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Arnold, MD Street Address Email: EMAIL AVAILABLEMobile: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE Linked-In: Candidate's Name -35707aa PROFILESenior business leader with 20+ years of experience in the technology industry leveraging financial competency to drive exponential growth in multinational companies. Specialized in financial vision and leadership and communication. I am a strategic thinker and planner skilled in design and execution of financial and business cases. I am highly passionate about my teams development and wellbeing. Created an exceptional People Plan and hired and created a team of highly skilled individuals for our initial team expansion in finance and commercial management. I went on to re-imagine our business operations team to align the focus and goals to 3 critical pillars of the business, Engineering, Sales, and Services. I can be composed when reporting/presenting to executive management and am able to influence business partners and stakeholders with data backed recommendations.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCECiena CorpDirector of Business Operations Blue Planet Division September19 Current Developing strategies to maximize effectiveness for Sales, Engineering and Delivery teams through digitization of standard processes such as quoting, KPI measurements and product commercialization. Increased productivity by 30% by taking the lead to re-engineer the quote and sale processes by digitizing the Salesforce processes, and 50% quote time turnaround for sales and finance groups. Reduced KPI calculations from hours to minutes by implementing initiative to expand key data analysis and enabling stakeholders across the organization to have access to current and accurate data. Oversaw improvements in commercial readiness for new products and services that substantially reduced deploying new products and services into the market from several weeks to a few days. Ciena CorpDirector of Finance Blue Planet Division January16 September19 Created the processes for forecast and P%L modeling for this new start-up division within the enterprise Built a P&L model for forecasting. Streamlined the initial quote process and created an expedited quote operation. Wrote the business cases resulting in 3 successful acquisitions which grew the business +60%. Ciena, JapanDirector Business Operations Japan and Korea Blue Planet Division 2011 2016 Managed the pricing, and Terms & Conditions negotiations with customers and distributors that help to achieve 40% revenue growth and maximized cash flow. IBM JapanFinancial Services Sector Coordinator Finance & Planning 2008-2011 Lead a virtual analyst team and drove GPM +5pts Drove a cross-functional team to complete Financial Plans Strategy and executive reviews. Analyzed and proposed investment initiatives with cross brand teams Managed financial risk in contract signings and renewals by partnering with Sales and Legal Intel Japan K.KQuote Center Manager ICG Business Operations 2005-2008 Developed and implemented a quote desk for Japanese distributors, managing a staff of three. Improved time to market on quoting by 60% Analyzed market trends for competitive pricing and created the first-time market models Created indicator package to measure team effectiveness Intel Japan K.KFinancial Analyst Intel Japan Finance 2002-2005 Managed weekly reporting to Intel senior management for Japan cellular business revenue Business manager for Flash memory and cellular processor products ($350M/year) Managed the $50M merchandising budget Influenced business partners on retail investment strategies using statistical and ROI analyses Intel CorpFinancial Analyst 2000-2002Managed budget for 800 HC, Capital ($50M) and Expense ($110M) (Close/Plan ) for IT Engineering Performed ROI and TCO analyses for engineering projects Managed business acumen development for IT Finance by generating training programs & material EDUCATION B.S. Finance, Japanese minor California State University, Sacramento 2000- Deans Honor Roll.LANGUAGES English Japanese, Fluent; Language Proficiency Exam Level 2 TECHNOLOGY MS Office Suite (Advanced) Salesforce.com (Intermediate) MS Power BI (Beginner) |
