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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 success.

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 This includes bringing the financials to current, overseeing a clean audit despite out of date financials, budgeting, internal and grant reporting, establishing HR policies, liaising with granting organizations and foundations as well as the board of directors, active member of the executive team, and management of outside resources and consultants. Additional challenges involved working with 6 worldwide offices and across more than 8 time zones.

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 around high-profit investments (focus is high technology businesses). Advanced global business acumen to lead implementation of new programs and processes and negotiate technical vendor agreements. Strong communicator and presenter of information, results, and concepts to business and governance teams. Collaborative and effective team builder in agile environments.Modeling/Analyzing Business Development ● Incorporating Process Improvements ● Project ManagementTeam Building, Coordination, Training, and Motivation ● Market Expansions ● Portfolio Management Policies / Procedures Development ● International Business Program Development ● Financial Control / Management ● Marketing ● Supply / Procurement

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 requirements, (3) test across all systems, (4) collaborated with software developers and business teams in India, Japan and the U.S.

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 in decision making process, including end-of-life product decisions. • 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 analysis.• 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 criteria (ease of use, multiple users, cost, etc.) to the decision.• Special project work included fulfillment center vendor selection and integration of new fulfillment center with online order processing.

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 VP’s within sales and marketing, publishing, and manufacturing. • 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, and other aspects of installation.• 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 distribution.• 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 distribution and end user customer support.• Finance support for direct end user fulfillment. • Balance sheet responsibility for the reconciliation of key corporate retail bank accounts.• Extensive interaction with Treasury, A/R, A/P, COGS and Tax groups within finance.

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