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Rodolfo Lopez
Business Operations · Budget & Revenue · Reporting & Automation

Hi, I’m Rodolfo.

I own the operating side of a business unit: budget in, revenue out, the vendors and systems it all moves through, and the reporting leadership plans against. Eight years in operations, seven of them owning the money and the systems, currently a $1.3M budget at one of Florida’s largest public universities. I build the dashboards myself, and the AI automations that took the busywork out.

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$1.3M
Operating budget owned
0.06%
Variance on 4,000+ transactions a year
$2.3M
Revenue tracked against goal

A bit about me

At FAU’s Career Center I own a $1.3M operating budget: the annual plan, the forecast, multi-year variance across 90+ spend categories, and the reallocation calls that come out of it. I also reconcile 4,000+ transactions a year between TouchNet and Workday to a 0.06% variance, and I own procurement and vendor payments from pre-approval through expense reporting.

The reporting on top of all that is mine too. Six production reports across three workspaces serving two departments and senior leadership, from the data model to workspace access and scheduled refresh. Nobody handed me that environment. I learned Power BI because the spreadsheets stopped answering the question.

What I like most is building the thing that removes the work. An AI automation I put into daily production reads flagged requests and files them as structured tasks with no manual triage: 290 of 311 closed. Given the choice, I would rather fix the process than report on it again next month.

MBA and a B.S. in Business Administration from Lynn University, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, and I grew up speaking English and Spanish.

Budget OwnershipRevenue TrackingPower BI & DAX Procurement & VendorAI AutomationBilingual EN/ES

Capabilities

Business Operations

  • Budget ownership
  • Revenue tracking & goal reporting
  • Procurement & vendor management
  • Process improvement
  • SOP development

Budget & Financial

  • Annual operating plan
  • Multi-year variance analysis
  • Reconciliation
  • Cost optimization
  • Program unit economics

Enterprise Systems

  • Workday (Financials, HRIS)
  • TouchNet
  • Handshake CRM administration
  • Qualtrics
  • Advanced Excel

Reporting & Automation

  • Power BI (DAX, data modeling)
  • Power BI Service administration
  • KPI design & executive reporting
  • Reporting automation
  • AI workflow automation
Operations

Selected work

Real projects from my current role. Charts are illustrative representations using sample data, not confidential records.

Operating Budget & ReconciliationBudget Ownership
Own end to end · Florida Atlantic University

I own the $1.3M annual operating budget: the annual plan, the forecast, multi-year variance across 90+ spend categories, and the reallocation calls that follow. I reconcile 4,000+ transactions a year from TouchNet payments to the Workday GL to a 0.06% variance, and I replaced the manual spreadsheet reporting with a Power BI model that gives leadership live spend-versus-budget visibility.

$1.3M
Annual budget
0.06%
Reconciliation variance
4,000+
Transactions / yr
90+
Spend categories
Budget ownershipVariance analysisReconciliationPower BITouchNet + Workday
Budget vs. actualFY23 to FY26
FY23FY24FY25FY26 BudgetActual
Illustrative · sample data
Revenue Tracking for a Self-Funded Business LineRevenue Operations
Built and maintain · Florida Atlantic University

I track and report revenue for a self-funded events business line against its annual goal: $2.3M gross across 117 events and 8 fiscal years, consolidated into one Power BI benchmark model by event type and customer segment. The operation met or beat its revenue goal in 6 of the past 7 years.

$2.3M
Revenue consolidated
117
Events analyzed
6 of 7
Years at or above goal
Goal trackingUnit economicsTrend analysisPower BIExcel
Revenue vs. goal8-year trend
ActualGoal
Illustrative · sample data
$1M Statewide Internship Program: Financial & Operational TrackingProgram Operations
Designed and run · Florida Atlantic University

I designed and run the financial and operational tracking for a $1M statewide internship program: a Power BI and Excel data model covering 100+ paid interns, 35 employer partners, and 12 Florida cities, monitoring hours, compensation, and placements. It turned scattered payroll records into one view leadership can act on.

100+
Interns tracked
16,600+
Hours logged
$300K+
Intern pay tracked
35
Employer partners
Program trackingCompensation dataPower BIDAXWorkday data
Hours logged by internsample
21218015613210896 123456 Hours logged per intern · 100+ tracked
Illustrative · sample data
Builds

Things I build myself

I am not an engineer. I am an operator who got tired of waiting on one. Both of these are running right now.

AI Email-to-Task AutomationIn daily production
Designed and built · running in my daily workflow

An AI automation that reads flagged action emails and files them as structured tasks in a Notion tracker with priority, category, status, and owner, with no manual triage. I built it because follow-through was leaking, not because anyone asked for it. It has been running long enough to become the system I actually work from: 290 of 311 captured requests closed over 11 months.

311
Tasks tracked
93%
Closed over 11 months
0-touch
Email to tracker
AI workflow automationAPI integrationNotionProcess design
Task completionn = 311
93% complete Done · 290 Remaining · 21
Notion tracker · milestone as of the resume
Cooling Break: Sports Analytics LabIndependent · live site
Built and shipped solo · public data, open code

My own sports analytics lab. The flagship project, Cooling Economy, tracked all 104 matches of the 2026 World Cup to test whether the mandatory cooling breaks changed match play, and modeled what the break airtime was worth in US ad money. I built the pipeline end to end: ESPN and weather APIs into SQLite, refreshed twice daily by GitHub Actions, feeding a bilingual dashboard where every figure is labeled fact, estimate, or assumption. The verdict went against the interesting answer, and it is published anyway.

104
Matches tracked
$351M+
Ad value modeled
2×/day
Automated refresh
EN·ES
Bilingual build
PythonSQLiteGitHub ActionsData pipelineChart.js

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Goals around the cooling breaksreal data
5953 10 min before 10 min after Gap stayed within chance · verdict: no effect
Real tournament data · live dashboard

Let’s talk operations.

Budgets, revenue, reporting, and the automation underneath. If you are working on any of it, I am glad to compare notes.

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Lake Worth, FL