Patrick Norton
Senior Consultant at SimpleFi Solutions, LLC
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Norton is a Senior Consultant specializing in Enterprise Performance Management with eight years of experience translating FP&A needs into scalable SAP-based solutions. Based in Dallas, he blends deep financial reporting and budgeting expertise with hands-on work in SAP Analytics Cloud, S4, BPC, and Group Reporting to streamline forecasting and consolidation across energy, healthcare, biotech, and outdoor recreation clients. He’s recognized for leading cross-functional teams and communicating complex technical strategies to stakeholders, delivering audit-ready implementations that meet business controls. Beyond consulting, Patrick contributes to open-source Rust concurrency tooling—improving atomic operations and iterators in the widely used crossbeam project—demonstrating a rare mix of financial systems acumen and low-level engineering chops. He holds a finance degree from The Ohio State University and brings a client-first mindset shaped by years of hands-on service and mentoring roles.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Finance and Financial Management Services, Bachelor's degree, Finance and Financial Management Services at The Ohio State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
data-structures10
rust10
thread10
atomic10
data-structure10
concurrency10
synchronization10
atomics10
lock-free9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
crossbeam-rs/crossbeam
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Tools for concurrent programming in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick contributed to the `crossbeam-rs/crossbeam` repository by implementing and refactoring core concurrency primitives in Rust. Their work included adding methods like `try_into_owned` and `fetch_update` to the `Atomic` struct, enhancing the functionality of atomic operations within the concurrent programming tools. They also addressed mutability issues and improved documentation by adding missing links, showcasing their focus on improving the library's core features and usability. Furthermore, the user added `IntoIter` implementations for the data structures to expose iterator capabilities.
concurrentmultithreadingconcurrent-programmingconcurrencysynchronization
PatrickNorton/rust-runtime
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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