Work & experience

Nearly 30 years of making operations legible.

One operating instinct across every chapter — enterprise systems, operations leadership, real estate, and founding ventures. Full case studies live on the Projects page.

Senior IT Business Systems Analyst — a Pacific Northwest energy utility

2016 – Present

Promoted through progressive roles supporting IT governance, capital portfolio operations, and organizational effectiveness.

Scope
  • FP&A and governance oversight for a $200M+ utility IT capital portfolio.
Financial planning & analysis
  • Lead variance analysis (budget vs. actuals) and explain the drivers to finance and leadership.
  • Support capital planning and forecasting of capital spend; track cost to plan.
  • Build financial models and scenario analyses; manage month- and quarter-end close support.
  • Design the management reports and dashboards leadership uses to make capital decisions.
Governance & systems
  • Support capital reporting, accruals, and work-order processes; develop governance controls and documentation.
  • Lead root-cause analysis on financial and process issues.
  • Partner across finance, procurement, property accounting, project management, and IT.
Results
  • Built a centralized project-governance and training library that improved consistency and process adherence.
  • Strengthened reporting, compliance monitoring, and cross-functional decision-making.
FP&AVariance analysisCapital forecastingFinancial modelingPortfolio governancePower BISAP

Operations Manager — healthcare services

2006 – 2016

A decade leading people and process across three sites in a specialized, highly regulated environment.

Scope
  • Daily operations across three service locations.
Responsibilities
  • Hiring, staffing, scheduling, performance management, coaching, corrective action, and succession planning.
  • Compliance with regulatory, operational, and safety standards.
Results
  • Built high-performing teams and led process improvements and change initiatives.
  • Reduced risk through investigation and corrective action.
Multi-site leadershipWorkforce planningComplianceContinuous improvement

Real Estate Investor — Family LLC

Ongoing · Supporting

Operational discipline applied to physical assets.

Scope
  • Rental-property operations and long-term asset stewardship.
Responsibilities
  • Renovation and market-readiness planning; contractor coordination.
  • Working with insurance, legal, financial, and real-estate professionals.
Project planningVendor coordinationBudgetingAsset stewardship

Founder — House of Jyo & Rainier Country

Ongoing · Supporting

Building products and a brand from the ground up.

Scope
  • Two ventures — systems-based digital products and a PNW lifestyle brand — in active development, with early sales at community markets.
Responsibilities
  • Product and brand direction; designing templates, planners, and dashboards.
  • Using AI to accelerate planning and content.
Product strategyDesignRoadmappingAI workflow design

Earlier Experience

1997 – 2006 · Foundation

Operations, analysis, and technical-support roles that built the foundation for later systems work.

  • Operations Assistant, Warehouse Demo Services (Kirkland, WA) — supported the operations coordinator for the NW division of Costco's in-warehouse demo contractor; helped coordinate vendors, schedule demos to avoid conflicting products, analyze traffic and conversion, and wrote demo scripts and sample-prep instructions.
  • Technical Support Representative, Authorize.Net — helped e-commerce merchants resolve payment-gateway issues for a major online payment provider.
  • Member Service Representative, BECU — supported credit-union members in a high-volume call-center environment.
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