Gail Christiansen

Gail Christiansen has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and industries. Gail started their career at the University of Minnesota as a Senior Accountant, where they managed investment portfolio accounting functions for the Endowment Management System. Gail then worked at Healthcare Delivery Systems as an Accounting Specialist and later as a Revenue Accounting Supervisor. Gail continued their career as a Revenue Accountant at Lawson Software before joining the State of Minnesota, Department of Health as a Management Analyst 4. In this role, they had broad fiscal and grant management responsibilities. Gail then joined Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, where they worked as a Senior Contracts Consultant and later as a Principal Operations Consultant. In these roles, they provided leadership and expertise on operations, financial management, and compliance functions. Gail also contributed to budget optimization and financial analysis for projects. Gail then worked at Wells Fargo as a Business Process Engineer in a contract position before joining SunStream Business Services as a Senior Business Analyst.

Gail Christiansen has a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Business Administration/Finance from the University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management, which they obtained from 1985 to 1987. In 1990 to 1991, they pursued an Undergraduate Development Certificate in Level II Accounting from the University of Minnesota. Additionally, in July 2020, Gail obtained a certification in "Project Management: Preventing Scope Creep" from LinkedIn.