• Assist in new launches by researching state and local tax laws, communicating state and local tax laws to the launch teams, providing operational support and working with the engineers to implement tax rules and tax rates• Manage global ASC 450 positions for all non-CIT taxes including VAT, Sales Tax, withholding, and payroll by providing analysis, reviewing memos, maintaining a rollforward schedule, and reconciling balances to the GL• Contribute to IPO readiness by building global indirect tax controls and processes, working with global teams to build reconciliation and flux analysis into their models, and build reports for global tax reporting • Manage indirect tax compliance projects and audits related to sales tax, VAT, gross receipts tax and property tax by providing timelines, preparing and reviewing work papers, and providing indirect tax accruals• Manage sales tax and property tax audits and inquiries by responding to IDR’s, reviewing audit deliverables, corresponding with the auditors, and considering ASC 450 reserves• Project global tax expense for direct and indirect taxes by building cash tax forecasting models• Contribute to the tax provision by reviewing a management to entity forecast model, layering in transfer pricing, preparing foreign provision packages and providing return to provision analysis

• Provide tax analysis for uncertain positions in accordance with ASC 450. • Work with internal audit to increase efficiencies and reduce risk through building controls that are in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley• Assist in new launches by communicating state and local tax ordinances to the launch teams, by providing operational support and by working with the engineers to implement tax rules and tax rates• Manage compliance projects and audits by providing timelines, by preparing and reviewing work papers, and by coaching team members

• Collaborate with the finance and accounting teams to prepare accounting models that demonstrate future tax benefits for the company’s S-1 filing • Improve efficiency and risk management by implementing process controls that mine data and automate the reporting for the company’s international and domestic indirect taxes• Contribute to financial planning by building tax related forecasting models related to indirect tax liabilities and income tax liabilities and by conducting variance analysis between forecasted and actual tax liabilities. • Oversee and manage all tax issues related to energy tax credits, transactions and indirect tax filings

•Increase traffic and communications by executing social medial strategies through raising awareness and interacting with customers via outlets like Twitter and Facebook•Increased website visibility by executing search engine optimization strategies through including popular keywords within the landing page•Contribute to a better user experience by designing website features that are efficient and intuitive•Consult on product usability and experience by testing products and providing recommendations to the developers

• Coordinated project by working with the client on project scope, timeline and resources • Developed market positioning of the performance guarantee model through analyzing market data, creating client surveys, building perceptual maps and segmenting the market.• Mitigated risk of the performance guarantee model though building models that determined the appropriate pricing structure and the appropriate benchmarks for their client

• Decreased product returns by 20% through the development of marketing collateral designed to promote a more accurate color evaluation method for Polartec’s clients• Drove process improvement by standardizing workflows and creating best practices designed to decrease lead time by 2 days and decrease color related defects• Built forecasting models using regression models to demonstrate the return on investment for new products and projects

• Mined stock option data to build a model that tracked and forecasted stock option expense for 19,000+ Cnet employees based on FAS 123r requirements• Prepared schedules and documented footnotes in anticipation for tax return preparation • Recorded adjusting journal entries to reconcile accounts at month end

• Engaged clients by leading teams of 2 to 5 associates to perform compliance, due diligence, and consulting projects on 30+ clients simultaneously• Performed Due Diligence analyses to assess risk of a target company’s tax documentation for clients that are acquiring or being acquired • Projected tax benefits and liabilities by building models that forecasted key tax accounts• Developed strategies to reduce tax liability of merger or acquisition deals by up to 50% through analyzing business structures and building recommendations on related to streamlining revenue and operations• Identified and researched compliance related products worth up to $30,000 to sell to the client through analyzing the client’s documents, business structures and new tax laws• Prepared and reviewed complex corporate, partnership and individual income tax returns and provisions for Financial Statements • Secured process flows through auditing and recommending process strategies in accordance with Sarbanes Oxley