Yasu Sano
Operations & Program Management | ex-Amazon | Google | Wharton MBA
- Role
- Sr Program Manager, Google Play, Hardware, Finance, Cloud Infrastructure at Google
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yasu Sano
Operations leader committed to driving operational excellence and developing mission-driven teams to push forward strategic initiatives in high velocity, high ambiguity environments. My diverse background in product launch, sales, vendor management, supply chain, fulfillment operations, and technical program management enable me to solve complex business problems through strategic thinking and tactical execution. Wharton Executive MBA, Googler, ex-Amazon.To date, specific highlights in my career includes: Operation Management: At Amazon, enabled long-tail inventory strategy which added 600K SKUs. Led 2 distribution centers with 500 workers and 300K SKUs/3M units, supporting 60% YoY growth. Managed operations teams up to 80 full time employees. New Product Launch: Scaled a new service from 4 clients to 2,800 in 3 years. Launched products in 4 APAC countries (Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, India), adding retail stores.Digital Transformation: Standardized and automated supply chain processes for Amazon (Japan) and Google (in AMER, APAC, EMEA, covering 30 countries). Developed Agile project management process for 20+ Google application engineers. I\'ve worked as an operations leader, facilitator, and change catalyst in the retail/tech industry. My cross-functional experience enables me to speak multiple business languages and collaborate with diverse teams to pursue customer, employee, and stakeholder values. I am passionate about bringing order to the chaos using my operations and project management prowess.
Experience
Sr Program Manager, Google Play, Hardware, Finance, Cloud Infrastructure
Sep 2017 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Manage systems, data analytics, and process optimization programs. Standardized and automated global supply chain processes across 30 countries and reduced process lead time from 2 months to just 3 weeks. Designed and owned agile development process for ERP migration project with ~20 application engineers and 200+ development and testing objects. Established project management discipline, providing visibility over 20+ system improvement projects and 50+ data analytics projects.
Education
Kanazawa University
BA, French
1995 — 1999
The Wharton School
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Management & Operations
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