Justin Lovern

Experience

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  Electric Mirror™

  Jun 2013 - Sept 2014

  Buyer/Planner

   Reduced time required for purchasing activities 40-60% while gaining additional commodities by systematically redesigning each commodity's management process to predominately feature value add and manage-by-exception activities Improved data mining and analysis capabilities by leveraging Microsoft Access and Excel, resulting in time to generate meaningful inventory usage reports by 90%. Saved tens of thousands by enhancing EM's ability to control the cost of sheet metal after developing a calculator with Excel VBA that enabled direct comparison between suppliers. Drove change by introducing kanban inventory management, vendor-managed inventory, and safety stock calculations (using standard deviation to calculate safety stock for the desired service level). Show less

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  VTech

  Sept 2014 - Jan 2016

  Supply Chain Analyst

   Improved 12 week WMAPE 40% by leveraging our forecasting tool and cultivating a thorough understanding of each customer's demand structure. Provided ad-hoc analysis and reporting on top tier customers (Wal-Mart, Amazon, Costco, etc.) to director of supply chain and was the go-to analytics and data visualization member of the team; used R to tidy and run regression analyses and Excel to build visuals. Evaluated and diagnosed online retail performance issues using Google Analytics. This made it possible for U.S. senior leadership to properly explain issues to leadership in Hong Kong. Show less

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  First Tech Federal Credit Union

  Feb 2016 - May 2017

  Data Analyst

   Cut monthly competitive analysis preparation time 80% by developing a suite of automated tools and dashboards that synthesize multiple data sources and stakeholder needs. Made demographic analysis across current and future campaigns possible for marketers after launching a dashboard that empowers users to deep-dive into performance data across several dimensions. Perform analysis and create visuals for a monthly report that goes to the board of directors (made up of current and former leaders from Microsoft, Intel, HP, and more). Show less

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  Nike

  Jun 2017 - now

  • Viz Developer, Lead

    Dec 2020 - now

  • Viz Developer, Sr.

    Oct 2018 - Dec 2020

  • Analytics Consultant

    Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
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  BICP

  Jun 2017 - Oct 2018

  Analytics Consultant