Experience

More than 15 years across software and services businesses and enterprise banking.

March 2023 to present
Buffalo, NY

Bootstrap Buffalo

Founder & CEO

Commercialization, turnaround and capital-readiness studio

  • Lead a studio working hands-on with 30+ founder teams across business strategy, revenue growth, product, delivery and capital readiness.
  • Rebuilt distressed software assets across product, sales, delivery and operating systems, retaining 100% of customers.
  • Built a five-tier, fixed-fee managed-service offering and standardized tooling, automation and runbooks across seven enterprise platform environments.
  • Developed financial models, unit economics, pricing, capital plans and investor materials, and led commercial and funding preparation for eight companies.
June 2016 to March 2023
New York, NY

Stark & Wayne

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Enterprise cloud platforms, software, professional services and managed services

  • Scaled from 2 to 200+ customers and increased annual recurring revenue 320%.
  • Led the pivot from vendor partner to competitor, converting $30M+ in forecasted partner ARR into owned recurring revenue.
  • Established weekly and monthly business reviews, KPI reporting, sales qualification, pricing, and standard master service agreements and statements of work.
  • Closed direct enterprise agreements up to $4M.
  • Directed a portfolio of 10+ infrastructure products from market discovery through release, pricing and enterprise adoption.
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April 2014 to June 2016
Getzville, NY

Citigroup, Institutional Clients Group

AVP, Finance Product Control
  • Managed P&L governance, revenue recognition, valuation and financial controls for a $50B+ portfolio of securities, derivatives and corporate loans under GAAP, IFRS and CCAR requirements.
  • Led consolidation and remediation of 30 global legal entities and $10B+ in assets, and built an audit-ready reporting framework adopted across departments.
  • Partnered with technical product management to improve revenue-recognition modules for swaps, options and structured products, accelerating onboarding and integration cycles approximately 3x.
July 2008 to April 2014
Buffalo and Getzville, NY

Earlier experience

First Niagara Bank, Business Operations Analyst
September 2012 to April 2014

Led automation, order-to-cash and compliance initiatives. Predictive cash-flow and audit models reduced ATM cash outages 94% and card operating expense 50%.

Citigroup, Global FX Operations
March 2011 to September 2012

Supported FX and treasury cash management for enterprise and government clients. Improved controls and documentation, reducing return payments 80% and processing errors 50%.

BSC, Software Developer & Business Analyst
July 2008 to March 2011

Built full-stack applications, workflow automation and customer-facing platforms for startups and small businesses.

Education

MBA, Finance
Niagara University
BS, Business Administration
University at Buffalo

Resume

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