that carried it to a second.

Projects
Sourcing · AT&T

RFQ Automation, $1.1M+ Saved

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

Strategy · LBA Logistics

Forecasting Demand Across 400 Assets

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

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.