• Serve as a team member of MITRE’s Corporate Finance function responsible for managing $400M+ in indirect expenses• Partner with two SVPs and Directors by regularly monitoring financial performance to ensure their ability to reach yearly objectives and alignment to the enterprise’s planned wrap rate• Lead function’s FP&A activities by building business intelligence and forecasting tools. Artifacts include a centralized (labor) capacity model and a universal budget template used to breakout committed vs. uncommitted costs that collectively foster proactive cost containment practices• Redefine function’s monthly business review standard by centralizing the production of “core” content to better focus on solving problem areas, establishing process improvements, and streamlining cost efficiency. Core content includes P&L snapshots, FY Forecast and FTE walks, risks and opportunities, and “flash” variance analyses

The Urban Institute is a Washington D.C.-based think tank that carries out economic and social policy research to "open minds, shape decisions, and offer solutions".• Lead Urban’s finance department with financial analysis, forecasting, creation of key performance indicators (KPIs), and general institute-wide analytics• Serve executive leadership by providing strategic support through analysis of current trends, historical data, and KPIs to forecast Urban’s capacity for success• Host monthly “metrics to manage” meetings with executive leadership which presents and evaluates performance indicators to help shape Urban’s overall business strategy• Prepare $130M annual institutional budget by regularly monitoring performance across Urban’s research and operations functions• Oversee budget procedures for Urban’s research and operations functions. Research center forecasting activities include estimating revenue on direct (funded) projects, staff labor base, researcher utilization rates, and spending on indirect (unfunded) projects. Operations department forecasting activities include estimating staff labor base, and necessary non-personnel costs• Partner with research and operations leaders by developing tailored KPIs and routinely discussing performance across each metric to assess financial health and identify emerging issues• Co-manage Urban’s discretionary budget with the Business Strategy team• Prepare all financial materials for presentation to Urban’s bi-annual board meetings• Manage Urban’s bi-weekly, monthly, and quarterly dashboard and reporting processes including endowments, budget variances, allocations, labor, utilization, project tracking, pipeline, and other metrics reports as needed• Build and maintain ad-hoc financial models and analytic tools • Produce Urban’s Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA) submission to the Federal Government

Supported country platforms in Asia and Eastern Europe to ensure highest levels of financial management by monitoring country program and regional performance against the Annual Operating Budget (AOB) and donor budgets

Facilitated Mary Baldwin University's search for an Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO)

Provided support for staff members of the Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program (OWIP) with various initiatives pertaining to DOE’s Better Buildings Challenge (BBC)

Developed Southwest Windpower's FY2011 annual operating budget

Supported a department-wide initiative to standardize budgetary financial reporting to allow for optimal analysis by managers and senior executives

Taught English and mentored Thai students at Wat Sra Kaew, a rural orphanage outside the city of Ayutthaya