Résumé

Accountant – Lowe’s Companies, Inc.

• July 2018 – Present

• – Design, build, and implement new reporting system (ETL, cleaning, interactive dashboards, daily and periodic reporting)
• – Offer new insights into fees and processing errors, and facilitate significant fee reduction through daily reporting tools
• – Use Microsoft Power BI, DAX, Access, Excel, Power Query M, SQL, and other tools to clean, analyze, and visualize a variety of financial data
• – Work with data from Oracle PeopleSoft General Ledger software to summarize and analyze credit/debit interchange, assessment, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. fees
• – Evaluate Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and AmEx fees and volume (international and domestic tiers)
• – Investigate debit interchange variances, creating cost-saving potential by altering network transaction volumes
• – Create dashboards summarizing transactions totaling ~$200M daily
• – Extract and analyze data using MicroStrategy reporting tools (DART)
• – Provide data-driven insights into fraudulent transactions
• – Conduct SOX testing to assist internal audit and inventory teams
• – Maintain industry-leading PCI DSS and security standards
• – Fortune 40 company – Mooresville/Wilkesboro, NC

Graduate Research Assistant – Appalachian State University

• 2017-2018

• – Supervised by Dr. Sandy Vannoy, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs & Research
• – Assisted with literary review of hundreds of social media, social computing, and social networking articles
• – Created review of rankings of business ethics academic journals
• – Researched hybrid/executive business graduate programs as part of an exploratory study
• – Assisted with analysis of department budget, program goals, and student fees
• – Supervised by Wendy Deng – WCOB Graduate Programs Budget Director
• – Graduate Programs differential tuition research
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Serials Processing – Belk Library at Appalachian State University

2014-2018

• – Managed, created, and updated thousands of item records with Sierra ILS database
• – Conducted annual audits of periodical subscription invoices and receipts
• – Worked on various special projects for serials and receiving
• – Saved the Library $4,000+ annually in subscription fees by eliminating unread publications

Intern – Johnson Price Sprinkle PA

• January-April 2016

• – Worked with CCH® ProSystem fx® Suite software to prepare clients’ tax returns
• – Analyzed clients’ financials for §1250 and §179 depreciation savings opportunities
• – Responsible for completing various accounting projects
• – Oversaw records digitization project for Boone office

Conference Assistant – Appalachian State University Housing

• Summer 2014

• – Used STG Conference Programmer software to coordinate and monitor thousands of residents across campus
• – Managed 10,000+ residence hall keys

Sports Official – Appalachian State University Recreation

• 2013

• – Officiated intramural sports games and championships
• – Shift supervisor for soccer referees

Staff – William B. Shuford Recreation Center

• 2010-2013

• – Sports official, office manager, score/timekeeper, groundskeeper, landscaper, and more
• – Officiated and was a score/timekeeper for baseball, basketball, soccer, and volleyball program
• – PA announcer for baseball games

Walker College of Business

GRADUATE STUDIES

Master of Business Administration – Applied Business Analytics

• – May 2018
• – MBA Top Student Award
• – Selected as Graduate Commencement Speaker
• – Chancellor’s Fellow
• – International Experience in Switzerland, Italy, and France
• – Completed analytics practicum with CommScope (Hickory, NC) focusing on quality control
• – Emerging Leaders Certificate – BB&T Leadership Institute

Master of Science – Accountancy

• – May 2018
• – Chancellor’s Fellow

Analytics Graduate Certificate

• – May 2018

SAS® Global Joint Certificate

• – May 2018

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

B.S. in Business Administration – Accounting

• – August 2016
• – 3.87 GPA – Summa Cum Laude
• – University Honors
• – Walker College of Business Honors
• – Published Honors Thesis – The Effects of Accounting Standards Update 2014-09: Revenue From Contracts With Customers
• – International Experience with Honors/MBA Program – Warsaw, Poznań, and Kraków, Poland

Alliance Bible Fellowship

• – Boone, NC
• – Active Member 2012-Present
• – Worship Leader on Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings, and Wednesday evenings
• – Taught various Bible studies and classes for college ministry
• – Taught Systematic Theology/Doctrine to high school ministry
• – Co-led four Superstorm Sandy disaster relief trips to eastern NJ through the NC Baptist Men/Baptist Builders

Beta Alpha Psi

• – Member
• – Peer Mentor (2015-2016)

ASU Honors College

• – 2012-2016
• – Appalachian Honors Association Member
• – Peer Mentor

AppolCorps Leader

• – 2013
• – Led a group of 25+ freshmen through a three day orientation

ASU Cone Residence Hall Council – President

• – Managed Residence Hall budget and oversaw student programs
• – Planned and directed weekly meetings for student and faculty representatives

Appalachain State University

• – MBA Top Student Award
• – Selected as ASU’s Graduate Commencement Speaker – May 2018
• – Recipient of Chancellor’s Fellowship – ASU’s highest award for graduate studies
• – Chancellor’s and Dean’s List recipient
• – Recipient of 5 Walker College of Business merit scholarships
• – Junior Marshal – Walker College of Business
• – Member – Beta Alpha Psi
• – Member – Beta Gamma Sigma (Top 10% of Class)
• – Member – Appalachian Honors Association
• – Member – Walker College of Business Honors Association
• – Member (Previous) – Gamma Iota Sigma
• – AIM High – Prestigious Scholars Program

MBA – Applied Business Analytics

• – Applied Analytics Project
• – Data Management
• – Economics for Decision Making
• – Executive Skills
• – Fundamentals of Business Analytics
• – International Experience – Business, Ecotourism, and Climate Change in the Alps
• – Managerial Finance
• – Marketing Strategy and Applications
• – Operations and Supply Chain Management
• – Probability Analysis and Quantitative Methods
• – Security, Privacy, and Ethical Issues in Technology
• – Strategic Management

Master of Science – Accountancy

• – Accounting in the Business Environment
• – Advanced Accounting Capstone
• – Advanced Managerial Accounting
• – Audit Concepts and Applications
• – Auditing Theory Seminar
• – Contemporary Issues in Accounting
• – Current Issues in Technology and Accounting Information Systems
• – Executive Seminar
• – Survey of Financial Accounting
• – Taxation of Business Entities/Accounting Regulation

B.S. Business Administration – Accounting

• – Accounting for Not-for-Profit and Governmental Organizations
• – Accounting Principles I
• – Accounting Principles II
• – Accounting Systems and Internal Control
• – Auditing
• – Business Capstone
• – Business Communications
• – Business and Economics Statistics I
• – Business and Economics Statistics II
• – Calculus with Business Applications
• – Cost Accounting
• – Foundations of Information Systems
• – Individual Income Taxation
• – Industrial/Product Design (Honors)
• – Intermediate (Financial) Accounting I
• – Intermediate (Financial) Accounting II
• – Intermediate (Financial) Accounting III
• – International Experience – Business in Poland (Honors level)
• – Internship in Accounting
• – Introduction to Finance
• – Introduction to Marketing (Honors)
• – Introduction to Organizational Behavior (Honors level)
• – Honors Thesis
• – Legal Environment of Business
• – Macroeconomics
• – Marketing and Society (Honors level)
• – MBA Executive Seminar: International Leadership and Ethics (Honors level)
• – Microeconomics
• – Principles of Risk Management and Insurance
• – Productions and Operations Management
• – Strategic Management (Honors level)
• – Systems Analysis and Design