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Manage both Royalty Department in Accounting and Contracts Data Management group in Legal. Oversee systems development in both areas. Successfully retired two legacy systems and replaced them.

New York City

Manage staff of 6 responsible for issuing statements and payments to all royalty participants. Responsible for all system development. Oversee royalty accounting.

New York, New York, United States

Responsible for data integrity of Contract and Rights Database System. Served as subject matter expert in system development team.

Designed and built Microsoft Access database as a prototype for a web-based database of international banking, insurance and regulatory information. Converted small architectural firm from a manual to a computerized bookkeeping system using QuickBooks.Built Microsoft Access database for Symphony Space (non-profit arts organization in NYC) to track programmatic, legal and financial data for the Selected Shorts live readings, radio broadcasts and CD releases.

Determined rights and availabilities, per contracts; supervised capture of critical legal and accounting data. Served as interface between business users and IT development team. Proactively identified legal department needs and advocated for new systems and enhancements to existing systems. Improved ability of attorneys to close favorable deals with talent by creating database containing over 3,000 prior deals negotiated both within and outside of company. This allowed attorneys to quickly search for precedent during negotiations. Increased company profitability by creating system for tracking licensing deals which allowed for more complete exploitation of all available intellectual property rights and safeguard against risks of failure to honor outstanding obligations. Led analysis of processes/procedures and developed recommendations for both process and technological improvements. Worked with IT department to determine scope of projects, define user requirements and design new systems. Performed User Acceptance Testing. Facilitated data conversion. Wrote user manuals. Trained users. Supervised ongoing data maintenance and integrity efforts. Provided ad hoc reports through Access queries of database. Worked on development and enhancement of the following systems: o Rights and Availability Managemento Option Trackingo Turnaround Trackingo Check Request Trackingo Deal and Contract Tracking and document managemento Talent Quote Trackingo TV Accounts Receivable Systemo Music Contracts Trackingo Merchandising Deal Tracking

Developed international product release schedules. Coordinated quarterly approval process for all international releases: designed reports, reviewed schedules, corrected title P&L’s submitted by subsidiaries and consolidated results. Produced quarterly forecast of lifetime profitability of major titles. Consolidated monthly analysis of forecast vs. actual results for management review. Supervised 1 analyst. Oversaw design and maintenance of departmental databases. Served as liaison to IT department for company-wide product data system.

Coordinated successful implementation of new computer billing system. Designed new report. Served as liaison to user groups. Conducted bank-wide training sessions. Wrote user handbook.

Duties included: sales forecasting, cash flow projections, profitability analysis, database design and maintenance.

Mba, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society

A.B., Economics

Activities and Societies: Hasty Pudding Theatricals