Production Planner II
August 2025 to June 2026
200+
Cutovers
35+
Suppliers
<$20K
Material Obsolescence
~$2.5M
System Cleanup
Launch material planning at Lucid. Engineering changes across 35+ Tier 1 and 2 suppliers and 250+ concurrent parts in body structures, HV electronics, fasteners, and mechanical assemblies.
Owned supplier communication on engineering changes, timing, and material readiness.
- Roughly 200 new part introductions with minimal production disruption and under $20K material obsolescence, aligning lead times, runout timing, and inbound logistics to program dates.
- Executive dashboards tracking 700+ engineering changes, flagging material readiness risk.
Partnered with Design, Engineering, Quality, Procurement, S&OP, and Service against quality, timing, and cost targets.
- Prototyping through engineering approval, PPAP, forecast alignment, scheduling agreements, BOM effectivity, and NPI trials into production and service continuity.
See the dashboard
ResponsibilityTracked ECR readiness across part effectivity, new shipments, supplier coordination, PPAP, and scheduling agreement setup.
ECR and program risk tracker700 monitored partsPartProgramNew shipment ETABOM effectivity timingCoordinationScheduling agreementPPAPRisk statusBIW-47219Running ChangeAug 18Aug 25✓✓✓ClearGA-58304PV1Aug 21Aug 28✓✓✕WatchPWR-74062PV2Aug 28Sep 04✓✕✕RiskINT-19638SOPSep 02Sep 09✕✓✓WatchCHS-82047MY27Aug 19Aug 26✓✓✓ClearClearBIW-47219 links ECR timing, supplier status, PPAP readiness, and shipment ETA into one launch risk view.
Outcome100+ cutovers executed with minimal scrap exposure by aligning supplier readiness, PPAP, BOM timing, and production requirements.
Built contingency systems to surface supply risk and drive escalation.
- The Clear to Build system, 240 parts, during a raw material shortage: real time visibility, and resolution with Procurement through material reallocations, resequences, expedites, and alternate sourcing.
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ResponsibilityClear to build visibility across launch parts, supplier commits, inventory, and build requirements.
Clear to build runout trackerMar viewProjected demandAvailable inventorySafety stock thresholdPart PWR-74062MarIn house1,230Crossdock345ASNs0Demand540Outcome200+ CTB parts tracked with zero line down situations and minimal expedited recovery.
Maintained pre and post implementation MRP and Material Master accuracy.
- Cleanup of roughly $2.5M in phantom inventory and open POs and ASNs, for SAP data accuracy and working capital visibility.
Stack SAP, SAP Analytics Cloud, Excel with VBA and Macros, SQL, Redshift, Tableau.
Material Planning Administrator Intern
May 2025 to July 2025
$1.2M
Scrap Analyzed
$80K
Supplier Recovery
Identified supplier overproduction from EDI misalignment, using 52 week forecast and consumption trends.
- Delivered finance facing analysis on $1.2M in scrap, driving disposition and roughly $80K in supplier cost recovery.
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ResponsibilityCompared forecast, EDI demand signals, actual consumption, and inventory exposure to identify overproduction and supplier recovery opportunities.
Forecast, consumption and EDI divergenceJun 02OutcomeIdentified $1.2M+ excess exposure and supported ~$80K supplier cost recovery through signal alignment.
Self employed
Digital Growth Consultant
August 2023 to June 2025
1M+
Social Audience
15
Clients Supported
I ran my own practice for roughly two years, serving 15 clients: sourcing and launching white label products, then building the audiences and systems behind them.
Sourced and launched white label products from zero, owning supplier selection through order fulfillment.
- Wired a ship on demand model into the commerce platform, so supplier data drove order processing, tracking, and reorder cycles automatically, triggered by sell through.
Grew client social accounts past a million followers for lead generation and market validation, running a four person team on roughly 35 pieces a week.
- Steered the team with performance and CRM data toward retention, conversion, and growth.
See the funnel
Connected audience growth, CRM signals, supplier workflows, and fulfillment execution into a demand to fulfillment system.
Audience scaled into demand signals.
Scaled demand signals into measurable order flow and fulfillment execution.
Systems and Tools
Tools are only useful when they turn complexity into decisions.
Systems
- SAP
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- HubSpot
Data and Reporting
- Excel (Advanced)
- VBA and Macros
- Redshift
- Tableau
- Power BI
Programming
- SQL
- Python
Education
Arizona State University, 2023 to 2026.
Degrees
- BS Supply Chain Management
- BS Computer Information Systems
Grades and Honors
- 4.04 GPA
- Summa Cum Laude
Scholarships
- Boeing SCM Scholar
- New American University Scholar
- Malone CIS Scholar
Clubs
- AI in Business Club
- Department of Information Systems Club
- Venture Devils
- Supply Chain Management Club
About Me
Hi, I'm Jackson. I'm a supply chain planner based in Denver, and most of my work comes down to getting new parts to the factory when they're needed.
