Kass Husar, MBA

Building and Driving Capabilities for Today’s Business Enterprises

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Kass Husar is a global strategic program manager with 15 years experience focused on driving enterprise-wide results in supply chain divisions across multiple geographic locations. She is a collaborative and results-oriented professional with strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities to enable seamless integration

PROFESSIONAL SKILLSET Global Team Ownership, Strategic Planning, Global Team Resource Coordination, External Industry Collaboration Market Intelligence, Benchmarking, Competitive Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Scenario Planning/Forecasting Program Management, Project Management, Resource Allocation, Budgeting, Timeline Management Transition Change Management, Budgeting, Human and Financial Resource Allocation and Management Cross-organizational Relationship and Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Team Motivation Business Process Model Development, Analysis, Data Collection and Synthesis, As-Is To-Be process design Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Management, Supplier Report Cards, Supplier Quality, Commodity Management Supply Chain, Vendor Managed Inventory, 3PL, Logistics, Inventory Management, Production Planning Communications, Public Relations, Public Speaking, Government Relations, Perception Management Intel University professor of supply chain, intelligence methodologies, business acumen,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE INTEL CORPORATION: 12 years, currently employed October 2000 – Present

Global Strategic Program Manager Spearhead best-in-class strategic capability across multiple geographies by influencing in a matrix environment. Drive program vision & strategy development, direction, stakeholder management, coordination, implementation, execution, control, completion and monitoring of organizational capabilities consistent with corporate strategy, commitments and goals

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE Partner with executive leadership to establish capability needs, build business case and strategic program vision Practice exceptional interpersonal and communications skills to listen and obtain key inputs from multiple levels Coordinate benchmarking to determine optimal solutions to similar challenges with peer corporations and universities Drive strategic program objectives across multiple geographies with leadership of cross-functional teams Utilize stakeholder management and influencing to ensure ongoing progress of program mission and goals Learn quickly new subject matter to advisor expertise level as needed for effective program management Assemble and coordinate program resources via influencing including staff, budgets and global volunteer teams Leverage networking, influencing across functional lines and organizations to leverage companywide resources Engage industry/academia expertise to build models or further collective thinking in respects to vision progress Utilize strong organizational skills to define problems, develop strategic plans, implement effective solutions, and

discern direction while balancing competing priorities from stakeholders and leadership Develop program and quality metrics and monitor progress using appropriate tools and infrastructure Ensure appropriate transition change management strategies in place to facilitate cultural & behavioral shifts Methodology training in CSCP, CPIM, Six Sigma, LEAN, TCM, PMP, BPM (BPI/BPR), Benchmarking & more

Programs Managed:Market Intelligence & Knowledge Management Established Intel as Best-In-Class in global supply chain intelligence capability by positioning the corporation in a leadership role to reap benefits of collective academic and industry innovation. Published author and recognized industry expert

Business Acumen Education Drove 36% increase in decision quality of procurement contracting through implementation of a full acumen curriculum of industry practices through multiple phased implementation approach of instructor led and online learning

Talent Pipeline Recruiting & Integration Re-engineered Intel supply chain talent pipeline processes to achieve 75% efficiency increase in recruiting & integration to meet current talent needs and forecasted skill-set requirements in technical and non-technical roles

Supplier Diversity

Built Intel supply chain diversity capability to be a strong industry participant of global supplier diversity, resulting in positive corporate brand image in technology industry with over $74M awarded to disadvantaged business enterprises

LEAN Guided global team of LEAN experts to proliferate standards and systems with efficient processes across strategic programs and core procurement functions, enabling $183M in efficiency savings

Executive Learning & Development Delivered the first Leadership Action Program for 3 global supply chain divisions with 99.98% stakeholder satisfaction, resulting in the inclusion of newly developed acumen curriculum into corporate level executive training

Innovation ExcellenceDirected design and execution of global supply chain innovation program to foster continuous improvement efforts enabling the implementation of 14 process improvement ideas equaling close to $45M in cost savings

eBusiness Achieved 82% efficiency improvement by leading global team to implement proprietary WebSuite purchasing portal with Tier 2 and 3 suppliers and coordinated with broader initiative to ramp Tier 1 suppliers on RosettaNet

PHILLIP MORRIS COMPANIES: 3 years May 1996 – May 1999Supply Chain Inventory ManagerStreamlined warehouse operations, resulting in a 40% decrease in finished goods processing, 29% reduction in variable costs and 86% decrease in lead time. Managed scheduling for .7M – 1M pounds weekly by coordinating stakeholder needs of sales, 2 corporate offices, 9 distribution centers & 15 production facilities

EDUCATION

INTERNATIONAL MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA and UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA (Austria) June 2000Concentration in Supply Chain Management and International Business

BACHELORS OF SCIENCE, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONUNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC and INSTITUT FUR EUROPAISCHE STUDIEREN (Austria) June 1996 Concentration in Market Research and International Business