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Phoenix, Arizona, United States

- Responsible for leading a team of analysts focused on driving the Enterprise forecasting process for the annual operating plan, quarterly outlook, and 10-year strategic plan. - Partner with Innovation Center of Excellence (iCOE) teams to define investment strategies for next horizon of growth from new businesses. - Member of the Innovation Portfolio Governance (IPG) team focused on defining, data, systems, processes, and metrics for measuring impact of R&D investments and portfolio success.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Responsible for directing the financial decisions of multiple business units with combined revenue of +$300M and R&D spend of $50M, while providing direct leadership for 2 associates.- Member of the Cardiac Business Unit leadership team working to establish measurable business outcomes that will lead to increased profitability. Responsible for leading the annual financial planning process consisting of strategic planning, operational planning, and financial forecasting.- Prepare quarterly performance presentations for senior leadership. Communicate variances and make recommendations. Identified opportunity for manufacturing cost savings improving COGS by 8%. - Member of the Innovation Business Unit leadership team helping to shape the strategy for investing in future growth opportunities and the establishment of the venture funding model.- Provide leadership to two associates including coaching on business cases analysis, financial modeling, sharing of best practices across businesses, and functional improvement projects.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Responsible for directing business unit (BU) financial decisions with top to bottom line P&L ownership. - Member of the BU leadership team driving strategic direction. Made key contributions to BU strategy refresh focusing on competitive approach, defining capabilities, and outlining financial impacts.- Lead several capital budgeting analyses for sales growth initiatives, new R&D projects, regional sales expansion, and external partnerships. Leveraged DCF, ROI, and payback methods to advise on the projects with the greatest impact helping to deliver results for the organization.- Developed portfolio optimization model to evaluate various portfolios consisting of multiple products. Made recommendation for preferred portfolio based on criteria for revenue growth, P&L / balance sheet impact, and shareholder return. Presented to the Board of Directors and received approval. - Executed the bi-annual short term and long-term revenue plan. Focused on developing 5 and 15 year revenue forecast utilizing data on market growth, average selling price (ASP) trends, competitor positions, and new product introductions. Evaluated performance to plan and developed quarterly outlook projections for the current fiscal year. - Lead the financial analysis for 4 acquisitions and 1 divesture. Partnered with external consultants to focus on portfolio alignment, strategic fit, and synergistic value. 3 of the 5 projects did not advance while two have advanced to due diligence.- Championed new process for forecasting divisional revenue leveraging a market share approach. Built organizational capability by leading 25 member project team in designing foundational tools to support the process. Lead change management activities to roll out and train +250 associates globally.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Responsible for developing the annual budget for the Divisional Sales & Marketing function. Advised functional leaders on financial matters impacting their plans while making recommendations for resource allocation.- Developed KPIs leading to the improvement of financial performance. Extracted insights on the return for different investment types and prioritized resources accordingly. - Grew knowledge in the development, clinical trial, and regulatory approval of Class III medical devices.

Tempe, Az

BrightStar is a privately held home care agency providing a full continuum of in-home care while adhering to the highest standards of quality. I was recruited to assess the operations and provide strong directional leadership while transforming critical business elements to facilitate the profitable sale of the business.- Responsible for the operational leadership of the business, consisting of 100 field employees and 1,000 patients per year generating over $2.5M in annual revenue.- Total P&L responsibility for all company operations including, decision making on resource allocation focusing on OpEx trade-offs, identifying savings opportunities, and approving projects with positive contribution margin and ROI. - Direct oversight of 5 employees providing professional development, HR oversight, and establishing performance objectives. - Achieved 2% increase in gross margin year-over-year by restructuring customer mix, applying appropriate rate increases, and eliminating unnecessary cost of sales. - Reduced days sales outstanding (DSO) by 20 days through the development of new internal processes and outsourced specific functions identified through a make vs. buy analysis.

Sunnyvale, Ca

FP&A analyst responsible for forecasting and tracking over $1B of annual projects with a focus on timing of sales, profit, and cash collection. Engage with cross functional teams to develop current and comprehensive forecast. - Responsible for developing and analyzing resource budgets focusing on variances and additional internal investment opportunities. Utilize MS Excel and Hyperion reporting tools to develop models for analyzing key business metrics. - Develop 5 year long range plan projecting new business and associated financials.- Analyzed aged working capital and identified an additional +$6M of unaccounted for profit.

Sunnyvale, Ca

- Constructed and presented a detailed balance sheet by division for monthly executive management reviews. Emphasized MTD changes impacting business working capital. - Generated business unit Federal and State tax schedules by analyzing quarterly financials in order to produce tax liability forecast. - Developed innovative business tool leveraging prior position’s experience which resulted in identifying an additional +$11M of R&D tax credits.

Sunnyvale, Ca

- Financial analyst for $100M multi-year contract. Responsible for initial budget, variance and risk analysis, developing financial forecast and managing financial performance.- Developed ad-hoc financial reports to assess business metric performance and used to recommend and implement cash management solutions as sole resource between customer and internal senior leadership.- Instituted weekly process based on self-developed reports. Presented results to internal and external senior management, improved cash receipt timing by 20%.

Sunnyvale, Ca

- Lead proposal efforts resulting in over $130M in new business. - Presented senior management with technical and financial proposal summaries focused on staffing requirements, profit, and return on sales for proposal submission approval. - Compiled pricing, schedule, and technical elements in the development of a cost proposal document in accordance with request for proposal (RFP) specifications.- Contracted with engineering, legal, and compliance to develop a MS Project schedule and basis of estimate for the successful planning of engineering resources.- Supported customer pricing evaluation, audit, and negotiation of proposals while adhering to firm due dates.

San Jose, Ca

Xilinx is a leading developer of programable integrated circuits powering cloud computing, 5G wireless and Industrial IoT. I was hired as a Business Analyst due to my past success of working with cross-functional teams. In this role, I was the owner of the quarterly price publication process for all company products. This required me to collaborate with cross-functional teams to organize detailed product price list used to develop quarterly price books in a highly time sensitive environment. I successfully implemented process efficiencies that reduced quarterly cycle time by >8%.

Phoenix, Az

Element Payment Services provides integrated PCI DSS compliant payment processing solutions for software developers and merchants. At this small company of less than 50 employees I was hired as the sole Business Analyst to perform financial analysis in support of the Sales & Marketing team. Reporting directly to the Chief Marketing Officer, I developed dashboards, ad hoc reports, and business health & variance analysis which were presented to the executive staff monthly.

San Mateo, Ca

Researched firm performance statistics to develop detailed proposals used to market the company’s institutional wealth management services in response to RFPs/RFIs. Generated proposals that resulted in over $100 million in new business.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science, Business Finance

Activities and Societies: Sigma Chi FraternitySigma Chi Fraternity - Rush Committee Chairman Responsible for coordinating recruitment.

Bachelors Of Science, Finance

Graduated Cum Laude Honors