Orion Wills

Analyst and operations lead. I turn messy numbers into decisions and run the teams that act on them.

Lawrence, KS onsite · San Antonio, TX onsite · Remote

Email me (785) 541-5500 LinkedIn Download resume (PDF)

Results

~$7M

per year in added results from one collections channel, from analysis I led at Conn's HomePlus.

~50

people trained and led on the Dillons front end, plus manager-on-duty nights.

#1

sales team in the company for 18 months at Yodle (Yodle Star 2013).

~50%

year-over-year volume growth as Mattress Firm Mega Center store manager.

Projects

Forever Twink

Gear finder site for WoW Forever twink players. Cited item database with a two-source verification rule, class and spec finders, and a data pipeline behind it.

Shows: data QA, sourcing discipline, shipping a working product people use.

Live site

WoW addons: Leyword, Afterpull, Guild Bench

Leyword is a free daily five-letter word puzzle for WoW Forever. Afterpull is an opt-in rating log for the end of a run. Guild Bench shows who in your guild has a profession, recipe, or shared quest. I built and run the Discord communities for them.

Shows: building for real users, release management, community support.

LeywordAfterpullGuild Bench

Folio Desk puzzle books

Large print word search books on Amazon under my name. I wrote code to generate 150 puzzles for each book.

Shows: automation, end-to-end ownership from idea to published product.

Cozy FallChristmas & Winter

Brevitas

A small web studio building sites for Lawrence trades businesses.

Shows: client outreach, sales, and delivery on a small budget.

Demo sites

Collections analytics at Conn's

Forecasting, KPIs, ranking and scoring, and pre-collection handoff analysis, with dashboards for senior leadership. One channel grew about $7M a year.

Shows: analysis that moves revenue, reporting leaders actually read.

Experience

  • Maze Operations & Drone Pilot · Precision Mazes

    May 2026 to present · Lawrence, KS
    Run seasonal corn-maze operations against a 90-maze target. Drone capture, asset workflows, farm datasets.

  • Front End Manager · Dillons (The Kroger Co.)

    Oct 2024 to May 2026 · Lawrence, KS
    Led and trained about 50 people. Manager on duty 1 to 2 nights a week. Tightened inventory and shrink routines.

  • Business Analyst · Conn's HomePlus

    Jan 2022 to Apr 2023 · San Antonio, TX
    Contact-center and collections analysis, leadership dashboards, about $7M a year in channel gains.

  • Data Engineer · Quickpath

    Jun 2019 to Aug 2020 · San Antonio, TX
    Python and AWS pipelines and model support on a confidential financial-services engagement.

  • Earlier leadership

    2010 to 2018 · Texas
    Marketing Specialist at Oak Creek Homes. Store Manager at Mattress Firm. Area Sales Manager at Yodle, with a VBA pipeline dashboard the team used daily.

  • Data Science certificate · Codeup

    2019 · San Antonio, TX
    600+ hours of Python, SQL, statistics, and machine learning.

Skills

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Excel
  • Dashboards and reporting
  • Collections analysis
  • Forecasting and KPIs
  • AWS
  • Team leadership
  • Inventory and shrink
  • Process design
  • Drone operations

Contact

Hiring for analyst, reporting, billing and collections ops, or operations management? I can start the conversation this week.

orion.wills@gmail.com (785) 541-5500 LinkedIn Resume (PDF)