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San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

• Supervise and manage the day-to-day operations of a team of business analysts.
• Bridge the gap between non-technical and technical stakeholders by helping senior leadership define their strategy, breaking down and defining their business problems and then working with technical teams to scope out.
• Lead strategic cross-functional initiatives from initiation, planning, execution, through closure.

San Diego, California, United States

• Conduct discovery for new projects through stakeholder interviews, business process analysis, and data analysis in SQL. Gather project requirements, map business processes in MS Visio, collaborate with technical teams.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Support executive decision making by working with cross-functional stakeholders including Technology teams, Finance, and business function leads to gather and validate data and reporting requirements. Subsequently.
• Eliminate manual work within the technology portfolio management team through automation and streamlining of reporting processes. Gather requirements and closely collaborate with the business systems team to implement.
• Ensure compliance with internal project management methodology, internal audit guidelines, and federal oversight requirements through ongoing analysis of project health data including variance analysis.
• Address high volume of day-to-day project management related requests from the technology organization and advise stakeholders on best practices pertaining to changes in scope, schedule, and budget.

Greater Denver Area

• Managed client engagements in the telecommunications sector and coordinated project activities of a team of business analysts and data specialists. Led analysis and research to drive margin improvement and solve.
• Ensured proper elimination of process gaps by working collaboratively with various clients’ cross functional teams to identify the root cause of issues uncovered by audits. Then presented recommendations to clients.
• Created visibility into project performance by creating and maintaining operational metrics in MS Excel that measure the effectiveness of audits activities and client interactions.

Greater Denver Area

• Reduced financial losses of clients through business process analysis, analysis of large data sets in SQL, and contractual audits to identify services operating at a net loss.
• Facilitated resolution of identified issues by driving communication among various departments to amend billing errors, resolve disputes, and ensure compliance.
• Reinforced key issues with clients during status calls by creating and distributing supporting Tableau dashboards that summarized and conveyed particular risk areas.

Greater New York City Area

• Performed reviews of corporate clients’ businesses, including financial performance, and conducted industry analysis as part of the asset rating and securitization process.
• Prepared monthly investor and rating agency reports in Microsoft Excel to keep clients informed on investment activity and performance.
• Took ownership of creating internal reference documents on the rating process of trade receivables. The documents guided team members in implementing risk controls when structuring commercial paper assets.

Brandenburg Area, Germany

• Compiled a problem set to provide students with exercises.
• Explained and addressed major topics discussed in this course such as financial statements, forecasting, and analysis, the basic mathematics of finance, risk and return in financial markets, valuation of financial.

Berlin Area, Germany

• Analyzed website traffic and marketing effectiveness with Google Analytics.
• Developed search engine optimized contents and built links to other sites to improve the page ranking in Google.
• Provided user feedback to maintain customer loyalty.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, General, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Association Treasurer

Bachelor Of Science, International Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Junior Consultant at Viadrina Student Consulting Group e.V.: Provided training and workshops and technical.