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Greater Seattle Area

Assist in planning, developing, and managing the budget process for corporate and operating divisions. Coordinating budget memos and communications. Prepare contingency and depreciation budgets for Corporate departments as well as preliminary and final budget document preparation.Collaborate in designing and conducting variance training courses including budget system training in a formal classroom setting, and creating, updating, and preparing training materials. Troubleshoot and resolve technical and/or end user issues and test upgrades in financial systems.Perform financial analyses to provide management and leadership with tools necessary to make informed business decisions, including analyses on operating revenues, operating costs, specific program/initiative costs and benefits, and bench-marking. Review and track key performance measures for departments.Support in developing various annual budget allocation methodologies for Corporate departments with an understanding on intra-department, intra-division, standard, and variable allocations.

Greater Seattle Area

Reviewed award documents related to new awards, renewals, supplements, revisions for new and existing grant and contract supported projects. Surveyed a variety of awards to ensure they have been properly reconciled, are in compliance with award guidance, invoicing and reporting requirements have been satisfied, and properly closed. Verified all special conditions are documented. Reconciled accounting system for accuracy and completeness.Performed complex analysis on accounting transactions involving multiple processes across multiple UW systems. Read and interpreted grant and contract agreements to ensure compliance. Analyzed, summarized and reported on complex fiscal data in preparation for and in response to sponsor requirements and audits.Participated in daily team collaborations to identify and implement process improvements. Implemented process improvements and apply best practices approach to problem solving and customer service activities.Contributed to daily efforts to streamline the post-award administration process and enhance partnerrelationships using Lean. Analyze, recommend, and update procedures to improve work efficiency and accuracy to eliminate administrative burden for researchers at the University of Washington.

University Of Washington, Seattle, Wa

Provided assistance with design, implementation, and editing of surveys. Composed survey respondent lists with data from academic departments and alumni groups. Compiled and organized student data including demographics, educational background, skills, and other variables based on the research topic. Cleaned data and coded into categories to input into data analysis programs such as SPSS and Stata. Created reports in a standardized format to communicate the analysis to academic programs or internal research requests. Performed secondary research with high quality writing and editing skills to support the unique needs of University of Washington's Continuum College programs.Met with the supervisor at the start of the project and then keep the supervisor apprised of milestones, challenges or deadline constraints as the project develops. Depending on the scope of the project, this included frequent emails, daily check-ins, weekly meetings, or other communication as necessary. In addition, met with supervisor on a quarterly basis to provide broad feedback and seek input on ways to improve the position in general.

Seattle, Wa

Managed GPSS’s operational budget of roughly $500,000, which encompassed employee wages, officer discretionary funds, funding requests from student groups and departments, grant awards, and event planning.Connected with administrative units and their accountants for funding transfers between student groups, academic departments, and administrative units throughout the University of Washington campus.Created agendas, minutes, award letters, and invoices for GPSS's Finance & Budgeting Committee and the Travel Grant Committee. These documents were organized and distributed in GPSS’s online storage system. Evaluated yearly costs and determine whether GPSS should submit a request for additional funding from the Student Activities Fee Committee, a governing body of the student activity fee, or restructure internal expenditures to adapt to changes in revenue. Shepherded the organization through a 9 percent cut, or $43,000, due to the restructuring of funding allocation to student groups from the student activities fee. Certain expenditures were lowered or eliminated based on GPSS's mission and commitment to graduate student success and the ability to represent students.

University Of Washington, Seattle, Wa

Oversaw graduate student representation across campus by managing GPSS liaisons to university committees on various topics such as university budgeting, campus development, and policies affecting graduate students.Directed medium and long-range projects with other graduate students, department staff, and central administration at the University of Washington; projects include improving student services in Educational Outreach and Advisor-Graduate Student Guidelines Worksheet.

4141 Burge Hall Iowa City, Ia

Collaborated with University Housing & Dining Administrative Staff on projects for the residence halls, marketplaces, and other university functions. Help answer questions from current and prospective students about housing and dining related topics. Create housing assignments and schedules for move-in.

Burge Hall

Created a positive and welcoming for all residents and provided accessibility for academic and personal needs. Developed, implemented, and presented community builders and learning initiatives to students and other University Housing & Dining staff. Supported expectations of diversity and confronted policy issues with regards to University Housing & Dining rules. Referred residents to appropriate services on campus. Fostered collaborative working relationships with custodial, maintenance and other University Housing & Dining staff members.

University Of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia

Gathered original data on current policies being debated in Iowa. Data was regressed in various models to produce quantitative analysis. Models were included with qualitative data in policy analysis reports of various topics including: traffic cameras, police body-worn cameras, student apartment development, immigrant detainer requests, school start dates, and the Iowa Core educational standards.

Pomerantz Center

Give campus-wide walking tours. Assist families and prospective students with questions about University of Iowa policies and traditions. Provide facts about the various buildings, academic programs, culture, and environment of the University of Iowa.

Master Of Public Administration (Mpa), Public Policy Analysis/Public Finance/Project Management/Benefit-Cost Analysis

Activities and Societies: -Metropolitan and Urban Policy Student Group

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Economics

Activities and Societies: No Frills Conference Staff-Sponshorship/Finance Chair, Associated Residence Halls-Finance Director