Featured Talent

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Startup Operations & Finance Leader with proven ability to shape processes and teams for rapidly growing organizations. Manages compliance, legal, ops, and accounting workflows for a multinational small business in the international development space. Proven ability to design and manage budgeting in collaboration with project technical leads and company ownership on over 50 active projects at a time.

Career Highlight 1: Built out finance and operations processes for a team that grew from 10-40 people during tenure. Walked into an organization that had no compliance/legal/ops/accounting/IT structure and helped to build out those workflows over the span of four years for an organization that is now 60 people and the leader in its space.

Career Highlight 2: Helped weather the storm of a revenue crisis for an organization that went from $3.2mm in annual revs to $1.2mm in just one year (government cancelled 90% of contracts in the span of 1 week). Helped organization to steer into new contract types and worked with CEO on budget and staffing decisions to ensure company could weather the storm.

Career Highlight 3: Recovered $500k in unpaid invoices that were originally cancelled by the government. About half of that was thought to be unrecoverable.

Why Hire This Candidate (In Their Own Words): I’m a gritty team player who enjoys solving problems and shaping processes. I’ve worked in a variety of industries with a variety of different entity types, proving my ability to learn and adapt quickly to new problems. I go all-in for the companies and people I work for and do whatever it takes to solve pressing issues.

Strengths: Great collaborator, problem solver and relationship builder. Willing team player and goes above and beyond when things are moving fast or deadlines loom.

Hobbies & Personal Interests: Enjoy playing basketball, skiing, and singing / playing guitar in a cover band on the weekends.

Education: Bachelor’s in Finance

Credentials: Collegiate and professional basketball player.

Industry Experience: Banking, Financial Services

Company Fit: Majority of experience is for companies of 10-40 people, with one year at a large financial services company.

Management Experience: 3 years of management experience, managing anywhere from 3-5 people during that time.

Software Experience: Mostly experienced in Quickbooks Desktop, with some brief experience in Quickbooks Online and Netsuite.

Open To: Hybrid, In-office, Remote