SELECTED WORK
Turning operating complexity into clear decisions.
Luna Sol client engagements and real project work from Ryan Miller’s executive career. Explore the operating challenges, decisions and evidence behind the work.
3 Client engagements
63 Executive project cases
5 Business categories
CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS
From the operating challenge to an executable system.
Three engagement stories, with the mandate, work and evidence specific to each client.
PSA
From a record grading backlog to a controlled recovery system.
Luna Sol assessed the operating constraint, designed immediate stabilization mechanisms, and developed the capacity, governance, and continuous-improvement roadmap behind recovery.
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HopSkipDrive
The operating system behind safe, scalable growth.
Connecting dispatch, compliance, risk, technology, and executive control for a rapidly scaling student transportation platform.
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Maid of the Mist
Moving the decision upstream—before the guest reaches the queue.
An end-to-end operational assessment connecting demand, guest flow, capacity, visibility, and digital planning.
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EXECUTIVE PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Real work. Executive decisions. Operating depth.
Ryan Miller’s leadership experience includes Amazon and Walmart. These 63 cases document work he performed at Amazon in prior executive roles, organized by the business challenge. Each case identifies his contribution and includes the complete public report.
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Operational Excellence
Operating models, performance reviews and recovery systems that connect executive priorities to frontline execution.
15 project cases
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Data, Analytics & AI
Decision intelligence, predictive operations and AI evaluation grounded in reliable measures and practical action.
15 project cases
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Delivery reliability, defect prevention and service recovery across complex networks and partner handoffs.
17 project cases
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Risk, Controls & Governance
Control design, exception governance and auditability that connect recorded activity to protected outcomes.
6 project cases
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Strategy & Capital Allocation
Operating plans, workforce capacity and investment portfolios with transparent assumptions and benefit ownership.
10 project cases
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Data, Analytics & AI
AI Model Selection & Release Governance
An anonymized project case study of forecast-model research: comparative testing, a constrained-runtime champion, a partial engine handoff and an evidence-based decision to defer neural development.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Arrival Reliability & Customer Exposure
An anonymized operating case on sizing concession exposure around inbound arrival cutoffs, reconciling package and unit measures, and testing a proposed upstream explanation. It separates reported exposure, causal effect and preventable customer harm.
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Strategy & Capital Allocation
Benefit Realization & Incrementality
An operating-project case on realization exposure and the incrementality test for a carryover portfolio. It separates missing actuals, future forecasts and expansion value from the value of maintaining an existing programme.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Chain-of-Custody Diagnostics
An anonymized operating case on returned shipments: reconciling conflicting driver-identity measures, testing a loading-error explanation, and designing programmatic actions without mistaking a scorecard label for causal responsibility.
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Risk, Controls & Governance
Control Coverage & Customer Protection
An operating-project case assessing the coverage of an automated missing-package control: distinguishing recorded scan evidence from protected customer outcomes, testing scorecard effects and reconciling competing financial claims before recognizing value.
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Risk, Controls & Governance
Custody Declarations & Auditability
An operating-project case on a package-loss investigation that corrected its own headline figures and exposed gaps in declaration evidence. It connects event capture, physical verification, control workload and the test required before claiming recovered value.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Customer Defect Analytics & Prioritization
An anonymized operating case on reconciling fragmented defect categories, responding to executive review, and connecting an analytical finding to a testable action and accountable owner.
