I started out by going to school and getting an accounting degree and the economics degree with an emphasis in accounting. After that I went to the public accounting route working for Arthur Andersen, and I worked there for a couple of years. After that, after working there a couple of years, I went out of the public accounting industry and went into the private side of accounting, so to speak. An opportunity came up with Utah Jazz, and so I applied there and was a Jazz controller for a while. And I have continued career on the accounting, finance side. I've transitioned more into of an analytics type role with the Jazz, with financial analytics and reporting for the Jazz, and really learning about sports and entertainment.

I'm responsible for all the financial reporting here at the Jazz and Larry Miller Sports and Entertainment. So we handle the Jazz, the Salt Lake Bees and mega complex movie theaters. And we kind of help make finance related decisions in regards to the company and, we evaluate business decisions on that. My hours are typically nine to five, forty hours or so a week, forty five hours a week, depending on the workload or whatever needs to get done. The responsibilities and day to day decisions that I handle at work: And again I'm primarily responsible for financial reporting and analytics. So we handle reporting for the group from a financial perspective, both internally and our board of directors. And then we handle a lot of analytic type projects. So whenever there's a business decision that needs to be made that involves some financial component, we'll help doing analytics on that. My working hours are pretty straightforward. You know, nine to five ish, typically forty to fifty hours a week or so, depending on what needs to get done.

Software models, algorithms, etc that we use at work... So we have our general Ledger software that we use. We have a data warehouse, Teradata that we use. We have a whole BI (business intelligence) team that helps kind of do all the work to get that stuff loaded. Once it's integrated, we just use some standard tools that we can run SQL queries against that Teradata warehouse. We also then push our reporting up, either into Excel or into a program called Domo. We use a lot of dashboard operational reporting or we use Tableau for specific analytic type projects.