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Managed an engagement portfolio generating $7M in annual revenue across 4 federal agencies with a staff of 35 consultants.Representative functional areas included:Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) implementation, reporting operations and internal controlsData integration and custom application developmentRobotic Process Automation and data visualization / financial business intelligenceFunctional, business process, and information management support for the CFO officeGrants management and post-award monitoring

Managed a combined team of over 20 consultants across 4 contract engagements at a Department-level and a CFO Act agency. Broad specializations included: Financial and grants management and reportingInformation managementData cleansing, remediation and governanceDatabase application development and SDLCCommunication and change management

Led the development of 16 custom financial reports to support the deployment of a next-generation grant payment system at a CFO Act agency. These reports were critical to the daily payment processing and reconciliation of over $6B of annual grant expenditures and provided valuable analytics for grants monitoring and intra-agency reporting.

Financial management and information systems support at a CFO Act agency.Data cleanup technical lead responsible for reducing scope of conversion for future financial accounting system implementation. Directed the agency-wide execution of data cleansing activities with division leaders, system administrators and operations staff to prepare for financial system modernization.Synthesized project results into dashboard metrics to report to SES-level management. Provided status of activities to federal project management team on a weekly and ad-hoc basis. Compiled and presented analyses of complex enterprise-wide data issues to senior federal management to guide executive decision making. Provided internal audit advisory and support for FISMA and OMB Circular A-123.

Financial IT support and custom application development at a civilian federal agency.Managed the software development life cycle of a externally facing revenue collection system which facilitated roughly $300M of annual regulatory fees. Delivered 7 successful releases containing over 25 software change requests that automated complex manual financial workflows, increased efficiency, corrected defects and reduced manual processing costs for the client. Automated a highly manual external revenue collection effort into a external web-based application, eliminating the need to print and mail 3,900 paper bills totaling $162M. Provided advisory and subject matter expertise to implementation and conversion teams for Momentum Financials implementation.Managed the reconciliation of annual regulatory fee collection among disparate systems.

Assisted with the generation of quarterly market analytics and forecasting reports for publishing to over 10,000 subscribers. Managed broker contracts and maintained client portfolios and relationships.

Mba

Bs With University Honors