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Greater New York City Area

Improving operations and leading change through data-driven problem solving, technology and communications.• Create private company financial valuation models, leverage Balance Sheets and Income Statements to determine EBITDA, performance, performance multiple (PM) and CxO equity ownership stakes• Work closely with the CFO in delivering underlying assumptions, and in calculating operating performance, cash flows and assessing valuation models.

New York, New York

Greater New York City Area

• Leverage design thinking to plan and implement new expense management and control tools (Concur), launch corporate card (Citi) and third-party partner systems, identify and remediate process defects before they occur• Led business process improvement to corporate travel initiative, resulting in 95% adoption rate, up to worldwide 49% in airfare savings, leading to the successful integration of Concur travel online across third party partners (Sabre, Galileo, Amadeus)• Led 15 team members from Global Finance, Corporate Services, IT and outside vendors• Transformed the end user support model by deploying personalized experiences across 3rd party vendors/systems and across organizational users.

Greater New York City Area

• Leverage Six Sigma Black Belt tools, training and experience to evaluate existing systems and processes; establish Target Operating Models (TOM); communicate strategic and detailed goals, objectives and tasks; launch and implement target solutions; prepare and deliver training; and support efficiency and agility across worldwide staff, management and executives

Greater New York City Area

• Product manager for client/user experience using waterfall and Agile methodologies (JIRA); design content pages for client-facing website covering $100B+ in Private Equity and Real Estate drawdown fund assets under management. • Partnered with External Relations to launch Blackstone on Twitter resulting in 65.4K followers• Established program to translate Blackstone.com in Simplified Chinese.• Developed and submitted $1M operating budget for projects under management.

Greater New York City Area

• Scoped and managed global program for 61 Supervision and Control reviews across 165 Global Markets Sales & Trading products. • Monitored team leads for delivery of short- and long-term risk mitigation to issues surfaced in Supervision and Control reviews.

Greater New York City Area

• Designed process to inspect 9,750 ISDA Agreements; directly supervised 18 professionals.• Led firm-wide, cross-functional two-year initiative to review and improve job creation, onboarding and securities registrations licensure; Reduced missing registrations by 78%.• Monitored project status, progress vs. goals daily, and used knowledge of GAGE R&R to ensure that reviews were consistent across reviewers. • Developed analyses using Minitab to measure Opportunity vs. Satisfaction on a variety of target subjects – pinpointing where the biggest potential gains for a project may be.• Managed Audit Issue and Gifts & Entertainment tracking programs.• Liaison with Program Management during integration of Merrill Lynch with Bank of America

Greater New York City Area

• Developed user experience strategy and interface design to linking 70+ CFO intranet websites (across 3 different technical platforms) under a single brand.• Created Business Recovery platform, including automated call tree and emergency update notice board.

Greater New York City Area

• Improved operating efficiency by reviewing co-location and resource requirements of news staff to recommend layout of show units in CNBC global headquarters newsroom.

Greater New York City Area

• Produced live social media events with CNBC Business News and CNBC Prime on-air talent.• Re-launched CNBC.com website from a 1-person (me) to 120-person company.

• Assigned and scheduled advertiser commercial copy to ad sales contracts.• Edited day-of-air and day-before broadcast production logs for MSNBC and Canal de Noticas NBC.

Greater New York City Area

• Interface between NBC TV Network and WNBC Ad Sales on program scheduling and commercial availability• Developed and distributed programming contingency plans for live sporting events and breaking news

Master Of Professional Studies, Media Administration

Activities and Societies: - Graduate Assistant, Syracuse University School of Management MBA Program & Accounting Department - Student.

Bachelor’S Degree, Broadcast Journalism, Cum Laude

- Volunteer teaching assistant for Graduate-level "Communicating with Computers" course - Wrote article published student newspaper