ryan leroy

* Owner of design, implementation, enhancements, and testing of product data/digital assets/pricing/inventory/data feeds/taxonomy/search and co-owner of user experience for Homedepot B2B transactional site (desktop and mobile) and the HD Pro Punchout site. Owner of all eContent data sent to PRO eTailer customers. Led team of Sr. Analyst, analysts, and specialists. * Key Accomplishments: * Drove design and implementation of YourOtherWarehouse's (YOW) first B2B transactional site. * Drove design and implementation of Homedepot's first PRO Punchout site. * Created taxonomy logic driving left-hand nav/category search for YOW B2B site. * Created relevance logic that ensured searches results met customer expectations for YOW B2B and PRO Punchout sites. * Created exception reports to identify pricing/inventory issues of large eTailers (Wayfair/ Build.com) and drive correction; updates grew sales by 10% and impacted 90K items. * Eliminated HD.com dependency/conflicts by creation of 60K online YOW B2B image repository. * Led first-ever Team Depot volunteer project for entire YOW team.

* Increased team efficiency and overall data integrity of 500K+ online SKUs via process improvement and creation of automated tools. Revamped logic for tools having national-level impact. * Key Accomplishments: * Eliminated Online Merchant manual syncing of online retails with store retails (500-700 per week) and requests of discontinued SKUs (600-800 per week). * Automated large portions of the manual Year-end Reclass process and corrected process gaps, preventing financial reporting issues and improving overall efficiency by 60%. * Drove increase of store SKUs made available for sale online from 85% to 95% by creating new logic for SKU alignment process/tool. * Led multiple community service projects, including the first-ever department-wide project.

Drove completion of cross-functional projects as business lead for Merchandise Ops and increased team efficiency via creation of automated tools. Key Accomplishments: Led solution for project allowing vendors to manage 500K digital assets without Merchandise team support; one of only two Q3 2011 projects to meet deadline; increased overall data warehouse system performance due to removing 160K unwanted images Defined identification and loading methodology for national set of store products into new enterprise data warehouse system (95K SKUs across 1,800+ vendors). Created process and built tools to handle perpetual turnover in SKU set (2K+ per month). Led planning/execution of functional, UAT, regression, and/or smoke testing for monthly, quarterly, and EBF releases. Coordinated testing plan for 6 other Merchandising teams. Led first-ever department-wide community service project.

Held dual role as system architect for team's workflow management tool and UI Lead for service provider credentialing web application. Cross-functional role that involved working with external partners such as LexisNexis and Compliance360. Key Accomplishments: Directly contributed to vendor insurance compliance reaching an all-time high via design of Blackberry-compatible email notifications to field managers, along with web-interfaced admin tool. Creator of Services' first-ever, web-based Business Code of Conduct & Ethics survey; Led nationwide roll-out to 2,000+ associates. Project lead for new web-based workflow management application; completed project 3 months ahead of estimate and delivered above-and-beyond functionality.

Increased team's reporting efficiency by 600% by automating various dashboard and scorecard reports.