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Strategy & Capital Allocation
Customer Loss Goals & Investment Proposals
An operating-project case on preparing an annual quality-goal intake. It examines competing target versions, incompatible metric grains, modeled headroom and a disclosed funding gap without turning a draft into an approved or attainable commitment.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Customer Recovery & Remedy Design
An anonymized operating case on a proposed exception-recovery mechanism, the limits of last-scan evidence, and the decision rights needed before changing an automated customer remedy.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Data Access & Investment Readiness
An anonymized operating-design case on an analytics program blocked by source fitness and access. The investigation identified a candidate incumbent model, corrected the data roadmap and specified an application-identity access plan.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Data Delivery & Service Continuity
An anonymized data-architecture case study of a multi-source operating platform: testing interactive and unattended access, reconciling partial data coverage, and preserving an explicit snapshot fallback when the intended live feed remained unavailable.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Decision-Centered Analytics
An anonymized operating case on an executive performance readout, its rejection at review, and a proposed evidence contract that connects analytical quality to the decision a sponsor must make.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Defect Ownership & Service Recovery
An anonymized operating case on an executive loss review: replacing blanket blame with specific remediation, reconciling conflicting performance claims, and defining safeguards for automated customer refunds.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Delivery Attribution & Change Control
An anonymized operating case on challenging a defect-attribution narrative, clarifying the underlying event rule and governing a proposed change to the source of accountability. It distinguishes diagnosis, ownership and verified prevention.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Delivery Damage Reduction Strategy
An anonymized operating case on a three-action damage-reduction plan: packaging escalation, handling discipline and repack execution. The analysis tests the plan's sizing, operating authority and evidence of customer benefit.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Delivery Promise Integrity
An anonymized operating case on linking delivery-window grades to concession records, withdrawing an unsupported reporting claim, and designing a capacity decision around the original customer promise.
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Operational Excellence
Enterprise Data Issue Management
An anonymized project case study of a data-issues register: consolidating fragmented escalations, distinguishing related defects, exposing missing commitments and defining how a remedy should be verified.
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Strategy & Capital Allocation
Enterprise Operating Plan Design
An operating-project case on annual planning in a distributed service network. It examines portfolio reconciliation, resource commitments, benefit validation and the evidence required to move from a submitted workbook to an executable plan.
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Operational Excellence
Enterprise Operating Scorecards
An anonymized project case study of a weekly operating tracker: linking performance measures, targets, source versions and action ownership so executives can use the report to make defensible decisions.
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Risk, Controls & Governance
Exception Controls & Pilot Governance
An operating-project case on tiered permissions for bulk status changes, a limited pilot and its conflicting performance reports. The analysis links control specifications, actual exposure, service recovery and the evidence required for expansion.
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Operational Excellence
Execution Assurance & Accountability
An anonymized project case study of a distributed service network’s action-governance redesign: how evidence standards, execution maturity and verification capacity determine whether corrective work can be trusted.
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Operational Excellence
Execution Standards & Verification
An anonymized project case study of an execution-verification matrix: defining what proves a committed operating action occurred, exposing gaps in the available evidence and specifying the mechanism needed to close each gap.
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Operational Excellence
Executive Performance Review
An anonymized project case study of a recurring customer-defect and loss review: reconciling reported movement, distinguishing competing explanations and assigning evidence-backed action across two operating groups.
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Strategy & Capital Allocation
Financial Entitlement Reconciliation
An operating-project case on portfolio entitlement reconciliation. It examines contradictory Finance status, overlapping claims, incompatible rates and the evidence required to publish a supportable planning amount.
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Strategy & Capital Allocation
Goal Allocation & Performance Planning
An evidence-reconciliation case on translating a network quality target into business-unit commitments. It separates baseline selection, exposure weights, allocation authority and deliverable capacity without claiming an adopted allocation or operating benefit.
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Strategy & Capital Allocation
Integrated Portfolio & Funding Decisions
An evidence-reconciliation case on an annual operating-plan portfolio and its supplementary ideas. It separates line-item sizing, joint benefit, dependencies, funded capacity and review authority without treating a submitted document as delivered value.
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Data, Analytics & AI
KPI Definition & Reporting Reliability
An anonymized operating case on an executive reporting application whose KPI names, filters and aggregations produced conflicting answers. The register describes identifier conventions, arithmetic checks and explicit unavailable states for unsupported values and attribution.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Late-Delivery Recovery & Action Routing
An anonymized operating case on diagnosing major late-delivery categories, reconciling competing data views and assigning accountable follow-up. It separates a recorded location from current custody, cause and preventable customer harm.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Leading Indicators for Performance Management
An anonymized project case study of a service network’s leading-indicator audit: reconciling reporting clocks, model populations and metric definitions before using analytical findings to direct operating investment.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Loss Prevention Portfolio Design
An anonymized operating case on a peak-season loss investigation, prioritized control proposals and a subsequent management review. The analysis separates physical recovery from reporting changes and tests whether proposed benefits can be added.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Metric Baselines & Signal Validation
A recurring performance-reporting case that separates source version, event cohort, maturation, goal basis and action evidence. It tests the value of resolving uncertainty before publishing a direction.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Network Flow & Customer Promise Protection
An integrated operating-programme case that separates stage coverage, physical control, shared service capacity and mature outcomes. It tests whether an added check earns its time and cost.
