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Plano, Texas, US

Toyota Connected North America leads the development of Toyota’s cloud-based digital Connected Mobility Intelligence Platform. We are a company primarily made up of software engineers, data scientists, and designers who have a passion for driving innovation in mobility, safety, and convenience services.Based in Plano, Texas, Toyota Connected is leading the.

St Louis, Missouri, US

SureCam by Intelligent Telematics is the leading provider of SaaS / connected camera solutions to the fleet, road transport and insurance sectors in the US and the United Kingdom. The company is responsible for launching the first 3G vehicle camera in the UK and has since introduced the only solution currently available that delivers both integrated driver.

Chicago, IL, US

• Third Eye Health is a start-up national Telehealth company providing high quality remote and bedside medical care to acute, post-acute, and senior care organizations. Provided all aspects of finance leadership.
• Series A funding ($7.25m venture capital raise), provided all financial due diligence leadership for capital raise.
• Developed five year detailed strategic financial plan with integrated financial statements
• Worked closely with current investors, Board of Directors and with potential investors
• Implemented financial controls including month end close process, fixed asset cleanup and rolling weekly 13-week cash flow forecast review.
• Developed monthly financial reporting package and KPI reporting.

• The Colibri Group provides learning solutions to licensed professionals who strive to be among the best in their fields. Through four leading brands - McKissock, Real Estate Express, The Institute for Luxury Home.
• Developed and led the company’s three year strategic planning process
• Created and implemented an Activity Based Costing performance view for more rigorous investment assessment
• Doubled revenues (from $30m to $65m) and valuation in two years through organic and acquisition growth.
• Supported the finance efforts related to the target and integration of a strategic acquisition.
• Developed and communicated our monthly reporting financial packages to the senior leadership team and the Board of Directors.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US

• Senior strategic financial partner supporting the Chief Marketing Officer, the Corporate Strategy & Business Development Officer as well as the Chief Customer Experience Officer. This also included our incubation teams.
• Provided the financial leadership for the successful launch of an Online Channel presence. (www.hibu.com)
• Held the position of CFO for eCommerce Software division (Znode) within the company - set up proper accounting processes and controls to support its growth and provide for the tracking of development costs.
• Drove the financials of the launch of a new corporate global branding campaign which included the purchase of media and creative support ($30m+ campaign).
• Launched a newly formed Channels organization to drive a new Go-To-Market strategy for the company.
• Provided all financial aspects to support the launch of an online eMarketplace.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led the financial month end close and planning process to support $130M OPEX and 1,000 global headcount for the Global Procurement Organization.
• Coordinated the Month End Actuals/Forecast consolidated as well as the Annual Budgeting of HP's Corporate Admin Group (+$2B in annual OPEX).
• Managed the ongoing financial structure of the organization.
• Provided monthly and ad-hoc reporting updates to HP's Chief Administrative Officer and other Senior Leadership
• Direct monthly activities of three globally located individuals to support actuals as well as FP&A reporting activities
• Created an integrated database/reporting system to consolidate actuals and planning inputs - involved system integration and standardization of processes across a dozen organizations (improved forecast accuracy to.

Houston, Texas, US

• Created communication documents summarizing key indicators for SVP presentation to HP Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
• Developed databases to summarize WW financials and customer pipeline summaries.
• Developed and coordinated a Global IPG Enterprise interim reporting solution - worked with teams in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
• WW GEB Sales Ops team lead on multiple pan-HP Enterprise Data Warehouse initiatives.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led out the North America and Latin America month-end close, narratives, short-term and long-term planning rollups for consumer IPG group. This included extensive mix, contribution and gross margin analysis (including.
• Managed monthly Consumer Channel price protection process.
• Developed Summary Financial Reporting database - removing extreme complexity of reporting and analysis.

Houston, Texas, US

• Created and managed the market and dealer pricing process and forums for the IPG US Commercial Business to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements (over $2B in annual gross revenues).
• Partnered with the Marketing organization to facilitate inventory management through pricing / programs.
• Determined short-term and long-term profitability for various pricing proposals (run-rate pricing, new product introductions, and EOL/Rollover management) and made recommendations to management.
• Analyzed and recommended go-to-market strategies in order to maximize sell thru and profit.
• Business Lead /Core-team member for US in the development of a global intranet-based pricing and planning system.

Houston, Texas, US

• Managed the duties and development of five IM team members.
• Developed logic and process to improve Collections reporting - reduced time-to-complete from 4 days to 1 hour.
• Developed tool to improve collections. Integrated two different data sources to identify customer-specific information and sync it with existing receivable exposure
• Developed logic, tool and process to integrate information from credit division, sales force and controllership database to provide current risk exposure and improve data integrity. Resulted in over $500k in annual.
• Led project to develop specs for development of Forecast Tool to predict portfolio runoff and revenue levels.
• Developed and delivered seminars on financial topics / Contract Structures / Advanced Excel skills to IM team to other groups within HP Tech Finance.

Houston, Texas, US

• Assisted in the implementation of a HPFS world-wide funds transfer/ALM profitability tool (member of core-team)
• Assisted in the analysis and initial implementation of a corporate-level asset securitization program
• Partnered with Legal and Marketing to fulfill Request for Proposals (pricing and contract structure)
• Information Management Steering Committee member - represented Financial Services controllership on world-wide implementation of major financial and technological initiatives and policies.
• Assisted in the development of monthly financial statements and monthly, quarterly and annual forecasts.
• Big Deal Team Leader - Led the project to develop a Big Deal Team to facilitate pricing and booking of complex deal structures. Synchronized the tasks of Accounting, Legal, Sales, Business Development, & Finance.

Norwalk, CT, US

• Managed approximately $100M portfolio (asset-based loans) made of up thirteen investments with credit exposure in US and Canada - customer-base concentrated in manufacturing and distributing.
• Underwrote multiple acquisitions. Activities included: detailed analysis of projected synergies, developing projected financial statements and pro-forma capital structures; calculation of anticipated ROI; extensive.
• Prepared and analyzed detailed actual versus projected financial performance reports for multiple investments and provided extensive feedback to senior management..
• Completed several training courses including Loan Documentation & Green Belt Quality Training (Six-Sigma/Quality).

Managed approximately $450MM of assets (cash flow-based loans) consisting of U.S. Fortune 1000 companies (transaction sizes range from $5MM~$100MM). Duties included comprehensive financial analysis, legal and pricing negotiations and syndication activities.

Assessed credit and collateral risk of middle-market companies for secured revolving facilitiesFunctions included intensive client contact, disbursement of funds, accounts receivable and inventory reconciliation, review of financial statements, receivable agings

Mba, Accounting

Bba, Finance