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Highland, Utah, United States

Lehi, Utah, United States

Commodity Complexity: Manage Product Group Complexity team. Deliver commodity and offer optimization. Maintain governance across marketing, procurement, design, and engineering to align on approved level of offer complexity for the coming generation of Dell products.Client BMS: Develop and provide tools for the monitoring and planning of Dell's client business, in turn helping drive profitable and successful strategies, meet business performance goals, and make informed business decisions.

Round Rock, Texas, United States

Lead global team to drive profitability of Consumer products.(1) Develop and track annual operational profitability targets.(2) Host regional semi-annual profitability workshops with GMs and teams.(3) Align product group and sales leadership on key initiatives and priorities for premium products.

Drive global alignment of the Dell consumer product catalog.(1) Prioritize Gaming and Vostro catalogue to manage global complexity.(2) Guide development of new planning tools and drive adoption from core teams and PLMs.(3) Drive premium product growth through testing/approving pilot program for online functionality.

Coordinate integration activities for the largest technology merger in history. (1) Prioritize integration decisions and escalate to appropriate executive forum.(2) Prepare monthly integration updates for Dell | EMC combined Executive Leadership Team.(3) Guide x-functional collaboration to ensure proper separation between Dell and EMC in China.(4) Develop “graduation” criteria and processes to transition functions back into the business.

Developed growth, GTM, and operational improvement strategies for the Enterprise business.(1) Worked closely with regional sales, product groups, and corporate functions.(2) Re-structured channel partner incentives to drive growth.

Led Corporate FP&A Acquisition team and owned Opex reporting/forecasting for all major corporate functions, working with ELT members to set/track cost-out targets for Legal, HR, Strategy/Corp Dev, Security and Finance.

Stoddard Award Recipient2013 CFA Level II CandidateSilver Fund Member: Team lead of ZionsDirect fixed income accountGraduate Finance Association: VP of CommunicationBloomberg Certified: Equity, Fixed Income, FX, and Commodity EssentialsGMAT: 700, Marriott School of Management Scholarship recipientTeaching Assistant: Investments (BUSM410), Money and Banking (MANEC453)

Supported Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis team with Opex analysis and development of RIO metrics to track success of historical and future Opex investments.

Led online display advertising team for entire client base.

Managed day-to-day business processes and generated new clients for website design, search engine optimization, and search engine marketing services.

Provided feedback on business plans and pro-forma financials to business founders.Facilitated meetings with angel investors for entrepreneurs seeking seed capital.

Mba, Finance

Activities and Societies: Silver Fund, Graduate Finance Association

Bachelor Of Arts, Korean Major / Business Management Minor