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New York, Ny, Us

New York

New York, New York

Recruited to lead the $400M financial organization that is spread across 5 continents, with responsibility for budgeting, planning & analysis and operations. Hired into a new role with the purpose of modernizing financial planning processes by designing and implementing long-term forecasting and data-based decision methodologies, developing revenue diversification strategies, improving incentives, and providing leadership of strategic financial planning. Promoted to Senior Associate Dean to develop and implement comprehensive data modeling and business intelligence reporting. Report to Vice Dean with 8 direct reports.

Berkeley, California

Served as the CAO of the School of Public Health and acted as the primary decision-maker for administrative and financial matters with responsibility for academic and staff human resources, IT, facilities, operations and finance; partnered with academic leaders to develop, model, and implement financial strategic plans; analyzed, prepared, approved, and monitored annual operating budget of approximately $100M; oversaw through subordinate staff the development and implementation of administrative and curricular policies and procedures. Recruited in 2014 as CFO with a mandate to identify, evaluate, and implement new models for revenue generation, cost control, resource allocation, and operational processing. Promoted to CAO in 2016. Reported to Dean with 12 direct and 50 indirect reports.

Berkeley, Ca

Responsible for the financial operations of the School of Public Health.

Berkeley, California

Architect and founding member of new campus-wide shared services administrative unit. Role matured from implementation Project Manager with $21M budget responsible for financial process improvement and funding model to operational Finance Director accountable to make all financial and infrastructure decisions in $75M unit. Initially attracted to UC Berkeley over more traditional finance roles because of the entrepreneurial challenge of implementing a project unprecedented in scope and scale in a shared-governance higher education environment. Reported to Ops Manager of Campus Shared Services with 3 direct reports.

New York, New York

Hired into the highly selective Summer Associate Program (5% of applicants received internship offers) from a non-core school by networking with alumni. Functioned as a fully-contributing member of the advisory team with regular staffing assignments, client coverage responsibility, analyst supervision, and investor contact duties. Staffed 12 pitches and 5 live deals.

Modesto, California

Recruited into a newly-formed Operational Finance Consulting Group to lead cross-functional teams to identify and capitalize on new P&L opportunities across manufacturing, IT, human resources, and international and domestic sales and marketing; used lean six sigma methodologies to make significant financial contributions and out-earned the other 24 consultants by $12M. Promoted to Senior Operations Lead at E&J Distillers with accountability for 24-hour manufacturing and logistics operation after 18 months of experience in winery operations; charged with strategic and tactical P&L ownership of an $8M budget accountable to Plant Manager. Selected to be 1 of 10 for the Leadership Development Intern Program from high school; upon graduation, was 1 of 4 interns hired full-time and earned the first-ever promotion from Intern to Operations Lead.

Modesto, California

Operations leader inside Brandy bottling operations

Modesto, California

Operations leader inside Wine bottling operations

Ba, Economics

Activities and Societies: Economics Club, Theta Delta Chi

Mba, Finance & Accounting, Honors

Activities and Societies: FMA (Financial Management Association), UNCorkedBeta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, Goldman Sachs Scholar