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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States

• Served as financial liaison to the dishwasher business ($1.3B in revenue) responsible for monthly forecasting, reporting, and project support (cost reduction, quality improvement, and product innovation projects)
• North America Regional Capital Administrator ($262M annual budget) responsible for forecasting, month end capex and free cash flow reporting, and verification of regional capital transfers
• Finance lead for all SG&A reporting, budgeting, and profit plan for product and merchandising teams
• Developed long-term rolling 12-month outlook fed by relevant assumptions including production volume, material costs / expedites, and in-store promotional levels with 90%+ accuracy
• Led first round interviews for full-time and intern hiring; Mentored MBA interns and entry-level finance analysts
• Served as Whirlpool finance point of contact to support an external consulting firm with ad hoc data analysis to present an insurance claim worth millions of dollars for COVID, cyberattack, and winter weather disruptions

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Developed complex financial model from scratch to evaluate the Amazon – Whole Foods acquisition. Developed discounted cash flow, comparable companies, precedent transactions, leveraged buyout and sensitivity analyses
• Completed due diligence on live deals as a consultant to the American Family Institute of Social Impact Investing
• Recipient, Wisconsin School of Business Alumni Award Fellowship
• Integrated Company Analysis finalist, developed a strategy for Medtronic to deploy medical devices in India
• Elected Graduate Finance Organization President, organized coding workshops and shareholders’ meeting trips
• Startup pitch competition category winner, pitched a mobile application for improved local networking

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Created a journal entry by working with plant controllers to capitalize the engineering time spent on capital projects to benefit manufacturing plant P&Ls by $414k for the quarter
• Led meetings with leadership in global and North American divisions to forecast headcount and other costs within headquarters for 2020 budget
• Revised standard costs by 38% for lithium ion battery manufacturing for an updated volume outlook for a 12-million unit, 5-year vehicle program by reviewing master service agreements from global suppliers

Saginaw, Michigan Area

• Responsible for leading customer meetings, writing and updating software specifications, developing communication and diagnostic calibrations, and releasing power steering software to the customer for their autonomous.
• Lead customer requirement reviews and internal software development and testing, resulting in consistent delivery of software products with 0 safety or performance critical issues so that the customer met their vehicle.
• Guided internal teams throughout the design, code, and test processes to deliver 12 official software releases, from the first prototype release through the final production release so that the customer’s delivery.
• Invented a software safety component that was published defensively to the industry for use in over 100 autonomous vehicles to prevent unintended steering maneuvers and to protect the public

Saginaw, MI

Electronic Power Steering Team for Ford of Australia

Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States

• Responsible for the creation of diagnostic display screens and other electrical circuit designs
• Developed prototype dashboard display screens using drag and drop software to establish a design path for all displays used on John Deere Marine and generator products
• Designed new engine control circuitry for existing and new large watercrafts, resulting in 80% projected savings in warrantee claims.
• Created an internal database using Excel VBA to pull relevant engine data, used by the lead Customer Product Engineer and Technical Sales teams for customer presentations, resulting in a time savings of 50 hours per.

• Designed computer interface displays using RSLogix to be used in the prototype facility to ensure material alignment, resulting in 25% less product development waste
• Determined the load impact of wire racks suspended from pilot facility ceiling by completing structural safety studies, resulting in 30% cost savings for the company on outside contract costs.
• Implemented an additional safety relay switch into a prototype facility manufacturing line, resulting in elimination of 50 hours per year of machine down time

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Corporate Finance And Investment Banking

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Engineering Physics

Activities and Societies: Pioneer Investment Club

Research Assistant, Polymer/Plastics Engineering

Plastics engineering and manufacturing research regarding the electrical properties of different plastics when carbon black is introduced.