Takaya Brunner Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Brunner Accounting Group is a full-service accounting firm dedicated to providing our clients with professional and personalized financial services. Our goal is to remove the stress and anxiety that taxes and accounting can create for taxpayers. Our years of experience allows us to create custom solutions which help clients feel confident about their financial future.We focus on helping both individuals and business owners with all their tax-related matters as well as providing a wide range of financial and business needs.www.brunneraccounting.com

Greater Los Angeles Area

Building new data visualization and internal consulting vertical tasked with creating scalable products that leverage our data center. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities, building the team, overseeing development, and launching and maintaining various products. Data center hosted in AWS leveraging AWS services for data pipelines and Tableau Server for visualizations.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Created and oversaw new departmental vertical within E15 responsible for generating data strategy, data warehousing, and collaborating with IT department to develop, deploy and maintain these initiatives. - Managed team of data analysts.- SME on source system data and E15 data enhancements- Managed Scrums of development team and generated requirements for new features.- Generated revenue for E15 through data services provided, including data extraction, manipulation, and cleansing. - Represented E15 in Levy’s enterprise IT initiatives. Initiatives include: $5MM purchasing system RFP; Amazon Web Services migration and consultant hiring; data security and procedures. - Identifying cross line of service opportunities within existing partner relationships resulting in additional revenue generation and increased client satisfaction. - Participating in large scale sales opportunities representing E15 in the RFP process. Work included generating and presenting materials as well as one-on-one meetings to understand required scope of opportunities. - Identified need and led data strategy workshop for Compass North America and other Compass subsidiary’s executives. Resulted in being placed on executive level national committee that created and implemented Compass’ North America data categorization framework.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Defined and led projects aimed at driving revenue with clients. Was responsible for entire life cycle of project from data generation and cleansing, to analyzing resulting data sets and presenting findings to stakeholders.Predominantly leveraged SQL and Tableau.

Los Angeles

Worked on large forensic investigations and litigation consulting engagements delivering analysis and insights to senior finance executives and legal stakeholders * Generated and presented analyses to corporate counsel in NYC using transaction level data on a 7 year, $95MM litigation. This project required SQL which was self-taught while on the job resulting in promotion from Associate to Senior in one performance cycle. Upon project manager departing, worked directly with National Litigation Consulting services lead partner.* Completed accounting education pre-requisites for CPA and sat and passed all four sections of exam.* Oversaw and led all Claremont McKenna College recruiting for KPMG Los Angeles.

Work with large companies (primarily Fortune 1000) delivering to senior executives andCommittees of the Board. Responsibilities include: Client communications, dealingprimarily with senior Human Resources leaders to determine project scope, discuss datarequirements, and deliver analytical findings; fundamental analyses and preparation ofsummary materials; managing junior team members. Report internally to senior and partner-level consultants, typically within a three-person project team. Scope of projects: feesrange from $30k to $200k, with typical project of $100k.* Initiated, designed and implemented option exchange database that was used in over 10client reports and contributed over $100K in revenues to the firm.* Independently created and presented preliminary market pricing report to seniormanagement of $1.7B data warehousing corporation, ensuring project timeliness andproductivity.* Managed three client projects simultaneously, ensuring all projects were completed onschedule and well received by client. * Created and designed information packet for Partner pitch to Fortune 15 clientresulting in acquisition of client and information packet template becoming firm's goldstandard.* Led three associates in data collection and completed the task ahead of scheduleresulting in additional time to analyze and synthesize information.* Built a dynamic compensation benchmarking excel model which was adopted by client as anongoing tool to consolidate and analyze survey data.

Bachelors Of Arts, Ppe (Politics, Philosophy And Economics), And Economics With A Focus In Finance

Activities and Societies: Rugby team president

Computer Studies

Programming in C# for Visual Studio .NET Platform 4.0; OOP for Visual Studio .NET; Advanced SQL; Relational Database Management.

Japanese Studies

Activities and Societies: Studied abroad and lived with host Family in KCJS program.Established in September 1989, the Kyoto Consortium.