Accomplished operations and finance leader across large commercial entities with a successful track record in residential real estate, financial services, and professional development. As an entrepreneur, led the growth and the ultimate sale of a start-up to a private equity firm. A strong background in business and technology transformation, strategic initiatives, and operations across organizations. Solid foundation in accounting and finance, including managing budgets and personnel. Extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, both on the due diligence side and in leading successful integrations post-transaction.FINANCIAL LEADERSHIPLed cost cutting efforts throughout 2022, including negotiating more favorable leases, renegotiating vendor agreements, cutting unneeded services and conducting an energy audit leading to a 13% annual budget reduction for 2023.BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMATIONLed the Accounting and Finance team, working with another brokerage, on a regionalization of the accounting and finance functions, incorporating technological changes and transitioning to a new general ledger system and commission processing system, which, in addition to creating tangible efficiencies, enabled the introduction of a new agent health and wealth benefit system, a project I rolled out across the company.APPLYING TECHNOLOGY     Created online product for Anywhere/Realogy using a smartphone to facilitate all interaction between agent and USAA via the USAA website, mobile app, or mobile website. Provided USAA members with a way to select their agent as opposed to being assigned one, which reduced the delays the offline processes created, increased USAA member satisfaction significantly, and decreased member decision time by 40%.M&A (DUE DILIGENCE & INTEGRATION)Led process for targeting, vetting, due diligence, financial analysis, and communication for potential mergers, both pre-purchase due diligence and executing on the post-merger integration.