• Developed, produced, packaged, and distributed award winning ciders.• Presented the cidery business plan to city leaders and managers to ensure compliance with municipal code.• Proposed and acquired the first liquor license for a cidery/winery in Evanston, IL, historical home of the temperance movement.• Engineered a low-volume, cost-effective packaging process to produce high quality bottled and canned cider.• Partnered with orchardists in Southwestern Michigan to make specialized apple juice blends for ciders.• Created a marketing plan focused on social media engagement.• Sold cider to local bars, restaurants, independent retailers, and individuals.• Built and maintained an extensive database of customers for marketing purposes.• Planned and held wide range of events at cidery tap room catering to various customer interests.• Educated customers on the history, styles, and production of cider.• Maintained financials for planning, budgeting and tax preparation.• Navigated changing government processes and filed various required regulatory disclosures.

• Manage Fitch’s non-public corporate rating product portfolio including private ratings and credit opinions.• Advise credit committees on rating implications of unique leveraged finance capital structures.• Provide insight to asset managers with direct lending programs on potential rating outcomes for proposed transactions.• Evaluate CLO fund managers’ credit analysis methodologies for Fitch’s Fund and Asset Management group which is used as input in the Structured Group’s CLO ratings.• Author Fitch’s annual US Corporate Outlook.• Contribute to and coordinate Fitch’s Leveraged Finance research including the “Annual Manual” which is Fitch’s most read research product.• Produce credit opinions on leveraged loans for Fitch’s Structured Credit group.• Supervise junior analysts as they prepare content for reports and presentations.• Interview and participate in the selection of candidates for junior analyst positions.

• Managed project finances for a $250 million, ~50 person engagement with Hawaiian Telcom.• Oversaw a project which developed maintenance scheduling software for Time Warner Telecom (TWTC).• Discussed daily status of an IT-based integrated service delivery system with the TWTC CEO and CIO.• Contributed telecomm process expertise to a successful proposal for a $10 million project at TWTC.• Led a team of 4 based in London and Amsterdam which developed a service delivery workflow system.