Functional Skills

Data Science
Performance Management
Budgeting
Benchmarking
Strategic Planning
Procurement
Business Process Outsourcing
Business Intelligence
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Leadership Development
Forecasting / Projections
Operations Management
Cost Reduction
Growth Strategy
Portfolio Optimization

Software Skills

Microsoft Excel
ServiceNow
Cluster analysis
Salesforce
Microsoft Office
SQL
Tableau
Ariba

Sector Experience

Retail
Travel & Hospitality
Business Services
Technology
Real Estate
14
years

Years of Experience

4/24

Member Since


Fortune 500

Experience

 
Delaware North Companies Corporate Strategy & Development
Vice President, Revenue Management & Analytics
03/2022 - 04/2024
Global, Privately Held Hospitality, Retail, CPG, Entertainment 03/2022 – Current
● • Strategic Leadership: Lead cross-functional team in developing strategic plan designed to increase Free Cash Flow growth rate. Lead function responsible for delivering analytics & yield strategy for +200 Business Units.
• Maximize Growth: Deliver outsized growth in Lodging, Food & Beverage, Retail, Ticketing, and Gaming Products.
• Lodging: Reengineered management framework & analytical tools including implementation of RMS. Achieved multi-year portfolio RevPAR Index (RGI) over 100. Shifted relative rate of growth for portfolio by ~500 bps.
• F&B / Retail: Increased Same Store Sales productivity across various LoBs by 7%-14% annually, consistently outperformed market benchmarks and financial goals by standardized Customer, Space, Product & Price analytics.
• Ticketing & Attractions: Standardized seasonal competitive analysis; optimized pricing and product fencing.
• Advanced Analytics: Establishe

Delaware North Companies Data Science / Analytics
Director, Revenue Management Analytics &
11/2019 - 03/2022
• Program Management: Lead initiatives designed to transition to analytics driven account and product management.
• Data Infrastructure Design: Partner with technology team to develop data governance and data logistics requirements to support enterprise analytics vision. Wireframe base use cases for core analytics functionality.
• Portfolio Benchmarking: Improve benchmarking methods for various business types (Lodging, Travel, Stadiums, etc)
• Client Proposals: Partner with Operations to propose pricing, product & merchandising strategies to clients.
• Impactful Research: Perform economic & industry research in support of broader planning and business development goals. Partner with external groups to rollout SaferStadia, a COVID-19 transmission risk reduction model.
• Talent Strategy: Partnered with top academic institutions to implement Analytics Internship program designed to attract, retain, grow top analytics talent (post-covid strategy). Met target conversion & post hire per

Caesars Entertainment Global, Fortune 500 Gaming & Entertainment Finance
Director, Hospitality Analytics
11/2018 - 11/2019
• Trusted Advisor: Monitor hospitality performance and advise executive leadership of opportunities and risks.
• Executive/Ownership Engagement: Support key updates for Board of Directors, Earnings Calls, and Executive teams.
• Financial Planning: Lead Financial planning process for Lodging, and full P&L budgeting for select business units.
• Data Driven Decisions: Deploy automated SMT-to-Operator performance & decision support dashboards.
• Advanced Analytics: Develop automated pricing recommendation model, centered around a sell-to-inventory strategy

Caesars Entertainment Corporate Strategy & Development
Director, Revenue Management Strategy
01/2017 - 11/2018
• Provide SMT updates on Revenue Management forecast and market trends for all domestic owned properties.
• Partner with Marketing, Sales, and Revenue Management teams to deploy Channel Management model.
• Implemented strategy optimizing Total Rewards non-incented strategy, generating $19M Incremental EBITDA.
• Oversee annual hospitality revenue budgeting process for all domestic owned properties, ensuring that Finance, Operators, Channel Owners, and other key stakeholders are aligned.
• Lead analysis of Yield strategy & Marketing tactics with an emphasis on EBITDA optimization.
• Oversee special projects for President of Hospitality & SVP of Revenue Management.

Caesars Entertainment Product Management / Strategy
Director, Sourcing Systems Process & Analytics
06/2016 - 01/2017
• Developed & deployed enterprise Source-to-Settle systems strategy, providing 3rd party cost control and transparency.
• Oversee Enterprise Sourcing, Contract Management, and Procure-to-Pay systems.
• Designed & implemented Sourcing Pipeline & Saving application.
• Enhance existing spend analytics and commodity monitoring business intelligence platform.
• Deployed Capital Management platform designed to improve manage the company's Maintenance Capital.
• Oversee special projects for the CPO.

Caesars Entertainment Operations
Manager, Corporate Procurement Operations
12/2013 - 06/2016
Lead centralizations of procurement operations activities for global hospitality operations. Maximize spend under management and in program. Revolutionize spot buy strategy leveraging networked economy platforms.

Oversee deployment of Procure-to-Pay & Contract Management platform.

Manage supply chain sustainability through one of the largest bankruptcies in US history.

Caesars Entertainment Other
Coordinator, Process & Compliance
03/2012 - 12/2013
Establish enterprise standard business processes, draft technical specifications for enterprise platform, lead rollout of core platform functionality.

Ariba Global, Fortune 500 Technology Information Technology
Analyst, Technical Resolution
08/2010 - 03/2012
Serve a dedicated technical resolution point of contact for key accounts, including Fortune 500 organizations.

Lead functional and technical case resolution process for Ariba platform.