My Work

PwC
January 2011 - Current (Audit Associate, Audit Senior, Management Consulting Senior Associate)

PwC is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's second largest professional services firm measured by 2013 revenues. From 2011 to 2013, I provided assurance to the capital markets by providing audit and compliance services to public and privately traded companies in the Pacific NW. In May of 2013, I transitioned into the Management Consulting practice where I now use my accounting/finance/project management background to provide strategic consulting to technology sector clients. I am finding joy in this role as I become a better and more trusted business/people advisor.

WORLD ASSOCIATES

2009 (Intern - Aqaba, Jordan)

World Associates is a non-profit development organization that alleviates basic felt needs leading to self-sufficiency, personal development, and health in the community, especially amoung the poor. My role duirng this time had three components, 1) community development, 2) teaching english, 3) growing relationships. Through my time as a friend, english teacher, and advocate, I was privaleged to be mentored and coached by the Director of the organization, Rob Bashioum. This experience continues to influence who I am today.

AO

September 2008 - June 2009 (Resident/President - Eugene, OR)

The Alpha Omega house is a Christian cooperative living space for college-age men owned and operated by First Baptist Church of Eugene. I had the privalege of spending my college years as a resident and leader within this house. While I cannot imagine living with 28 dudes again, I would not trade those times for anything.

Frank Rimerman and Co.

2008 (Intern - Palo Alto, CA)

Frank Rimerman is one of the largest locally-owned providers of accounting and consulting services in the Silicon Valley. As an Financial Services intern, I had the opportunity to work in the following groups: start-up audits, high net-worth individual taxation, investment modeling and business valuation group, and accounting services. My favorite rotation by far was working with the business valuation guys where I was able to design and build a CRM tool to house industry multiples (Access DB).

SAMBICA

2007 (Adventure Counselor - Bellevue, WA)

Spent an incredible summer working with kids in the beautiful Pacific NW. I worked as a residential camp counselor which meant that I spend every waking seconds with kids all summer long. This time helped grow a new respect for teachers (like my mom) and parents around theworld. Yet, I was able to renew a piece of my own inner-child.

University of Oregon

September 2005 - December of 2010 (Student/Accounting, Economics)

My time in Eugene, OR was some of the best years of my life. I chose Oregon because I wanted to stay close to home yet experience a different type of people in a different place. I studied accounting and honestly chose the major because it was supposed to be the most difficult business major, it was. I chose economics because I am facinated by the interactions of economies and how seemingly small decisions can have a significant global impact. As a first-gen Oregon grad, it holds a special place in my heart, not to mention the fact that 1 year later I became a Oregon merger, meaning I married another Oregon grad.

Supra (GE Subsidiary)

April 2005 - August 2005 (Assembly Line Worker)

I spent the time between coming home from Cambodia and school workin at Supra, a GE subsidiary, where I built residential lock boxes on the assembly line. I worked 10 hours a day to finance my life and school. I worked hard during this time and constantly tried to find new ways to do the work faster and more efficiently only to be told that I could not change the process. This was by far my most humbling job (besides working on a tree farm as a middle schooler) yet also motivational as I anticipated that I would one day end up in business. In fact, I remember one day on the line when I saw a group of suits (business men) walking through the factory talking about process efficiencies. Looking back at the situation now, it is crazy that I am now the one walking through the proverbial factory.

Cambodia via Youth with a Mission

September 2004 - March 2005 (Student/Aid Worker)

After living a comfortable life back home, I knew I needed an adventure that would challenge my worldview and beliefs.  Therefore, I jumped in the Discipleship Training School through an organization called YWAM with the intention of discovering my passions and my part in God’s purpose for the world. During this six-month period, I lived in Honolulu, Hawaii and Phnom Phen, Cambodia and I learned more about faith, culture, and business then I have learned at any other point in my life. It was largely this experience that propeleed me to puruse business as I saw the influence and scale of businesses all over the world.