My path here was a little roundabout. In college I grew a few social media accounts and used them to sell products of my own, where I learned that getting products to people is a lot harder than getting people interested. After some growth consulting, I landed an internship at Lucid Motors that turned into a full time role as a Production Planner II, moving a couple hundred parts from old versions to new ones on their electric cars.
I like to start with the data, then go talk to the people behind it. I also like building simple tools and improving them as they break.
I'm early in my career, and as of September 2026 I'm looking for my next role. If you're getting physical products into production, or hiring for planning or supply chain roles, I'd like to hear from you.
Email works. Specific questions get specific answers, usually within two days.
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Sharpen LessMaintenance expands to fill whatever the real work is threatening to cost you. Twenty minutes, timer running, and the tool is as good as it gets today.
I Quit Every System I Ever LovedThe grievance file had nineteen entries by week twelve. Two of them were real; the other seventeen were week three talking.
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Why You Remember Nothing You Learned From a TutorialThe passenger sees everything the driver sees. What the passenger never does is predict, and being wrong at fifty miles per hour is what builds the map.
A Guide to Changing One ThingThat is an attribution failure wearing the costume of a discipline problem, and it is why nothing you have ever fixed transfers to what comes next.
Nobody Is Boring, Your Questions AreThe person across from you is not holding out. You handed them a form with three lines on it and they filled in the three lines.
Where I think out loud about supply chain, hardware, and the tech that keeps promising to fix both.
The Agent Does the Planning Now. Someone Still Has to Know When It's Wrong.The supervision trap: the tool removes exactly the practice that supervising the tool requires.
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Real Time Data Was Supposed to Kill the Bullwhip. It Made It Faster.Signal without slack: latency was never the whole disease. The reaction function was, and speed leaves it untouched while making it fire sooner.
The Digital Twin Is Only as Honest as the Master Data Underneath ItThe fidelity illusion: the polish reads as accuracy to everyone who did not build it. The old spreadsheet at least looked uncertain.
The Floor Learned to Adapt Faster Than the Plan Feeding ItThe signal ceiling: a polyfunctional arm that switches tasks in seconds idles behind a material release that updates Sunday night.
Planning Used to Be Downstream of the Decision. Now It Is the Decision.The reconciliation point: sourcing sees supply, finance sees cost, sales sees the commitment, and none of them sees all three at the instant they collide.
The Deterministic HangoverFifty years of practice taught planners to deliver a number and defend it. The tools now ask them to deliver a range and be judged on it.
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The Psychology of MoneyThe clearest book on financial behavior available, written almost entirely for someone who already has slack to save.
Poke the BoxA permission slip more than a method, and it never separates a start worth making from noise.
Zero to OneThe best explanation of why venture funded technology chases monopoly, and a poor general theory of business despite the framing.
Getting Things DoneThe best inbox in a book and the weakest on judgment: it files everything and ranks nothing.
Atomic HabitsA maintenance manual sold as a change manual, precise about everything except the moment of deciding to change.
Deep WorkRight about the mechanism and narrow about who it serves; it has little for anyone whose job is coordinating people.
How to Talk to AnyoneA phrasebook mistaken for a psychology; half the techniques work and the book never explains which half or why.
MindwiseSuperb at diagnosing why we misread other minds and unexpectedly short on remedies once the diagnosis is finished.
PresuasionRigorous and useful about attention, leaning hard on priming research the replication crisis has since made smaller.
Skin in the GameTaleb is right about more than he has any right to be, buried in more contempt than the argument needs.
So Good They Can't Ignore YouA sharp corrective to follow your passion that assumes the market will pay fairly for the capital you build.
Steal Like An ArtistA permission slip, not a method: worth hearing once, with nothing to say about the day after permission.
The Art of ProfitabilityTwenty three profit models delivered as a parable, and the parable is scaffolding a spreadsheet could have replaced.
The Courage to be DislikedA therapy session staged as dialogue that oversells its own certainty: every problem interpersonal, every feeling chosen.
The E Myth RevisitedRight about one distinction, the technician manager entrepreneur split, and padded around it for two hundred pages.
The Personal MBAA glossary dressed as a course: it teaches vocabulary for judgment rather than judgment itself.
The PracticeTrue in each sentence and resistant to being organized into a method, with reading a real risk of replacing practice.
The Ultimate Sales MachineSound systems for repeatable process, written for a buyer who still takes unsolicited calls and has mostly stopped existing.
The War of ArtA pep talk with real teeth that treats every stalled project as a failure of nerve.
This is MarketingA manifesto for anyone who already has a hundred people who would miss them, weak for anyone hunting the first ten.
You Can Negotiate AnythingA manual for one time adversarial encounters, full of tactics that only work while the other side never finds out.