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Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Technology Finance supporting Infrastructure, Data, Architecture and Divestitures

Mooresville, Nc, Us

Supporting Merchandise, Marketing, Ecommerce, Customer Applications, Omni Channel & Competitive Intelligence

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

- Leads the analysis and reporting of global vendor spend across regions, projects and operating companies- Collaborates with cross functional teams, such as IT, procurement, tax, external vendors and partners- Provides finance leadership and decisions during annual business planning process and quarterly updates- Manages forecasting planning, latest thinking processes, in addition to monthly and quarterly closing activities- Leads the forecast and analysis process of foreign currency exposure to enter into hedge contracts accordingly- Lends support to compliance activities to ensure adherence to SOX, WWP’s and internal policies and procedures- Identifies innovative solutions to improve processes and develop analytics to drive informed business decisions- Leverages data analytics/BI tools to provide transparency to IT and Finance leadership across the organization, i.e. Apptio - TBM Studio

Juno Beach, Fl, Us

Assists in execution of the Corporate and NextEra PGD business processes.Responsible for O&M and capital budget preparation and reporting, cash flow management, and financial analysis & reporting for the site.Plans, schedules, communicates, and coordinates the annual budgeting process, the monthly re-forecasts, and month end close for the site, and ensuring that all transactions are in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. May be responsible for overseeing indicator reporting preparation.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Collaborate on daily basis with project managers to drive integrity and completeness of functional projects, programs and deliverables, partner with senior delivery owner and delivery team covering pivotal Federal contracts and coordinate with EMC’s bundled offerings• Forecast customer and business project requirements utilizing resource burn rates, monitor “at risk” work• Aligned Pivotal model numbers to correct delivery organization to properly recognize revenue, following GAAP and SOX guidelines• Identified Federal purchase orders to re-scope, realign partner resources to minimize spend while increasing margin and P/L• Utilized partner Northrop Grumman’s invoicing system to track Pivotal hours as they relate to IRS and CFTC Key Accomplishments:• Reduced Partner spend 27% on Federal engagements by requiring customer signoff on employee timecardsSpecial Project: Pivotal Services @ EMC, EMC Corporation, Federal Resource Onboarding,November 2014 – Present• Onboarded partners for Federal customers, tracking partner spend to increase purchase order compliance and increase margin• Sponsored Partner Time Entry-As-A-Service team limiting partner cost, reduced Federal Partner cost

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Pivotal/EMC provides agile consulting services expertise designed to enable organizations to store, analyze and take action on ‘Big Data’ – datasets so large they break traditional IT infrastructures • Conduct trend/root cause analysis and document business case to present high level management reports, and implement EMC revenue recognition as it applies to long term contracts with focus on tracking non-standard agreements (Walter Reed)• Capture best practices and lessons learned following each quarter close to feed continuous improvements in process and tools• Provide functional area strategic technical insight, while noting if any apprehensions on current/future system integrations• Interface with internal and external sources to support day to day processing synergy• Ensure from onset that system business requirements are appropriately defined and scope clearly stated in Master Service Agreement Key Accomplishment:• Decreased unbilled revenue by converting troublesome projects from Time & Materials to Event Based, triggering automatic invoices

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Created mission, vision and methodology for E2E development, implementation and steady state program deliverables• Created new software structure in PROPEL R3 (SAP) to provide greater level of consistency across products• Began process to convert Oracle 11i/R12 and SSC Configurator translation tables to output new consistent SAP quotes• Utilized Install Base analytics and SYR reporting for VNX Family, Connectrix, and XtremIO products cost savings initiativeKey Accomplishment:• Enabled EMC to match quote, sales order, licenses, invoice and install base for proper revenue recognition and customer support • Special Project: Cost Savings Initiative, End-to-End Process, EMC Corp. – Sponsored by Kathie Lyons June 2014• Analyzed inaccurate data from past year to identify new product, upgrade and refresh opportunities to support added remote connectivity• Performed analysis of software mismatches between SYR and install base for customer installable products• Presented calculated costs due to inaccurate/missing data to senior management to request funding for new product registration application

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Participated with cross-functional Program Management Team through a seven-phase product lifecycleImplemented program lifecycle guidelines and program management practices to improve business readiness• Negotiated with key PMT stakeholders in implementation of EMC product lifecycle tools (HELM and Regatta)• Planned and coordinated resources to deliver products to market in cross-functional management environmentSpecial Project: Competitive Analysis and Differentiation for Current Flash Market, Flash Products and Technologies, EMC Corporation, July 2012• Provided independent research to compile competitive analysis and differentiation reports of the Flash market, presented to SMEs• Performed competitive analysis using research regarding software offerings in DAS and NAS products

Bs. Business Administration And Economics, Finance Concentration

High School Diploma, College Prep. Courses