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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Owned and managed the comprehensive platform of Apptio, a critical Technology Business Management platform, optimizing operational efficiency, streamlining processes, and driving strategic decision-making across multiple business units.• Successfully migrated the enterprise financial reporting platform to an in-house solution, resulting in substantial cost savings, full data automation, improved data quality, and enhanced Service Level Agreements.• Manage a $150M operating budget, achieve over $2M in annual savings, and play a crucial role in monthly budget refinement, recalibration, and forecasting processes.• Serve as the point of contact and subject matter expert for department Capital and Operating spend, forecasting, and budgeting, providing expert guidance to senior leadership.• Foster strategic relationships with diverse stakeholders, showcasing adept proficiency in seamless and effective communication across both technical and business domains.• Illustrate a proven track record in adeptly managing BI teams, both onshore and offshore, utilizing agile/scrum methodologies.• Facilitated knowledge sharing within the team through tailored training sessions, empowering colleagues with essential tools such as SQL, Power BI, and JIRA.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Manage and oversee department OpEx budget• Identify and make recommendations to key stakeholders on financial risks and opportunities.• Present to executive leadership team on a regular basis regarding department financial health.• Develop capitalization reporting for all leadership across ED&O, govern adherence to capitalization targets, and provide weekly summary reports to Executive Leadership Team. • Handle ad-hoc reporting requests from leadership across all functional teams. • Serve as subject matter expert in department financials within ED&O.• Collaborate with Business Operations to create models and reporting in Apptio.

• Executed comprehensive reporting initiatives to enhance technology and business operations.• Created detailed reports, charts, dashboards, and presentations aligned with the objectives of Enterprise DevOps.• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and transformed intricate datasets into visually compelling presentations, enhancing understanding of key performance indicators and operational metrics.

Atlanta, Georgia

• Solely managed financial reporting, forecasting and analysis for the company’s fiber construction projects.• Conceptualized, designed and built actionable data reports and dashboards to enable Construction and Engineering teams to plan project spend.• Tracked spend against forecast and provided financial and business recommendations to partners at all levels of the organization, including those less experienced with data and analytics.• Coordinated and managed all communication between regional/divisional construction teams and HQ Finance team.• Served as sole point-person responsible for all HQ-funded construction initiatives within the company’s Central Division.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Manager for ten direct reports. Responsible for each individual’s performance development during the year. Determine employee merit and bonus increases annually. • Developed key performance metrics for employee evaluation during company reorganization. • Coordinate all purchasing operations for the company within the Texas Zone. Hold weekly continuous improvement calls with division directors and vice presidents to forecast upcoming workload and improve processes. • Responsible for interviewing and making staffing decisions for the department. Conduct new hire onboarding and training in addition to ad-hoc follow up trainings. • Project manager for new communities and vendors. Responsible for delegating workload to accommodate deadlines for sales. • Perform audits of vendor contracts for budget accuracy. Make revisions to contracts and issue payments to vendors accordingly. • Host weekly meetings with individual team members to identify strengths and areas of opportunity. Facilitator for each employee’s career development within the company.

Greater Atlanta Area

-Team lead for 10 individuals. Manage their workload and assign responsibility for various projects. Ensure they meet their metric goals monthly. Provide constructive feedback to improve their personal growth.-Purchasing liaison for field operations in Dallas and San Antonio markets. Coordinate the establishment of new community budgets and framework for our sales and construction teams.-Responsible for auditing contract changes for vendors operating in my assigned markets. Review contracts for errors and issue payments to vendors for work completed-Responsible for holding training sessions for both new hires and for Continuous Improvement topics.-Coordinate daily with both AP and GL teams to ensure homes are closed efficiently and accurately.-Manage individuals to ensure work is completely within contractual timeframes, reallocate resources if necessary to ensure deadlines are met.-Heavy use of excel in creating auditing spreadsheets and showing historical trends via pivot tables, creating macros, creating templates, and various formatting formulas.

Brookhaven

-Cold-call potential clients to present insurance opportunities-Attend networking events to grow book of business-Provide insurance advice to customers with questions about coverage-Maintain an exceptional understanding of insurance contract law and the nuances of 7 different carriers and each’s unique contract exclusions-Manage claim process for clients-Work with underwriting to ascertain whether a potential client would be a good insurance risk-compare rates with multiple carriers to provide customers with best value-Overcome customer objections to sell additional products and provide optimal coverage.-Have weekly strategy meetings to optimize ways to grow the business-Attended Continuing Education seminars to improve business practices.

-Handle entire claims process for customers involved in automotive accidents.-Take recorded statements, schedule inspections, assign liability, and document all customer interaction-Assess damages to vehicles and personal property and indemnify proper parties by issuing payment to them directly.-Negotiate labor rates with body shops in an effort to maintain industry standard and save company money.-Monitor the entire repair process of the vehicles and perform QI on vehicles currently in repair.-Consistently update customers as to the status of their claim and the repairs on their vehicle.-Determine whether customer has applicable coverage based on insurance contract. Well-versed in understanding and communicating the details of the company policy contract to customers.-Manage over 100 claims simultaneously, while still assisting team members by taking available inbound calls.-Built rapport with thousands of claimants and maintained an exceeds expectation in quality metric-Identified insurance fraud and coordinated with law enforcement by obtaining police reports and notifying of potential malicious activity.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Phi Vice President, IFC Vice President of Judicial Affairs