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Lead financial analysis and planning functions to support digital asset economy through hosting enterprise-level blockchain hardware. Support various teams, including infrastructure construction and facilities operations, to enable and support decision making to maximize value through insights and analysis.

Manage online sales and consulting home-theater business specializing in front-projection video system applications. Developed relationships and negotiated business agreements with regional and national manufacturers and distributors. Identified significant brand equity dilution issue and presented findings and recommendations to Stewart Filmscreen Corporation’s Consumer Products Sales Director.

Head of finance for medical device manufacturer specializing in acute care patient monitoring and diagnostic cardiology. Manage international team to drive revenue growth and operating margin improvement through strategic planning, analytics, and cost reduction initiatives.

Lead finance support for game development and central service business teams. Partner with GMs and Studio managers to provide business intelligence to maximize franchise and Xbox ecosystem profitability. Develop and maintain ROI projections for game titles and franchises.

Controller for Turn10 studios and Core Publishing game development teams. Managed budgets, forecasts, analysis, and long range plans. Partnered with senior management to analyze monetization strategies, acquisition and partnership opportunities, and cost reduction initiatives.

Supported cloud infrastructure for world class online properties – Bing, MSN, MS Advertising Platform. Identified cost drivers and efficiency levers. Managed finance rhythm and cost structure, influenced timing of capital investments, and determined opportunities and risks to operational budgets and forecasts.

Created financial models to analyze search syndication and toolbar deals. Evaluated business opportunities and provided financial data and recommendations to business development managers and executive leadership.

Performed management reporting activities for $600M organization, involving product and region revenue analysis. Analyzed trailing 12-month server business revenue against 'MS Embedded Systems Group Pricing Guidelines,' resulting in $2.2M revenue opportunity; and created product regrouping proposal resulting in $600K annual savings.

Identified financial modeling error within finance team documents of a Fortune 500 Company resulting in a 50% overstatement of compound annual growth rate and subsequent revenue projections. Created dynamic, data-powered model of US consumer hardcopy industry revenue and profitability for printer hardware and ink consumables by vendor, category, price point, and channel.

Managed completion of next-generation manufacturing finance management reporting requirement documents. Engaged business partners and analyzed records to create data element matrix, which facilitated development of data modeling for new cost system. Improved financial close issues, business metrics, and application support issues.

Analyzed factory loading models, inventory levels and demand schedules to drive factory cost reductions resulting in $1M cash savings. Analyzed work-in-progress/passive cycle counting issues and historical gross unit variance trends to drive compliance to new corporate guidelines for cycle counts and high-value inventory control.