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Saint Paul

Stride Group offers professional services to the Twin Cities area and specializes in FP&A, Sales, Marketing and Decision Model development.

Twin Cities, Minnesota

I specialize in data modeling, sales enablement, FP&A and all manner of support and expertise connecting those entities with the rest of the business. I add value to organizations by translating the stories that data is telling us into actionable and human readable insights.

Minneapolis, Mn

• Envision, plan, design and execute multi-national commission model. • Automate data feeds from separate business units into consolidated reporting processes.• Mediate and arbitrate sensitive personnel situations and strategies.• Rationalize and communicate company needs in clear and concise terms.• Build highly repeatable and customizable analysis models to forecast impact of plan design changes.

Minneapolis, Mn

• Led venture capital raise project seeking initial institutional raise for 100 person SaaS technology firm. Managed relationships with the broker as well as potential partners, scheduling, research projects, collaborative processes and presentations.• Led annual budget process; design, departmental collaboration, forecasting, automated financial statements and review mechanisms.• Developed sales metrics database and reporting to produce KPIs and the basis for sales forecasting methodology.• Produced dynamic forecasting to incorporate budgeting and sales metrics processes already established. This forecasting was the basis for venture capital presentations and investor meetings.• Designed sales commissions and compensation structure to incorporate sales metrics database, thereby increasing inter-departmental communication and goal alignment.• Designed long-term equity incentive plan for employees, ensuring that employees share in equity growth of the firm.

Minneapolis, Mn

• Created and managed initiative reporting as part of consulting team present at national grocery retailers.• Created and maintained SQL server database as part of an ad pricing consultation designed to better segment grocery advertising to customers.• Managed daily relationships with customers as well as managed internal team of interns and consultants.• Supported category management team with reporting and data management, process automation and client communications.• Prepared presentation data, analysis and reporting for national industry conventions and project initiatives.

Mendota Heights, Mn

• Designed zero-based budget process to incorporate KPIs as drivers for cost areas as well as to feed statistical reporting. Gathered and organized cost and statistical information from departments into central data warehouse.• Built market profitability models off of statistical reporting, influencing routing and scheduling decisions and consolidating market performance information for internal use.• Developed charter flight pricing model to penetrate government and private charter sectors, achieving a #2 volume ranking in the domestic military charter market in the program’s second year.• Developed monthly budget variance reports to incorporate feedback from department heads into forward looking projections.

Audited a major class-action lawsuitVerified and investigated account discrepanciesReviewed financial statements and legal documents

Communicated with Company contacts regarding proxy results and voting patternsCollected data specific to companiesManaged up to 70 accounts simultaneously