• Managed the team to deliver planning and budgeting solutions to Finance based on Cognos TM1 and BI. Acted as Platform Owner and Single Point of Contact with Wing-to-Wing responsibilities from project planning, resource allocation, project development, testing, production promotion to post-production support and issue fixes. • Collaborated with business to identify pain point in the existing business processes and proposed best-fit solutions to improve business processes. Prioritized projects based on Cost/Benefit and Payback analysis to meet budget requirements. • Implemented the on-shore/off-shore resourcing model to meet budget requirement. Coached up team members to drive efficiency for project delivery and support.

• Managed a team to deliver solutions of business analytics, financial modeling and financial Planning/budgeting to GE Treasury business functions. Built the business analytics and self-service platform using Cognos TM1, established and trained a very efficient development team and standardized the design and release processes. Introduced 11 new business analytics and self-service applications in three years.• Delivered the financial planning/budgeting solution, COBRA, for treasury IT and assisted in re-engineering the business processes. Enabled senior management to have clear visibility of budget, forecast, costs and labor utilization. Achieved hard cost savings of $5M through vendor re-negotiation and automated business processes.• Suggested and drove the MF Analytics solution based on deep knowledge of the business processes and data, with capabilities of modeling critical financial metrics, funding forecast and planning, what-if analysis on FX and IR rates and stress testing management. Achieved cost savings of 0.8M annually and reduced cycle time of the stress testing by 90%.• Collaborated with the Cash team to introduce the FBAR (Foreign Bank Account Reporting) business analytics solution, with built-in intelligence to select signers/accounts to report. Achieved cost savings of $3M through automating the business processes and much reduced consulting service.• Delivered the following business analytics and self-service solutions: Cash Planning, Cost of Fund Analytics, Derivative Analytics/Reporting, Cash On Hand Adjustment, Third Party Debt, Fund Transfer Pricing, Match Funding.

• Specialized in delivery of business analytics/performance management consulting service to large corporateclients based on Cognos products (TM1, Planning, Controller and BI). Actively involved in business developmentopportunities, prototype development and preparing project proposals.• Manage full life-cycle implementation of projects including client business review, requirement analysis,solution design, preparation of SOW and project plan, cost estimate, project scope/budget control and changemanagement.• Designed and Delivered TM1-based financial performance management solution to a client in consumerpackaging industry, including cube/dimension design, data loading through TI processes, complicated businessrules, version control and scenario planning. Assisted in user training and knowledge transfer.

• Managed Cognos TM1/Planning/BI environment to support various business functions (Finance, Marketing, Sales, Procurement, Engineering, etc.). Worked closely with business partners to identify business needs, recommend workflow/process improvement and propose solutions based on Cognos TM1/BI platform. • Designed TM1 solutions to support Procurement Capacity Planning process, including cubes, conformed dimensions, sophisticated rules and TI processes. Loaded data from enterprise data warehouse into TM1 and created reports using Report Studio. Created ETL process with Cognos Data Manager to load data from Cognos Planning to data warehouse.• Implemented Cognos Planning including Analysts models and Contributor applications to support strategic planning process of Marketing.

• Proposed new BI architecture based on Cognos TM1/BI/Planning platform fro Strategic Planning. Developed business case and created project plan to migrate home-grown application (Excel/Oracle based) to the new platform with additional functionality to increase productivity, targeting $300K annual hard cost savings.• Coordinated with infrastructure team to install and configure Cognos servers in different regions. Created TM1 dimensions/cubes/rules to model enterprise structure and business processes. Created data replication processes to consolidate strategic planning data worldwide. Developed ETL processes with TI programming to load data into TM1.• Supported BMS strategic planning and budgeting processes. Developed Excel VBA interface (Add-in/TM1 API) to collect user input and consolidated forecasting data through TM1. Created reports/metrics/dashboards with Cognos Metric Studio to support senior management.

• Coordinated with key stakeholders and IT infrastructure to translate strategic objectives into actionable technology roadmap and BI designs. Built business cases with costs, benefits and efficiency measures.• Developed solutions on Cognos TM1 platform to support financial reporting processes with the following typical duties: designing data architecture, creating cubes/dimensions/views, defining ETL processes using TI (with sophisticated programming) to load GL transactions from Global Data Warehouse and load budget/forecast from Excel files, writing rules for advanced calculation, managing security and performance tuning.• Participated in implementation of Hyperion System 9 focusing on Financial Planning and Essbase. Collected and consolidated requests from business partners. Developed deployment plan. Led data migration from Cognos TM1/Planning to Essbase.

• Managed $75M IT annual investment budget and prioritized project proposals to balance between business needs and limited IT budget. Allocated investment budget to IT towers, monitored project progress and adjusted project budgets on monthly basis. • Delivered financial support to IT Technical Computing Systems (TCS) tower in financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, monthly end closing and actual tracking and reporting. Coordinated with other IT towers to utilize IT assets and resources more efficiently, and achieved the goal of reducing TCS Run expenses by 5% every year.• Managed the largest IT project with $31M budget “Next Generation IPT/LAN Network Upgrade” as the project controller. Actively involved in RFP (Request for Proposal), vendor selection and project proposal. Developed the forecast of project costs, quantified potential cost savings and created accounting proposal to capitalize hardware, software and external labor in different countries.

• Performed typical finance duties like monthly end closing, revenue recognition, journal entry preparation, account reconciliation and forecasting. Participated in Fall and Spring financial planning processes and assisted senior management to set short and long term financial goals.• Developed reporting package with Cognos TM1/Excel to standardize financial reports across different business units. Designed TM1 cubes/rules to automate calculation of financial metrics (DSO, DOH and ROIC).• Created Excel Add-in and developed VBA program to facilitate data input of budgeting and forecasting into TM1. Created TM1 Views/Subsets to help analyze financial performance and support decision-making.

• Designed enterprise architecture solutions including OS (Unix/Linux/Windows), hardware, database, storage and web platform to support engineering design and change management. Worked closely with engineering management teams globally to collect business requirements and growth forecast. Developed technology and capacity roadmap to meet business needs and support global engineering expansion/collaboration. • Designed server/workstation standards for various engineering applications in different countries. Created asset database and documented all server configurations. Created SOP to guide system administrators.• Conducted cost-benefit analysis of low cost platforms. Designed, tested and led migration from Unix to windows for CAD workstations and to SuSE Linux for CAE applications, leading to reduced run expenses of engineering systems. • Managed 15 servers and over 100 workstations in heterogeneous environment comprised of HP-UX, AIX, Linux and Windows systems, to support engineering applications. Performed all duties related to Unix system administration including NIS+, DNS, installation and upgrade, user accounts, license management, software/patch management, printer configuration and performance tuning. Accomplished technical refresh to meet increasing business demand.• Administered Oracle database servers (7.3/8i/9i) on HP-UX platform to support various mission critical business applications (Peoplesoft HR, Windchill, PDM, PLM etc.). Performed database administration activities like creating database and tablespaces, backup and recovery, performance tuning, data migration, patch installation, security management and trouble shooting. Wrote shell scripts to automate routine tasks and proactively monitor databases. • Led 6-sigma green belt project to improve engineering design process. Created customized function to connect to ERP systems and transfer BOM data between PLM and ERP systems.