Professional Work
Finance systems architect. I design the financial data model, close process, and global multi-currency intercompany architecture that organizations run their accounting on — ~20 full-lifecycle implementations spanning ledger, procurement, banking & settlement, assets, and expenses.
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Kainos Group plc
Chicago, IL · 2025 – 2026Workday Financial Consultant — Implementation & Data Conversion
- Architected and deployed ~10 full-suite Workday systems spanning Financial Accounting, Payables, Receivables, Cash, Assets, & HCM.
- Built a Period Close dashboard and supporting automations that compressed period-end and year-end close cycles.
- Designed aggressive & conservative financial models for every client.
- Automated payroll accounting.
- Designed global multi-currency intercompany configuration — automating intercompany transactions and removing the need for manual elimination entries across entities.
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Huron Consulting Group, Inc.
Chicago, IL · 2023 – 2024Workday Financial Consultant — Implementation & Data Conversion
- Restructured Workday Grants Management for an R1 research university — rebuilt the financial-aid and sponsored-funding FDM around grant, scholarship, and loan hierarchies.
- Remediated post-production financials: built unearned-revenue recognition allocations and a calculated-field validation enforcing account posting rules on manual uploads.
- Designed the full FDM and configured endowments & fund accounting for a non-profit, producing conservative and aggressive statements via composite and matrix reporting.
- Built executive financial scorecards and dashboards, and created a dynamic scoping tool and Workday module ontology used as a build checklist across Launch implementations.
TopBloc, LLC
Chicago, IL · 2022 – 2023Workday Financial Consultant — Implementation & Data Conversion
- Delivered ~7 full-lifecycle Workday Financials and HCM implementations from design through go-live.
- Deconstructed legacy ledger accounts into FDM dimensions, reconciled opening balances, loaded data via EIBs, and built audit reports validating over $1B in accounting activity.
- Configured core financial business processes — Accounting Journal, Reversals & Adjustments, Allocations, and Period Close — with approval routing aligned to client controls.
- Led the solution design of a merger integrating two large healthcare enterprises' financial and HCM data models.
Plateplus, Inc. (currently Friedman Industries, Inc.)
East Chicago, IN · 2021 – 2022Trading and Purchasing Coordinator
- Co-managed the Hot & Cold Rolled Coil Steel futures derivatives trading desk via Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
- Negotiated contracts & Sourced Steel from every mill across the contiguous USA.
Indiana University Bloomington
Wylie Hall · Jan – Dec 2020Undergraduate Instructor
- Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (ECON-E321): Provided in-class assistance for more than 30 students, held weekly office hours, graded examinations, and worked directly alongside Dr. Gustavo Torrens to facilitate course instruction (optimization models, consumer & producer theory, Pigouvian taxation, deadweight-loss scenarios).
- Fundamentals of Economics for Business (ECON-B251): Tailored a curriculum and, without oversight, taught 3 classes/week to more than 100 students; worked with Dr. Gerhard Glomm to facilitate the main lecture (moral hazard, comparative advantage, Coase theorem, basic game theory, rational choice theory).
Workday Client Engagements
20clients11Financials7HCM2both13countries
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R1 University
Non-Profit (NGO)
Statewide Pension Fund
Healthcare
Hospitality — SaaS
Entertainment — Hollywood
Insurance — Software
Trucking & Logistics
Retirement & Investment Firm
Immigration Law Firm
Biotechnology
Global Financial Group
AAA Video Game Developer
ML Advertisement Software
Telemedicine
Bio-Pharmaceutical
Fintech — Cryptocurrency
Insurance Provider
Mining & Metals
Mining & Metals — Software
Engineering
Systems I built outside the ERP — hardware, timber structures, web infrastructure, and data visualization.
Custom Small-Form-Factor Workstation
HardwareSelf-assembled and tuned Mini-ITX build
| Motherboard | MSI | MPG B760I EDGE WF D5 ITX |
| CPU | Intel | Core i5-12600KF |
| GPU | NVIDIA | GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition — 12GB GDDR7, PCIe 5.0 |
| RAM | TeamGroup | 32GB DDR5 6400 RGB (White Kit) |
| Storage | Samsung | 2TB 990 PRO NVMe Gen4 SSD |
| CPU Cooler | be quiet! | Pure Rock LP |
| Fans | Arctic | P12 PWM 120mm PST ×2 |
| PSU | MSI | MAG A850GL 80+ Gold ATX 3.0 |
| Case | Antec | Stryker |
| OS | Linux | Omarchy (Arch + Hyprland) |
Waterfront Structures
CarpentryApprentice Carpenter · Indiana · Summer 2018
- Built a covered boat slip and a shoreline boardwalk on an Indiana lake as one of a four-person crew.
