1. Mark Wood
214-699-6832
single_coil@hotmail.com
Education
Southern Methodist University – Master of Business Administration
University of North Texas - Bachelor of Arts (cum laude)
University of Surrey - Guildford, England, One-year exchange program
Professional Experience
Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis – FedEx Office, January 2010 to Present
 Manage the Real Estate Financial Planning Function at FedEx Office
o Manage financial pro forma analysis, forecasting, and planning for over 1,900 domestic and
international locations, including center relocations, lease renewals, rightsizes closures and new
stores
o Manage the store expansion process end to end, from financial analysis of new center prospecting,
to new center planning and budgeting, to closure analysis
o Manage the capital budgeting and long term forecasting process for FedEx Office real estate
expansion
o Partner with sales team for new commercial customer profitability analysis and capital investment
 Managed Financial Analysis Team
o Financial pro forma analysis to support corporate investments
o Partnered with product managers, IT, Marketing and other groups to support projects from concept
to implementation
o Successful history of project core team participation, insuring value well beyond providing financial
metrics. Close working relationship with FedEx internal governance teams.
o Partnered with Marketing to evaluate specific product and marketing initiatives
o Other ad hoc financial analysis as necessary
 Managed product profitability analysis and reporting
o Managed updates of pricing models involving product profitability metrics
o Managed ad hoc analyses of various production channels, customer segments, or individual
product “deep dives”
Senior Financial Analyst – FedEx Office, Dallas, Texas, May 2007 to January 2010
 Lead Analyst of FedEx Office forecast process
o Led monthly Forecast meetings
o Solicited, organized and reconciled Forecast inputs from various business shareholders
o Produced consolidated forecast and presented to CFO and other senior leaders
o Submited FedEx Office Forecast to FedEx corporate
o Explained actual results variances to forecast
 Managed Product Profitability Analysis system and reporting
o Continuous enhancements of Product Profitability business rules and allocations, including activity
based labor allocation, refinement of support allocations and refinement of facilities allocations
o Monthly reporting of Product Profitability directly to FedEx Office senior executive team
o Financial analysis of managed service agreements and large commercial deals
o Ad hoc analysis for pricing changes, investments, and other strategic decisions
Senior Financial Analyst - Nortel, Richardson, Texas, May 2000 to May 2007
 Led product pricing team for factory divestiture - Priced approx $500M/year of products
 Full responsibility (lead) for CDMA global manufacturing P&L - $200M/year net P&L contribution

2. o Foreign exchange – Global vendor sourcing and intercompany pricing
o Supply Chain pricing (PPV, Freight, Logistics, Repair) – Global in scope
o Direct negotiations with vendors
o Inventory Provisioning
o Inter-Company Transfers – Europe, Brazil, China, France, US, Canada, Mexico and others.
o Global cost revision (Standard Pricing)
o Direct analysis and verbal presentation to business owners
o Reported directly to Finance Senior Manager for Global Operations
 Lead analyst for monthly outlooks and quarterly results analysis of Global CDMA manufacturing P&L
 Direct strategic guidance of multiple team members
 Supported ERP conversions – Oracle to SAP and BAAN to SAP
 Revenue recognition prime for key customers (Sprint and America’s Region)
 Specialized in SOP 81-1, SAB 101 and 97-2 GAAP revenue recognition
 Intricately involved in two 10-K restatements and related external audit issues – Direct interaction with
external auditors
 Managed P&L forecast and results analysis for professional services organization
 Team lead for professional services (engineering, network design, consulting) effort tracking system
conversion.
 R&D Accounting
Management Analyst - U.S. Department of Education May 1994 to December 1998
 Developed policies and operational procedures for the origination and servicing of a $20 Billion loan
program
 Served as Operations Manager at a loan origination center (over 300 employees). This was a very large
contract with EDS Corporation, in which I worked with the EDS Production Manager to run the facility.
 Developed a new statistical methodology for cost containment and audit programs.
Federal Investigator - U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Office of Federal
Investigations - June 1990 to May 1994
 Conducted investigations on persons who are critical to the national security interests of the United States
 Direct collaboration with other Federal, State and Local law enforcement – US Secret Service, US
Marshals, FBI, DEA, various State and Local Police agencies
 Analyzed the efficiency of a nationwide counter-intelligence program, using statistical process control,
regression analysis, and budgetary analysis techniques
Experience During Education
Statistics Teaching Assistant - Cox School of Business, SMU, August 1999 to May 2000
Financial Analyst Intern - Sabre, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, May 1999 to August 1999
Consultant - Epic Consulting, Plano, Texas December 1998 to May 1999