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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Junior Achievement of Central Texas is a non-profit dedicated to helping students from elementary through high school learn basic business, entrepreneurship and financial skills. ► Taught the JA "It's My Business" Class - which teaches students about entrepreneurship over 6 weeks - to a class of 8th grade students at Canyon Vista Middle School.

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WebMD is the leading provider of health related content on the Internet for both consumers and professionals. ► Led the sales planning and compensation process, working with the CFO, president, and senior sales management to analyze prior years sales and produce a detailed sales plan for the next plan year.-- Targets rolled up in excess of $500mm.-- Oversaw creation and distribution of plans to 130+ sales executives. ► Implemented a company-wide probability based sales forecasting methodology as well as changes to sales pipeline management that drastically increased the predictability of sales in a given period. ► Established a daily sales reporting package for senior management that analyzed the sales pipeline against recent trends and became the basis for all sales related discussions among the executive team. ► Reviewed pricing with sales management on large, multi-million dollar strategic sponsorships and made recommendations on pricing and related terms to the executive team for upcoming renewals.

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► Overhauled pricing, yield, and ad impression utilization reporting on media programs, which lead to greater visibility, reporting accuracy, and predictability on pricing and sell-through metrics. ► Highlighted discrepancies between our media rate card and actual pricing methodologies and worked with the CFO and product marketing to implement changes to the rate card that contributed to a 40% year-over-year growth in media sales. ► Developed an ad impression utilization model that accurately predicted sell-through and gave management enough lead time to get ahead of inventory constraints. ► Established or improved upon existing reporting by identifying and addressing information gaps in the following areas: -- Sales, revenue, expenses, accounts receivable, and deferred revenue-- Program Delivery-- Pricing and yield-- Commissions and sales productivity

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► Established the reporting and analytics team within the finance group.► Managed three analysts in reviewing the various information systems and departmental spreadsheets, identifying gaps and opportunities for improved reporting, and creating one source of truth for all business segments. ► Worked with internal resources and outside consultants to build a comprehensive finance data warehouse. ► Implemented Cognos 8.4 reporting toolset to improve our reporting capabilities. ► Eliminated an error prone, Excel based sales compensation process by leveraging existing applications to create a more streamlined system.-- Reduced processing errors and complaints by over 80%.-- Decreased processing time from two weeks to three days.-- Provided additional visibility and reporting capabilities.

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► Led integration of accounting and financial data from various systems and spreadsheets into new system during the implementation of Microsoft Great Plains. ► Managed and prioritized financial system enhancement projects that included the design and implementation new features as well as fixing existing issues/bugs. ► Responsible for all expense components of annual budgeting process.

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► Executed a detailed expense analysis ahead of the WebMD IPO that was utilized in carve-out of financial information from parent entity. ► Analyzed expense trends between business units budget versus forecasts, and collaborated with business unit heads to validate budget, control expenses, and accurately forecast future periods. ► Performed financial modeling of new products and services to identify key pricing, performance metrics, and incremental expenses to provide senior leadership a clear forecast for revenue projections and costs.

On Deck Circle was an 8500 square foot, family oriented batting cage facility located in Cedar Park, TX.

BigBoard Entertainment's core product, TVBigBoard, is a consumer destination that delivers an enhanced TV-viewing experience. Developed with the extremely loyal TV fanatic in mind, TVBigBoard allows viewers to bet 'BigBoard Bucks' on the outcomes, plot twists and character developments of their favorite TV shows.

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► Conducted a weekly revenue forecast process by collecting inputs from accounting and sales, analyzing data, and providing reporting to management with key issues and concerns. ► Created a weekly KPI dashboard with metrics from all key business functions that was utilized by the executive team in their weekly meetings. ► Implemented new sales order form to streamline the communication between finance, billing, sales, and ad operations.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business/Managerial Economics (With Honors)

High School