Adrian Garces

Technical Specialist

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat”

About Me:
Technical Specialist at IMEC with 2½ years of experience delivering 400+ services under the SCOIN grant. I leverage analytics and technical expertise to help Illinois manufacturers improve supply chain performance and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead development of supplier risk‑scoring models and interactive KPI dashboards for metrics like on‑time delivery, defect rates, lead times, and spend.
  • Deploy analytics solutions—dashboards, statistical models, automated reports—to reveal key performance insights.
  • Assist companies in procurement by conducting market research to identify suitable vendors for both complex and straightforward project requests.
Education:
  • M.S. in Business Analytics (in progress), UIC, May 2026
  • B.S. in Advertising & PR (Marketing minor), Bradley University
Skills:
  • Technical troubleshooting
  • Data analytics (Power BI, Excel, R, Tableau, Power Query, SQL)
  • Statistical modeling
  • Project leadership
  • Workshop development
  • Procurement
  • Market research

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