Family office for the Bernstein family, invests in a combination of public and private equity, venture, credit, and real estate investments.

Investment Intern at a family investment office with a focus on venture capital, private equity, and real estate opportunities.

Angel Investment Syndicate of Carnegie Mellon Alumni that invest in Carnegie Mellon Founders.Onboard new investors and potential portfolio companies.Coordinate and support due diligence efforts. Manage investment commitments and initiate the release of funds to portfolio companies.

Responsible for the management of enterprise-wide Restructuring and Strategic initiatives worth $335M in EBITDA savings. Present to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team monthly. Provide visibility to investor relations, corporate finance, and frontline finance to facilitate consistency in internal and external reporting.Drive Working Capital improvement initiatives by focusing on complexity reduction in payment terms.Instill an analytics driven process within the organization that identifies and promotes areas that produce the most value while minimizing unnecessary complexity. Educate priority Business Lines within the firm. Define key metrics to evaluate progress. Lead forums that facilitate best practice sharing.

Set the structure and governance; provided training for synergy saving execution and realization for the enterprise. Managed global portfolio of merger driven savings; exceeded target and delivered $210M in savings.Developed the Transition Service Agreements Office for entanglements not separated prior to spinoff. Educated stakeholders. Worked cross-functionally to identify and apply costs to service agreements.

Promoted into Tenneco’s Integration Management Office. Assisted the merger of Federal-Mogul & Tenneco and facilitated the divestiture of the corporation into two independent automotive suppliers. Deployed to the Corporate Finance team to lead the synergy execution and disentanglement activities.Delivered $20M in merger-driven EBITDA savings. Synergy initiatives included vendor and contract consolidation, headcount rationalization, and deployment of shared service centers.

Standard Cost roll forward. Analysis of standard costs, bills of materials and part routings in order to ensure our rates are accurate and up to date.Coordinated the quotation of new business with engineering and management teams. Provided standard costing and pricing integral to the acquisition of new business.Analysis of obsolete, excess and nonconforming material in order to reserve accordingly to limit financial risk.

Awarded a position in Federal-Mogul’s Management Rotational Program. 4 year manufacturing oriented program targeted towards high potential early career candidates.Inventory management analysis. Investigated parts with high propensity for inventory write-ups/write-downs. Worked with a cross functional team to determined root causes and established controls to limit inventory variance from month to month.Analysis of scrap reporting metrics and techniques aimed at identifying areas where scrap is most likely to occur and prevention methods.Key contributor to forecast, budget, standard costing, and customer dispute resolution.

Investigated questionable payments that arrived throughout the summer. Played an integral role in the due diligence and acceptance of payments worth $1,950,000.Investigated how F-M locations globally invoice partner customers.Surveyed existing contracts with credit risk reporting resources. Reduced the total number and cost of global contracts.Reviewed less than $250 write-offs, analyzed the data, and created a report detailing the root causes for specific deduction categories. Quantified the amount written-off.Created a database for all information pertaining to buying group members including contact information and standard buying group payment terms.Assisted in vendor compliance regarding disputed shipment fines.

Investigated the accounts payable process of the Juarez DC to determine why invoices were being paid late to F-M suppliers. Developed corrective measures and preventative steps which decreased the amount of past due invoices by 80%.Generate RFQs and purchase products ranging from rivets to connectors for the ANCO wiper arm. Work with engineering to determine design specifics for components.Assist in Conflict Mineral due diligence reporting.Collect data and build team meeting presentations for the department.