Kelly Tedesco

Sr Director of Data Science @The Gorilla Glue Company

Cincinnati, OH, US

Founded and scaled Gorilla’s first analytics function (from one to five), delivering insights across supply chain, finance, sales, and marketing for two world-class brands. • Manages P&L of $1.7 million and long-range budget plan, including external data investments and team growth.• Evaluates third-party data investment assessing ROI to ensure cost-effective investments.• Built self-serve analytics platform through use of Power BI certified datasets, increasing business use of governed, trusted data and reducing manual reporting by average of four hours / week per project.• Supports supply chain and manufacturing departments by designing star schema data models in Snowflake to automate analytics processes, with one such project reducing excess / obsolete inventory and boosting revenue.• Improved Amazon forecast accuracy from 16.4% to 43.5% using external data and customer process insights.• Created weather-informed XGBoost model to optimize seasonal stock levels and budgets.• Programmed Snowflake, Azure, GitHub, R, AI / ML, and PBI to maintain technical skills and mentor team.• Led Gorilla’s Go Green sustainability committee, implementing green wall for reuse and recycling collections.

University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business

MS

Miami University

Bachelor of Science