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Denver, Colorado, United States

•Acquired three related commercial construction companies from founders and long-time ownership group during COVID-19 pandemic. •Retained all key operational employees throughout change of ownership while replacing prior owners, front office staff, administrative staff, and underperforming employees. •Transitioned sales pipeline from anemic to full with a healthy backlog of work. •Successfully transitioned favorable relationships with key customers, suppliers, and bonding agents.•Established standard operating procedures throughout company. Replaced antiquated systems and processes with newer methods and technology to streamline all aspects of administration and operations. Built and/or implemented systems to manage bidding, estimating, job budgets, job costing, utility locates, project management, payroll, automated accounting system uploads, safety, asset management, and more. •Sold underutilized construction equipment and acquired new equipment as needed. •Completely overhauled and replaced all IT assets and related equipment.•Spearheaded rebranding effort designed to maximize value of existing brand while simultaneously expanding future market opportunities. •Disentangled IT systems that were previously integrated with company that was sold to different ownership group. •Reoriented safety program to be more comprehensive, efficient, and targeted at specific risk scenarios experienced by field operators. Maintained very low EMR rating and participated in cost containment programs to reduce expenses. •Established onboarding and offboarding checklists and procedures to better setup new employees for success and lower risk to company.

Loveland, Co

•Founded and grew Toddy’s Innovation Team for the purpose of designing new products and services and bringing them to market.•Combined design thinking approach with rapid prototyping technologies and opportunity/decision models to maximize ROI and provide customers with meaningful solutions. •Built network of global and local sourcing and manufacturing partners. Initiated and negotiated new manufacturing contracts aimed at protecting company’s intellectual property, minimizing risk and incentivizing high production quality.•Led numerous successful product launches and largest product development bid. •Created comprehensive product launch process and strategy to manage concurrent and dependent tasks, minimize critical path, and substantially increase speed to market. •Empowered team and invested in personal and professional growth through weekly discussions on leadership, strategy, industry knowledge, emerging technologies, project management, and other relevant topics. Always focused on continuous improvement.•Designed and executed numerous research projects, pilots, and strategic plans.

Greater Denver Area

• Designed and executed strategic plan that guided company turnaround and best overall performance in company's 25 year history. Experienced rapid growth in revenue and workforce (220 employees) with significant improvements in cash management and profitability. •Led Accounting/Finance, Admin, IT, HR, and Marketing teams.•Established strong relationships and credibility with employees, bank, clients, vendors, and insurance/bonding agents.•Built forensic models that identified substantial vendor overcharges over many years. Successfully collected significant amount of money within first 6 months in role. Additionally, successfully negotiated very large favorable claim for work stoppages and schedule creep over 3 years. •Overhauled most major systems and processes in company. Took technological platform from behind the times to leading edge (cloud based SaaS + SQL).•Significantly increased sales without significantly increasing G&A by leveraging automation, upgrading talent, reengineering processes, realigning roles, and implementing countless improvements in efficiency.•Built numerous financial/data models to automate and forecast manpower, sales, cash flow (short and long term), indirect and G&A allocations, KPIs, lien rights, job performance etc. •Selected and implemented new systems for Safety, QC, BI, Task Management, Bid Calendar, Estimating, HR, System Backup, and AP within first 9 months in role. Led accounting team through a previously stalled job costing implementation within first 3 months of job. •Built audit model and automated job journal entries to ensure accurate allocation of indirect and G&A costs (reduced weekly time from 3 hrs to 10 min).•Consolidated insurance and bonding under new broker for holistic risk management. Also implemented many improvements to internal risk management.•Designed branding and helped launch industry leading CornerstoneU training and development program.

Denver, Co

•Managed a highly engaged analytics team (analysts, data scientist, DBA) focused on workforce strategy and human capital analytics. Developed team into leading agile BI developer and pioneer of predictive analytics. •Designed and implemented reporting framework and process to consolidate data from many systems across 10 departments to automatically produce 100+ monthly KPIs for Chief People Officer. Reduced reporting time from weeks to hours while more than doubling output within first 3 months in role.•Promoted from Analyst to Sr. Analyst - Strategy & Special Projects to Analytics Manager in 3 years. Recipient of the Prosperity Award (top performance), Shining Star Award (mission/values), and Redwood scholarship. •Championed and project managed the successful creation of an employee flight risk prediction model with substantial ROI potential and 82-86% accuracy. Identified 14 risk drivers across 45k full-time employees. •Conducted and managed many complex analyses to inform strategic decisions for C-Suite (retention, injury claims, competitor strategy, engagement, hiring assessments, etc.). Identified $12M/yr in retention savings.•Led the development of a robust data governance framework complete with full system documentation, 30+ automated data quality audits, and live dashboard. Substantially improved system uptime and data accuracy. •Led the implementation of a new HR BI environment (SQL Server + Tableau). Team is on pace to launch 18 BI tools in 18 months. Dramatically improved system speed, data visualization, and user experience. •Managed cross-functional analytics project that found 14 predictive relationships between key financial, clinical and HR metrics. Successfully partnered with many teams and stakeholders.•Created employee movement algorithm that increased reporting accuracy from 50% to 98% while solving very difficult problem that had rendered valuable data on 52k employees unusable for previous 4+ years.

Denver, Colorado

•Consulted on a wide variety of management consulting projects including but not limited to financial analysis, litigation support, KPIs/metrics, software selection, employee engagement, fraud detection, ESOP creation, compensation structure, calculation of tax basis, inventory management, process engineering, cost accounting, customer feedback channels, profit optimization, and start-up planning.•Built many financial models to help clients plan new ventures and make optimal business decisions across a complex set of variables and under multiple scenarios and assumptions. •Authored internationally published Business Outlook Survey to understand local economic trends and forecast future client needs and sentiment.•Managed and prepared 100+ client year-end financial summary presentations for principals. Built automation processes to reduce time to build by over 400%.•Led 37 person business consulting group through the creation of a comprehensive marketing/growth strategy.

Littleton, Colorado

•Created operational business plan that raised additional venture capital for product expansion. Contents included product release strategy, market research/competitive landscape analysis, profit optimization models, and pro-forma financial statements that automatically adjusted to scenario selections.

Master Of Science (Ms) - Predictive Analytics

•Redwood Scholar, GPA: 4.0 •Completed 4½ courses in statistics, predictive analytics, modeling, project management, and database design..

Mba, Finance / Entrepreneurship

•Awarded university’s top academic scholarship (McElwain), GPA: 3.9 •Inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma national business honor society.

Business

Activities and Societies: Rotaract Club, Cross Country team and Track Club•Awarded Presidential Scholarship, Edwards Business Scholarship.

Wilderness First Responder, Wilderness Medicine