#SmealWeeklyRecap featuring Kathleen Bias, ACCT

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Featured Alum: Kathleen Bias, ACCTG, Financial Project Leader at PNC Financial Services, INC.

Kathleen Bias is a financial project and team leader who began her career in the Big Four at Deloitte. After performing audits on large business clients and teaching auditing techniques, she applied that experience at Constellation Energy performing financial closes, analysis, and preparing financial statements and SEC external reporting. She also updated the CFO on quarterly financial standing. Kathy was promoted into numerous roles in three different divisions. A lead on the business information system team, she implemented the Oracle procurement module and taught training sessions on the software. As a Supervisor, she headed the strategic plan, budget, service level agreements and scorecards for the retail services division. She served as corporate lead for the Universal Service Program for Customer Choice where she developed processes that optimized the company and complied with new Federal regulations. As a Project Manager, she lead several process improvement and cost reduction projects. After taking a mid-career break as a stay-at-home mom, she continued the management of projects and business analytics. Kathy oversees cross-functional teams, performing strategic analysis and activity-based costing, resulting in financial reporting to enhance management decision making. She recently obtained a Six Sigma Green Belt certification, and trained in SQL. An active member of the Women Connect EBRG, Kathy served on two Committees, and volunteers for the Grow Up Great program. Her passions are family, and volunteering. Her family has a deep love for blue and white! Her son is currently attending Penn State, and her daughter begins in the fall. She has numerous family members who are alumni.?

Kathy’s Career Tips –

“Do what makes you happy and be consistent in being you.”?

"Review your career at least once a year."

“Increase diversity, and follow people you disagree with to obtain other viewpoints.”???

Resources

• Smeal Alumni Career Services Career Coaching Program ?- Don't forget if you are a Smeal alumnus, you receive five free value-packed coaching sessions which also give you access to job search tools and resources. Check it out!
• Smeal Lifelong Learning Webinar Library - New Releases!

Promoting an Ethical Culture in a Remote Workplace

• Smeal Lifelong Learning Podcast - New Release!

#43 Impact Careers: BioMagnetic Solutions, A Penn State Partner in Cancer Research

The market for clinical cell selection will reach $1 billion by 2030. Tune in as Smeal alumnus Ted Liberti ’03 M.S., CBO of BioMagnetic Solutions, discusses how his biotech startup's magnetic cell selection technology gives companies the tools to create cures for cancer as cell & gene therapy companies make genetically-engineered CAR-T cells for patients - the future of biotechnology. He discusses how and why he chose to bring his business to State College, and how his company is partnering with Penn State on this important research. #WeAre?

"If successful, CAR-T cell and gene therapies (CGT) products are a one & done treatment/Tx/therapy that lives, endures, and continues to deliver its benefits long term, providing bona fide cures in some cases – a word oncologists never use lightly.” – Ted Liberti

Congratulations to our recent Smeal lifelong learners!

#lilfelonglearner - Anyone who continues to learn and/or fosters learning in others by sharing their knowledge and experience!

1. Renée Baker ?MBA completed her TED X talk titled "What we get wrong about the racial wealth gap."
2. Colin Bryan '16 FIN earned earned a skill badge in Python from LinkedIn Learning.
3. Madison Bell '19 FIN passed the third CFA exam, and her application to be a CFA Institute Charterholder was approved.
4. Halie Ellis '16 MKTG earned certification in the Morning Brew Accelerator training program issued by Learning @ Morning Brew.
5. Jimmy Gallagher ?'20 FIN passed his CFA? Level II Badge issued by the CFA Institute.
6. Justin Goldston '14 SCM was in Dubai discussing #DAOs, partnered research on the #metaverse with their academic case study on Ray Lu’s Bit.Country project, and how they are looking to bring in more women into the #web3.
7. ?Tim Holmes FIN graduated from the Securities Industry Institute? (SII) Executive Education Program issued by Wharton Executive Education.
8. Jim Koziol ?MBA is recertified as a Microsoft Certified Trainer 2022-2023 issued by Microsoft.
9. Maria Kravets '17 MKTG completed the Avocademy UX/UI Foundations course issued by Avocademy.
10. Brett Lewkowitz FIN earned the designation of a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER? professional certified by The Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.
11. Rosalie Minovich '15 ACCT recommended the book Arrive and Thrive: 7 impactful practices for women navigating leadership.
12. Andrew J. Pompe '09 FIN is a credentialed Holistic Financial Coach, issued by Columbia University's Coaching Center of Excellence.
13. Aaron Potochar '21 FIN passed the CFA Level 1 exam offered by the CFA Institute.
14. Bernie Quiroga '15 PhD appeared on?CNN Chile, talking about the effects of the inflationary pressures on consumption and debt.
15. Jack Raynor '20 SC&IS, TELCM is a SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA Cloud (public) - Asset Management Implementation 2022 issued by SAP.
16. Fermi Smith '08 ECON is an AWS Academy Graduate - AWS Academy Cloud Foundations and an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner both issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification.

Smeal ACS Webinar - Secure your spot today! ???

Come lifelong learn with us in our last spring 2022 webinar! Webinars are LIVE on Wednesdays at Noon ET. They're free and everyone is welcome! #masterclasses

Rethinking Organizational Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Step-by-Step Guide for Facilitating Effective Change ?featuring Jamie Campbell, Smeal Assistant Dean of Diversity Enhancement; Phillip Ealy, Educational Consultant, Penn State University; Dr. William Rothwell, Penn State Distinguished Professor of Workforce Education and Development and President, Rothwell & Associates Inc. - May 4th #masterclass

Have a great weekend!????? #WeAre???