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Arlington, Va, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

In my current role, I am responsible for all aspects of financial planning and analysis for the Devices and Services organization, which includes popular products such as the Echo & Alexa, FireTV, Kindle eReaders and Tablets, Ring doorbells and cameras, eero mesh networks and many more. In this role, I support the overall business team and act as liaison to the Corporate finance organization to achieve targets, provide key business insights, and provide financial leadership for the organization. I lead a team of 15 in two locales (Seattle, WA and Arlington, VA).

Seattle, Wa, Us

In this partnership role, I provided finance and business support to the head scientist and SVP of Alexa AI and the VP of Alexa Engine. These organizations were responsible for the development of the Alexa Artificial Intelligence (the "Brain", Natural Language Understanding, and Machine Learning) and the Alexa Engine (Speech Recognition, Text to Speech, Orchestration and Operational Excellence). Provided financial oversight in a rapidly growing organization and highly ambiguous environment.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

As the Global Director of Engineering and Technology Finance, I oversaw the development of budgets, standardized reporting and timelines, and worked with the CTO to prioritize asset and cost allocation to maximize returns for a global engineering organization. Oversight included 5 Strategic Business Units, 2 Centers of Excellence, and a Central Operations organization. In August, 2016, after a significant divisional reorganization, my role was expanded to support three vice presidents (Marketing and Sales in addition to Engineering and Technology).Highlights:- Led a complete, 5-year plan financial analysis to ensure funding within budget constraints through 2021. Identified areas of opportunity to maximize growth.- Established a complete P&L statement for software products across the Business Segment (HBT). Identified products currently in production and those scheduled for launch as a basis for the new 5-year plan. - Establish, analyze, organize and report metrics for current engineering products (more than 100 product lines) to focus investment and maximize profitability across the organization.- Personal performance recognized by a Platinum Bravo Award for excellence.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

As the Worldwide Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, I was responsible for the global planning, controllership, income/balance sheet/cash flow analyses and reporting, monthly close and worldwide organization financial planning. Operated in a constantly changing organization, and prioritized goals to align with revenue and operating income targets. Ensured the successful transfer of the organization after the Business Unit was relocated to Rolle, Switzerland.Highlights: - Led 2 annual Operating Plans by developing, distilling and regularly presenting key operating statistics to senior executive leadership team. - Directed an aggressive Indirect cost-savings initiative for the SBU, resulting in more than 5% YoY reduction and improving operating income position for the worldwide organization. - Carefully managed resources and maintained continuous functionality during and after a complete staff relocation between Minneapolis and Rolle, Switzerland. Delivered the 2016 budget on time.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Amazon is a $61 billion, Fortune 100 multinational electronic commerce company. Marketplace is comprised of more than 2 million third-party sellers in 10 countries. It generates approximately 40% of the total unit sales for Amazon.As a senior finance manager, I provided worldwide business-line leadership and fiscal oversight and guardianship for annual base budgets in a cross-functional team role. I helped direct, improve, and manage the organization’s rapid financial growth. I integrated large volumes of complex information and developed enterprise-wide process improvement strategies, revenue forecasting, and company finance information throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. With full P&L accountability, I was responsible for employee development and a team of 8 direct reports (6 senior financial analysts, 1 analyst, 1 intern). Business travel occasionally took me to Europe.Highlights:• Led the financial analysis for the 3 year business plan and annual operating budget, ensuring available resources for aggressive business initiatives required to achieve challenging top-line growth targets and improve overall profitability.• Spearheaded the business-case analyses for 3 new Amazon categories to the third-party organization, Amazon.com Wine, Amazon.com Collectibles and Amazon.com Art. This project facilitated the launch and company expansion in 2012 and 2013.• Selected to mentor 4 high-potential female professionals and groom them for peak performance.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As the financial partner, I provided business-line, controllership, and budget-control support to the VP for North America and VP for Europe and Asia. My primary focus was to maximize the business unit’s potential for sustainable growth and profitability. This business unit is responsible for recruiting third-party sellers for 7 product groups in 9 countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, and China. Highlights:• Identified and acquired resources to enable a 28% increase YOY in deal count; 31% increase in total deal value; 3% increase average per deal; and organization size by 100%.• Carried out a deep-dive analysis to identify the highest correlating inputs to top line growth, resulting in improved seller identification, targeting, and performance. The result was a 30% increase in revenue and a 3% increase in revenue per seller.• Successfully justified the need for, and secured incremental operating expense to support the addition of an Account Management Team.• Designed, developed, and implemented a flexible forecasting and budgeting model to enable real-time productivity analysis resulting in a variance to <2%.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Promoted from Manager to Senior Manager in 2009, after 1.5 years in the role. As the strategic financial partner to operation teams located across 6 countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, and China, I was responsible for the supervision, training, and leadership of 3 direct reports. Tasked with spearheading the development and consolidating the reporting of worldwide annual business plans to ensure that each team’s blueprint for success was complete and that costs met aggressive corporate targets.Highlights:• Migrated users in 6 country locations from multiple legacy spreadsheet applications to a single, corporate-wide tool (Cognos) resulting in improved efficiency, a 66% decrease in consolidation time, and upgraded short-and long-term analysis capabilities.• Facilitated a 5% decrease in transportation and variable costs per unit and a 10% decrease in fixed costs by developing a metric to aid in improving productivity.• Gained leverage on the operating budget during a period of enormous growth resulting in top line increases of 131% while holding expenses to 115%.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Ford Motor Company is a premier Fortune 100 Company. The American automaker is known worldwide for creating a strong business that builds great products that contribute to a better world.Reporting to the Finance Controller of the Customer Service Division, I consolidated the administrative and selling expenses of $400 million annually for the division’s 15 organizations. I developed the annual budget and a 5-year financial plan, plus managed the divisional profit reporting and annual control review process to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.Highlights:• Managing budgets up to $750 million, up to 4 direct reports in business units and groups comprising of close to 7000 multi-location, union and non-union personnel.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Reporting to the Plant Controller, I provided financial management and business support for a $350 million plant operation consisting of 2 transmission lines and 1 stamping operation, operated by more than 2000 hourly employees, and 4 direct reports.Highlights:• As a member of the Controller’s Office, I defined optimal cost structures and decision support while complying with the UAW’s Guaranteed Work Contract resulting in strike avoidance and a $20 million decrease in overall company-wide expenses.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Mba, Finance

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Computer Science