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Denver, Colorado, United States

Responsible for financial and pricing systems and processes integration to IBM standards. Post-transition, charged with costing and pricing global BPO opportunities (ranging up to $750M) for a high growth practice and operationalizing successful pursuits with PMO and Operational teams. • Subject Matter Expert to transition PFG financial/sales reporting and forecasting to IBM systems and processes, training and coaching all relevant stakeholders.• Created simplified pricing modules for client facing staff to decentralize initial contract pricing estimation that leveraged multiple datasets to determine the most advantageous pursuits. • Collaborated on over 350 opportunities for the BPO Practice over six years resulting in over $300M in signings for the practice, growing annual revenues by ~5X.• Supported operational management after signings to ensure ongoing performance adhered to modeled operational and financial plans.

Greater Denver Area

• Performed financial/business advisory consulting, data reporting system development, and implementation services.• Designed/developed consumer product leveraging 3D printing in separate personal venture.

Greater Denver Area

Senior member of the Finance, Solutions, and Operations teams in a tri-role capacity for the Banking BPO Practice. Responsible for all financial consolidations to create practice-wide reporting packages, operational projections, and estimated proforma results/dashboards. Accountable for all global costing/pricing for the worldwide practice.• Incorporated data from multiple systems to create organization’s inaugural operational dashboards that allowed for more precise data-driven management action.• Optimized contract pricing by leveraging checklist processes and automated financial models to foster more agile selling approaches when dealing with transformative client projects.

Greater New York City Area

Senior leadership team member of a Private Equity owned company responsible for the development and maintenance of the systems and processes used for reporting to Sales/Operational/Executive Management, Debt Holders, and Board of Directors. Accountable for development, implementation and execution of all management reports, operational analysis, statistical studies, budgets, and long-range plans. Also served as finance lead for two wholly owned subsidiary companies. • Managed due diligence process for ~$160M debt restructuring and instituted expanded reporting through extensive collaboration with Private Equity and Banking firms. • Led marketing and due diligence process for ~$60M business divestiture of subsidiary.• Developed comprehensive reorganization strategy that examined 40+ major business units to capture value by selectively consolidating sub-units through multi-variant analysis of operational, logistical, and geographical considerations allowing an incremental EBITDA increase of ~30%.• Designed and implemented comprehensive sales tracking data system allowing for unprecedented insight into product/customer/industry/geographic trends. Project also facilitated automation of individual performance and commissions reporting across several distinct sales teams.• Aligned operational, management, and external reporting processes into single cohesive framework that permitted all levels of management to focus on performance improvement by eliminating the distraction of reconciliation variances in the reporting across the organization. • Oversaw implementation of IBM’s TM1 financial reporting system to add granular visibility into operational performance that enabled management to more actively manage operations.

Houston, Texas Area

Senior member of the management team responsible for the long-range strategic plan and financial model while also educating stakeholders, including the Board of Directors, on projected results. Responsible for identifying and developing financial and operational opportunities to enhance the long-range plan through collaboration with members of senior management. • Created and implemented new forecasting model that streamlined long range planning process with accounting systems allowing for analytics to be applied across historical and pro forma results while also creating inaugural forecasted balance sheet and cash flow statements.• Standardized periodic reporting of financial results and short-term forecasts for external stakeholders including Board of Directors, donors, debt holders, and other financial institutions.

Houston, Texas Area

Developed ten-year strategic growth financing model aligned with organization’s long-term sustainability goals for use in discussions with the Board of Trustees and institutional donors. Working directly with the CFO, the project enhanced analysis of various strategies and impact on balance sheet and cash flows.

Responsible for a wide range of business-critical operations necessary for the continued performance and growth of the company. Charged with identifying, cultivating, and valuing new business opportunities through the competitive bidding process for government contracts and through other pursuits including M&A activities and internal process improvement. • Valued pricing strategies through collaboration with Operations, Construction, Human Resources, Medical, Purchasing, Accounting, and Planning resulting in multiple contracts of up to $100M and significant annual cash flow improvements of up to ~32% per year.• Revamped long-range financial model by reducing reliance on divisional finance officers while also incorporating valuation and scenario analysis, eliminating dependence on outside consulting. • Optimized corporate development pro forma model, allowing for more detailed analysis than preceding model, and reducing executive summary from ten-pages to single-page dashboard.• Developed business plans for under-utilized assets in company’s portfolio including identification of trigger events and how to positively influence outcomes of those events to activate plans.

Houston, Texas Area

MBA student consulting project to evaluate international regulatory actions and proposed national legislation concerned with cap-and-trade and emission tax schemes for greenhouse gases.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Multi-state licensed property and causality insurance agent serving customers across the United States and other select countries.

Mba, Finance

Bba, General Business & Managment Information Systems

2005 Outstanding Student for General Business