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United States

Assist chief-of-staff to Vice President for WebXT Platform Team with capacity planning, rhythm of the business, financial oversight and planning, communications. Other responsibilities included process improvement and tracking of large scale projects to assure milestones and deliverables were met. Established KPI’s and developed measurement tools to access.

Port Townsend, Washington, United States

Microsoft, Seattle, WA

Business Manager to two senior level members of the Worldwide Learning Organization.

Berkeley, CA (working remote)

Work remote to provide financial and operational management for a well-established non-profit with global reach that works to protect rivers and the rights of communities that depend on them. This includes bringing the financials to current, overseeing a clean audit despite out of date financials, budgeting, internal and grant reporting, establishing HR.

• Provide divisional financial oversight that includes budgeting, forecasting and reporting. Executive and divisional communications, organizational development, ROB, business planning and risk mitigation strategies.
• Re-prioritized strategic initiatives and implemented cost savings for $12M budget alignment.
• Consistently landed actuals within less than 2% of budget.
• Managed risk analysis process that allowed the leadership team to make timely tradeoff decisions.

Redmond, WA

• Executive financial leader with a history of partnering with Finance, Operations and Strategic management across multiple disciplines. Expertly orchestrates strategic business planning and operational enhancements.
• Incorporating Process Improvements
• Project ManagementTeam Building, Coordination, Training, and Motivation
• Market Expansions
• Portfolio Management Policies / Procedures Development
• International Business Program Development

Seattle, WA

As the Program Manager for the Japanese loyalty program, implemented a new payment instrument for the Japanese market which could be used across retail and third party transactions. The prototype was used in other regions including the U.S. The project included: (1) setting launch criteria and delivery timelines, (2) develop business and accounting.

Redmond, WA

• Managed the Zune P&L, monthly close process, and associated management reporting including scorecard and Flash. Responsible for reporting results to divisional controller as well as the BG General Manager. Participated.
• Managed the divisional budget, forecast and mid-year review which included modeling multi-year impact of revenue growth on total contribution margin and other key metrics. Review of reserve levels and warranty risk.
• Simplified key finance processes to improve productivity for Finance and business partners by leveraging corporate resources.
• Met monthly with senior management for Zune’s MP3 division to review and understand how reporting was done and what key data they were looking for to help drive decision making.

Kirkland, WA

Built and maintained client relationships, supported Hanson consultants, screened consultants and provided counsel for key business decisions for this technology consulting start-up. Assisted in obtaining preferred vendor status at Microsoft.

Seattle, WA

• funded by Bruce and Jolene McCaw.
• Developed procedures to insure compliance with systems of financial control.
• Provided management and BOD financial reporting on a monthly and quarterly basis
• Assisted with business planning, financial oversight, and management of employee benefits
• Provided operations support on a daily basis that included interacting with third party fulfillment vendors, internet order processing vendors and inventory management.
• Collaborated with marketing and senior management to select a new customer relationship management (CRM) software system. Gathered information on what data points needed to be captured and applied relevant selection.

• Managed a finance team responsible for providing financial support across multiple divisions. Cross-functional role reporting to senior-level finance and operations management as well as divisional general managers and.
• Corporate royalty accounting and reporting, including third party contract review.
• Gathered requirements for a new royalty reporting system and worked with the systems architect to create the system. Involved in testing the system before it was moved to production, migrating data into the new system.
• Responsible for finance functions relating to Corporate-wide Public Relations and Marketing divisions that included budgeting, long range planning and financial management for outsourced PR and marketing functions.
• Finance responsibility for MS Press and MSN, including quarterly BOD report, budget and forecasts, management reporting, inventory management, month-end close, and vendor management for production, warehousing and.
• Analyzed the reporting requirements for MS Press to aid in the selection of a new distribution vendor for the division. Determined which vendor was capable of both meeting the reporting needs and handling physical.

Calculated and reporting retirement benefits for Boeing employees, including healthcare and pension pay. Also responsible for assisting employees with any questions they had regarding retirement benefits.

Business Administration/Accounting, Accounting, 3.4

Ms, Mental Health Counseling, 3.9

Coursework towards a Master's of Science in Mental Health Counseling (did not complete program).

Diploma, 3.8