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Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

Austin, Tx

• Manage development of the utility’s $1.7-billion annual operating budget by collaborating with cross-functional teams, recommending to executives $50 million in budget reductions, and developing cost allocation models to annually reimburse $42 million to the utility.• Prepare a monthly financial report for the executive team by translating data and analyzing variances across 245 cost units into a narrative document to create insights for financial decision making.• Supervise and coach a team of financial analysts to guide budget development and monitoring activities, creating a new model to estimate current-year expenditures to accurately forecast available cash balances.• Safeguard and monitor the utility’s financial health by managing the semi-annual contract encumbrance closeout process to release $40+ million to fund additional requirements.• Improve internal financial processes, redesigning the annual personnel request process by utilizing Microsoft Forms and Excel to receive, analyze, and report to executives on requests for 230 full-time positions and 350 temporary employees.• Assist strategic planning and forecasting staff on development of the five-year strategic plan and forecast by drafting metric-driven narrative documents and forecasting $265 million in district cooling revenue.

City Of Austin Budget Office

• Guided development of the City’s $1.1-billion capital-improvement budget to ensure new appropriations and five-year spending plans were properly accounted for and projected, reducing the debt sale and the requested appropriations.• Documented the City of Austin’s $65-million homeless-services budget to educate decision makers and the public on a complex topic by collaborating with multi-departmental staff and researching a diverse array of funding streams including grant, operating, and capital sources.• Reviewed the 900-page annual budget document, including the 100-page strategic-planning section, for consistency and errors and led budget analysts to fix issues, all within a compressed timeline to guarantee meeting publishing deadlines.• Streamlined internal staff review processes by creating standardized Excel workbooks and interactive business intelligence dashboards, reducing errors and increasing efficiency for reviewing the City of Austin’s $4.7-billion all-funds budget.• Managed three upgrade projects to the City’s capital-improvement budget application, introducing business process and data improvements to streamline capital-project funding and development.

City Of Austin Budget Office

• Performed complex financial calculations and analyses, such as revising the $87-million information technology cost pool to increase sustainability and accuracy.• Forecasted fee revenue through data analysis and cost-of-service studies, assisting parks and recreation staff on developing new parking meter fees to annually fund $1.7 million in capital-improvement projects.• Led financial projects to fruition and implemented the $925-million voter-approved 2018 Bond Program through spending-plan analysis and stakeholder collaboration.• Presented to three City boards on budget and financial topics, succinctly explaining technical information and answering complex questions for non-technical audiences.

Austin Animal Center

• Queried complex datasets via Transact-SQL, producing an automated vet services treatment list to boost accuracy and reduce staff time needed to provide treatments.• Managed self-started projects by utilizing data tools and Transact-SQL queries, creating an automated stray-pet map for the public to reduce stray-pet intakes and call volume.• Drafted business intelligence reports for staff and the public, creating a graphical monthly report to better present 18,000 animal intakes and outcomes.• Calculated and reported monthly performance metrics, analyzing shelter adherence to a 90% live-outcome rate and response to 30,000 animal protection calls.

Austin Animal Center

• Recorded and reconciled cash transactions in the financial system and assisted accounting staff on accounting audits as an additional responsibility, aiding with proper accounting of the shelter’s revenue transactions.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 3.93 Gpa

Concentration in Computer Information Systems

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, International/Global Studies, 3.88 Gpa

Minors in Political Science and Spanish