Dr. Omari Williams, D.B.A., is an experienced professor with over ten years of expertise teaching finance, accounting, and taxation courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. With a passion for inspiring and educating students, Dr. Williams excels in delivering engaging lectures, designing course materials, and assessing student learning outcomes. His expertise includes financial analysis, financial reporting, and tax planning. Dr. Williams is dedicated to contributing to the academic community through innovative teaching and research.
Experience Highlights
Throughout his career, Dr. Williams has leveraged his hands-on experience in quantitative and statistical analysis, budgeting, accounting, and forecasting to provide robust modeling and reporting for executive-level decision-making. Known for his strong analytical skills, he supports operations by analyzing key performance indicators and trends. Dr. Williams excels in liaising across various business units to promote organizational success, and his consensus-driven approach ensures effective communication and collaboration. In addition to his teaching experience, Dr. Williams has demonstrated entrepreneurial skills, having founded multiple businesses in renewable energy, data cleansing, and beauty products.
Teaching Experience
Dr. Williams has held various teaching positions as an adjunct instructor. He currently teaches finance and accounting modules to Masters and Doctoral students at Westcliff University. At Southern New Hampshire University, he instructs courses on investments, multinational corporate finance, and financial markets. Dr. Williams has also taught analytics courses to Master's students at Grand Canyon University and financial statement analysis at Colorado Technical University. Additionally, he served as an online instructor for business finance courses at Tiffin University and taught finance principles at Berkeley College, Ashworth College, and LIM College.
Professional Experience
Dr. Williams has served as a financial analyst at Rutgers University, where he provided analysis as a member of the Business Executive Team. In this role, he was pivotal in the university's budgetary, structural, and staffing decisions. Driven by his passion for data analysis and visualization, he created a financial data warehouse to streamline reports and dashboards. Dr. Williams also provided training to system users on data analysis and visualization tools, and he automated data input using Python scripting. He focused on making annual and multi-year statistical and financial projections. Before this, Dr. Williams worked as an economic research analyst at Holstein Group, Inc, where he conducted in-depth financial analysis, facilitated asset transactions, and administered variance analyses.
Entrepreneurship Experience
Dr. Williams co-founded Otonomi Power, a portable renewable energy company. Additionally, he is the owner/founder of Datahousekeeper, a data cleansing and transformation service, and Soielle, a business specializing in natural skincare and hair products for girls and women.