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Westlake, Texas, US

Westlake, Texas, US

• Full ownership of data analytics strategy, platform architecture, interdepartmental KPI dashboards and reporting, and client facing reporting products.
• Stood up a centralized data platform in less than 1 year with multiple data sources, ETL processes, cloud and website embedded dashboards and dynamic reporting through Power BI.
• Built the company’s Salesforce platform in less than 3 months with modules for CRM, Client Support, and implementation tracking.
• Program management and development of the company’s first OEM client implementation project plan with scheduling, automated progress tracking, and SOW contract support.
• Data science and predictive modeling such as time series forecasting transaction volume, natural language processing, sentiment, and word phrase cluster analysis of customer surveys and text messages, and computer.

Fort Myers, FL, US

• Department manager responsible for all new client implementations and internal and external corporate projects.
• Program management of 30+ 3 to 6 month implementation projects. Reduced the schedule 50% through standardization and automation.
• Leadership of 8 direct reporting Analysts/Project Managers working remote throughout the US and EU and numerous project dependent indirect reports.
• Business development support though sales presentation and development of new product offerings.
• Member of Leadership Team and Technology and Operations Steering Committees.

Morristown, New Jersey, US

• Reporting to the Director of Global Logistics, Business intelligence, analytics, and database architecture consulting for a Fortune 500 leader in business telecommunications.
• Database development for transportation and supply chain expense reporting and rolling forecasts. Remodeling and automation of corporate reporting.
• Analytics support and consultation for major cost reduction initiatives including global warehouse location, carrier and lane selection, and price negotiation.

Fort Myers, FL, US

• Designed and owned corporate oversight and strategic growth initiatives through the development of interdepartmental KPIs and KPI driven projects focused on performance improvement.
• Completed 2 large scale stalled corporate programs (Platform Consolidation and Data Integrity) with company-wide indirect resources in less than 1 year after taking over.
• Successfully upgraded hardware and software for 20 client data servers with limited impact to operations thanks to thorough planning and a focused all-hands execution.

Fort Myers, FL, US

• Reporting to the CFO, Financial analysis, annual budgets, performance management, database design, and development of automated financial and operations reporting solutions.
• Numerous revenue producing and cost saving models including price optimization, client profitability, payroll efficiency, industry and market analysis.
• Merger and acquisitions modelling, pro-forma analysis, goodwill impairment, audit support and automation.

Miami, FL, US

• Reporting to the CFO, Financial analysis, annual budgets, performance measurement, database design, and development of automated financial and operations reporting solutions.
• Flight scheduling optimization, fuel price hedging and surcharge, inventory management, hub/warehouse location analysis, mergers and acquisitions, foreign exchange exposure, payroll efficiency, site profitability.

Miami, Florida, US

• Financial analysis and budgetary oversight for the largest cruise ship ever built, a $2.4bn capital project.
• Expense forecasting, procurement analysis, budget allocation and enforcement for both company and contracted architects/designers, analytics support for all other newbuild and fleet design projects, project management.
• Executive report standardization, development of a consolidated data warehouse, department-wide report automation, tool limiting foreign exchange rate exposure.

Miami, FL, US

• Redesign and process automation for all corporate financial reporting – Annual/quarterly/monthly statements, budget projection models, and audit support.
• Data warehouse development, airport site P&L, fuel surcharge accessorial pricing, payroll tax and benefit budgetary modeling, AR monitoring, AP vendor management.

Zurich, CH

• GAAP and SEC compliant stock portfolio account reconciliation of over $7 billion in assets.
• Automation through converting all accounts to electronic, development of VBA bank/accounting system reconciliation macros, design of data driven account research tools.Projects: Automation strategy – Converted all.

Certificate Of Advanced Graduate Study, Artificial Intelligence

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science, Analytics And Modeling Specialization (Predictive Analytics)

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Hospitality Finance

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics, Computer Science Specialization