Kazuki Takehashi

Created monthly and annual budgets, analyzed financial data, formulated financial plan to manage costs and resources, created monthly financial reports to management and direct financial planning, and coordinated activities of audit and tax engagements with CPA firm. - Created excel macro files to improve the operational efficiency of the accounting process by 20% and streamlined management procedures. - Collaborated with the production department to calculate production costs and inventory values.

Managed the monthly financial close process and account balance reconciliations, participated in the ongoing development/establishment of accounting policies and procedures and operational strategies including the review and implementation of process and system changes, collaborated with external auditors to ensure successful audit results and compliance. - Participated in a team that accomplished adoption of accounting system from QuickBooks to Dynamics 365 and trained 5 staffs on how to use Dynamics 365 for monthly closing purposes. - Collaborated with sales department to aggregate sales data and improved the operational efficiency by 20%. - Improved operational efficiency of cash collection and bad debt revenue recognition by creating management procedures and applications.

Created monthly financial reports to management and direct financial planning and Coordinated activities of annual audit and tax engagements with CPA firm. - Provided and managed annual budget of $500,000 for a period of 5 years. - Analyzed financial data, formulated financial plan to manage costs and resources and helped the company stay within the budget for 5 years in a row. - Collaborated with production department to calculate production costs and reduce the costs by 5%. - Reduced time spent on inventory by 30% by creating management procedures and applications. - Implemented a financial accounting system and streamlined management procedures, improving the operational efficiency of the company by 30%. - Developed and managed finance organization of 7 employees in US and Mexico

- Developed a business plan and sales strategy for selling UDO (Ultra Density Optical) archival storages. - Initiated and coordinated development of action plans to penetrate new markets. - Planned 3 trade show exhibitions to demonstrate archival storage products.

- Instructed and educated customers in the use of SOC (System On a Chip) products. - Solved USB connectivity, SD card recognition, performance problems and user issues. - Provided technical support and solution which resulted in the acquisition of new customers. - Engineered new programs with customers according to needs and developed specifications for subcontractors. - Trained customers in the use of new features.

- Developed a OCR(Optical Character Recognition) system of Korean characters for the mobile phone. - Created a mahjong game for the mobile phone using Java language. - Created the company’s homepage using HTML, CGI, and JAVA. - Created the program that adjusts the color and transforms Raw data to a BMP file. - Developed the secure, personal connection function of the modem card.

Skills learned consisted of finance fundamentals, Python programing and financial libraries, data analysis, financial analysis, machine learning applications in finance and modern tools in cryptocurrency and blockchain.

Skills learned consisted of Python, SQL, Pandas, Matplotlib, Tableau, Flask, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Git, AWS (S3, Athena, RDS), Spark, VBA, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, R, Azure ML.

Skills learned consisted of machine learning algorithms, NLP(Natural Language Processing), Python, TensorFlow, machine and deep learning tools (RapidMiner, KNIME, etc.)