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Professional Work

Workday Financials consultant — ~20+ full-lifecycle implementations across the Foundation Data Model, Procurement, Accounts, Banking & Settlement, Assets, and Expenses. I convert and reconcile the general ledger to the penny and lead solution design for global, multi-currency, intercompany accounting.

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Kainos Group plc

Chicago, IL · 2025 – 2026
Workday Financial Consultant — Implementation & Data Conversion
  • Architected and deployed ~10 full-suite Workday Financials implementations spanning the FDM, Procurement, Supplier & Customer Accounts, Banking & Settlement, Assets, and Expenses — including public-sector clients such as a statewide pension fund and Phase X Financials deployments.
  • Converted and reconciled payables, receivables, cash, and assets — plus the full general ledger with complete worktag detail — balanced to the penny.
  • Led solution-design decisions for global intercompany multi-currency accounting, ran discovery sessions, and facilitated stakeholder design workshops.
  • Partnered with technical, reporting, integration, and change-management teams to deliver custom reconciliation and payment-integration reports, and helped craft a change-management strategy for period close & consolidation.

Huron Consulting Group, Inc.

Chicago, IL · 2023 – 2024
Workday 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 – 2023
Workday 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 – 2022
Trading 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 continguous USA.

Indiana University Bloomington

Wylie Hall · Jan – Dec 2020
Undergraduate 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).
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Selected Client Engagements

R1 University
Financials · USA
Grants Management & financial-aid FDM, unearned-revenue recognition
Non-Profit (NGO)
Financials · USA
FDM & fund accounting, endowments, financial statements
Statewide Pension Fund
Financials · USA
Full-system financial conversion & reconciliation
Healthcare
HCM & Financials · USA
Led the merger of two healthcare enterprises
Hospitality — SaaS
FDM / Accounting / Budgeting — Lead
USA, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Ireland, Canada
Entertainment — Hollywood
Financials · USA
Full-system conversion & reconciliation
Insurance — Software
Financials · USA
Full-system conversion & reconciliation
Trucking & Logistics
Financials · USA
Full-system conversion & reconciliation
Retirement & Investment Firm
Financials · USA
Full-system conversion, incl. workers
Immigration Law Firm
Financials · USA
Full-system conversion, incl. workers
Biotechnology
Financials · USA
Full-system conversion, incl. workers
Global Financial Group
Financials · USA
Full-system conversion, incl. workers
AAA Video Game Developer
HCM & FINS — Analysis · USA
System analysis & reorganization compendium
ML Advertisement Software
HCM Lead — Core & Comp
USA, South Korea, Singapore, China
Telemedicine
HCM — Core & Comp
USA & India
Bio-Pharmaceutical
HCM — Core & Comp
USA, Mexico, Switzerland
Fintech — Cryptocurrency
HCM — Core & Comp
USA, UK, Singapore
Insurance Provider
HCM — Core & Comp
USA, UK, Singapore
Mining & Metals
HCM · USA
Time tracking, payroll, workers
Mining & Metals — Software
HCM Conversion · USA
Time tracking, payroll, workers

Scholarship

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN · May 2021
Bachelor 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
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Currently Reading
The Decline of the West
Oswald Spengler

Further Reading

  • The Holy Bible — New International Version
  • Watchmen — Alan Moore
  • The Odyssey — Homer, trans. Barry B. Powell
  • Nietzsche and the Nazis — Stephen R.C. Hicks
  • Selected Writings — Karl Marx
  • The Gulag Archipelago — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • The Magic Tree House (series) — Mary Pope Osborne

Also on the shelf

  • Incerto — Nassim Taleb
  • The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
  • The Road to Serfdom — Friedrich Hayek
  • Governing the Commons — Elinor Ostrom
  • Fanged Noumena — Nick Land
  • Selected Writings — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • 12 Rules for Life — Jordan Peterson
  • The Storm of Steel — Ernst Jünger
  • Guns, Germs, & Steel — Jared Diamond
  • A Farewell to Alms — Gregory Clark
  • The Gene — Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • The Complete Batman Runs — Scott Snyder, Alan Moore & Grant Morrison

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).

Bryce WADDELL Tracy Waddell Sarah Griffin David Waddell Martha Caldwell Donald Griffin Rebecca Scobee Clarence Waddell Cleda Opel Charles Caldwell Emogene Marquette Hiram Griffin Sarah Gosnell Thomas Scobee Vivian Martin Claude Waddle Delila Grant George Opel Barbara Seitz Ray Caldwell Chloe Tharp Grover Marquette Minnie Heintz Gilbert Griffin Dollie Harrington Alva Gosnell Lucy Helt Daniel Scobee Katie Howlett John Martin Georgia Magill David Waddle Margaret Evans Levi Grant Sarah Pruitt Sebastian Opel Elisabeth Huebner John Seitz Elizabeth Neukam Charles Caldwell Daisie Martin Charles Tharp Jennie Webb George Marquett Ruthie Prather Conrad Heintz Barbara Baer Hiram Griffin Lucy Evans William Harrington Emma Wright Robert Gosnell Elizabeth Bartlett Eli Helt Mary Jacks Robert Scobee Luanna Henry Robert Howlett Margaret Conley Samuel Martin Margaret Lancaster Theodore Magill Harriet Wysong
Waddell Griffin Caldwell Scobee
Direct-line ancestors of Bryce Cole 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.
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The Arsenal

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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
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