About
Hands-on analytics leadership at enterprise scale.
I’m a Senior Manager of Inventory Planning at Carvana. Over eight years I’ve gone from Associate Buyer to leading a team of analysts. I own the company’s retail gross profit forecast and acquisition strategy and report to executive leadership every week. I’m looking for my next leadership role in analytics or planning.
How I operate
Four habits that have carried me from Associate Buyer to senior manager.
Lead through partnership
Analysis only matters if someone acts on it. Most of the people I need to move don’t report to me, so I earn decisions by bringing teams along.
Translate complexity into clear decisions
Models and data only matter when they become a choice someone can make today. I do the work of making the complicated obvious.
Stay close to operations
Plans fail when they ignore how the work gets done. I stay close enough to the floor that what we build holds up.
Develop people
I give people real ownership and stay close while they grow into it. I’ve developed talent both below and above me in the org.
Developing people
Building from the ground up
I led a newer analyst through building the tables and the product behind a large share of our vehicle purchasing. We designed the data for a clean audit trail and simple reporting. Then we built the tool that manages purchasing across a national network of inspection centers, within each site’s operating limits.
Handing off the forecast
I coached a senior analyst through modernizing our enterprise retail gross profit forecast. Work that used to take three people now sits mostly with one. That freed me to lead our biggest acquisition-strategy projects.
Developing up
As an analyst, I onboarded a new associate director and we piloted the category analyst role together. It grew into a team of six. She later gave me a stock grant that leaders award to ICs who shaped their careers. As a manager, I onboarded another associate director. He’s now my Director.
Experience
Carvana grew fast, and my role grew with it. Today I own the retail gross profit forecast and acquisition strategy and lead a team of five analysts. I work daily with Data Science, Retail Science, Inventory Analytics, Accounting, FP&A, and Purchasing.
- Built the customer segmentation approach that shaped how inventory is priced and allocated.
- Designed pricing systems still running at enterprise scale.
- Built two generations of gross profit planning and forecasting.
- Redesigned our wholesale acquisition strategy, improving supply efficiency and unit economics.
- Grew analytical output with no added headcount through automation and process redesign.
- Built Claude workflows that classify pricing treatment and monitor market conditions.
Before Carvana, I modeled production capacity and equipment effectiveness for Panasonic’s North American battery operations. Before that I audited contracts on SOX engagements at Grant Thornton. Engineering and audit still shape how I think about systems and controls.
Career timeline
- Senior Manager, Inventory PlanningCarvana2022 – Present
- Manager, Inventory PlanningCarvana2022
- Senior Analyst, Inventory PlanningCarvana2021 – 2022
- Analyst, Inventory PlanningCarvana2020 – 2021
- BuyerCarvana2019 – 2020
- Associate BuyerCarvana2018 – 2019
- Manufacturing Data AnalystPanasonic Energy of North America2017 – 2018
- Risk Advisory AssociateGrant Thornton2016 – 2017
Education
I studied how often markets make moves that standard financial theory treats as statistically impossible. Through complexity theory, I looked at why. When theory boils the motives and interactions of millions of participants down to a few base assumptions, it misses the conditions that produce those outcomes.
President of the University of Nevada Supermileage Vehicle Club, where I first got hooked on efficiency.
Why I built this site
I built this site and its free tools myself, using Claude as my engineering team. It started as a consulting side project and turned into how I learned agentic AI hands-on. Small businesses rarely get the planning tools big retailers take for granted, so I give the core versions away.
I live in Apache Junction, Arizona, and keep three classic cars.
Let’s talk.
If you’re hiring for analytics or planning leadership, I’d like to hear about the role.