Will Entriken ✆ 484.843.1313 ✈ Philadelphia ✍ Resume
Current status: Senior Financial Analyst at CDI Corporation, responsible for budgeting, forecasting and analysis to support corporate reporting requirements and to provide insight to individual business units.
Professional accomplishments in finance
- Designed budget system using IBM Cognos Planning to forecast operational and financial metrics of 500 offices with $1B in revenue and supported 100 business users going live, while taking into account tax situations and different ways of doing business in parts of the global company.
- Implemented an activity-based cost methodology to understand cost structure at an engineering company. Used results to price new products with confidence.
- Prepared a $50M private equity infusion deal for a small hi-tech manufacturing company, including financial and business modeling, discounted cash flow models, and site selection for expansion.
- Visit acquisition target of an international company to integrate financial reporting methods.
Professional accomplishments in engineering
- Designed and built a Cisco SONET OC-192 network to use in a laboratory environment. Then studied available vendors to recommend a technology path for integrating a company's products with the system.
- Won and managed commercialization for $2 million in US government research contracts, leading to products that will be used in outer space, U.S. defense, and calibration of the atomic clock.
- Performed engineering test cases for networking and sensor systems. Used test results to fix software, which is now running on deployed naval warships. Designed budget system using IBM Cognos Planning to forecast operational and financial metrics of 500 offices with $1B in revenue and supported 100 business users going live, while taking into account tax situations and different ways of doing business in parts of the global company.
- Participated in standards committees which created implementation agreements that the world is using to create 100GB networks.
Professional accomplishments in IT
- Invited by the FBI, FINRA, and SEC to lead discussions on information security affecting online stock brokerages. Identified and advised on insecurity which had exposed millions of investors to unauthorized access to their accounts.
- Led design and implementation of management reporting systems at MRINetwork to combine financial, operational, and real-time on the field metrics into a single online tool.
- Collaborated with Google on an independent project to improve open source software. Still active today in mentoring new team members.
- Collaborated with Google on a contract basis to improve open source software. Still active today in mentoring new projects members. Contributed accepted patches into KDE, the Linux kernel and leading other community based products on SourceForge and Google project hosting
- Created a real-time and historical performance monitoring tool for SEPTA rail cars and proposed a new scheduling algorithm to reduce passenger delays across the entire system.
- Helped start a successful property and casualty insurance sales company, cofounded and acted as president for a non-profit organization and started my own design and consulting company to deliver security solutions to customers and online branding/protography... and to pay for college.