- Boardwalk set in angled segments that follow the bank's contour above the riprap.
- Boat slip framed in braced timber under a gable metal roof, with lift cables for the boat.
brycewaddell.com
Web & SecurityPersonal website
- Strict Content-Security-Policy: scripts authorized by hash, no third-party origins, all fonts self-hosted.
- Domain hardened against spoofing with SPF, DMARC (reject), and null DKIM records.
- Responsive, dependency-free HTML & CSS — no frameworks, no trackers.
Ancestry Fan Chart
Data VisualizationSix generations of GEDCOM genealogy data rendered as an interactive SVG sunburst
- Color-coded lineages, curved arc labels, and hover tooltips — see Lineage below.
Scholarship
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN · May 2021Bachelor of Arts, Economics — College of Arts & Sciences
Honors Area Certificate, Liberal Arts and Management (LAMP) — Kelley School of Business & Philosophy
- GPA: 3.567 / 4.000
- Pupil of Allen William Wood — existentialism & the forefront American philosopher of German Idealism, and Todd B. Walker of Economics.
- Diploma CeDiD Keys — B.A. Economics: 21YX-78WV-B0L7 · LAMP: 216N-YOHT-BNLY
Research & Publications
Atlas of European Collectives
A faceted comparative atlas — 8 facets, 54 regions
What does a peoplehood actually consist of? The Atlas scores fifty-four regions across eight facets — two fixed at birth (ancient ancestry and geographic descent) and six culturally transmitted (language, script, the Latin Roman juridical inheritance, religion, art & architecture, and legal family) — then clusters them statistically. Three commonwealths emerge: the Latin Roman, the Byzantine, and the Hebraic. They hold with the birthright facets switched off entirely.
Read the AtlasLibrary
- The Holy Bible — New International Version
- The Decline of the West — Oswald Spengler
- Incerto — Nassim Taleb
- The Road to Serfdom — Friedrich Hayek
- The Gulag Archipelago — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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- The Odyssey — Homer, trans. Barry B. Powell
- Selected Writings — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Selected Writings — Karl Marx
- The Storm of Steel — Ernst Jünger
- Fanged Noumena — Nick Land
- Governing the Commons — Elinor Ostrom
- The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
- The Gene — Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Guns, Germs, & Steel — Jared Diamond
- A Farewell to Alms — Gregory Clark
- 12 Rules for Life — Jordan Peterson
- Watchmen — Alan Moore
- The Complete Batman Runs — Scott Snyder, Alan Moore & Grant Morrison
- The Magic Tree House (series) — Mary Pope Osborne
Athletics
| Diving | PADI | Open Water Diver · Issued Mar 2016 · Credential ID 16030K5528 |
| Triathlon | Ironman 70.3 | Steelhead · Total
7:17:56 Swim 1.9 km — 1:00:51 · Bike 90.6 km — 3:43:56 (Trek Domane AL 2, Gen 4) · Run 21.6 km — 2:18:57 |
| Skydiving | USPA | Pursuing A License · 6 jumps · 5:45 freefall |
| Expeditions | AllTrails | Hikes, bikes, & climbs — prospection logged on AllTrails |
Skin in the Game
Ratings from the other side of the transaction — drivers, hosts, and buyers.
Uber
4.91 / 5
Rider rating
Lyft
4.90 / 5
Rider rating · 85 rides
Airbnb
5.00 / 5
Guest rating · 16 trips
eBay
100%
Positive feedback · 17 items sold
As of July 2026
Lineage
A lifelong genealogy project. Below is my direct paternal-and-maternal lines; six generations of ancestors, rendered as a fan chart (63 forebears, charted to the 1830s).
Swipe to explore · tap a name for details
Waddell
Griffin
Caldwell
Scobee
Direct-line ancestors of Bryce Waddell · 6 generations
Stirps Waddell — descended from Johannes Peter “John” Weidel (Wedel → Waddle → Waddell), b. 29 January 1736, Palatinate · Alsace‑Lorraine · Allemagne; d. February 1828.