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Operational Excellence
Network Quality Governance
An anonymized project case study of a delivery network’s quality-review mechanism: how metric definitions, action verification and source precision shape operating decisions.
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Strategy & Capital Allocation
New Investment & Measurement Assurance
A white-space investment and measurement-integrity case. It separates programme discovery, functional equivalence, local applicability and marginal value while preserving the costs of both duplicate funding and mistaken rejection.
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Operational Excellence
Operating Close & Workbook Governance
An anonymized project case study of a shared operating workbook: repairing formulas, reconciling monthly inputs, preserving owner accountability and defining when the management view is ready for release.
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Operational Excellence
Operating Commitments & Accountability
An operating-project case on repairing accountability in a distributed delivery network. It examines a commitment audit, reconciles conflicting performance interpretations, and defines an auditable path from a reported action to a mature customer outcome.
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Strategy & Capital Allocation
Operating Investment & Incremental Value
An operating-project case on finding the next useful intervention in an established delivery network. It examines a mechanism-gap analysis, corrects its measurement and benefit logic, and designs a test of portfolio selection and mature outcomes.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Operating Performance & Customer Outcomes
An anonymized operating case on explaining divergent loss and concession measures, correcting a volume-weighted recovery plan, and separating accounting identities from causal evidence.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Operational Command-Center Governance
An anonymized operating-design case study of a leadership command center: reconciling customer-quality measures, incomplete reporting periods and agent-assisted analytics before translating dashboard signals into operating decisions.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Operational Measurement Assurance
An anonymized operating case on conflicting logistics measurements. The project established a reference canon for table choice, counting unit, filters and interpretation, and documented corrections that changed how reports should be used.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Outcome Maturity & Decision Timing
An anonymized operating case on measuring delayed outcome reporting, reconciling successive extracts, and turning a maturity estimate into an accountable evidence-release decision.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Packaging Quality & Source Prevention
An anonymized operating-design case tracing damage observations through manual escalation, packaging authority and later shipment outcomes. It evaluates a cross-region operating model and the evidence required to activate it.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Performance Measurement & Credit Integrity
An operating-project case on challenging benefit attribution after a delivery-control launch. It separates customer outcomes, claim access and reporting classifications, reconciles benefit claims, and proposes a controlled test of credit-review decisions.
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Operational Excellence
Performance Reporting & Action Alignment
An anonymized project case study of executive performance reporting: rebuilding a business-line response around one recovery gap, explicit action coverage, accountable owners and evidence that can support a decision.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Performance Shift Diagnostics
An operating-project case on investigating abrupt delivery-claim changes across business lines. It tests competing physical and reporting explanations, reconciles daily and weekly measures, and designs a controlled response that protects service while evidence matures.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Predictive Operations & Decision Support
An anonymized project case study of an operational forecasting engine: designing prediction, data-source and alerting controls while separating runnable software from validated live decisions and customer outcomes.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Preventive Action Design & Controls
An anonymized operating-design case study of a versioned action library: policy-linked instructions, cross-functional ownership, agent-assisted construction and an incomplete handoff into the operating application.
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Risk, Controls & Governance
Process Sequence & Control Integrity
An operating-project case on scan-integrity detection and process redesign: reconstructing changing rules, separating login attribution from physical handling, and defining a safe replacement workflow before claiming prevention or taking consequential action.
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Strategy & Capital Allocation
Program Portfolio & Ownership Governance
An operating-project case on rebuilding an annual-plan intake register. It separates source-field provenance, proposal status, accountable ownership and joint benefit evidence from the authority to fund and the ability to deliver.
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Operational Excellence
Recovery Execution & Deadline Readiness
An operating-project case on a pre-peak loss-reduction plan that tested its own sizing, success metrics and delivery dependencies. It connects overlapping defect populations, executable controls and the evidence required to commit a deadline-bound result.
