Peter Abilla

Current

[ahhh yeahhh] at Backcountry.com

Past

Head of Operational Excellence, Customer Service at eBay
Relevant Odd Jobs at Confidential
Director of Operations at Ancestry.com

Master Black Belt at Kaiser Permanente
Survivor at Amazon.com
Director, Business and Sales Operations at Inoveon, an Eli Lilly Company

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Education

University of Chicago
Brigham Young University

Recommended

23 people have recommended Peter

Connections

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Peter Abilla’s Summary

• massively parallel, strong bias for action, customer-obsessed
• Owner of Amazon.com Group: http://tinyurl.com/shmula-amazon-alumni
• Speaker at Lean and Six Sigma events: www.tinyurl.com/abilla-speaker
• I'm a green-thumb-challenged Gardner and a struggling cook.

Peter Abilla’s Experience

[ahhh yeahhh]

Backcountry.com

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

April 2009 — Present (4 months)
Head of Operational Excellence, Customer Service

eBay

(Public Company; Internet industry)

April 2007 — April 2009 (2 years 1 month)
Relevant Odd Jobs

Confidential

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

2002 — 2007 (5 years)

- Adjunct Professor, Operations Management, BYU
- Board Member, iSixSigma Inc.
- Lean Manufacturing Consultant, a high-volume ecommerce merchandiser
- Supply Chain Consultant, a Plastics Manufacturer
- Operations Consultant, a Beverage Company based in Asia
- Operations Consultant, a High-Volume Printing Company
Director of Operations

Ancestry.com

(Online Media industry)

December 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Master Black Belt

Kaiser Permanente

(Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

June 2005 — December 2005 (7 months)
Survivor

Amazon.com

(Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)

December 2002 — July 2005 (2 years 8 months)
Director, Business and Sales Operations

Inoveon, an Eli Lilly Company

(Medical Devices industry)

April 2002 — December 2002 (9 months)

Peter Abilla’s Education

University of Chicago

S.M., Computer Science and Operations Research , 1999 — 2002

- Internship at Toyota Motors, mentored by a Lean Sensei.
- Research area is on Queueing & Time-Traps
Brigham Young University

BS, Philosophy & Mathematics , 1996 — 1999

- Completed in 3 years while working 30 hours/week.
- Full-tuition scholarship (all years)
- (94-96) Charitable 2-year service mission in the Ghetto's of Ohio