Current GPA: 4.0My financial interests include asset pricing, market efficiency, portfolio construction, quant. strategies, alternatives, real estate investment and development.

As CEO I led the positioning and launch of a new division of our company, taking a start-up civil construction business from unknown and no customers to over $10MM in annual revenue in just over five years. I directed all areas of company activities and finances. This role pulled heavily from my skills in branding, sales and marketing, finance and accounting, project management, and leadership. Highlights:• Designed and implemented a GAAP accrual-basis accounting system, chart of accounts, job-costing and contract accounting.• Responsible for P&L, BS, Cashflow, setting and managing KPI's, financial forecasting, investment and capital structure decisions.• Developed job-cost estimating tools used for bidding work, monitoring progress and tracking completion.• Developed and managed key relationships across all essential third parties: customers, vendors, banks, legal counsel, insurance and surety. • Responsible for organizational chart, interviewing, hiring/firing, and incentive comp. for all key roles.

As Vice President I took what started as a small, relatively unknown, local business to national recognition. I accomplished this by repositioning the company and developing and executing a new go-to-market strategy, allowing the company to grow from a local client-base to a regional one in the Midwest, while opening new markets in the Western and Southeastern United States. This was enabled by my work to productize an enhanced set of service offerings, each with its own value proposition, tailored to a refocused set of customer segments.Highlights:• Built and executed a new go-to-market strategy for the company.• Conducted a brand and competitor assessment to successfully reposition the business.• Prospected and sold services to new clients in the Midwest, Southeast, and Southwestern US.• Expanded sales to an evolving segment of institutional ag-land investors and farm managers.• Productized an expanded service offering, deploying new brand across web and social media.

As a product manager I led new product development for some of the products within Walking the Talk's corporate culture management system. I led phases from design and ideation through testing, launch and marketing strategy, with a focus on the integration of both customer and product development plans. I was able to bring multiple, successful products to market that were incorporated into the company's core product suite. I participated in meetings with potential investors and business partners and had the opportunity to pitch for capital. In this role I learned to focus on minimum viability and customer development during product development (product-solution-fit and product-market-fit). I developed my skill and understanding of strategic positioning and messaging through participation in the company's brand strategy meetings with its top team and our external branding consultant, known for her previous work at Regis McKenna, Inc.Some of the product development/management related frameworks that I utilized included The Lean Start-up, Customer Development, the Jobs-to-be-done framework, and the Business Model Canvas.

As an associate at PwC I assessed governance and controls effectiveness and design and delivered risk management advisory services to clients related to Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPPA compliance. My work environments included M&A, IPO, system integration, and compliance remediation across businesses ranging from Fortune 50 companies to smaller private clients.As an intern at PwC I assessed controls effectiveness and design and helped deliver risk management and project assurance advisory services to clients related to cyber security and threat and vulnerability management.In this role I drew heavily from my education in information systems and developed practical competence in client-engagement communication and management, project management, risk ranking/prioritization and annualized cost of risk in decision making, how an audit is structured to reflect risk likelihood and impact in its procedures and how governance and controls frameworks are implemented in systems and process design in order to ensure repeatable, high-quality outcomes.(Intern Jun-Dec 2010; Associate Jul 2011- Jan 2012)