Allen has automating financial processes for close to 20 years working directly with 100+ customers and 1000’s of successful projects. He spent three years with IBM Cognos earning Senior Consultant and later as an IBM Cognos and Unicom partner.  Allen’s specialties in the office of finance are architecting financial reporting, consolidation, and FP&A processes.  If he is doing it manually, he is doing it wrong.  Allen provides expert knowledge in sales engineering, Six Sigma, and PMI project planning & management. Allen is a dynamic customer engagement manager, keen SQL author, finance & accounting specialist, IT master, fun trainer, tricks of the trade documenter, and on-time and on-budget implementer. Allen combines his background as a Cal Poly SLO Engineer and BS in Economics to provide creative solutions.  Allen enjoys skiing, friends, and his family.