Executive Staff Manager
Resume:
Brent M. Gandhi
Redlands, California 92373
************@*****.***
SUMMARY:
Over fourteen year's progressive senior management and analytical
experience in operations, financial planning & analysis, accounting,
marketing, program management, database management, direct mail, and
logistics, involving annual budgets from 100M to 1.3 Billion dollars.
Preparation of on going and special analytical reports including GIS,
financial /operational analysis, contracts and compliance analysis,
people/resources management, computer systems knowledge/applications and
successful communications with multiple levels of senior and operational
management.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
5/10 - Now, Manager of Finance & Operations, Project Mgr. to CEO, Calif.
InterContinental University, Diamond Bar CA
. Manager responsible for operations including HR, Legal, and Facilities.
Plan, coordinate, and conduct analysis of administrative, operational
facilities management activities. Conduct contract negotiations with
vendors; Handle all areas of HR including interviews, hiring, contract
establishment, reviews, disciplinary actions and terminations.
. Prepare and review current contracts and budget proposals by analyzing
need for budget items requested to determine whether or not items are
justifiable, based on program objectives and priorities, and cur5rent
funding sources;
. Direct, train, assign, and evaluate subordinate accounting, clerical and
technical personnel in the performance of standard tasks.
. Prepare daily reports on compliance and operational status, represent CEO
to vendors and outside contacts.
1/09 - 3/09, Administrative Services Analyst II, Riverside County,
Facilities Management, Riverside, CA
. Plan, coordinate, and conduct studies of administrative, operational
facilities management activities including fiscal operations, budget
preparation and control, equipment usage, staffing patterns, work flow
and space utilization.
. Prepare and review budgets by analyzing need for budget items requested
to determine whether or not items are justifiable, based on program
objectives and priorities; reviews financial data on an on-going basis to
ensure conformance with established guidelines; examine and make
recommendations for the transfer of funds.
2/08 - 10/08, Senior Financial Analyst, The Mentor Network, Rancho
Cucamonga CA
. Perform in-depth analysis of financial results and make recommendations
to management.
. Preparation and review of operating and capital budgets, monthly
reforecast of projected results, work with management team in developing
and tracking strategic goals, review and approve capital requests.
. Analysis of future ventures and research funding sources, reporting
requirements, and rate development.
. Provide ad-hoc analysis for customer contract compliance, budget
reconciliations for multiple programs.
. Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual compliance and financial forecasts
and reports, including variance analysis.
. Ensure reasonableness and accuracy of financial statements through trend
and variance analysis.
5/06 - 2/08, Senior Analyst, Finance, Marketing, Operations, Consolidation,
Logistics, Contract & Compliance- (Finance and Accounting
Professionals, Robert Half Management Resources, Bausch & Lomb,)
. Create reports to forecast, track and measure customer compliance,
provide variance analysis.
. Implement comprehensive compliance tracking and variance system.
. Provide ad-hoc analysis for customer contract compliance, budget
reconciliations for multiple programs.
. Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual compliance and financial forecasts
and reports.
1/05 - 6/06, Senior Financial Analyst, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
. Created financial reports to forecast and measure multiyear modeling.
. Implemented comprehensive expense reporting, monitoring and approval
system.
. Managed multimillion-dollar budget and daily financial operations and
analysis for School of Business.
. Created and presented financial presentations to executive staff.
. Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial forecasts and reports,
supervised up to 3 people.
6/01 - 12/04, Senior Analyst/Operations/Financial/Marketing Consultant
(Clients: Pala Casino Resort & Spa, Harrah's Rincon Casino, Casino Morongo)
. Implemented new marketing reporting and analysis that reduced direct mail
costs by 35%.
. Created new marketing reports that accurately measure revenue generation
and event participation.
. Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial forecasts and reports.
. Evaluate and monitor financial performance, make financial
recommendations to CEO and executive staff.
. Manage Player Development department including payroll, staffing, and
scheduling.
. Process all personnel paper work, for hiring, reviews and terminations.
. Supervise budget, expenses, accounting, research & analysis, writing and
presentation of reports to executive staff. Created and implemented new
department policies and procedures.
. Manage promotions, budget preparation, performa's and back end P&L
analysis.
. Plan, design, implement and maintain (GIS) used for database analysis,
incident/trend analysis, and forecasting.
9/00 to 5/01, Staff Analyst I, Department of Aging and Adult Services, San
Bernardino CA
. Manage, plan, coordinate, and direct administrative functions for
multimillion-dollar government programs/grants for Department of Aging
and Adult Services (DAAS).
. Perform cost/benefit analysis, business forecasts and special studies.
. Monitor and report contract compliance and variance justifications.
. Submit grant applications, and manage and monitor programs once approved.
. Act as department contact person with Federal, State and other
governmental agencies.
2/92 - 9/00, San Bernardino Police Department, San Bernardino, CA
2/92 - 7/99, Community Service Representative, 7/99 - 9/00,
Geographic Information System (GIS) Analyst,
. Conduct criminal investigations.
. Prepare and maintain reports. Write press releases for release to the
public and the news media.
. Interpret, apply and explain ordinances, rules and regulations.
. Plans, design, implement and maintain (GIS) used for crime,
incident/trend analysis, and forecasting.
. Write application specific training manuals and train personnel.
. Perform extensive research, analysis and report writing for presentation
to executive staff. Establish procedures and recommend policies and
standards.
9/87 - 12/91, Program Manager, Logistics Analyst, Frontier Engineering
Inc., Norco CA
. Manage TACTS (TOP GUN) program, perform extensive research, analysis and
report writing.
. Execute performance and reliability analysis and reports.
. Provide technical support and documentation of systems operations.
. Complete reliability forecasts on the TACTS (TOPGUN) program for the
Dept. of Defense (DOD).
. Perform cost/benefit analysis, business forecasts and special studies.
Document operating procedures.
. Complete project- designs, plans, forecast and schedule to ensure meeting
budget and time constraints.
Additional Skills:
. Oracle, ADI, Hyperion, Smartview, Microsoft Office, Access, Excel, Power
Point, and Word.
. ACSC, PeopleSoft, Datatel Accounting, FRX, Cognos, and Showcase, ArcView,
ArcInfo.
. Crystal Reports, SQL, dBase and RDBMS
. Experienced in using computer software programs including graphics,
database, spreadsheet, word processing and Internet applications.
Education:
Masters of Business Administration
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
In Process
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
California Baptist University, Riverside, CA
Completed 12/2001
Associates Degree in Computer Systems San Bernardino Valley
College, San Bernardino, CA
Completed 12/2001
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