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Operational Excellence
Recovery Forecast & Delivery Commitments
An operating-project case on answering an executive return-to-plan question. It reconciles competing plan rows, conflicting reporting series, recovery arithmetic and action dependencies, then designs a test of the forecast-to-commitment workflow.
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Operational Excellence
Recovery Forecasting & Benefit Attribution
An anonymized project case study of a service-network reforecast: reconciling intervention bookings, isolating model revisions and defining the evidence required to turn an operating commitment into defensible performance credit.
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Operational Excellence
Recovery Planning & Commitment Assurance
An anonymized project case study of a service-network recovery plan: reconciling competing targets, testing station-level feasibility and connecting executive commitments to accountable operating actions.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Recovery Process & Customer Risk
An anonymized analytical case examining whether stronger exception recovery creates downstream damage. It reconciles measurement errors, tests the logic of the historical verdict and designs a prospective customer-safety evaluation.
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Operational Excellence
Recovery Roadmap & Outcome Alignment
An executive recovery-plan case that separates line specificity, calendar feasibility, input-response evidence and approval. It tests when a quantified roadmap supports a commitment.
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Risk, Controls & Governance
Scan Integrity & Outcome Verification
An operating-project case on disputed return attribution in a contracted delivery network: auditing nested opportunity estimates, testing scan-data readiness and defining an authorized response that can be evaluated against physical customer outcomes.
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Data, Analytics & AI
Self-Service Analytics & Decision Quality
An anonymized operating case on adopting AI-assisted self-service analytics. The register describes a working installation, adversarial data checks and documented defects, while evidence of submitted reports, accepted fixes and wider adoption remains incomplete.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Service Exposure & Capacity Planning
An operating-project case on enabling controlled sort processes across a delivery network. It reconciles rollout scope, measurement coverage and approval capacity, then proposes a test of whether temporary-exception controls protect customer service without delaying other work.
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Operational Excellence
Standard Work & Escalation Design
An operating-project case on connecting defect categories to governing procedures, practical actions and accountable owners. It examines a policy-coverage diagnostic, corrects its causal interpretation and designs a controlled test of evidence-based routing.
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Risk, Controls & Governance
Status Governance & Service Continuity
An operating-project case on removing self-service status overrides, separating approval from execution and protecting legitimate exception recovery. The analysis tests what declining approvals establish and how to measure the customer and resource consequences.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Unit-Level Defect Diagnosis
An operating-project case on a concentrated delivery-defect investigation. It separates route volume, planned stops, physical delivery and partner disputes, then defines the evidence and capacity required to test a remedy without changing the customer truth.
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Customer Experience & Logistics
Workflow Analytics & Process Validation
An anonymized analytical case examining a short-duration workflow detector, its audit priorities and its unsupported cost-leak hypothesis. It reconciles event populations and designs a test of verified process improvement.
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Strategy & Capital Allocation
Workforce Capacity & Headcount Planning
An operating-project case on headcount and capacity planning. It examines how recurring work, project effort, availability and release sequence shape a staffing request when the funded envelope is fixed.
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OPERATING CASES / ILLUSTRATIVE ANALYSES
See how the decision gets made.
Detailed approaches to plant improvement, integration and launch readiness. Each uses an invented scenario and reproducible model to show how Luna Sol would approach the work.

Operating case
Choose improvements that increase finished output.
A constrained plant needs more than faster tasks. This operating case shows how to select a quality intervention by finished output, customer commitments and the strongest feasible alternative.
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Operating case
Sequence integration around service continuity and cost.
A shared specialist team must stand up Finance, IT and HR before transition services expire. This operating case connects the work sequence to acceptance evidence, contractual rights and the cost of exit.
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Operating case
Protect customer dates with a targeted launch plan.
An early start of ship can consume scarce resources without improving customer service. This operating case connects product configuration, technical transfer, production and delivery to the original customer promise.
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Portfolio standard
What is not shown matters too.
Confidential client material is not repackaged as public proof.
The dossiers use sanitized operating architecture, clearly labeled personal scope, public company information, and third-party sources. No implied testimonial, invented artifact, or sole-attribution claim is used to fill a credibility gap.



