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Seattle, Washington, United States

• Direct and oversee start-up operations.• Financials and budget planning• Establish company objectives• Human resource and recruiting• Sales and Marketing• Technology and innovations

Everett, Wa

• Analyzed and reviewed budget to actual costs. • Worked with operations to review budget overages per study milestone. • Addressed variances and issues that impacted cash flow and cost allocation. • Provided ad-hoc and financial reports to Operations Management. • System Administrator for ERP Microsoft Dynamics AX.• Cost Analysis and labor cost management.• Capital Expenditure Projects.• Government billing.• Fixed Assets.• Per Diem cost allocations.• Project Manager for finance related process improvements.Accomplishments: Improved cash flow by changing receivables’ process to ensure timely invoicing, negotiated payment terms and discounts with vendors and standardized contracts to include a 50% deposit. Created cost allocation systems to identify true direct and indirect costs to create more accurate estimates for higher profit margins and better data for cost analysis. Created dashboards and reports to monitor costs pulling data from different systems by creating a data warehouse – which also enabled different departments to create their own ad-hoc reports.

Everett, Washington, United States

(Acquired by Altasciences) Analyzed and reviewed budget to actual variances on projects. Worked with operations to review budget overages per study milestone. Addressed issues that impacted cash flow and allocation. Provided adhoc and financial reports to Operations Management. System Administrator for ERP Microsoft Dynamics AX.Accomplishments: Negotiated payment terms and discounts with vendors. This resulted in an annual savings of $100M+ and increased our payment cycle from 30 to 45 and 60 days (Varied by vendor).

Bothell, Wa

I co-founded a Nonprofit Organization by creating the organization’s mission statement, articles of incorporation, completing and filing for the 501(c)3 designation, recruited board members, chaired meetings and met with school districts to present our program. Worked with schools to help with their fundraising for programs and recruited and worked with volunteers (Teachers and Parents) to promote the program. Ensured that sound bookkeeping and accounting procedures were followed.Accomplishment: We were able to fund several programs affected by budget cuts in different schools.

Bothell, Washington

• Managed projects to improve labor, accuracy, efficiency and save logistics costs.• Improved work flow process and created metrics and benchmarks for continuous improvements.• Managed and created procedures and training documents.• Developed reports for ad hoc and automated tracking for labor and time analysis.• Managed freight payment processing and Project Manager of freight payment system conversion.• Order Management: Managed East, South and Western region sales orders.Accomplishments: Received Six Sigma certification. Headed a project that changed the manufacturing planning process to reduce freight costs. Within six months of completing the project, Philips realized a savings of $400M. As a result, the new process was leveraged in different product lines, which produced an additional annual savings of over $1MM.

Fontana, California

I provided consulting services for Supply Chain Organizations.• Managed start up projects from planning to operations of new distribution centers.• Created client surveys and presented recommendations to Leadership.• Designed dashboards, reports and identified crucial data points for target monitoring.• P&L review to find anomalies and provided recommendations to improve margin and cash flow.• Evaluated staffing to identify training or certification requirements.• Created policies for Finance, Operations and Technology.• Led process improvement projects from mapping of current process, working with subject matter experts and stakeholders to come up with solutions.

Ontario, California

• Managed and Directed start-ups, mergers and acquisitions.• Directed Inventory control program of regional and major accounts nationwide.• Process improvement and development for protocols and procedures.• Audited administration records and conducted customer surveys to sustain excellence.• Recruited, trained and mentored Customer Service and Operations Managers.• Assisted with region’s P&L, budgets, forecasts, report development and metrics.• Reviewed overall performance and service levels for improvement.• Headed cost saving initiatives and continuous improvement projects.• Established procedures to align with each customer’s business model.• Designed Software for Warehouse Management, Cross docks and Supply Chain Systems.• Analyzed business models to develop performance benchmarks.• Designed and created databases for analytics and on-demand information.• Reviewed work flow, reducing labor, increasing efficiency and accuracy.Accomplishments: Established inventory policies that allowed our accuracy to be at 100% maintaining $0 claims cost for 7 consecutive years at 5 distribution centers. Was instrumental in growing the region from 1 warehouse at 65M sq. ft. to 5 warehouses, 2 deconsolidation centers and 1 cross dock totaling over 1.5 MM sq. ft. by being the start-up manager for every new client and facility. Oversaw all warehouse management systems implementation. Created software for deconsolidation and distribution, saving our client $1MM+ per year and saving NFI $350M yearly in labor cost. Created dashboards to provide visibility of all transactions to clients, different centers and corporate office, which reduced touch points for data retrieval and report creating. Oversaw all annual physical inventories for Western, Southwest and Midwest Regions. Implemented a mapping process for the deconsolidation center, reducing labor costs and increasing efficiency and accuracy.

Fine Arts

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