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Wheaton, Il

Wheaton, Il, Us

Selected Clients• Chicago based Architecture Firm• Chicago based Real Estate Tax FirmRepresentative projects• Designed, developed, and implemented a tool for researching real estate taxes. Significantly reduced the time to process a tax appeal resulting in savings to the company equal to one employee.• Standardized and enhanced a facility assessment tool to track future facility costs for clients of an architecture firm. The tool is customizable for each client and has a sophisticated hierarchy to track the expenses for a building across multiple dimensions. This tool has become an integral part of the planning process with the firm’s clients.• Built dashboards for architecture firm to analyze the future facility costs. The dashboards display the dataset across different dimensions as well as allow the user to drill down to better understand the costs.• Developed and rolled out training to use the facility assessment tool and dashboards at an architecture firm.

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Chicago , Il , Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Head of Financial Operations for the fastest growing segment of Hitachi Consulting. Collaborate with executive global leadership in the Sales, Operations, Finance, IT, and Legal Organizations, representing Americas, Europe and Southeast Asia regions to develop and implement value-added programs and activities to support the growth of the Solutions and Innovations business. Advise, coach, and deliver solutions related to budgeting, sales operations, pricing, IT systems and leadership strategy. • Designed and implemented new Order to Cash process for Global Solutions business. • Identified over $2M in annualized savings through process of driving efficiencies across Global and Regional Solutions teams.• Responsible for consolidating fragmented Marketing and Alliances organizations across regions into a unified global team with a global P&L. Through process identified annual savings of $1M.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Managed the Global Shared Service teams for Project Setup, Billing, Collections and Business Intelligence. Served as liaison between executive leadership and regional business units to drive continual business improvement.Key Accomplishments• Member of global steering committee for Oracle R12 implementation. Team lead for configuration of Projects Module and data migration of client projects for Americas and EMEA. • Accounts Receivable - Drove reduction in DSO by 6 days over 2 year period (14% reduction)• Led effort collaborating with CEO, CFO and SVPs to standardize global Quality Assurance (QA) with gates throughout Sales/Delivery life-cycle.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Responsible for developing and implementing processes to monitor and reduce risk across projects in the Americas. Assumed responsibility for Global Facilities (2011)Summary of Accomplishments: • Spearheaded development of a risk assessment tool calculating a risk rating for projects.• Established multi-tiered QA process to enable appropriate risk mitigation strategy for each project. • Reduced global real estate costs by standardizing processes and performing market studies in collaboration with a global real estate partner.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Operational leader for Midwest Region covering operational areas of budgeting, recruiting, resource management, staffing, subcontractor management, training, and pipeline and project reporting, Summary of Accomplishments: • Instituted a new working capital management process within the Midwest Market which reduced bad debt by 29%. • Implemented a new subcontractor management process which improved gross margin by 24%. • Member of the global integration team which facilitated the transition of senior leadership from newly-acquired businesses to Hitachi Consulting’s systems, policies and procedures.

Focused on building up processes around resource management and forecasting for newly formed company.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for Client and Project Management on Technology focused projects Summary of Accomplishments: • Active participant in team to negotiate and secure a multi-year, multi-million dollar engagement with a key client. • Project Manager for a multi-million dollar e-commerce initiative for a major non-profit organization; application enabled members to quickly/accurately pay membership dues online and transfer funds between multiple associations.

Masters In Business Administration, Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics