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Austin, Texas, United States

I strategically addressed market gaps by identifying incentive program waste within automotive OEMs, leading a cross-functional team to innovate and deliver effective solutions. Currently, I am driving enhancements to our core SaaS offering, catering to the growing demand for enterprise-level business intelligence in the evolving automotive dealership.

Detroit

Managing the development of an Electric Vehicle Insights Platform (EViP). This multifaceted platform addresses challenges such as range anxiety and vehicle-to-home | vehicle-to-grid integration.Lead analyst growing GM adjacency businesses through the design, development, and deployment of KPI metrics, reporting suites, and data-driven marketing campaigns..

Greater Detroit Area

Portfolio Planning Analyst responsible for building procedures to automate key performance indicator reporting and for developing machine learned Bayesian networks to support portfolio optimization.

Greater Detroit Area

Lead data scientist developing feature selection methods (mutual information classification) and predictive statistical models (KNN, GP) to estimate concept vehicles’ potential market acceptance and success using primary research data.Market researcher conducting primary clinic research (qualitative and quantitative) for two concept vehicles.

Detroit

Chevrolet Brand Insights Analyst leading research and implementation of the best measure of new vehicle shopping behavior related to path to purchase funnel measures.Identified and operationalized alternative source of online shopping data resulting in an annual cost savings of $120+ thousand.

Greater Detroit Area

Senior Systems Analyst leading the development and implementation of Department of Defense enterprise information system, Virtual Contracting Enterprise (VCE).Identified and reallocated $12 billion in misallocated expenditures to the correct Project Management Office (PMO) and reported findings to ACC Headquarters.Selected as one of four senior analysts.

Greater Detroit Area

Lead Procurement Analyst constructing and analyzing performance metrics. Conducted studies on management and procurement issues and advised senior directors on the best courses of action.Implemented risk mitigation strategy (Carter Better Buying Initiatives) that shifted taxpayer dollars to lower risk contracts resulting in a 19% ($105 million) increase in.

Greater Detroit Area

Cost and Price Analyst for $6 billion Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBTC) supporting the primary weapons system in Iraq and Afghanistan. Analyzed critical elements of contractor proposals to ensure fair and reasonable expenditure of taxpayer funds without undermining Army objectives.Negotiated $31 million in emergency production activities and achieved an.

Greater Detroit Area

Contract Specialist for the Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBTC) responsible for developing effective contractual instruments that adheres to Federal Acquisition Regulations and serves the interest of both taxpayers and soldiers Drafted $13.4 million contract proposal to initiate Phase II of the Stryker Systems Integration Laboratory (SIL).Successfully.

Greater Detroit Area

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) policy expert in the Acquisition Process Management Division drafting local policies to implement ARRA in the military procurement process.Drafted the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Private Security Contract Report, under the direction of Senator Carl Levin, to inform SASC of relevant information.

Pittsfield, Massachusetts Area

Center of Excellence team was established as the central point for standardized BI reporting and portfolio strategy development.We successfully developed the official product catalog of specialty grades, which was used for global performance tracking and for sales commission awards.

Pittsfield, Massachusetts Area

The Financial Controller Office oversaw intra-company payment processes and administration of the global account reconciliation program.Leading a global team of seven finance managers, I eliminated a $300 thousand intra-company account balance, minimized exchange rate exposure through timely contract execution, and managed month-end closeout.

Pittsfield, Massachusetts Area

As the Lead Financial Analyst for the Cycolac, Geloy, Petrochemicals product line, I headed efforts to reduce financial reporting costs and to develop cash cost models that allowed business leaders to assess the extent to which variable costs could be leveraged to realized incremental material production.

Pittsfield, Massachusetts Area

Commercial Center of Excellence (CoE) led the development of a sales pipeline application designed to increase managerial visibility of commercial sales and to mitigate inconsistencies in target reporting. In this role, I developed novel BI tools and partnered with global IT to develop production ready BI applications.

Mt. Vernon, Indiana

Plant Finance was responsible for measuring, predicting, and controlling utility costs. In this role, we spearheaded a project to determine the baseline utility costs of the Lexan production facility, with a focus on electricity usage. We developed regression models to understand the drivers of utility costs and deployed these models for use in FP&A cost.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

The Business Focused Audit Team (BFAT) led moderate to high risk and complexity audits of operational processes to ensure compliance and to drive process efficiencies. In May 2004, BFAT audited the Cottage Grove production facility, where I led the fixed asset and capital expenditure audit.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Business Analytics

Activities and Societies: State News Board of Directors

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Finance, General