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San Jose, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

As Founder and CEO, identified the market need to build websites and mobile applications for non-profits. Deployed a structured approach to launch a solution; participated in Google’s NewME Accelerator to accelerate progress. Personally drove early sales and growth activity, enabling the business to become the self-managing, profitable entity it is today. My staff currently manages the day-to-day; my responsibilities are now handling payments, payroll, and taxes.Key achievements include:• Independently assessing the market opportunity and successfully raising $700K in seed capital. • Managing all product development activities associated with launching a software development business, including problem definition, user research, analytics, wire framing, business modeling, user experience design. • Building and managing a team of three programmers and illustrators. • Leading the company to $320K in annual revenue over a four-year maturation process through astute financial management, continuous marketing, and business development. • Overseeing all financial management, including budgeting, accounting, bookkeeping, invoicing, taxes, and financial statements. • Building key partnerships with Kraft and American Contract Bridge League ($167K) to accelerate revenue generation.• Web domain and other assets sold to Butlr Technologies in August 2022 for an undisclosed amount

San Jose, California, Us

Business Group Finance: global, strategic finance business partner and P&L ownership for high growth business unitsPivotal role within the finance team, overseeing:• Adherence to group budgets, supporting various business units with fiscal budgeting and planning process.• Accurate and timely accruals for monthly and quarterly close processes.• Purchase requisition approvals.• Transfer of budgets between departments.• Capital asset identification. • Inputs required by Public Auditor KPMG. • Tableau dashboard development. Responsibilities also extend to driving analytics and change initiatives spanning multiple functions (Customer Acquisition, Design, IT, Sales etc.). Key achievements to-date include:• Developing numerous tableau dashboards with connections to Oracle Essbase cubes, excel and Web Data Connectors such as Blockspring that provided live updates of OPEX and revenue to business partners. Pioneered tableau software use in BG Finance team and acted as administrator for BG Finance active directory. • Spearheading cross-functional collaboration and effective change management to significantly improve the system that drove GL detail to all Finance Analysts managing OPEX across all regions. Saved a minimum of two hours for each of six Finance Analysts each month-end. As a result, won 3rd place out of 12 teams in the company-wide finance innovation competition. • Chairing regular meetings with senior stakeholders to share insights and recommendations for improvement.• Engineering a VBA excel macro tool to enable the Payroll team to be able to interrogate historical Ceridian data for the first time, improving the quality of decision making and saving the team over five hours per month.

San Jose, California, Us

Global Order to Cash: accounting and financial functions including accounts receivable, credit and collections, revenue recognition Managed the daily accounting functions for collection analysts while supporting the finance function with performance improvement initiatives. Drove business process improvement across multiple teams, undertaking process mapping and analysis, and partnering with Order Management, Oracle, IT and Sales teams to implement changes. Key achievements include:• Resolving an ongoing EDI issue by clearing $5 million of backlogged EDIs in conjunction with EDI/IT teams and leveraging market best practices to improve quality (e.g., Amazon, Best Buy, etc.) • Assuming responsibility for UE expense reconciliation while transforming the process, ultimately consolidating a 30+ step manual process to be automatically system generated in Oracle • Independently designing a new macro that reduced monthly AR reconciliation from five to two business days• Heading an improvement project that enabled Brazil payroll team to save one business day of effort monthly • Re-designing a sales data upload process, automating data extraction from PayPal, Magento, and Oracle to avoid tens of thousands in bad debt write-offs and saving at least 20 hours per month.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

This role ran in parallel to studies at Harvard University. Provided comprehensive technical support to faculty, users, and students in a computer lab. Supported maintenance of the information technology infrastructure.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

This role ran in parallel to studies at Harvard University. Reporting to the Vice President of Marketing, responsibilities included:• Creating core marketing collateral, including interactive presentations• Enhancing social media presence to coincide with marketing a partner’s new book• Analyzing and tracking campaign effectiveness for portfolio companies through MS Excel and Google Alerts

This role ran in parallel to studies at Harvard University. As a licensed Real Estate Agent, secured rental housing in the Cambridge-Boston area for students and young professionals. Responsibilities included marketing, negotiating with clients and building managers on costs / pricing, writing contracts for clients, and closing sales.

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology

Master’S Degree, Accounting