Objective

To assist and advise clients regarding activities involving the purchase, sale, or lease of business property while implementing strategies learned from personal business ownership experiences.
 

Education 

§         University of Central Florida; Orlando, FL   

M.B.A.   

     §         Maryville College; Maryville, TN                                   

Bachelor of Arts in Business Organization and Management 

Minor/concentration   - Finance/Accounting and Computer Science

Applicable Experience

Durden, Inc. d/b/a Planet Smoothie                 (Orlando, FL)                       

• President/Owner-Operator

-Manage employees and operations of multiple Planet Smoothie franchise stores

-Manage finances

-Participate and coordinate marketing activities to promote the brand in the Orlando market

-Advise and counsel new and potential franchisee’s

-Develop and search for new opportunities to expand existing business in the Orlando market

 Siemens Westinghouse                                                     (Orlando, FL)                       

§           Financial  Planning Analyst: 

-Team lead on the development/implementation of a new planning and budgeting tool created by a software company in Germany.

-Developed and tracked program budgets through interaction with engineering management and analysis of market and historical data.    

-Evolved a model used to budget for Customer Order Engineering and Performance Testing.

-Tracked program budgets and assisted managers in re-forecasting and reporting on a monthly basis.

-Facilitated a financial training class intended to educate engineering management on various financial concepts and financial tools used to assist them.

-Tracked and reported engineering non-conformance costs.

-Produced monthly engineering cost reports for upper level management

-Investigated and clarified all major cost center variances.

-Assisted engineering management in preparing quarterly program reviews to be presented to division management.