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Southaven, Mississippi, United States

Greater Denver Area

+Fractional CFO: Provided fast-growing, mission-driven, investor-backed tea e-commerce business with fractional CFO support, including development of path to profitability, securing debt/growth financing to support startup cash burn, cash flow modeling/management, budgeting process and financial model development, strategic planning.+Finance Department.

Metal Buildings Industry+Scheduling Process Improvement: Worked with $75MM metal building producer to identify and resolve gaps in scheduling process to provide better companywide schedule visibility and milestone dates, improving on-time delivery from 60 to 90%.+Sales Quoting Process: After performing a root cause analysis to show company financial.

Greater Chicago Area

LED Lighting Industry+Growth Strategy: Led strategic market adjacency study to help private equity group double revenue of $60MM LED lighting portfolio company in under five years. Identified over 100 potential adjacent markets for growth and filtered list down to two high potential growth opportunities based on analysis of revenue potential, competitive.

Greater Chicago Area

Consumer Packaged Goods Industry+Financial Modeling: Developed flexible integrated three year financial model (P&L, Balance sheet, cash flow, borrowing base) used to aid strategic C-suite decisions and relied upon during a bank refinance that generated letters of intent from 13 of 15 solicited banks and increased borrowing availability from an over advance.

Chicago, IL

Distilled Spirits Industry+Lean Manufacturing: Developed multiple process improvements from study of line operators resulting in an expected cycle time reduction of 23% and downtime reduction of 28% along with a correlated increase in throughput through a facility with $2B in annual sales+Linear Programming: Developed a flexible 5,000 variable linear.

New York, NY

+ Risk management strategy: Developed consumer card approval strategy that used non‑traditional credit information to increase American Express’s Generation Y charge card approvals by 50% and create an expected $80M in annual revenue while ensuring risk levels stayed at or below portfolio average

Shanghai, China

+ Logistics & Supply Chain Optimization: Optimized BorgWarner China's logistics network by reducing freight forwarders to increase leveraging power, standardizing international sales terms to decrease customs processing time, uncovering government tax refund opportunities, and implementing new total landed cost purchasing model, all saving $8M over 5 years

Carlsbad, CA

+ Electrical Engineering: Conducted circuit analysis and functionality tests on government satellite communication systems, discovering new software bugs and saving part costs and test time+ Computer Programming: Learned Python scripting language to write automated email messaging program

M.S.E., Industrial And Operations Engineering

Activities and Societies: The Engineering Global Leadership Honors Program, Tauber Institute for Global Operations University of Michigan.

B.S.E., Electrical Engineering, Minor In International Engineering

Activities and Societies: The Engineering Global Leadership Honors Program, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Alpha Phi Omega, West.

Summer Study Abroad, Grenoble, France

Studied French language and engineering