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Greater Salt Lake City Area

Commercial real estate investment in Salt Lake & Utah counties, focused primarily on retail, office, and industrial properties.

Southern California

Consulting for online companies to develop and implement analytics and technology strategies. Services include maturity assessment, development of short and long term roadmap, building executional teams comprised of analytic and technology professionals, and leading those teams to deliver business value.

Irvine, Ca

Member of executive team that developed enterprise vision/strategy/tactical plan, produced 20+% CAGR every year, simultaneously rebuilt entire product suite and foundational systems, transformed into an analytic enterprise, and presented accomplishments to private equity and strategic suitors, ultimately selling at a massive premium to standard valuation multiples. Over 5 years, company value almost tripled.Led 150 person division and produced the following key accomplishments:Built full-service analytic organization to support corporate strategy, site experience/monetization, vehicle valuation, market intelligence, and financial forecasting. Transformed KBB vehicle values into the industry “gold standard” by introducing new valuation capabilities and replacing qualitative approach with multivariate predictive models. Changed valuation paradigm from reporting to prediction.Delivered “voice of the consumer” intelligence to advertising partners, which translated consumer site behaviors and survey perceptions into actionable recommendations, enabling advertisers to target consumers more effectively.Built all-new technology stack using agile methods (Scrum/Kanban), including:• Data warehouse architecture that supports advanced analytics on billions of observations• Business intelligence platform that delivers web metrics • Entire vehicle information suite, including central valuation and specification system, transaction normalization engine, and hand-held auction transaction capture• ETL platform with massively scalable and customizable data constructsLaunched data management group to support evaluation, ingestion, normalization, and interpretation of all data sources. Concurrently, initiated aggressive data collection program, expanding breadth to over 250 sources and annual volume to over 2 billion observations.Commissioned division-wide business process re-engineering (13 depts), creating significant additional capability with static headcount.

Southern California

Engaged in software development consulting, specializing in the entertainment and automotive industries. The company was continuously profitable for its entire history, with cumulative revenues of over $15mm, and at its peak, a 41 person team.• Full P&L responsibility.• Led corporate strategy, business development, marketing, managing consultant workforce, and personal consulting engagements. • Partial client list: Paramount Pictures, OroAmerica, Technicolor, Republic Pictures, Learning Tree International MCA/Universal, Disney, Nissan Motor Company, Dreamworks SKG, Fox Studios, Toyota Motor Sales, Sony Pictures.• Personal consulting assignments consisted of program management for large-scale projects (up to $12mm), with over $50 million in total projects managed. Examples include: √ Replaced obsolete ERP software, including manufacturing, distribution, and financial subsystems. Managed $12mm budget and 50-person team. √ Built custom software for video release planning, forecasting, budgeting, and complex analysis/reporting. Managed $7mm budget and 42-person team. √ Established formal IT support for Studio Operations division. In less than a year, completed Y2K remediation, developed three-year plan, and implemented five new systems. √ Managed the enhancement and implementation of licensing & merchandising package software. √ Led $15mm development of custom artist publisher royalty system for global use. Subsystems included contract management, label copy, artist, and publisher. √ Led IT group responsible for worldwide videocassette distribution. Conducted four projects simultaneously over eighteen months, including: inventory control process optimization; UK ERP implementation (finance/distribution); custom advertising/publicity distribution system; and radio frequency scanners at US distribution facilities.

Mba, Decision Science & Strategic Management

Activities and Societies: Fellowship: Center for Operations Management, Education & ResearchGraduate Teaching Assistant in Statistics.

Managerial Economics

Minor in Psychology