Professional Work
Workday Financials consultant — ~25 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 – PresentWorkday 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 – 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.
Selected Client Engagements
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
Scholarship & Reading
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN · May 2021Bachelor of Arts, Economics — College of Arts & Sciences / Kelley School of Business
- Honors Certificate — Liberal Arts and Management Program (LAMP)
- GPA: 3.567 / 4.000
- Diploma CeDiD Key: 21YX-78WV-B0L7
Currently Reading
The Decline of the West
Oswald Spengler
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).
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.
The Arsenal
Self-Assembled and Optimized Custom ITX Rig
| 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 |
| Monitor | ASUS ROG | Strix XG27UCG-W — 27" 4K HDR USB-C, Dual Mode (4K 160Hz), White |
| Keyboard | Razer | Huntsman V3 Pro (Full Size) |
| Mouse | Razer | Basilisk V3 |
| Microphone | Logitech | Blue Yeti |
| OS | Linux | Migrating to Linux |
Add me on Steam
Steam ID · 76561198123978518
Athletics
Expeditions & Prospection
Hikes, Bikes, & Climbs. On AllTrails.
Ironman 70.3 Steelhead
| Swim | 1.9 km | 1:00:51 |
| Bike Trek Domane AL 2 (Gen 4) | 90.6 km | 3:43:56 |
| Run | 21.6 km | 2:18:57 |
| Total | 7:17:56 |
Reputation
The Ledger
For those who keep score of such things — and I trust you are well.
| Account | Assigned (Cr.) | Intrinsic (Dr.)† |
|---|---|---|
| Uber | 4.91 / 5.00 | — |
| Lyft85 rides | 4.90 / 5.00 | — |
| Airbnb16 trips | 5.00 / 5.00 | — |
† Column intentionally left blank — accepts no external postings.
Statement date · July 2026