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Partnered with the heads of 9 engineering and maintenance teams to build and manage a $70M+ annual operating budget. Collaborated directly with the VP of Ops Finance to identify $25M in cost savings opportunities and built business cases for new sources of revenue and operating strategies as part of a business transformation team responding to COVID-19. Owned month-end close by identifying accruals and reclasses, summarizing results, and explaining variances to plan. Isolated and analyzed key performance indicators for 12 theme park venues and proposed operational changes designed to increase customer satisfaction, changes which resulted in $6M a year being reallocated to higher performing content.

Universal City, Ca

Built labor forecast modeling and schedule optimization processes that helped the theme park reduce seasonal hiring by more than 30% as a member of a lean team focused on implementing company-wide hiring and labor utilization improvements. Created new reporting on staff vacancy rates (sick calls, no call-no shows, etc.) for 41 park departments and leveraged insights from the reporting to launch a park-wide vacancy management plan that reduced overall missed shifts to less than 3%. Implemented new labor tracking for Halloween Horror Nights that informed my proposal for a new staggered hiring strategy that generated $330K in cost savings by eliminating excess up-front labor and rebalancing staff levels throughout the event.

Universal City, Ca

Honed regression-based revenue models used to estimate international sales for new film titles based on historical box office. Drove physical sales assumptions behind five-year strategic plan by consolidating forecasts of global DVD/Blu-Ray markets.

El Segundo, California

Worked with Murad LLC., a subsidiary of Unilever. Produced and validated weekly and monthly sales reports on retail channels and product lines, providing trend analysis. Maintained customer lifetime value models for subscription club products and assessed the profitability of loyalty rewards.

Developed and launched new insurance product lines for the food product and e-commerce industries that allowed for more diversified product offerings and accounted for 20% of new sales in 2013. Modeled and evaluated forecasted returns on competing marketing projects, aiding in intelligent decision-making and providing strategic insights that reduced marketing costs by 33% while maintaining sales growth. Organized a marketing audit resulting in a full website redesign, which increased web traffic 300% and total sales by 7%.

Tested the assumptions underlying the business plan for a start-up insurance brokerage firm in order to provide more realistic financial expectations and analyzed regional demographic trends and business licensing statistics to identify attractive markets and qualify sales leads.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Corporate Finance

Activities and Societies: Director of Corporate Finance - Investment Finance Association, Anderson Public Speaking Club, Strategic.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English & Art

Activities and Societies: Colby Woodsmen, Student Programming Board

English Specialization