Chris McFarlane: Project Manager

- Lead East Coast Region’s efforts for LEED certification at 400+ newly constructed Starbucks stores - Executed end to end project management for each store by partnering with Facilities, Construction, and Architects - Identify and resolve roadblocks within the project team program to ensure all stores achieve LEED certification - Collaborated with LEED team to drive meaningful advances in the sustainability of store design and construction - Facilitated LEED team to redefine team structure and process flow to provide greater impact in store sustainability

- Partnered with recycling provider and Nevada plant and DC to achieve 100% Zero Waste to Landfill - Built robust financial business cases for two on-site solar installations, gaining executive approval and sponsorship - Manage implementation of zero landfill program at six manufacturing and five distribution facilities - Developed risk assessment and project plan in response to governmental restrictions to water use in California - Developed and implemented Feeding America donation program at Georgia plant, donating previously landfilled goods - Manage all recycling vendor relationships, rate negotiations, contracting, third party collaboration and on-boarding

- Responsible for demand planning all Coffee for North American, Retail, Licensed Stores, and CPG Channels - Led S&OP Demand Alignment meeting for US Coffee for Retail and Licensed Stores - Reduced Coffee MAPE from 42.9% to 30.0% - MAPE improvement a direct result from strong relationships with the Category, Supply, and Replenishment coffee team members - Participated as a Demand Planning process champion during Logility Go Live, providing key insight from previous Go Lives and APO experience - Also aiding to the MAPE improvement, gained the trust of my Category team to move core coffee items to a statistical forecasting methodology leveraging our new demand forecasting system - Member of the successful projects to get a better quality product to market and launching of a new store format - Contributed to the development and implementation of SCO’s current S&OP format - Proactively sought the opportunity to aid in Sustainability projects and have begun to gather data for a Waste and Re

- Responsible for managing order fulfillment of $3 million in orders shipped daily from a 300,000 sq. ft. distribution center which sustained inventory levels of $60 million - Utilizing an in depth proficiency in PKMS, I provided effective and efficient waves of work for the Production and Shipping departments as well as fulfilling all customer service requests - Worked final 4 months as Supervisor in Production and Shipping departments managing crews of 10-18 associates over the past two years, supervising the Production department my final 3 months of employment