Brandon White Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Morrisville, NC, US

In addition to a lot of the below, I'm now working as the offering team manager to make our classic black ThinkPads are as green as possible. Still solving cost problems, and making sure that everyone knows everything they need on cost. Working with a great project team around the world, we have eliminated plastic from our primary packaging, and are.

Morrisville, NC, US

In order to keep the best notebooks (#ThinkPad) and workstations (#ThinkStation) in the world more affordable, I work with engineers, marketing, procurement, and project management teams to ensure that we deliver a product that is balanced in features, build quality, and cost, which translates into lower prices for the customer. This requires negotiation.

Durham, North Carolina, US

Serving as the revenue planner and Finance IT lead, I worked with sales and supply chain groups to ensure that everyone knows our current revenue status by publishing our revenue numbers daily. I updated geography sales leaders, operations executives, and corporate staff on where we stand on revenue, and any open revenue risk I also managed the IT projects.

Morrisville, NC, US

As the cost process expert for the company, I am working with various groups at Lenovo, including our Idea product group, software group, and our services group (among others) to ensure that all of their cost processes work with Lenovo's master cost process. I am also working with pricers around the world and ensuring that they have the information they.

Morrisville, NC, US

I managed the IT Finance forecasting and the capital budgeting teams; my team handled the IT Expense budget (along with a similar department in China, which has now taken part of our mission), as well as all capital assets, and certain major contracts. I had 3 direct reports and a contractor on my team. We managed to beat our budget in 2011-12 and 2012-13.

Morrisville, NC, US

Rolled out profit and pricing tools across both IBM and Lenovo, replacing 2 senior consultants; used by about 150 pricers in 25 countries; tool works seamlessly with all pricing tools IBM and Lenovo use or have used in the last 10 years. This VBA tool had 15,000 lines of code, but performed much faster than both its replacement and its successor.Project.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Despite never having written an Excel macro (I had written some 123 macros), I was asked to develop a worldwide pricing tool that is completely customizable by geography. This tool was in use at both IBM and Lenovo (Lenovo's PC division sunset PriceCalc in the summer of 2013; it was still in place in Lenovo's server group in 2016) by dozens of pricers, and.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Strategic Sales Enablement - ibm.com - worked with IBM's mail order group (partnering with Direct Alliance Corporation) as the profit manager, sales guru, and operations expert for IBM's outbound sales organization. In my first year in the role, sales increased 35%.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Pricing Lead/Manager - Peripherals, Financing, and Services Brand - Reviewed and approved (or denied) all business cases for $2 billion business. Consulted with marketing and development teams (plus my own pricing team) over ways to achieve objectives and increase profit; worked with pricing teams around the world to assist them in increasing profit.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Multiple finance jobs in IBM's PC division:Cost Accountant - responsible for making sure that 4 different brands of machines had correct cost appliedRevenue Accountant/Financial Analyst - responsible for all financial results from IBM's mail order business (running on an AS/400, using JD Edwards software). Responsible for turning off legacy system, and.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Lead Systems Analyst for IBM's accounting center. Automated access control process (eliminated 8 headcount), responsible for closing IBM's ledger for a year (we beat almost every deadline - the accounting manager called the year-end close the most "boring" he had seen after no issues came up), lead accountant for team of 5 accounting folks; worked on.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Programmer on IBM's Sales and Use Tax systems. Worked as team lead of the group for 3 years, managing 2-5 programmers (most of whom had more experience); wrote code in PL/I, COBOL, ReXX, ISPF, and JCL - most without any training; designed and led programming and implementation of large systems (3-5 person year efforts, many running simultaneously) using.

Mba, Business

Bs, Computer Science

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