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Sigma Squared LLC

Sigma Squared is dedicated to making business processes more efficient, effective, and secure. Do you have a clunky process that you know could be better? Do you have that one part of your business that you hate doing? What about the manual process that you have to do over and over again? If you have any of these, we can help you.

The team at Sigma Squared has saved companies hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of manual work by automating processes. Here are some examples:

A client needed to do a monthly billing analysis with multiple conditions. The manual task took two days each month to complete. Our team provided a solution that completes the work in 10 minutes.
Another client had a process that took between two and three hours every day. Our automation tool completes the job for them automatically in 15 minutes each morning.
Yet another was having their salespeople spend hours each month creating sales presentations for clients. Our process creates hundreds of customized, client-specific reports each month so the salespeople can grab what they need and get to the meetings.
Finally, another client had a full-time accountant to generate client invoices for 40 hours each week. Our process creates the same invoices and syncs the data between QuickBooks Online and SalesForce.com in as little as 15 minutes each day, regardless of the number of invoices that need to be created.

Chances are high that there is something you are doing right now in your company that could be streamlined or automated. Every minute you spend doing a redundant task manually is a minute you could have been spending on growing your business.

At Sigma Squared, we believe that anything that can be automated, should be automated. Why waste precious brain power on completing manual tasks when you could be using that brain power to analyze your business? By the way, we help with that, too.

Reach out to us and tell us about that boring or repetitive task, and let us design a solution for you.

CUSITech

CUSITech provides national onsite implementation services including Low Voltage, Electrical and Hardware Installations on a project/rollout basis. We strive to fully understand the client’s expectations and the outcome of each project to deliver quality and success to save time and money while achieving optimal communication and accountability.

VP of Finance

Program Manager

Kentucky Medical Services Foundation, Inc.

Senior Financial Analyst

Spectrum Financial Alliance

•	Optimized and automated reporting structure, utilizing databases, Visual Basic macros, pivot tables and Excel functions; streamlined daily reports saved the company approximately 33 hours of work time per month (a 75% improvement in efficiency) 

•	Developed tool for block trading that analyzed every account managed to determine the appropriate size of the trade based on customizable criteria; tool reduced allocation time from 3-4 hours to less than five minutes per trade

•	Wrote a program to calculate and generate client annual reports in a single afternoon; previously a 3-4 month manual process 

•	Designed, marketed and delivered a three-day boot camp for kids, teaching financial and life skills in a fun, interactive way; received 100% positive feedback from participants

•	Developed financial plans for prospective clients, identifying ways to overcome or avoid financial pitfalls, and align their current financial situation with their goals; all plans were approved by the staff Certified Financial Planner 

•	Served as Subject Matter Expert for non-operational aspects of the company, including compliance, finance, investments, hedges, retirement, Social Security, Medicaid, derivatives and equities.  Coached and trained staff in these areas.

•	Managed social media accounts, publishing frequent financial content to drive engagement with followers. Increased Facebook followers by 66% and had more than a 40% average open rate on email campaigns.

Senior Portfolio Analyst

Abbott Nutrition

• Set pricing for more than 1,000 customer contracts each year, ensuring that all prices were within tolerances across three classes of trade (COTs). My region drove more profit improvement than any of the other three regions every month for the three years I was on that team.

• Developed and executed a response strategy to an imminent competitive threat, preventing nearly 5,000 customers worth $65 million from converting to the competition

• Streamlined delivery of sales tools to the Field by redesigning the primary financial model to 
maximize data integrity, improve stability and automatically flag errors, resulting in a 39% decrease in rework requests

• Managed and mentored summer intern on the development of a profitability reporting tool that saved my team 2-3 days of work per month 

• Designed and taught training programs on strategic selling and uncovering needs, consistently receiving a perfect 10 out of 10 in participant ratings, and helping to contribute more than $4 million in increased sales since 2010

• Created a business review process whereby hundreds of unique, personalized and customer-
specific sales presentation can be systemically generated, providing more robust and timely sales tools to the Field

• Streamlined and automated the competitive analysis process, transforming multiple 4-5 hour processes into 10 minute exercises. This resulted in higher employee productivity, greater accuracy, uniformity of process and a much needed repository of competitive intelligence.

• Led seminars on financial modeling and financial concepts for coworkers in other functional
areas

Victoria's Secret

• Conducted weekly State of the Business reviews with the CFO and senior management, calling
out competitive and geo-political threats, identifying opportunities and recommending strategies for growing the business

• Responsible for forecasting and analyzing trends on $1.5 billion of inventory, accounting for CRM adjustments, complex accruals, changing market drivers and capitalization

• Innovated the cutting-edge “Director’s Handbook”, an all-in-one business report that instantly captured the most up-to-date financial and marketing data from 12 separate functional areas at the click of a button. 

• Owned and managed several lines on the P&L, and was responsible for fully understanding the actual and intrinsic values, forecasting trends, and anticipating and explaining variances 

• Organized a monthly Lunch-n-Learn which brought in high-level cross-functional speakers, giving finance coworkers an opportunity to learn about other aspects of the business and network with the leaders of the business

Bank of America

• Consulted multi-million and billion-dollar clients on treasury and liquidity strategies and solutions

• Uncovered multiple opportunities to improve our clients’ bottom lines and the bank’s bottom line at the same time, resulting in more than $5 million in incremental business

• Managed a project focused on doubling Bank of America Treasury profit within four years by identifying new business opportunities, emerging markets and strategies for selling deeper to existing customers 

• Traveled throughout the U.S., meeting with real estate company executives, presenting win-win strategies and personally closing on deals that added more than $400,000 in bank assets

• Lead a team of 50 analysts nationwide on the “Know Your Customer” Patriot Act risk compliance initiative, bringing thousands of treasure customers into compliance with the new law within three months

• Increased bank assets more than $12 million through industry leading sales techniques, client-
focused competitive analysis and financial consulting

• Exceeded sales goals by 10-30% per quarter, earning top loan officer rank in flagship banking center 

• Mentored and trained team members on how to improve client experience and ethically drive sales

• Built relationships with many Japanese speaking clients because I could communicate in their native language

Treasury Consultant

KK Prospect

• Analyzed value and profit potential of investment properties for the Prospect Residential Fund Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)

• Presented analytics, maximum allowable offer (MAO) and buy/pass recommendations and rationale to senior management team in Japanese 

• Negotiated the purchase of several $30-$40 million multi-family properties for the REIT portfolio

• Gained understanding of Japanese real estate markets and the logic that goes into valuing complex investments

Investment Analysis Intern

Honolulu Country Club

	Selected because the marketing manager needed a Japanese speaker to bring fresh marketing ideas

	Designed a series of magazine advertisements aimed at Japanese/Chinese readers

	Developed a highly detailed financial analysis tool created to save the company $2 million in 2 years

Management Intern

Finance professional with 30 years of progressive financial experience, including international business, investments, sales, financial analysis, strategic pricing, insurance, loans, trusts, real estate and consulting.  Excel at identifying opportunities and implementing strategies to increase productivity and streamline processes.  Develop powerful financial models that address business problems and provide insights quickly and efficiently.

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