As the Founder & Solutions Partner of Croydin Solutions since 2014, I've turned my passion for data analytics into a mission to empower businesses with clear insights.• Empowering with Power BI & Excel: Tailored training, hands-on workshops, and ongoing support to enhance reporting efficiency and decision-making.• Practical & Engaging Approach: Focused on quick wins, direct application, and making data analytics accessible and enjoyable.• Experienced & Committed: Over 20 years in manufacturing and retail, advocating for automation, efficiency, and a hands-on learning environment.

• Strategic Leadership: Spearhead the development of BlazeBite's comprehensive vision and strategic roadmap, focusing on employing cutting-edge technology to enhance the user experience and streamline concession operations.• Business Alignment: Actively align BlazeBite's business strategy with our robust technical roadmap, ensuring the integration of innovative solutions that meet market demands and drive growth.• Operational Management: Oversee the overall operations and resource management of the company, leading a dedicated team towards excellence and driving the fulfillment of BlazeBite's mission.• Impactful Results: Under my leadership, BlazeBite consistently increases concession stand sales, with over 30% growth. We process more than 25% of total concession sales through our platform, thanks to our user-friendly design and efficient service. We've improved the average order size by 33% and significantly reduced operational stress, allowing concession stands to serve their customers more effectively with fewer staff members.• Community Engagement: Foster strong relationships within the community, earning positive feedback from both users and venues. Our focus on satisfaction has established BlazeBite as a preferred solution, contributing to the growing demand for our services.

• Facilitate the development and execution of the organization's Business Intelligence strategy, ensuring alignment with cross-functional teams to meet business needs and drive improvements.• Serve as the go-to expert and architect for Power BI solutions, designing and implementing advanced analytics tools to enhance business decision-making processes.• Oversee and mentor a team of professionals, fostering a collaborative environment to support staff development and optimize team performance.

• Managed and presented Monthly Management Review packages to the executive leadership team, highlighting key financial results and insights.• Oversaw all daily financial activities at the plant, ensuring smooth and efficient financial operations and compliance.• Developed accurate financial forecasts for site operations and served as the primary support to the VP/GM of the Perry site, contributing to strategic decision-making.

• Spearheaded the development of comprehensive and intuitive financial reports to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency in the manufacturing facility for the leadership team.• Acted as the primary support to the Finance Director, providing critical insights and assistance to facilitate effective financial leadership and management.• Ensured the precision and reliability of financial results, emphasizing accuracy in financial reporting and analysis to support strategic business objectives.

• Responsible for translating existing business data and market research into valuable market and business insights• Uses technology to build solutions that enables better and faster business decisions, allowing the leadership team to manage the business and not the data• Understands and defines business needs, to identify and prioritize requests for new and enhanced reports/metrics• Leads the design, implementation and maintenance of business systems and reports – develops requirements, completes testing and trains users to consume the data and information• Gathers, organizes, and interprets relevant industry, market and customer data translating it into actionable initiatives aimed to drive successful sales and marketing programs

• Strategize the implementation of data visualizations throughout our organization• Design and develop dynamic dashboards that will impact the bottom line (increase sales, cut costs, and increase profitability)• Teach all levels of management how translate data into actionable decisions• Facilitate the development and deployment of Power BI throughout the company• Teach advanced users how to choose the right visualization to tell the right story• Create a global network of power users throughout the organization that can support each other

• Utilized new Microsoft tools which brought efficiency and improved accuracy to companywide reporting.• Globally trained the finance organization on using Power Pivot and Power BI, which included going to China.• Member of the finance training and development team and acted as the tactical training video leader.• Created, produced, and edited dozens of training videos that are used by hundreds of employees.• Provided “right-hand” support for Lubrizol Advanced Materials (LZAM) president, CFO, and global business units in day-to-day assessment of Company’s performance and future outlook.• Coordinated the development and review of LZAM's annual operating plan ($2+ billion annual sales) and quarterly forecasts. • Understood business strategic direction and assisted in goal setting with the Leadership Team.• Provided ''liaison'' support between business unit finance managers, regional finance directors, & corporate finance/accounting. • Interpreted monthly results: researched, understood, and explained variances. • Prepared and coordinated the global business review package for quarterly financial reviews.

• Designed many new dashboards including a new daily sales report that forecasts the end of the month results to help the leadership make better decisions on the business.• Created various models to explain IFTTT(If This Then That) scenarios, including a settlement/opportunity cost model and a simplified NPV model for Electronics.• Coordinated globally with the Financial Analysts, Account Managers and SAP Support to change the reporting structure of the Industrial Market Segment.• Developed an advanced excel training course for finance employees, across all regions, which taught them how to be more effective when creating financial reports. • Performed an international audit with a customer on their optical conduit, which aided in the settlement of a product line.• Worked closely with IT on moving our New Product Reporting out of excel and into the PPMP system, using BOBJ for excel.• Financial Lead on the divestiture of a product line to an external competitor which included setting up royalty accruals and payments.• Standardized all of the reporting for Engineered Polymers, which saved 2 days per month, and improved accuracy.• Responsible for working with the Sales Managers to set-up rebate/commission accruals and payments using SAP.• Supported the annual budgeting and strategic planning processes, financial roll-ups and corresponding deliverables, follow ups and ad hoc analysis as requested.• Completed month-end close activates including the rebate reconciliations, commission payments, preparing market segment reports, global dashboards and uploading financial results to SharePoint.

• Participates in the daily management and leadership of the site which includes the daily loss numbers during MDI.• Revamped all forecasting and annual operating plan files into a user friendly, easy to consolidate template that reduces errors.• Created a system that generates cost center reports which is distributed to each of the managers for better decision making.• Shared best practices and templates with neighboring Avery facilities to synergize efficiencies throughout the company.• Coordinate with the materials manager to conduct a physical inventory two times a year.• Completed month-end close activates including journal entries, account reconciliations, and preparing plant financial statements.• Designed a customized overtime report which gives managers visibility to the amount of overtime in their department.

• Prepared the Roll Material GVP (Group Vice Presidents) Annual Operating Plan by working with the VP’s to understand their planned spending for the year.• Provided monthly financials for the Roll Materials leadership team and any ad-hoc information requested by the VP of Finance.• Partnered with the Roll Material regional finance teams to implement a new rolling forecast beginning in 2011. • Assisted in the creation of the Global Scorecard for CCL Label in salesforce.com. • Developed new HFM templates to retrieve better information more quickly and accurately.• Consolidated the weekly R&O and prepared the Roll Materials Worldwide pulse report for the leadership team.• Aligned with the regional finance teams to update the monthly OGSM Scorecard and Restructuring Tracker.• Ensured accurate classification of GVP expenses and prepared journal entries for month end close.

• Participated in daily, monthly, and year end close processes which included posting journal entries, reconciling accounts, and working with international employees from over 30 different countries to accurately accrue intercompany invoices.• Trained staff on international reporting and monthly accounting responsibilities.• Assisted Controller with system integrations during major acquisitions and divestitures between Linde/BOC/Airgas.• Effectively communicated financial results to management and fellow employees.

• Participated in daily, monthly, and year end close processes which included posting journal entries, reconciling accounts, and working with international employees from over 30 different countries to accurately accrue intercompany invoices.