Vincent Chang - Senior Demand Planner

WORK EXPERIENCE

The Home Depot Atlanta, GA

Manager Inventory Solutions

Dec. 2021 -- Present

Managed a demand forecasting team responsible for over 40 million SKU-locations and $41B in annual revenue
Facilitated the transition to a machine learning forecasting engine for seasonal products
Led forecasting error analysis initiatives to identify sources of error and save millions of dollars in inventory
Collaborated weekly with cross-functional VPs using key metrics to communicate and align strategy
Automated weekly and ad-hoc reporting in Tableau for hundreds of end-users
Developed multiple dynamic scenario simulation excel reports enabling real-time metric analysis

The Home Depot Atlanta, GA

Sr. Statistical Forecasting Analyst

April 2018 -- Dec 2021

Identified sales trends to optimize forecasting models to minimize bias by up to 10% on certain categories
Routinely validated IT data sets (+1m rows) using SQL/Tableau/Python
Automated daily and weekly data routines in Excel and SQL via Python
Led forecasting enhancement project impacting 7.5+ million SKU-Locations
Annually reviewed and suggested forecast promotional lifts on inventory totaling $1m+

The Home Depot Atlanta, GA

Statistical Forecasting Analyst

May 2017 -- April 2018

Created queries to review new SKU and promotional impacts
Established SKU clustering to create seasonal forecasts on +10 million SKU-Locations

United Parcel Service Atlanta, GA

Pricing Specialist

Aug 2015 -- May 2017

Worked with international partners to price $100k+ accounts on multi-year contracts
Created databases for multiple products

Castle Medical Atlanta, GA

Financial Analyst

Aug 2014 -- Aug 2015

Serverless Daily Fantasy Sport Optimizer: designed and implemented a cloud hosted event-driven linear optimization algorithm that handled $250k in revenue in 2024
Cloud Resume Challenge: built a serverless, three-tier architecture personal website
Skills: Demand Forecasting, Analytics, SQL, Python, Tableau, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, AWS SES, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint
Certifications: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01), AWS Certified Solutions Architect (SAA -- CO3)