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SAFEGUARD ASSETS • Manage approximately $1 billion cash/investments in accordance with Illinois statutes and MWRD Investment Policy, and oversee long- and short-term cash flows forecasting.• Design, implement, enforce, and revise external and internal controls/risk mitigation strategies.• Administer nearly $300 million Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) program for MWRD Retiree Health Care Trust.MAINTAIN STRONG FINANCIAL HEALTH• Complete ongoing credit updates to sustain or improve current AAA/AA+ ratings.• Ensure agency compliance with statutes, MWRD policies, and timely payments on over $2.5 billion outstanding debt.• Advise on fund balance, reserves, and other financial policies. DIRECT TREASURY OPERATIONS• Steer daily activities on liquidity management, investments, capital market bond/state revolving loan debt management, and revenue receipts accounting.• Oversee preparation and administration of a $6 million annual budget for the BOC department and a financial forecast for use in agency-wide planning.• Supervise annual MWRD audit reporting for cash, investments, and debt, and preparation of OPEB annual actuarial valuation and financial report.• Provide reports, analyses, and interpretation to the Board, Executive Team, and public on financial performance, investments, Strategic Plan, bond sales, green bonds, and annual budget.LED KEY FUNCTIONS ON $500M BOND ISSUANCE• Strategized and created credit rating agency presentations, earning AAA/AA ratings.• Evaluated, selected, managed bond sale team of 16 consulting firms.• Drafted content for Official Statement; reviewed/finalized document for accuracy.MANAGE STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION• Pioneered and implemented administrative processes to track and report progress.• Refine the Plan to evolve with changing industry and world contexts.• Drive inter-departmental efforts to achieve nearly 50 stated goals on over 140 initiatives.• Implemented first-ever MWRD Strategic Plan online dashboard.

Chicago, Il

LED DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS• Guided seamless transition to remote work with no work stoppages or delays.• Implemented new bank services on 10 checking, savings, and zero-balance accounts, with risk and user functionality design and set-up for over 25 employees.• Completed bond sale analyses/simulations; OS, investor/rating presentation, and other document review; consultant/vendor selection; and costs of issuance management.• Administered OPEB Trust in accordance with Illinois statutes, MWRD policy, and plan goals. Assessed and revised plan and trust documents and investment policy, reviewed portfolio and performance, and oversaw preparation of actuarial valuations and other calculations.• Directed procurement of banking, underwriting, financial advisory, and legal counsel services.• Supervised 150+ tasks and projects on cash/investments; debt; budget; and special projects.STRENGTHENED ENTERPRISE RESILIENCE• Designed/deployed fraud prevention strategies across 10 banking systems; re-engineered and implemented internal controls, cybersecurity, business continuity, and risk mitigation plans. • Managed/mentored staff, planned professional development, and created 170+ training SOPs.• Regularly evaluated Treasury procedures and trained staff to optimize productivity.• Continuously reviewed/revised Investment Policy for improvements to security, liquidity, and yield practices.LED/COLLABORATED ON SPECIAL PROJECTS/INITIATIVES• Headed inter-disciplinary working group to cultivate innovation through three major initiatives and 13 agency-wide activities, and advised on the public-facing Strategic Plan document.• Advised sustainability, climate action, and biogas re-use task forces.• Developed annual tax compliance reporting process for use by Inter-Governmental Agency partners, Treasury, Engineering, and Law.• Created simulation model of 30-year levies, balancing statutory limits and agency needs, for use by the executive team.

• Maximized investment interest income on a $1 billion portfolio while safeguarding taxpayer assets through adherence to Illinois Statutes and the MWRD Investment Policy.• Implemented new and administer over 75 existing repayment schedules in the SAP ERP system, including portfolio set-up, mapping, and configuration. • Developed simulation model of 30-year levies projections for use by the executive team, balancing multiple statutory limits and agency needs.• Redesigned a linear procedure for five staff members to process state revolving loan reimbursements within 24 hours, reflecting a reduction from three days.• Streamlined inter-departmental RFP process to reduce evaluation time by up to one week per evaluator per RFP.• Secured triennial NACWA recognition for MWRD’s “Excellence in Management” in 2014.• Review and reconcile daily banking activities approaching $30 million in cash flows through investment activities, electronic funds transfers, and book-keeping. • Reconciled monthly cash activity and forecasted month-to-month cash and investments averaging $1 billion. • Streamlined daily and monthly cash reconciliation and forecast processes with an 86% reduction in departmental work hours.• Prepared monthly investment and quarterly mark-to-market reports on up to 100 funds.• Automated cost-to-market valuation and interest accruals calculations to reduce annual processing time by three days.• Budgeted $5 million annual funds for use by the Board of Commissioners. Monitor year-to-date usage and availability, and identify funding adjustments needed throughout the year.• Prepared annual Financial Report on the MWRD’s $188 million OPEB Trust fund.• Created annual Continuing Disclosure reporting on over 400 MWRD security CUSIPs as mandated by the SEC.

• Analyzed and interpreted market data and research and created executive summaries.• Customized data presentations to executives of global corporations.• Secured and compiled consumer goods data from 10+ countries.

Mba, Operations Management, Leadership & Change Management

Bs, Communication Sciences And Disorders, Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society National Society of Collegiate Scholars

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