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Principal Designer
San Francisco, CA
May 2002 - Present (21 years 11 months)
• Self-employed doing freelance and self-initiated projects with a focus on independent music, typography, language, popular culture and film, branding and identity systems, book design, posters, motion graphics, and illustration.
• My work has appeared in group and individual shows, books, zines and blogs, and on t-shirts, album covers and posters.
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CalPlanning, Office of Strategic Program Management
Berkeley, CA
Dec 2013 - May 2014 (5 months)
• Temporary contract position. Performed various design, development, testing, QA, and maintenance and support roles on the team responsible for UC Berkeleys financial planning and budgeting applications, while working for the CFO’s strategic initiatives office.
• Assisted in the development and delivery of end-user training for the budgeting application and is user interfaces and tools.
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Specialist Master, Performance Management Technology
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 2009 - Sep 2010 (1 year 2 months)
• Overall technical solution architect for complex business planning and performance management implementations. Led the technical define and design stages of projects, conducted pertinent interviews and fact-gathering, and managed the development of high-quality business requirements and technical design documents.
• Mentored client team members identified to assume production support and admin. roles. Also managed and mentored a team of Deloitte Consulting technical and functional resources.
• Assisted client change management/training team in development and delivery of training to large groups of client users.
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Architect and Manager, Specialized Services
Los Angeles, CA
Feb 2007 - Jun 2009 (2 years 4 months)
• Served as project manager and solution architect for small-to-medium-scale Hyperion Planning and Essbase projects, and as BI architect or Hyperion lead on large-scale implementations such as enterprise data warehouse solutions.
• Responsible for managing financial performance and adherence to budget while ensuring timeliness and quality of deliverables. Maintained regular communications and excellent relations with client teams and executive sponsors.
• Performed user experience design for custom reporting interfaces, including logos, icons and workflows.
• Acted in both formal and informal capacities to mentor colleagues and younger consultants, providing support, guidance and constructive feedback as appropriate, in order to maximize both their personal success and that of our projects.
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Senior Business Analyst
Culver City, CA
Jun 2006 - Dec 2006 (6 months)
• Served as Essbase track lead within the IT group implementing a large enterprise data warehouse for the domestic and international home entertainment divisions. Lead a team designing and developing applications to support various strategic and operational objectives, including financial reporting, planning and forecasting; sales and marketing; and demand planning.
• Worked directly with the CFO and domestic and international CIOs of Home Entertainment, and other key executives and stake-holders to develop a set of applications to provide robust, intuitive analytic capabilities to the CFO’s global staff.
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Financial Systems Analyst
Santa Monica, CA
Mar 2005 - Apr 2006 (1 year 1 month)
• Held a dual-function role as a member of both the corporate financial planning group and the information technology group. Reported to the Vice President of Financial Planning and worked closely with the Director of Analytics.
• Member of a team that designed and implemented an ambitious program to deliver a full suite of performance management and FP&A functionality, including financial budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning; sales, marketing and brand management; workforce planning and human capital analytics; and profitability and product management.
• Served in a change management capacity, by acting as an ambassador for the new systems and processes, training users and stakeholders and working to increase acceptance of the new environment. Created and delivered all training courses and documentation for both user and system administrator and technical support audiences.
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Principal Engineer
Ventura, CA
May 2001 - Apr 2002 (11 months)
• Architect of the Essbase component of a major data warehouse initiative, a strategic Finance/IT partnership at corporate HQ. A strong working relationship with the Finance Director and her staff and deep grasp of their processes were key to the position.
• Gathered and documented the reporting and analysis requirements and developed the application to reflect the business logic behind the company’s unique time-phased way of evaluating its “same store” results.
• Trained and advised a core group of finance super-users, who then assisted in the training and support of the full group of approximately 100 users. Designed and led classroom training sessions for these users and provided follow-up support as needed.
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Business Process Analyst / IT Solutions Specialist
Palo Alto, CA
Jun 1997 - Sep 2000 (3 years 3 months)
• Technical lead in the design of a BI system utilized by HP Consulting’s globally-dispersed finance organization, which
used it to perform timely and accurate planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis of their financial performance.
• Traveled throughout HP Consulting’s operating regions in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas to learn the business
needs and gather requirements, documenting how the new solutions could most effectively meet those needs.
• During and after deployment, collaborated with the project’s functional lead to create user training materials and deliv-
er training to users around the world. Created highquality documentation and administrator’s guides for international
team of IT support staff and administrators, and subsequently managed their ongoing work.
• By enabling the division’s long-stymied reorganization and process re-design, from HP’s legacy manufacturing to a services
model, the project realized dramatic returns on investment in lowered costs and improved performance and competitive-
ness, reducing monthly close processing by two full days and allowing the reallocation of four FTE financial analysts.