Career Summary:
A Driven, Proactive, Financial Planning Professional, with team leadership
experience in all aspects of global financial project management.
- Strategic and tactical budget planning (100 M$+) -
Monthly closing and reporting
- Financial measurement and forecasting processes -
Operations / Internal Audit
- Variance and root cause analysis
- Product pricing
- P&L forecasting and measurement
- Financial modeling (Excel, etc
- Business Case creation and measurement (ROI, IRR,
etc
With my MBA and an MS in Information Technology, I possess strong
communication skills, which I use across all functions and levels of the
organization. Daily interaction with the following is the norm.
- Supervisory experience (2-3 pers.)
- Senior Exec. Management
- Development Management
- Project Managers
- Operations Management
- Site Controller
Key Achievements
- Achieved budget attainment accuracy of 0.5 %
- Project rollout forecast accuracy
- Implemented a global 15 % cost challenge
- 20+ successful project rollouts
- Developed a project portfolio process to align and
distribute investment funding.
Education:
MS - Master of Science, Management Information Systems, Syracuse
University
MBA - Masters of Business Administration, University of New York @
Binghamton,
BS - Bachelor of Science, E.E.Technology, Colorado State University
Employment History:
UBS
Senior Infrastructure Financial Analyst (Consultant: 9/2009 to 12/2009)
Work with UBS financial directors to identify internal cost structure
related to IT charges to the trading floor. I developed a transparent
variable/fixed cost strategy to allow management to identify and focus on
areas so that they could remove cost to their organization. Working with a
team, I implemented a metrics process to measure the actual and forecast
accuracy of these elements. I presented these results to the management on
a monthly basis along with deep dive analysis of the variance to these
forecasts.
IBM
Senior Financial Project Manager (3/2005 to 4/2009)
Provide financial expertise and ensure that organization executives are
aware of all activities affecting the financial health of global projects
in all phases of development and that of meeting their annual budget
obligations.
Manage all financial aspects of the global
hardware/software/services portfolio
Manage a financial project portfolio of 25-30 global
web focused sales tools
Balance a budget of 100 M$ between these projects in
various levels of completion
Financial plan/yearly budget coordination
Coordinate Quarterly and Month-end closing process
Advisory Financial Analyst (2000 to 2005)
Support the organizations project managers in the financial maintenance
of their respective projects. Guide these project managers into meeting the
projects financial objectives while still implementing the web based sales
tools on time and to the satisfaction of the IBM Sales force.
Business case creation, measurement and
forecasting
Monthly coordination of measurements review to
executive level management
Coordinate and be key management interface to
organizations (strategic) fall plan
Drive all plan activities and reviews to
successful closure
Advisory Pricing (1998 to 2000)
Developed Pricing for all IBM Endicott produced circuit boards,
substrates and panels.
P&L responsibility, reporting to the Plant Manager
Internal and external pricing communications
Revenue forecasting
Several large complex circuit board systems (ex. Sun
Sparc)
24-36 Layer Complex Circuit board configurations
Developed and maintained IBM legal approved pricing
models
Monthly pricing measurements with the plant manager and
management team
Business Office Operations Planner (1995 to 1998)
Consolidation Project Leader of the IBM Endicott manufacturing site
backpanel (motherboard) circuit board business in establishing and
achieving the product financial goals.
Responsible for the entire product line of circuit
board products
Revenue/cost forecast and measurement
Budget Planning
Product Forecasting
Monthly Measurements
I will supply references and additional work history upon request.