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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Novato, California, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Leading long term financial planning and revenue forecasting for Stadia 🎮• Enabling product strategy & goal setting• Partnering on growth initiative analysis & prioritization• Managing streaming technical infrastructure financial performance

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Led the design of a major procurement system implementation from inception through go live to serve as the front door of procurement for ~2K Googlers and ~$3B (~27K transactions) in purchases in the first pilot year• Developed the global strategy for Ariba supplier on-boarding and outreach for 20K+ Google suppliers• Designed and implemented a new ML algorithm that improves spend categorization accuracy, and significantly increases workload efficiency, achieving an 86% accuracy overall that would have taken ~6K FTE hours to map manually• Managed a team of two to manage projects supporting M&A and Bet procurement operations: six major Alphabetizations, two acquisition integrations on average per month, and four divestitures, which involved supporting Gcard migrations for over 5K employees, integrating over 2K suppliers, and migrating over 3K POs across over 10 countries

Austin, Tx, Us

• Founder of Graduate Video Game Network; Selected Member of Texas Venture Labs; VP of MBA Soccer Club• Member of Graduate Consulting Group, Graduate Business Technology Group, and Entrepreneurial SocietyMBA+ Project - Team Lead - Cognizant• Conducted four focus groups aimed at dissecting the misalignment in expectations between millennials and communication service providers• Constructed survey to be sent to over 1,000 consumers, which will enable more targeted product and service offerings• Created project plan, assigned responsibilities, and facilitated weekly client engagementsMBA+ Project - Consultant - Electronic Arts • Conducted secondary and primary research on EA’s escalated customer support process• Presented recommendations to VP on build versus buy decision for text analytics solution

Ridgefield Park, Nj, Us

• Created go-to-market strategy for Samsung to enter $3B industry which is now a key part of the company’s 2017 roadmap and financial forecasts after presenting recommendations to B2B executives• Evaluated 50+ US telematics service providers, ultimately recommending partners for Samsung’s hardware platform• Applied hypothesis based approach to test commercial electronic trends to inform business on product differentiators and consumer behavior thus improving product roadmaps and increasing sales team effectiveness

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• Designed business case and financial model for device upgrade and insurance program in Latin America; business case forecasted $2M in revenue over three years and was approved by executive leadership• Generated over $1M in savings in fraud escalation processes by improving efficiencies through reducing investigations into non-fraudulent claims, identifying database issues, and enhancing management metrics and reports• Developed and led innovative pilot to reduce insurance program losses by applying screen protectors to insured devices• Spearheaded consulting projects with clients, such as T-Mobile, Sprint and América Móvil, to deliver recommendations on program pricing model redesigns, new product business cases, and operational process improvementsInternal Consulting Assignment in Hong Kong:• Led team of three QlikView developers in pioneering an automated risk management dashboard for three new clients in APAC to enable local Directors with tools to manage program financial risk without analyst reliance• Presented incident rate analysis to Product Management leaders highlighting key issues with existing product constructs; resulted in construct modifications forecasted to provide increases in customer retention• Authored 30+ page manual to simplify business user experience with operating an internally developed risk engine GUI generating drastic reductions on overseas dependence

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• Constructed financial model to calculate cost and performance for IT projects, with budgets exceeding $250K, to increase business case efficiency for Finance Project Leads• Implemented project management tool for $200M IT project portfolio, and produced dashboard providing executive leadership high-level views of project and portfolio health • Managed relationship with Dell Inc., developing an execution strategy for a software rationalization and automated PC deployment for over 8,000 employees in North America

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• Coauthored article and reproduced a Federal Reserve stress test on top 20 banks in the US in order to measure effects of alternate forms of Tier 1 capital ratios on bank solvency• Provided updates and feedback on firm’s internally-developed macroeconomic investment model

• Worked in the office and on the shop floor doing a variety of jobs, including creating and operating CNC programs• Creating new management system and documentation for the company's insert inventory• Began set up of wireless system to back up information for all CNC lathes

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration, Management And Operations

Bachelor Of Science, Engineering Science, Economics