Sales Marketing

Kenneth Chung ********@*****.*** 781-***-****

Technical Summary

• Operating Systems: Windows 95-XP, 7, 8, Mac OS X Maverick, Mac OS X Snow Leopard

• Databases: Oracle, Hyperion, SAP,

• Languages: Javascript, HTML, CSS, SQL, PHP, Ruby

• Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, SRC Lawson, BasWare, American Express

@work, Comcash, Lotus Notes, QuickBooks, Argos, Unimarket,

Technical Qualifications

Syracuse University, Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse, York, NY

Bachelor of Science in Finance and Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises, May 2006

Minor in Information Studies

Study Abroad: Madrid Spain, Spring 2005 – Focus: International Business/Finance

Professional Experience

Teacher’s College at Columbia University, New York, NY (August 2012 - Present)

Systems Analyst

• Provided support to financial system users, acting as a liaison between the Controller’s office, HR, Budget, AP, Procurement and IT

teams

• Collaborated with end users, software developers, and database administrators to document application functional requirements and

oversee the development of software projects and system implementations.

• Key member of initiative to implement the Unimarket system, including a pilot phase with the primary objective of identifying and

redesigning key product components to make the system run more efficiently

• Managed, Analysis and Design tasks and resources on assigned software development projects

• Identified project tasks required to address business requirements

• Mitigated and anticipated road blocks to avoid delays

• End to end experience of the project lifecycle (waterfall and agile)

• Experience with designing and executing the test scenarios and scripts

• Created test plans for Oracle upgrades/patches and oversaw testing for the AP, Budget, Procurement, Payroll and Controller’s Office.

• Using Confluence, designed and created a central repository for all projects and procedures as well as historical projects and other

vital information for the Financial Systems Team.

• Designed a disaster recovery contingency plan and then tested it to completion

• Delivered, improved, troubleshot, and enhanced the functionality of departmental systems processes

• Maintain the Chart of Accounts

• Q&A testing for data integrity

• Assisted with monthly and year-end system closings

Monitor Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts (April 2010- April 2011)

Senior Financial Analyst

• Developed financial models to forecast company’s world wide cash flow projections, updates made on a weekly basis for senior

managers

• Created revenue models for our separate entity to compare year of year revenue and analyze for strategy improvements

• Analyzed cases to compare profitability and make recommendations on how to improve

• Forecasted and analyzed weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly collection targets

• Created and distributed financial reporting packages for Board of Directors explaining drivers of variances

• Created and analyzed budget variance reports and provide variance analysis to senior management

• Provided support of the companywide financial forecasting and budgeting processes

• Assisted in creating financial reporting structures in forecasting and budgeting financial systems

• Maintained models and submit weekly reports to the bank to pass bank covenants

• Trained team members on financial models, SRC monthly report creation, identifying variances and resolving disputes in a timely

manner

Microsoft, Needham, Massachusetts (June 2007 – April 2009)

Business Analyst

• Worked with senior marketing leaders to create and develop a $14M Marketing budget

• Oversaw and managed the company’s $45M Sales budget and $9M HR and Legal Department’s budget

• Developed and created dashboards on key performances for senior management

• Worked with senior managers to create yearly budgets and forecast for their department in a multinational, multicurrency

environment

• Created and analyzed budget variance reports to enable senior management to make strategic decisions

• Tracked cost for the Microsoft merger and integration; created forecast to accrue for future costs

• Constructed new processes and reports to help streamline work

• Helped integrate FAST’s policies and systems to align with Microsoft’s policies and systems

• Assisted in creating and documenting new processes and manuals

• Prepared A/P accruals and other various activities to help with month and quarter-end close, and year-end audit

• Processed expense reports and documented the process

• Trained team members on PO system; identify discrepancies and resolve disputes on a timely basis

Unitrends USA Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts (April 2002-June 2007)

Operations Manager

• Increased retail sales every year by at least 20%

• Assisted the CEO and help managed key wholesale accounts and price points

• Developed and launched three new brands into the American Market

• Developed financial reports to determine revenue, annual budgets and sales goals

• Developed website and database to help grow brands in new regions of the US

• Restructured company’s cash flow and debt policy to erase debt within 2 years

• Assisted in development of a marketing campaign which entailed tracking advertisement response and effectiveness, creating sales

promotions, and finding new advertising channels

• Created merchandise displays and aided in the grand opening for the store

Echopinion.com Syracuse, New York

Strategic Consultant Fall 2005

• Supervised a team of 3 people to create and launch a campaign to increase membership enrollment

• Analyzed primary and secondary research data to determine current trends with potential members

• Implemented guerilla adverting to create innovative ways to improve current membership without any money

• Completed an industry overview of cleaning materials industry, then created unique ways to market product

• Aided in creating and packaging a media kit for presentation to the client

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