Enjoying the exciting business of container shipping. Seriously, it's interesting, and I get to see the wheels of commerce move first hand.

Financial lead for global resource management projects that drive $100M+ of annual cost savings. Consolidate and analyze results for senior management, provide forecasts of future savings under a variety of project conditions.Develop and maintain long term financial model supporting multiple business lines, and incorporating a variety of factors to forecast revenue and profit over a 10+ year horizon.Financial liaison for IBM Hardware division, tracking and summarizing $500M+ of warranty costs for executive review.Financial plan coordinator, distribute WW budget targets to local geographies, and roll up locally developed plans for executive review.

Provide pricing support for a variety of IBM products, from PC to iSeries enterprise servers. Incorporate technical cost data, financial metrics, and competitive analysis to ensure long term profitability.Responsible for pricing technical support alliances between IBM and other computer hardware manufacturers. Financial support for the cross functional team working on the multibillion dollar sale of IBM’s PC division to Lenovo.

Responsible for recommending a final price point for special bids. Managed transaction pricing process and tools, ensuring pricing team had accurate data and an efficient process to make recommendations. Developed and supported pricing tools for $300M business. Provided programming requirements and testing for mainframe based cost analysis tools. Wrote and supported spreadsheet based pricing tools, as needed.Lead pricer on complex proposals for Business Recovery Services – bid analysis required unique tools to be built when beyond capabilities of standard pricing systems.Wrote pricing processes, developed sales delegation structures and supported ongoing special bid activity.

Administered financial support to segments of the Business Recovery Services unit. Responsible for the generation and presentation of monthly and annual reports to management. Improved process for controlling $25M capital budget, developed a database to track expenditures and provide analysis for management.Provided management with ROI and cash flow analysis for proposed capital spending.Supported cost centers within Business Recovery Services by examining cost structure and identifying opportunities for cost reduction.