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Portland, OR, US

Richland, WA, US

Assisting the CFO and CFO staff with the development and execution of a financial modernization strategy, which includes organizational development; enhancements to systems, processes, data, reporting, and analytics; as well as ensuring execution to corporate finance's deliverables aligned with the agency's strategic objectives.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Consulting to devise a Finance Transformation strategy for an growing green electric power generation company in the Pacific Northwest.

After an amazing and impactful career at Intel it is time to take my experience and expertise and find my next challenge... after taking some time off to spend with my family.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Led effort in driving improvements to Intel’s P&L consolidation processes resulting in 40% increase in usage of enterprise connected data, reporting and analysis and more than a dozen new automated data interfaces.
• Built team of 10 from scratch that owns and governs our P&L consolidation processes.
• Partnered with IT to define and implement the roadmap to connect our data and automate processes.
• Defined and implemented P&L master data requirements to align and automate processes and reporting.
• Drove the creation and implementation of new automated financial forecasting and consolidation processes through a strong change management focus.
• Enabled removal of bespoke, offline consolidation solutions saving 100’s of hours of work per cycle.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Drove short-term financial planning, forecasting, and reporting of Intel’s Client and Communication Group (>$40B Revenue).
• Managed investment portfolio prioritization and spending targets for our product roadmap to optimize our ROI and meet corporate spending targets and operating margin goals.
• Developed insights and strategies to improve P&L results through product margin analysis by partnering with our revenue and costs teams resulting in 4+ multiple years of record revenue and profitability.
• Developed and implemented a stage-gate investment process to ensure programs met commitments or resources were reprioritized to higher ROI programs.
• Part of team that received Intel’s highest recognition (Intel Achievement Award) for redefining the Client and Communications Group’s business model, priorities, and cost structure improving operating margin by $1.2B
• Transitioned spending forecast and reporting processes to new enterprise reporting and forecast solution resulting in a 50% reduction in effort.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Managed the R&D finance team supporting Intel investments in phone and tablet hardware and software.
• Led finance team in continually optimizing our investments across hardware solutions (reference devices and OEM hardware) by Operating System (Windows and Android) to support Intel’s effort to enter a new dynamic market.
• Supported Intel’s goal of shipping 40 million units through influencing product roadmap decisions and tightly managing investments to drive improvement in profitability.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Defined and implemented pricing and product strategies to meet both financial and strategic goals.
• Managed cross-site team (US and Malaysia) through several reorganizations and business model changes.
• Developed supply chain strategies (air vs. ocean, packaging, etc.) to optimize logistics costs to ensure cost-competitive solutions and minimize inventory costs across geographies.
• Drove region-specific feature sets for products based upon customer requirements to meet price requirements in target markets.

Santa Clara, California, US

Owned budgets, forecasting and allocations for various groups. Responsible for quarterly presentations to GM/CFO on execution to annual Plan.

Santa Clara, California, US

Managing budgets, developed forecasts, and providing strategic ad hoc analysis for product marketing and benchmarking teams. Owned long-term resource model for R&D teams.

Santa Clara, California, US

Provided budgeting and forecasting support for spending, cost, and capital spending. Owned developing and monitoring key manufacturing metrics (KPIs) for both development and high-volume manufacturing.