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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• As a Senior Tech Project Manager, provide leadership in support of multiple projects running simultaneously, focusing on finance technology oriented initiatives. Lead project kickoff meetings, coordinate and run.
• Expanded my project portfolio beyond finance when becoming the lead Project Manager on multiple enterprise-wide technology initiatives with implementations impacting multiple technology, operations, and business systems
• Lead Project Management efforts on Procure to Pay Optimization, Shipping EDI Integration, and StrongPoint compliance tool implementation projects
• Developed and shared with other Project Managers templates for documenting Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), timelines, and test plans
• Lend my experience and expertise as a functional tester to build validation models for OneSource tax solution implementation during UAT. Testing model allowed end users to validate thousands of invoices using an Excel.
• Provide Project Management support to Retail EDI implementation while the lead IT Project Manager was out on leave. Successfully handed off the project to a permanent Project Manager replacement

Orlando, Florida Area

• As a Financial Systems Manager, provide leadership in support of various projects, including gathering requirements from finance end user partners, leading and coordinating finance testing efforts, resolving issues.
• Act as finance subject matter expert for decision making, next steps related to requirements gathering, and data conversion between systems
• Send weekly project update to senior leadership, IT leadership, and finance partners
• Lead update meetings with finance partners and representatives from parallel project to go over project timeline as well as finance testing efforts
• Communicate key project decisions and work with finance partners for any risk assessment and mitigation strategies
• Provide monthly project update to executive leadership

Orlando, Florida Area

• As a Sr. Financial Analyst, lead finance functional testing efforts for the TRSM (Travel Reservation System Modernization) Project. Coordinated with nine finance partner groups to gather test cases and requirements..
• Lead, organize work, manage deadlines, and train contract testers
• Lead TravelBox demonstrations for testers and finance partners
• Risk mitigation through facilitating daily meetings with internal and finance testers for reviews of testing progress. Discussions around testing timelines, results, risks, and any issues experienced
• Send daily testing updates project stakeholders with testing status, blockers, defects, and concerns
• Develop and create iteration test plan templates to efficiently plan, measure, and report out testing efforts each iteration/test cycle. Used as best practices for other managers

Orlando, Florida Area

• As a Financial Analyst, performed daily confirmations for Disney Cruise Line to reconcile credit card payments and charge-backs to expected bank payment. Performed the monthly DCL credit card account reconciliation..
• Created daily process to accurately identify DCL variances in the credit card clearing account
• Partnered with DCL to decrease the unidentified cumulative variance by 77%
• Reduced redundant data input, built confirmation spreadsheets linking to source data file and variance reports in order to achieve a 25% decrease in FTE for daily bank confirmation process
• Took on additional duties leading the Finance sub team in Credit Card Management as needed

Celebration, FL

• As a contract Accounting Associate, performed daily credit card confirmation for credit card payments and chargebacks to daily bank deposits for the Walt Disney World Resort. Found efficiencies in, and streamlining.
• Converted to permanent role
• Achieved a 20% reduction in FTE required to complete daily confirmation work and added tasks from Sr Financial Analyst

Orlando, Florida Area

Winter Haven, FL

Seattle, WA

North Bend, WA

Seattle, WA

Master'S Degree, Cybersecurity

Ba In Business Administration, Management Information Systems

Ba In Business Administration, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Beta Alpha Psi