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Todd Marlin

Todd J. Marlin is a Manager is a Manager of Deloitte & Touche's Analytic & Forensic Technology practice within Financial Advisory Services. Mr. Marlin provides consulting services that require a broad range of accounting and technical skills. He has designed proprietary software for the Bank of New York Mortgage Company. Todd has also developed custom solutions in use today by Deloitte & Touche and Deloitte & Touche clients.

Todd received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from St. Thomas Aquinas College. Todd is a candidate for the Master's of Science in Management and Systems from New York University.

Claudia Fernandez

I am from Brazil and have been living in the USA since August last year since my husband was invited to work here in US for two years at Pharmacia in New Jersey. I am taking this opportunity to improve my academic background and I decided to take the IT graduate course, which is being very rewarding to me. I have thirteen years of working experience within operations management, business planning, project management, logistics, and customer service at leading companies in Brazil, with several international working trips and meetings to Latin America and United States.

Professional Background

Planned and managed team for day-to-day operational activities in business planning and sales administration areas in the consumer market to ensure that the strategies were aligned, the goals and objectives were successfully attained and products were launched according to schedule.

Liaison between sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing to proactive identify and solve possible constraints and gaps, in order to assure that all areas were aligned in the same objective and product would be available to fulfill customer and sales needs at the right time.

Responsible to lead, on a weekly basis, meetings with sales and support teams to report status of orders, forecast x actual, product and order issues and align areas in order to reach monthly sales goals

Managed project team for development and implementation of an in house system (SMAP - Sales Management Automated Process) to reduce operational process, minimize rework and improve OTC process.

Led development of a plan to integrate operational areas from different divisions in one single department and coordinated and implemented the solution.

Planned, directed, and coordinated activities of designated projects, ensuring that aims, goals and objectives were accomplished in accordance with outlined priorities, time limitations, and funding conditions.

Responsible for the first Motorola plant start-up in Brazil - business planning, operations and sales operations areas as well as team member of several cross-functional projects

Coordinated project implementation of new I2 Demand Planner system to Latin American countries.

Managed and coordinated short, medium and long-term demand forecast for Motorola PCS division - Consumer division

Professional Experience

Motorola do Brasil
Period: 1996 - Aug/2001
Position: Business Planning Manager

Kostal do Brasil (Germany company in the automotive sector)
Period: 1995 - 1996
Position: Importation Supervisor

Sadia Industrial S.A. (Largest brazilian food company)
Period: 1992 - 1995
Position: Importation Analyst

Hewlett-Packard do Brasil
Period: 1988 - 1992
Position: Sales Administrative

Educational Background

Graduate in Information Technology - Concentration in Leadership and Business Management
NYU - New York University - NY - USA - on going - dec/2002

B.A. in Business Administration (Major in Marketing)
FAAP - Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado - Sao Paulo - Brazil - 1994

Additional Courses and Certificates
Project Management - New York University - 2nd quarter - 2002
Fundamentals of Project Management and M-Gates Motorola University - 2001
Fundamentals of management - Motorola University- 2000
Advanced Marketing Management
BSP - Business School Sao Paulo - Brazil - 2000
Excellence in Sales - Motorola University - 1999
Marketing Management
FGV - Fundacao Getulio Vargas - Sao Paulo - Brazil - 1997
Financial Math - FGV - 1997

Pei-Yen Lee

My family and background in brief
I was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Taipei now is one of the biggest cities in the Asia Pacific area. My parents and my three brothers were Taiwan emigrants who came here in the early 1990's. My father is an active architect who has two master degrees and my mother, a housewife. My father's business is strictly in Asia, he spends a great time on business traveling and conferences. My older brother graduated from Parsons-New School in 1996, now is running his own business as a contractor. My younger brother received his M.S. from Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering, in year 2001, and now is working for Salomon Smith Barney as a system engineer. I'm currently in New York University/SCPS pursuing my first Master degree and expecting to graduate this Fall 2002.

My Education
B.A - Accounting & Information System. Queens College, CUNY
M.S - Management & Information System. NYU/ SCPS. (Knowledge management is my last course toward to the degree. I'm currently working on my thesis and expecting to graduate this Fall 2002)

My Career in brief
David J. Greene & Co, LLC, New York - Senior Accountant/MIS Department
My primary responsibilities are daily NPV calculation for funds, bank reconciliation, P&L analysis, daily/weekly cash projection, monthly closing, and all other accounting stuff.

Merrill Lynch, New Jersey - Mutual Fund Specialist.
My primary responsibilities were daily trade processing, daily pricing, resolve problem trades, asset reconciliation, maintain and update security's master files, preparation of fund's tax returns, tax research and planning, and sometimes assist in training new people.

My favorites
With the growth of Internet, now it is my favorite to search and download music, MTV, and movies from the web. My other interests are gardening, cooking, and swimming.


Jose Maytin

I am an ERP Functional Consultant/Financial Analyst with 10 years of professional experience in several different industries. I have implemented several of Oracle’s Financial Applications across these business sectors. MY ERP Application experience includes implementation work in the Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Engineering, and Financial Services industries. I am an Oracle Certified Professional (O.C.P.) with the designation of “Oracle Certified Functional Implementation Consultant: Procurement”. My skillset in this regard includes General Ledger, Payables, Purchasing, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, Workflow, System Administration, and Project Accounting. In addition to Oracle application implementation experience, I have hands-on financial research and analysis experience yielding me broad accounting skills and an understanding of financial services and markets.

Caroline Sdano's bio, the short version:

Caroline Sdano is an active management consultant and principal of her own consulting firm. She has been helping clients to successfully implement new and re-engineered systems since 1971. She has worked to optimize the person/systems interfaces so that users could effectively employ state-of-the-art technology. Her work is very broadly based and has been applied in government and in a number of industries, including banking and financial services, telecommunications, computer and office equipment, telecommunications, airlines, car rental companies, pharmaceuticals, and entertainment.

Her consulting career has taken her to Algeria, where she served as manpower advisor for 6 weeks on a 12-person team of engineers for the Government of Algeria's state-owned enterprise for petroleum exploitation, SONATRACH, conducting the work in French. In the late eighties, she successfully bid a variety of I Love New York tour programs of the Department of Commerce of New York State. A number of her efforts are published on the Internet.

Caroline is an adjunct professor for New York University's Information Technologies Institute teaching courses on Knowledge Management. She pursued her MBA, All But Thesis, at the New York University Stern School of Business Administration, with a major in Management & Organizational Behavior. She further has her AB, from Cornell University, cum laude in English. Caroline was also a Westinghouse Science Talent Search Finalist.

Caroline has a 17-year-old daughter attending the Bronx High School of Science. Caroline does volunteer business requirement work for New York Youths At Risk. She lived in Paris after graduation from Cornell and her many travels have taken her as far as India for two weeks.

You can see more about her work at http://acticom.hypermart.net (no WWW).

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