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Park City, Ut, Us

Park City, Utah, United States

Leading our Data Analytics practice to transform our clients into data driven organizations. Assisting companies in implementing financial, operational, and compliance based analytical programs to meet and achieve business goals.Services we've performed on behalf of our clients include:Analytics Strategy Development – Identify the questions the organization needs to answer, partnering with key stakeholders, business case presentations, and analytic tool selection.Data Preparation – Understand and evaluate the cleanliness and completeness of client data. Develop an efficient, repeatable process to extract, transform, and load data to keep the organization’s data accurate and up to date.Exploration – Identify trends, outliers, and clusters within existing data sets to drive additional revenue, decrease costs, and manage compliance risk.Visualization and Presentation – Develop charts, dashboards, and other visualizations to deliver insights and tell the story behind data within tools such as Domo and Tableau.Data Governance – Define and implement data standards, policies, and processes to ensure data quality and consistent usage.

Reported to CEO. Was key driver of annual strategic planning process and Board of Directors’ meetings, company operating plan, defining company’s strategic go-forward process. Identified and executed upon additional revenue drivers for company through strategic partnerships, increasing sales and brand awareness. Led efforts to increase product margins.Responsibilities/Achievements included:• Business development lead – Lead business development efforts to identify, target and pitch potential partners. Developed financial models on expected revenues and profits of partnerships. Coordination of digital, social, in-store, and co-branded marketing efforts.• Strategic driver – Formulated and harvested of strategic questions for annual Board of Directors meeting, Operating Plan, and annual strategic drivers. Through joint efforts with Executive team, crafted responses and go-forward strategy for in-room BoD presentations. Alongside CEO, developed pre-read materials around evolution of business strategy and alignment to company’s strategic pillars. • Lowered product costs by executing SKU rationalization exercise to identify and terminate low selling and high materialization products.

Was responsible for overall coordination, reporting and stability of multiple cross-functional IT-related projects. Established and implemented portfolio, program, and project management processes and methodologies for the IT community to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards, meet customer expectations and generate a positive return on investment. Was responsible for tracking key milestones and adjusting plans and resources to meet the needs of customers. Partnered with senior management of the business and IT to identify and prioritize opportunities for utilizing IT to achieve company goals. Achievements included:• Saved forecasted $1.1 million by partnering with warranty and customer service teams to redesign product return and customer self-service processes. • Lowered costs by changing IT budgeting process to include ROI and other key factors for executive prioritization and decision-making. • Avoided additional FTE hires by automating manual processes.

Park City, Utah

Developed financial models for analyzing sales revenue, cost of goods sold, and forecasted growth by categories (channel, product, and geography). Created business intelligence through dashboards and financial reporting tools (e.g., SAP EPM, etc.). Developed and delivered presentations providing recommendations on short- and long-term technology investment and ROI for Board and Executive Committee. Managed diverse, successful projects. Achievements included:• Increased sales team efficiency by implementing and enhancing B2B online sales tool. • Developed executive dashboard of KPIs (sales by product family and customer, COGS, margin analysis, etc.) by leading team to evaluate data sources, presentation, etc.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led international teams consisting of 25 consultants on multiple projects to enhance/implement business processes, policy management, resource planning, and strategic development. Achievements included:• Increased client revenue by analyzing software renewal program to identify and capture lost revenue opportunities for two Fortune 50 software providers.• Gained regulatory approval to increase annual revenue by analyzing commodity pricing and overhead costs for publicly traded utility.• Mitigated future financial risks by leading project to implement tracking software for managing pipeline asset and integrity records for publicly traded utility. • Reduced non-compliance fines 25% by implementing Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance program for multi-billion dollar healthcare provider.• Grew firm revenue by analyzing client ROI/ benefits, developing contract negotiation strategies, and closing deals.• Achieved client appropriate level of financial and operational control by identifying, developing, and implementing key controls related to SOX assessments and SOC reports.

San Francisco Bay Area

Portland, Oregon Area

Executive Mba

Computer Science/Mathematics, Mathematics And Computer Science