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AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By stitching together advances in Cloud, Automation, Operations, Security and DevOps, we help clients deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

• Managed and defined pricing and packaging strategy for portfolio of enterprise SaaS and professional services offerings.
• Established frameworks and methodologies for pricing decisions, proposals and activities across initiatives including revenue growth, margins, customer acquisitions, retention and expansions and market penetration.
• Supported technical sales team to conduct financial analysis and modeling of ROI and TCO concepts to justify business cases during pre-sales process to win customer business.
• Managed and supported AdvantEdge’s VAR model across Sales, Go-to Market, Product, Legal, Ops, Delivery and Customer Success.
• Assisted in the management of the entire product lifecycle, from strategic planning to working product execution.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Provide support, analysis and insights to $150MM corporate project portfolio.
• Ran a project effort that included designing a new enterprise-wide project financial model (PFM) that established more efficient and effective ways to evaluate, compare and administer project investment opportunities.
• Built strategic cross-functional partnerships to advance the organization’s goal to bring greater transparency to project health and performance through a new BPM tool and developing new solutions to capture project.
• Deliver on-going financial management support to a business area going through large scale operating model changes that included; benefit modeling, future-state operating projections and resource modeling.
• Partner with multiple business units in building out annual and multi-year business and financial plans that align with corporate strategic goals and objectives.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Develop product operating cost models that assist in the pricing of insurance products to ensure financialmargin goals are met.
• Prepare, analyze and present health insurance benchmarking results to executive staff so that managementcan make informed decisions to improve respective business unit and product line performance.
• Assist prospective business ventures and projects by providing relevant top-line and bottom-line financialinformation for senior management review.
• Develop rates (overhead, fixed and variable) used to build ‘operational cost of business’ assumption scenariosfor commercial and government contract divisions.
• Work with multiple operational units in creating budget plan that aligns with corporate strategic goals andinitiatives.
• Execute monthly cost allocations for large multi-line business, while ensuring costs are distributed accuratelybased on appropriate business line support consumption.

Bba, Accounting, Management, International Business

Accounting