2007-2012
University of Texas at Austin
Quantitative coursework in mathematics and economics.
Operations, reporting, systems, AI workflow
Winn Cook
Technical Operations & Systems Leader
I help higher education teams, finance operations, and cross-functional organizations turn complex reporting, enterprise systems, financial workflows, and stakeholder needs into clear processes people can trust and run.
References
References are available for every professional experience, including past clients and colleagues. Please do not contact my current employer without my prior consent.
ReportingInstitutional, public, and executive reporting with clean definitions and deadlines.
SystemsWorkday, Banner, SQL, Excel, Tableau, Power BI, and cross-system workflows.
FinanceFund accounting, transaction documentation, controls exposure, and audit-prep context.
LeadershipStakeholder communication, training, service leadership, and practical follow-through.
Career timeline
Experience that connects systems, finance, and leadership.
Quantitative training, frontline leadership, real estate finance, fund-accounting support, higher-ed reporting, and practical technology work all point to the same strength: making complex operations easier to understand and run.
2012-2022
Steamworks Brewing Company
Hiring, training, coaching, and high-volume team leadership.
2016-2023
ADU and Real Estate Finance
ADU projects, lending files, property operations, and transaction coordination.
2018
Fort Lewis College
Business administration degree.
2021-2023
Community Brands
MIP grant-accounting support for nonprofit clients.
2023-Present
Fort Lewis College
Institutional reporting, governance, and analytics.
Current
Grant Matching Platform
Public-source grant discovery and matching.
Capabilities
Built for roles where operations, data, systems, finance, and people meet.
Strong fit for technical operations leadership, institutional reporting, systems coordination, finance workflow, analyst work, and AI-enabled process improvement.
Reporting & Analytics
Turns recurring deadlines, source-system definitions, executive questions, and public submissions into dependable reporting.
- Where it fits: institutional research, compliance reporting, planning, decision support, and public accountability.
Enterprise Systems
Works across Workday, Banner, SQL, dashboards, documentation, and cross-system workflows to make fragmented processes easier to run.
- Where it fits: business systems, operations analysis, data governance, ERP/reporting, and process improvement.
Finance & Controls
Brings experience with nonprofit fund accounting, grant-adjacent reporting issues, audit prep, borrower documentation, and real estate transaction support.
- Where it fits: grants administration, budget support, financial systems, compliance operations, and controls-aware analyst work.
Leadership & Communication
Communicates clearly with executives, technical partners, frontline teams, clients, and campus stakeholders so decisions become usable practice.
- Where it fits: stakeholder management, executive communication, training, service leadership, and cross-functional coordination.
Tools
Systems, data, AI, and finance tools.
Direct capabilities I can bring into analyst, operations, systems, finance, and technical leadership roles.
Enterprise systems
Workday
Banner
Salesforce / CRM
MIP Fund Accounting
POS systems
Lending / mortgage platforms
Reporting and data
SQL
Excel
ETL
APIs
Data pipelines
Tableau
Power BI
Data QA
AI and app development
Full application development
AI-assisted coding
Agent workflows
Automation
Documentation creation
Policy review
Human-in-the-loop review
Finance and controls
Fund accounting
Grant reporting
Audit prep
Borrower documentation
KYC / AML exposure