Andrew Short, Mba Email & Phone Number

Memphis, Tn, Us

Southaven, Mississippi, Us

Shape technology vision to underpin profitable business growth. Collaborate with CEO and executive team to ensure technology alignment with corporate mission. Saved costs renegotiating vendor contracts. Developed data warehouse for reporting and data architecture for internal and external customers. Advise on next-generation technologies. Direct and train 9-member team including Analysts and Oracle/TMW consultants. Head project management. Attend weekly strategic planning sessions with corporate executives.- Piloted new systems integrations and implementations to include Oracle Cloud software and new BI tools. Provided recruiting and operations teams with single source of truth, allowing clearer visibility to insights for decision making.- Negotiated relationships with multiple banking institutions for external funding including off balance sheet lending, asset-based lending, and direct/indirect financing with national, regional, and global lending institutions.- Prioritized new projects for external vendors and outsourced partners encompassing phone system procurement, server management/procurement, systems software, and vendor procurement.- Created new software for tracking internal loans on current assets including straight truck and tractor assets, as well as for financed units to owner/operators. Upgraded ERP system to improve current processes.

Consulted with executive stakeholders and sales, supply chain, and product marketing departments as trusted advisor on best practices and solutions for data warehouse/analysis. Manipulated TM1 architect to create models for paying volume incentives to customers, freight expense tracking, allocation, agent commissions, and sales incentive plans. Produced and documented training tools and process flow for data warehouse activities for internal IT customers and external business departments. Assisted with technology integration and knowledge transfer to align with ABB data after integration.- Managed 6 concurrent projects ranging in value from $200K to $5M. Served as liaison between Finance, IT, sales, marketing, and distribution groups to oversee requirements, promote agreement, and moderate projects to completion.- Saved over $1M designing budgeting tool and modernizing process from manual excel spreadsheet. Allowed live updates and provided transparency in budgeting across all product lines and sales offices with advanced data insights.- Conducted first individual analysis of 300+ product lines with millions of SKUs. Created new cubes in Cognos that allowed immediate access to P&L down to individual SKU that helped devise more profitable marketing strategies.

Led and facilitated ideas, issues, data changes between IT Data Warehouse and Finance. Generated SAP Business Objects reports and validated for older to reports to ensure data integrity between all data sources. Designed reporting tools using SQL in Microsoft Excel to author specific reports. - Trained ~300 users on Cognos Powerplay, as well as any new users from Sales/Marketing, Product Management, and Corporate Finance. Formulated training to accommodate multiple user types of data due to data security.- Handled report writing, design, and creation of dimensional cubes in Cognos to include dashboards, drill-through reports, cube design/creation, and data validation between Oracle, Data Warehouse, and Cognos.- Utilized TM1 and Hyperion as well as other data sources for Cognos cube data to track special programs and reconcile Oracle Financials to Cognos Reporting. Maintained, updated, and verified 153 PowerPlay cubes and 80 TM1 cubes.

Memphis, Tn, Us

Reviewed various ad-hoc analysis on what-if scenarios using multiple external and internal changes, especially after bankruptcy declaration. Built dashboard tool to quickly turn around profitability and performance metrics for senior management. Utilized TM1 to analyze Flight Profitability, by contract, company, and flight segment and outlined recommendations to continue route or discontinue routes. Performed audits on current contracts to analyze differences in bid/actual performance metrics.

Frederick, Md, Us

Financial Reporting on KPIs and Ad Hoc projects pertaining to budget and latest estimate numbers.

Prepared, analyzed, and distributed Income Statements. Provided management with brief and concise updates of major deviations to budget, latest estimate, and prior periods to pinpoint areas that depicted notable trends and opportunities. Projected MSA payments which have effect on company results. Researched and examined competitor profitability and interpreted where competition had strengths and weaknesses.- Developed and prepared annual budgets, forecasts, and strategic plans. Analyzed to identify opportunities and areas that will need improvement to achieve planned performance.- Presented to Senior Financial Management on various reports as required to accurately depict status of the organization in meeting goals and objectives.

Customer service of 120 stores in Silver Sands Outlet Stores in Miramar Beach (Destin, FL).

Directed over 120 employees and 100+ flights per day in demanding airline catering business.

Westborough, Ma, Us

Create and customize online safety stores for small, medium, and large size companies. Clients ranged from construction and steel industry thru trade associations and insurance companies.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, International Business

Mba, General Management