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Portland, OR, US

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Seattle, WA, US

Portland, OR, US

Program Management Director for IT projects, professional services, and recruiting value streams.

Seattle, WA, US

• ERP Data System Deployment Lead during the client's Workday Financials Implementation.Key Projects:
• Resource Planning: Owner & Architect of the interim IT Headcount reconciliation process during the Workday Transition. Impact: Provided resource visibility to the CIO during system transitions, enabling active.
• Risk Register: Established a risk register and mitigation tracking process during the workday transition. Impact: Risk items were documented and assessed for severity + likelihood of impacts with mitigation efforts.
• Budget Option Analysis: Architected a budget turnaround playbook in the midst of a system transition and corporate reorganization to address cost challenges and execute the three prime corporate initiatives. Impact.

Hillsboro, Oregon, US

• Key driver of the technology turnaround initiative with ownership of creating + delivering the proposals/messaging to the CEO, CFO and executive staff. Owner of building, presenting and implementing the strategic long.
• Project owner and program manager for the cloud-based core revenue system implementation to replace a legacy structure that was running without source code. Impact: Stabilized, SOX compliant system
• Influenced the Executive Leadership Team to fund information security and advanced revenue analytics projects to capture key customer designs and optimize margins. Impact: $400m/year revenue opportunity
• Owner and influencer for the overall Technology budget. Successfully influenced Accounting to revise capitalization policy based on industry data and GAAP guidelines. Impact: Funded turnaround within budget
• Influenced a changed paradigm of capital cost recognition across the Finance organization to absorb project costs as deployable fixed assets and accurately amortize Technology costs across the useful life of team.
• Key driver of process improvement & simplification across the Technology landscape to dramatically reduce technical risk and rapidly deliver needed information to business customers. Impact: Process improvement aligned.

Portland, Oregon, US

Instructor for Finance Information Systems & Analytics in Master of Finance program>Emphasis on the SAP data suite>Organization of Data for Performance and Usability>Extraction & Cleansing of Data>Usage of Data & Analytics for Managerial Decision Making

Santa Clara, California, US

• Provided leadership throughout core FP&A processes through corporate planning. Managed an organization of 6 direct reports, 2 matrix reports, and 1 consultant along with multiple business partners as a cohesive team..
• Stepped-in to lead a severely distressed revenue system implementation by leveraging knowledge acquired in the central revenue & pricing team. Impact: Revenue processes successfully migrated to SAP
• Built and deployed systematic algorithms to automate manual Forex forecast processes with higher accuracy, which influenced >5k hours per year of efficiencies. Impact: >$250k of time cost savings
• Spearheaded multiple initiatives to align and optimize data flows across systems within BPC and HANA databases while reducing technical debt and optimizing performance. Impact: Corp processes moved off excel
• Played a leadership role in FP&A, P&L, and forex consolidations to build earnings guidance for corporate planning and data quality for external reporting. Impact: Removed the need for multiple manual data checks
• Directed the development, deployment, and continuous improvement of SAP to enable new data views and processes while driving data quality, efficiency and accountability. Impact: Eliminated errors from manual data

Santa Clara, California, US

• Driver of roadmap decisions based on the enterprise-wide impacts to market share, cost structure, brand segmentation, pricing, and manufacturing capacity. Regularly formulated revenue & pricing analysis using expected.
• Played a key role in multiple branding decisions (Core i3/i5/i7 and Pentium/Celeron) that increased value from brand-price segmentation and prevented a material collapse in brand price points. Revenue Impact: >$5B
• Influenced key Core i3/i5/i7 distributor price segmentation decisions to extract value from superior product performance while maintaining brand stack continuity. Revenue Impact: $1.5B Upside
• Influenced multiple cash optimal pricing decisions through knowledge of cost accounting. Business Impact: Prevented >$500M of Revenue Erosion
• Analysis of financial risks and benefits from business initiatives. Impact: “Playbook” of strategic options

Santa Clara, California, US

• Strategic Analysis – Performed detailed strategic analysis of Microsoft, Google, and Open Source Software vendors based on deep analysis of the 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K to extract business intelligence
• Dynamic Prioritization – Designed methodologies for prioritizing software enabling activities, based on a composite score of key characteristics of the project and the target market area
• Data-Based Influencing – Use of data-based analysis to influence investment prioritization in China, software vendor enabling prioritization, and return on investment for software enabling

Santa Clara, California, US

• Cost Optimization – Led the cost reduction committee to drive down unit cost through vendor negotiations, competitive benchmarking and strategic sourcing of parts. Results: >$2M/yr of savings
• Profitability Analysis – Leader of unit margin analysis & optimization initiatives to prioritize engineering and marketing initiatives.
• Inventory Management & Optimization – Reduced inventory reserves and raw materials inventory exposure through weekly monitoring of demand volumes and by driving a physical count of inventory after a system transition.

Washington, DC, US

• Squad Leader – Responsible for skill development and deployment readiness

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Organizational Leadership

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.) - Finance, Accounting And Finance