Kent Culpepper: Managing Director in Encinitas, CA

Value Smart, fast, cost-effective solutions for organizations rapidly growing and/or undergoing significant change. Services • kohPlan/kohBuy Delivery Customers\ • Core Power Yoga, J. McLaughlin, Sea Star • Enterprise Technology Delivery Clients Beachwear, Ascena, Dutch LLC, Corr- • Custom Solution Development Jensen, Rue Gilt Groupe, Coldwater • Operational and Analytical Support Creek, Pier 1, Peak Retail Group, Matilda Jane Clothing Deliverables • Design, development and delivery of kohPlan (Merchandise Financial Planning) supporting Location, Category and Demand Planning functions and kohBuy (Assortment and Event Management). • Delivery of top-tier business intelligence platform and dashboarding capability (Domo). • Clustering, choice and key item\ sizing\ lost sales utilities and analytics. • Market\ vendor evaluations of Merchandise Financial Planning capabilities, Business Intelligence capabilities, inventory management platforms, 3PL-providers as well as analysis of distribution model and intl\ e-commerce expansion. • Transition\ migration to 3PL-provider. Implementation of POS capability.

Managed successful delivery of new system capabilities and process across start-up brand with retail, e-commerce, wholesale and international operations--including the following: o Oracle Retail Merchandise Operations Management, Planning and Allocation modules in under 8 months. o QlikView Business Intelligence solution in under 2 months. o Jeeves Universal/ custom development throughout start-up phase. Delivery Highlights Oracle Retail Retail Merchandising System (RMS): Led full life-cycle implementation of Merchandise Operations Implementation solution; Master Data, Purchasing, Distribution, Price Change, Inventory Control, Stock Ledger, Sales Audit, Invoice Match; responsible for functional requirements, integration, conversion, testing, training and support. Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP): Supported full life-cycle implementation including validation of requirements, definition of custom modifications and delivery of legacy integration. Allocation & Replenishment (ORA): Led full life-cycle implementation including rationalization with vendor of current and new release and delivery of a custom interim solution. QlikView Business Intelligence: Defined and developed data extraction requirements, load scripting and front- Implementation end application; engaged and managed relationship with vendor and partners; deployed application to organization; content including Customer, Performance and Operational analytics. Jeeves Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Supported extensive modification to Merchandise Operations Universal Management solution; Master Data, Purchasing, Distribution, Price Change, Inventory Control as well as Implementation a Warehouse Management System transformation and introduction of a Store Inventory Management module; included exposure to custom/ integrated RFID operations and Mobile Point-of-Sale solution. Jeeves\ BizTalk Led successful effort in transitioning Jeeves\ WMS and BizTalk\ Integration support from off-shore\ Migration Shanghai office to on-shore\ internal teams; engaged and managed relationship with new vendor and partners. Custom Tools BCC Business Intelligence: Defined and developed solution to support analytical needs related to Performance, Merchandise Operations, Inventory Control and Planning Actualization. Burch Replenishment (BPlen): Defined and developed custom Replenishment solution.

Responsible for WH|BM Central Planning, Analytics, Process, Systems and Operations o Primary focus on delivery of new system capabilities and associated process and organizational change. o Built and led team of 12 including 6 manager-level direct reports. o Led cross-functional team of Directors across Merchandising, Planning, Allocation and Brand Finance/ Strategy. o Served as brand liaison to Technology, Internal Audit, Finance and Facilities Management. • Provided leadership and support, across 3 brands and shared-services, in the following: o Best-practice in Reporting, Analytics, Price Change, Order Management and Master Data quality standards. o Best-practice in effective Training and Change Management methods, development and delivery. o Managed the successful delivery of a JDA Merchandise Financial Planning re-design effort. o Facilitated an end-to-end review and audit of Merchandising, Planning and Allocation process disciplines. o Supported the selection of a JDA Assortment Planning solution and delivery of design phase.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE SAP Retail Enterprise Central Component (ECC), Business Explorer (BEx) JDA Retail Enterprise Planning Suite (Merchandise, Channel, Item), Assortment Planning, Allocation, Size Scaling, Channel Clustering Oracle Retail Merchandise Operations System (ORMS), Data Warehouse (ORDW), Allocation (ORA), Retail Predictive Application Server (ORPAS), Oracle SQL Developer Jeeves Universal Merchandise Operations Management, Warehouse Management, Store Inventory Management Business Intelligence MicroStrategy Web/Desktop, Cognos Powerplay/ReportNet, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), SAP Business Explorer (BEx), QlikView Small Business Server, QlikSense, Domo Microsoft, Other Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Project, Visio, SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio, Structured Query Language (SQL)