Versatile Leader in Solution Design & Retail Strategy
Tim is a Principal with Columbus Consulting with a strong background in consumer packaged goods and retail. Tim’s passion for connected planning started over five years ago as a client of Columbus Consulting where he implemented Anaplan across Sales, Marketing, and Finance teams and saw firsthand the transformative impact it had on the business and for his colleagues. His current focus is in the delivery and successful adoption of planning solutions across the sales, marketing, and human resources functions. Prior to joining Columbus, Tim led the eCommerce transformation of a leading beauty company then led the sales and marketing of a 7-figure consumer packaged goods startup.
Experience
Canada Goose – Project Manager & Model Builder
Transitioned manual wholesale sales planning process into a flexible multi-dimensional planning application with both top-down and bottoms-up logic.
Re-designed 5-year long-range planning application to incorporate historical benchmarking, improve forecast spread logic, and streamline end user inputs.
Transformed decentralized location-based planning to into a globally aligned regional planning solution across the direct-to-consumer business.
Intuit – Solution Architect
Architected and built matchmaking application for Intuit clients and internal experts based off algorithms that maximize scarce capacity based on the real-time inputs of 150+ users.
Owner of expert planning applications supporting demand planning, capacity planning, expert hiring, and scheduling use cases for Intuit’s call center and tax/bookkeeping experts.
Palo Alto Networks – Solution Architect
Linear optimization solution in Anaplan streamline annual sales territory planning process of assigning customer accounts globally across thousands of geographic territories.
Designed linear optimization Anaplan application to maximize Revenue/Margin of orders while meeting customer demands to be fulfilled weekly with limited inventory for order fulfillment teams.
