David Chen Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Lead the EPM team in Systems Engineering that builds and supports full stack tools for Enterprise Planning activities. We help Finance and other business teams accelerate the use of technology to drive productivity, efficiency, and growth. My team oversees mission-critical Enterprise planning and analytics systems as a public company supporting full-year budgeting, daily/monthly/quarterly forecasting, long range modeling, management reporting, performance measurement, earnings support and many more. In addition, we build and support analytics platforms for Finance, Procurement, Revenue Accounting, and Investor Relations teams. Our systems provide flexible Performance tools and services to enable closed-loop performance management and effective decision making.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Manage and grow a team of application engineers to develop and deliver FP&A products to central FP&A, accounting, and other business units at Amazon. We are the central focal point of all new projects and major enhancements to the FP&A systems. It is our job to make sure every business team we support are highly efficient, scalable, innovative, and moves as fast as Amazon.• Lead and also participated in the development of an end-to-end planning and analytics system for the worldwide advertising team which is one of the fastest growing and profitable business at Amazon. The focus is on providing a solution that is quick and scalable using a mix of best-of-breed technologies that includes third-party software and open source/AWS technology stack.• Lead a team of engineers to develop the next generation of enterprise-wide workforce planning from the ground up while focusing on providing a highly customizable modular system that can accommodate to the different planning needs between the different business units and cost centers within Amazon.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Joined as a trusted senior resource to design and develop next generation central FP&A planning and reporting systems by combining third-party software and open source/AWS technologies. Works in a highly collaborative environment with managers and stakeholders to expand the technical team and standardize the team’s software development processes.• Led business and systems teams to enhance existing corporate facilities allocation processes; product solution focuses on dramatic improvements in performance and customization of allocation based on both individual location and campus level planned headcount.• Key member of the systems team that drives the adoption of new technologies and processes to ensure the team and its solutions are scalable for the future growth of Amazon. Highly involved in the hiring process and the complete hiring cycle to help the team grow in anticipation of the fast growing needs of our businesses.

Led operational planning development team as a contractor, establishing new technology products within the business applications group. Headed research and development of innovative solutions such as Tableau web data connector and custom JavaScript webpages on Rest API. Collaborated with engineering team to develop integration connectors. • In one year’s time, team successfully delivered more than seven highly customized operational planning solutions, positively impacting more than 150 users and streamlining multiple processes.• Played a lead role in the creation of research and development (R&D), and product marketing purchase order tracker; web-based analytics solution for multiple FP&A business unit teams provides easy access to Oracle PO and PR data, allowing for ad-hoc analysis/ look-ups of quarterly historical spending.• Developed a simplistic online tracker that provided better insights related to the outsourced vendor landscape, global budgets/spend, and external headcount trends.• Devised product features that logged changes while allowing users to go back to monthly snapshots; generated a direct connection from Tableau to reports, ensuring consistent real-time data visualization.• Implemented product feature that allowed users to plan for the remainder of the year, building and managing their own business-specific hierarchies.• Generated centralized workflow product for long-range facilities planning that streamlined manual project/financial planning for 50+ worldwide construction projects; solution decreased error rates and shifted staff focus from data gathering to data analysis. • Collaborated to create a web-based product that provided an easy-to-use grid user interface for extended capacity and headcount planning; product provided self-service security, custom scenario naming, and highly specific reports/visualizations for executives.

San Francisco, California, Us

Joined organization as one of two senior engineers on the team tasked to make planning as simple as calling an Uber with the mission to empower Uber to make quick decisions and react to ever-changing market conditions. Developed a comprehensive headcount planning and analysis solution that allows users to plan hiring, transfers, terminations, merit and benefit adjustments, and promotions all in one simple user interface with easy toggle between planning at each individual business unit or at a consolidated level of the organization hierarchy.• Played a key role in global roll out of Uber's 2016 budget product to city managers, corporate headquarters, FP&A department and highest-level executives. • Led team to quickly expand scope of solutions to include operational and financial reporting, analytics, metadata management, and modeling. • Oversaw system best practices and participated in the development of next generation EPM solution that leveraged Uber’s core stack technologies.• Promoted from full time contractor to direct-hire employee based on excellent job performance; unforeseen management changes resulted in restructuring.

Model Simply was founded with the mission to bridge the gap between design and technology. By combining design, innovation, and an understanding of business, Model Simply provides an unique offering. It strives to replace the boring business analytics software and services with fresh ideas - user interface and interactions that are organic for both users and developers alike.• Spearheaded repair of an unusable pricing strategy application that was developed by another consulting company for the business planning team. Led both the business and IT team through many tough months of redesign and redevelopment of the original solution. Successfully deployed new solution to a nationwide audience of more than 50 users in 5 different business units.• Led a team of multiple consultants and internal resources that worked closely with CFO to rapidly convert companywide financial planning process from Excel to IBM Cognos TM1, providing easier consolidation engine and user experience that was much more accurate; reduced overall planning time by 75%. • Completed product transition in only three months; solution included six driver-based modules, five different data sources, and complex gross margin calculations.• Collaborated with the corporate accounting and other business stakeholders to develop thirteen interconnected multi-dimensional cube models; improved and standardized month-end closing processes, reducing close time, improving communication among separate, channel-specific accounting teams, and enhancing accuracy of the accrual/true up/allocation results.

Worldwide, Oo

Performance Management Technology specialist developing solutions to help companies perform back office finance, operational, and marketing functions more efficiently. Focus is on CPM, BI, and Planning applications with data warehouse and dimensional concepts.• Led both US and offshore India team to build an end-to-end cash flow POC to forecast future cash flow and associated metrics - including Days Sales Outstanding, Days Payable Outstanding, Projected Free Cash/Debt, with sensitivity analysis based on multiple currencies and exchange rates.

Provided end to end consulting, architecting, and hands on developing of financial and operational models.• Part of a large team that built corporate-wide financial models for the manufacturing finance team to calculate yield index, fix/variable overhead, amortization, standard revision, and direct labor costs. • Led a team that provided end to end consulting, architecting, and hands on development of Seasonal Pack Planning model to streamline the ops planning of packing vegetables, fruits, and tomato cans.• The solution reduced time needed to develop a monthly seasonal pack plan by half, standardize the pack planning process across business units, and greatly increase accuracy of the result. It also improved the company’s ability to do scenario planning as well as support data requests from cross functional teams while tightly integrates with existing infrastructure.

New York, Ny, Us

Senior consultant with focus on BI, Data Warehouse, ETL, and planning applications

Richardson, Tx, Us

Developed and administered Brio Enterprise BI solution with customized VB frontend for both internal and external clients

Worked with the business to implement specialized offer and bundle frontend screens for customer service agents and sales reps

Mba, Information Technology

Bs, Electrical Engineering