CHRISTOPHER GANLEY
Operations Management
10+ years 'experience in purchasing and business operations, IT management and forward-thinking leadership; Dynamic SaaS team-player skilled in tracking multiple projects across a variety of platforms and teams on a truly global scale; Agile learner, proactive, customer-focused dynamo with excellent interpersonal, communication, analytical, planning, negotiation, training, and problem solving skills; Advanced Excel and Tableau proficiency; Basic SQL; Basic business Spanish; Creative, results-driven risk taker
Program Management
Customer Satisfaction
Purchasing Management
Budgeting &Forecasting
Process Improvement
XFN Teamwork
Data-Analysis &Modeling
Employee Development
Enterprise Software
CULINARY INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGER 06/2017 to 09/2022
Meta, Menlo Park, CA
Collaborated with Finance to budget $200,000,000/year food and culinary labor globally.
Setup supplier Electronic Data Integration (EDI), saving $200,000+ annually in labor.
Pioneered and drafted information architecture for in-house culinary procurement software; collaborated with Engineering, Finance, Legal and Culinary to deploy.
Utilized database analysis skills to verify data integrity and compliance requirements.
Managed N. America per diem program for over 6000 employees at remote offices.
Strengthened communication through purchasing newsletters and weekly meetings.
PURCHASER 08/2015 to 06/2017
Flagship Facility Services Inc. @ Facebook, Menlo Park, CA
Launched and managed global enterprise software for culinary team in hyper-growth period; New markets included: HQ Expansion, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Dublin, London, Singapore, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Sao Paulo, 8 Data Centers.
Manged supplier identification, onboarding, payments, negotiation, and benchmarking.
Systemized and simplified operational processes leading to 10x efficiencies.
PANTRY CHEF - BOOKKEEPER - ASST. MANAGER - MANAGER 04/2013 to 08/2015
Guckenheimer, San Francisco Bay Area
Managed food service operations for clients including, Sun Microsystems, Google, Mozilla, Wells Fargo, Rocket Fuel, SunRun, GoPro, Abbot, Vascular, Wharton, Meraki, Simpson Thacher LLP, Silver Spring Networks, Actelion, Nektar Theraputics, and more.
Systematized catering processes in fast-paced commissary startup operation with little direction and high ambiguity; led daily meetings to team of 50+ employees.
Collaborated closely with clients and stakeholders at all levels of organization.
Oversaw Unit Accounting System; worked closely with Controller, Accounting, AR/AP.
Implemented and managed cloud-based systems for catering, payroll, sales and HR.
Interviewed, hired, on-boarded and trained new employees in English and in Spanish.
University of North Carolina At Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Bachelor of Arts, International Studies, 2006
Palo Alto, CA 94301 | 650.313.3804 | ganley.christopher@gmail.com