Michael Poon Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

Austin, Texas, US

• VP, Business Systems for FLEX Energy Solutions Division: June 2017 to CurrentCIO of NEXTracker, a FLEX company: July 2015 to June 2017
• Designed the Business Systems architecture to scale NEXTracker
• Architecting and managing the implementation of NetSuite, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce Service Cloud, Salesforce CPQ, Jira Service Desk (on-prem), Confluence, Microsoft Power BI, SpringCM and Mulesoft, Adaptive.
• Managing integration of Energy Solutions IT systems with Flex
• Managing internal use software tools development with 3rd party developers
• Implemented SOX controls over IT systems and financial reporting

San Francisco, CA, US

• Prepared and presented quarterly financial results to the Board of Directors
• Contributed to securing $25 million of funding in Series B round
• Created process for developing and maintaining the Company’s strategic plan
• Created operating plan and budget vs actual process
• Hired, developed, and managed Accounting, Finance, Facilities, Legal, HR and Recruiting departments
• Implemented QuickBooks and Salesforce

San Mateo, CA, US

• Responsible for Finance and Accounting, IT, HR, Recruiting and Facilities departmentsFinance and Accounting:Managing Finance departments for two separate Square Enix business entities: Eidos – Video Game Publishing &.
• Develop and manage the budgets for all games in development for Crystal Dynamics
• Redesigned the book keeping processes, reevaluated the accounting treatments and developed FP&A reporting for both entities.
• Developing a new project costing system for Crystal Dynamics.
• Managed preparation and execution of Fiscal Year End Audits performed by E&Y
• Developing Corporate Financial controls to ensure compliance with J-Sox.

San Mateo, CA, US

• Director of Finance and Operations for two Square Enix subsidiaries Eidos Inc.(Publishing and Distribution arm for North America)
• Royalty Revenue
• Inventory Reserves
• Price Protection Reserves
• Co-op Advertising Reserves
• Marketing

US

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• Senior Associate Assurance PracticePerformed audit and attestation work for a range of public and private clients
• LucasFilms - Lead Senior at LucasArts Division
• MobiTV - Lead Senior for '04, '05 and '06 audit
• Current TV - Cycles performed: Revenue, Account Receivable and Accruals
• Omnivision - Cycles performed: Inventory and 404
• Hyperion Solutions - 404 and Financial Audit

Redwood City, CA, US

• Project Manager / Product Manager / EA.com Online Technology Group
• Developed and maintained requirement specification and product roadmap for EA.com Subscription/Order fulfillment service. This service provided EA product groups the ability to use a centralized order fulfillment.
• Collaborated with EA internal departments and EA satellite companies to develop business rules, internal controls and monitoring systems.
• Responsible for ensuring that the Subscription service adhered to EA Finance business requirements.
• Developed systems and procedures to insure the secure handling and authorization of serial and subscription codes within Electronic Arts.
• Conducted requirement gathering and project status meetings with EA executive staff.

Fremont, California, US

• Mechanical Engineer Level II / Research and Development / Software Engineer
• Led project to design a 300mm Physical Vapor Deposition degas module used in semiconductor manufacturing.
• Developed new hardware and methodology for evaporating water from silicon wafers during Physical Vapor Deposition processing. This new technique was later adopted for previous generation Novellus PVD tools.
• Managed bill of materials and fabrication of prototype designs with third party vendors and machine shops.
• Created Pro Engineer 3d models and mechanical schematics for next generation 300mm water evaporating chamber.
• Supervised hardware and software integration of experimental semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Accounting

Biology

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