• Led financial strategy and budget development: Spearheaded the development of comprehensive budgets and cash flows for multiple profit and loss accounts, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and compliance with governmental accounting standards.• Enhanced financial efficiency: Streamlined monthly and yearly closing processes, transitioning from an inconsistent quarterly closing interval to a more efficient and accurate monthly closing, improving financial reporting precision.• Optimized purchasing and administrative functions: Oversaw and optimized purchasing and administrative functions, fostering cost-effectiveness and operational efficiency within the organization.• Strategic financial analysis and reporting: Tracked, updated, and analyzed budgets and cash flows at regular intervals, providing actionable insights to the executive team for informed decision-making.• Maximized tax credit opportunities: Collaborated with external accounting firm on the Employee Retention Credit (ERC), researching IRS documents and successfully increasing the credit by 60%, demonstrating a proactive approach to financial optimization.

• Led ERP selection and implementation: Spearheaded the successful selection and implementation of the ERP system, overseeing the creation of chart of accounts, profit and loss templates, income statement template, and cash flow templates, optimizing financial processes.• Strategic cash management: Tightened and improved cash management practices, resulting in a 29-fold increase in interest earned, simultaneously reducing overall risk. Implemented an investment structure to further capitalize on excess reserves.• Accounts Receivable optimization: Drove a remarkable 67% decrease in accounts receivable within a single year, enhancing cash flow and reducing outstanding payments.• Budget oversight and variance analysis: Developed and tracked budgets, conducting monthly reporting on budget variances, providing proactive financial insights for decision-making and resource allocation.• Sales tax mitigation: Collaborated with customers and state-appointed sales tax auditors, successfully reducing sales tax consequences by an impressive 87%, showcasing meticulous attention to compliance and cost reduction.• Efficient barcode system implementation: Improved quality and precision by implementing a cost-effective barcode system for receiving and retail sales, enhancing operational efficiency and accuracy.• Personnel management: Oversaw accounts receivable and accounts payable personnel, ensuring streamlined and efficient financial operations.• Excel proficiency: Utilized advanced Excel skills in developing quoting models and pivot tables for data summarization and presentation, contributing to data-driven decision-making processes.

• Cultivated strategic partnerships: Initiated and nurtured relationships with key prospects, increasing the sales pipeline.• Strategic market analysis: Analyzed market, economic, and political data to forecast stock and bond movements nationally and internationally, enabling the identification of investment opportunities.• Financial advisory excellence: Advised clients and companies in the strategic management of investment portfolios exceeding millions of dollars, delivering an average annual return that outperformed market indices.• Excel-driven optimization: Leveraged advanced Excel skills to proficiently track portfolios, implement timely buy/sell triggers, and develop investment algorithms.

• Worked as part of a team of professors to ensure the department goals and objectives were met• Developed multiple PowerPoint presentations on a weekly basis to effectively communicate the detailed principles of Macroeconomics, a 200 level course, to over 50 students• Selected textbook and created a comprehensive syllabus for the course within two weeks of being hired.• Facilitated the learning process by meeting the students in one-on-one meetings, phone discussions, and email to answer questions

• Developed Cost and Pricing Model, an Excel-based tool incorporating extensive macros and complex formulas, and integrated changes to keep up with the changing environment and competitive landscape • Won key designs totaling $20M in annual revenue ($500M annual revenue company) by relationship building and strategic pricing during a one-year assignment in Europe• Won 4 key accounts by tracking competitors and markets, identifying advantages of AMIS products• Won 7 starts for $12M in annual revenue—40% of US Mixed-Signal Design starts by developing pricing that optimized revenue and development schedules • Obtained global experience by work and travel, visiting customer in 16 countries across North America, Asia, and Europe (including a 1.5yr stint in Munich) • Project manager for several key design projects across international design centers, fabs, packaging and test facilities in different countries• Program management across multiple countries• 6+ years quoting ASICs with customer negotiation • Coordinated efforts of cross-functional teams to resolve customer problems (development, production, supply, etc.) • Developed and marketed AMIS cutting-edge gate array family through extensive market and competitive research