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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Coached teams on kanban principles and optimal structures for their product or service delivery.Implemented and ran scrum ceremonies for Animal Health team as a proof-of-concept of the effectiveness of Agile ways of working.Drove scrum ceremonies for Human Health Strategy and Value Realization team, ensuring adoption of the practices the full organization was expected to implement.Directed the Latin America Organon digital marketing tool separation, resulting in fully capable digital marketing teams in both companies.Managed digital marketing tools implementation for Latin America, ensuring full compliance with local-legal requirements while providing on-time delivery of full scope. Managed customer-facing project financials for portfolio reporting. Updated resource commitments to ensure resource utilization was within targets.

Austin, Texas Area

Project Manager bringing together IT and Finance skills to ensure exceptional client results.

Austin, Texas Area

Rehired to serve as a Senior Analyst and make significant contributions in the following areas:Program ManagementDrove the design and implementation of a PowerBI reporting dashboard, enabling new information views and data-slicing capabilities. Achievement recognized with the Leading the Way award in Q4’16: - Created project charter and plan. Defined scope, milestones, and completion timeline.- Recruited team members, assigned roles, and negotiated with IT for programmer time.- Managed deliverables to timelines, reported statuses to executive sponsors, and updated schedules as appropriate.- Managed two project phases: 1) reporting phase and 2) phase reducing close variance analysis timeline.Business OperationsDrove software contract renewal scenarios that optimized budget and usage tradeoffs. Ensured software capitalization and expense treatments were in line with GAAP and local-legal rules to minimize tax and write-off impacts.Controlled software accounting standards, eliminating swings, and producing less than 1% variance to forecast every month. Contributed as a change agent and module tester for company-wide implementation of SAP S4/Hana ERP. Financial Discovered and drove the recovery of $3.6M in duplicated telecom vendor payments. Controlled $250M+ in financial postings for 2017’s divestitures, achieving accurate company reporting for 3 separate general ledgers. Partnered with cross-functional teams to ensure arms-length communication and invoicing structures were set up for Day 1 in two divestitures. Proposed $2M telecom savings opportunities after analyzing invoice and usage trends. Improved forecast v. actuals accuracy 12% on average on $46M quarterly spend within 3 months by prioritizing financial information reviewed.

Austin, Texas Area

Served as the Americas FP&A Manager and instrumental in the following financial and data analysis projects: Analyzed full P&L and balance sheet for the Americas region resulting in focus on higher margin customers, enabling Business Unit Leader to bring in 35% profitability on $20M annual revenue.Migrated historical data to enable Epicor implementation.Improved the manual process for tracking contract revenue profile, resulting in more accurate revenue projections through 2016. Instituted a contract management process, resulting in $0.5M contract risk mitigation in first review.Ensured local-legal compliance with Colombian anti-drug-trafficking requirements. Drove logistics of subsidiary setup, enabling $1M contract closing within 6 weeks

California, Washington, Texas

Served in various Business Analyst and Financial Analyst positions with increasing responsibility during tenure:Significant Contributions (2007-2012)Managed the updated world-wide implementation of finance processes to enable a PC Lifecycle management program:Optimized balance between operational expense affordability and PC environment age through scenario analysis. Controlled $160M capital and $43M operational expenses for PC Lifecycle program.Designed an aging report for internal IT Asset Management tool detailing open risk by business unit, reducing recurring construction-work-in-progress write-offs by 8%.Significant Contributions (2000-2007)Managed the initial world-wide implementation of finance processes to enable a PC Lifecycle management program:- Negotiated with the Enterprise Financial Reporting body to update internal policy to allow policy changes to enable program.- Created project charter and plan. Defined scope, milestones, and completion timeline.- Documented business requirements from the various constituents.- Managed deliverables to timelines, reported statuses to executive sponsors, and updated schedules as appropriate.Created regional reporting packages enabling management to easily understand performance against key business metrics such as SLA’s, contract losses, and resource utilization.Modeled financial impact of labor arbitrage programs, enabling savings of $60M+ over 3 years. Created multiple program spending scenarios supporting management tradeoff decisions.Significant Contributions (1996-2000)Managed $100M of North American commercial channel credit risk through financial statement analysis and relationship management.Resolved customer escalations, ensuring optimization between HP’s bottom line and the customer experience.

MBA