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Bellevue, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

· Acted as a business partner and thought leader for AWS Sales & Marketing supporting Database, Analytics, and AIML (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning) businesses· Led business cases for initiatives and programs in partnership with sales and marketing, including the investment of resources (headcount coverage) within the organization and sales incentive programs· Frequently queried raw Redshift data sources to aggregate, summarize, and build analyses· Supported annual and quarterly planning cycles with doc writing and narrative building through pulling of facts and data

Seattle, Washington, United States

· Acted as a business partner and thought leader for store development to drive better decision making including standing up new processes for leadership review· Drove development of and maintenance of financial controls for a new business· Served as the main POC and Finance support for the Construction, Design, and PMO organizations within Amazon Fresh to solve complex problems· Supported the planning process for the growth of a new, capital intensive, fast-growing business· Drove optimal capital deployment by prioritizing projects based on enterprise strategy including Just-Walk-Out technology

Seattle, Washington, United States

· Collaborate with category and marketing teams supporting the US licensed stores business to lead quarterly forecast and financial plan processes.· Consult and provide modelling support for new marketing campaigns and category-related initiatives· With the roll-out of Starbucks Connect (our point-of-sale solution shared with licensees), drive prioritization and use of category-level sales data (something we haven't had reliable access to in the licensed space)· Build and support business cases for new product-related initiatives including the transformation of an existing Starbucks platform in our licensed business

Seattle, Washington, United States

· Led a team of 4 partners in owning Starbucks’ reviews of portfolio health in the US and Canada: the process in making decisions on under performing assets, reviews with executive leadership, and strategy related to Urban Markets.· Acted as a thought leader and business partner in working with Store Dev leaders to develop strategies that accelerate trade area transformation in the new post-COVID environment· Evaluated team structure and organize the work as new partners are onboarded and job roles need to change to support the quickly-changing strategic direction post-COVID· Held regular development conversations with partners on my team to continue their journey and provide clarity for scope and expectations in their roles – especially as the work changes rapidly

Greater Seattle Area

· Acted a business partner and thought leader for store development to drive better decision making· Served as the main POC for the Store Dev field organization on the East and West coasts of the US· Supported the planning process for new stores, relocations, expansions, renovations, and closures via annual planning and forecasting by working with field leaders and partners (investment and revenue).· Enhance business partners’ understanding of Store Dev strategy through improved storytelling and thought leadership· Drove optimal capital deployment by prioritizing projects based on enterprise strategy

Greater Seattle Area

· Support the Store Development organization in US & Canada with primary responsibility over new stores, relocations, expansions, and closures.· Support the planning process for new stores, relocations, expansions, and closures via annual planning and forecasting by working with field leaders and partners.· Planned for all capital investment in new store, relocation, and expansion projects including the evaluation of deals relative to key performance thresholds.· Planned for store counts and sales weeks (revenue $ impact) of new store projects· Owned the proforma model Starbucks uses to evaluate new sites for projects in the field (US, Canada, and international markets) by evaluating and updating key financial metric thresholds, usability of the tool, and providing guidance on modelling deals.· Ad hoc modelling exercises in support of the field for decision making on multiple projects in a trade area

Seattle, Wa

· Primary role in support of Starbucks Ecommerce covering US, Amazon, Canada, UK, Germany, and France sites.· Continued Support of Starbucks Digital Ventures and Starbucks Card teams in performance analysis, forecasting, and organizational decision making· Developed new methods of evaluating performance and understanding customers to the online business at Starbucks. · Teamed with Ecommerce team members and marketing channel owners to provide meaningful forecasts for financial costs and benefits of new projects and overall business in alignment with our strategic goals· Managed headcount planning and assisted leaders in organizing teams· Provided meaningful, concise variance analyses for deviations in spending from AOP and forecast.· Created an extensive, granular data model (Power Pivot) to solve for regular high-frequency reporting needs for Mobile Order & Pay business, including understanding the effects of throughput solutions

Seattle, Wa

· Supported Starbucks Digital Ventures and Starbucks Card teams in performance analysis, forecasting, and organizational decision making· Developed the business cases for a variety of projects in the Digital Product space to implement innovative, new technology for Starbucks· Built capital requests based on complex technology requirements and business needs· Teamed with Digital Ventures team members to provide meaningful forecasts for financial costs and benefits of new projects· Managed headcount planning and assisted leaders in organizing teams· Provided meaningful, concise variance analyses for deviations in spending from AOP and forecast.

Bellevue, Wa

· Prepare and present Monthly Business Review package to executive and leadership teams for multiple Boeing IT Infrastructure organizations.· Developed the business case and financial planning of the implementation of Cloud Strategy as the Business Manager of the program. · Accounting pool analyst for Boeing IT service providing analysis of cost and volume to aid in managing the billing rate to IT customers.· Teamed with IT and IT customers to forecast volumes and provide performance analysis to reach a forward pricing rate agreement with the government by understanding the business environment and impacts on spending and demand.· Awarded Value Integrator award for working with a team to develop new tools and solutions to improve IT rate performance and messaging to customers.· Provide meaningful, concise variance analyses for deviations in spending from LRBP.· Coordinate unplanned risks and opportunities to the business with executives and their respective leadership teams for inclusion/exclusion in the 2015 LRBP and throughout the year. Includes working of reduction exercises to meet affordability targets for the company.· Monitor labor charging of supported employees’ regularly for compliance using an intimate understanding of the IT business. Assist in establishing an operating rhythm with customers.· Support IT Infrastructure Tools Consolidation exercise/business case for cost savings of retiring tools used across the enterprise.· Supported a variety of adhoc tasks and special projects including but not limited to participating on the IT Finance Digest team as a writer, establishing an innovation fund for IT Infrastructure, joining the IT Finance Training Steering Team, joining the IT Infrastructure finance fun team, participating in process improvement/Lean+ workshops, and leading a RACI exercise for determining job responsibilities and lean processes for the LRBP.

Seattle, Wa

• Designed agency reports (audits) for combined underwriting and sales effort via interviews and survey results• Analyzed data from underwriting rule firings to determine if the automated underwriting system needs corrections• Presented to executives after collaborating with interns on PEMCO branding and volunteering

Seattle, Wa

• Managed the storage, maintenance, and retrieval of data from Microsoft CRM and Navision• Includes posting of invoices and payments, as well as the running of daily accounts and orders reports• Created reports for financial analyses from data in above programs in conjunction with Excel• Administrative duties including project management and meeting preparation performed on behalf of CEO/Owner

Greater Seattle Area

• Represented sales team for Point Inside Application• Researched and analyzed prospective customer companies’ information • Analyzed and evaluated stadium information for NFL expansion application

Greater Seattle Area

• Provided customer service by advising on sales of video rental and purchasable products• Trained new employees in performing similar tasks