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SUMMARY

Senior level financial professional with a record of improving profits, and cutting costs through knowledge of all areas of budgeting, financial reporting, forecasting, and analyzing multi-million dollar, and multi-plant, manufacturing operations. Major responsibility for staff and inventory management, collections, computerizing manual systems and reporting financial variances, business plan development, and recommendations for improvement to senior management.

• Created and monitored a 5 million budget, generated all financial reports including monthly P&L, A/P, and A/R, and analyzed financial results compared to forecast.
• Reported variances from plan, managed payroll and trained, evaluated and supervised a staff of four.
• Implemented a new process for improvements in collections.
• Determined cost of sales by conducting monthly inventories and cleaned up computer reports on the IBM AS400 using Lotus 1-2-3.
• Helped develop plan for plant shut down including meeting lease obligations, working with contractors, supervising equipment disposition, and moving financial records.
• Reduced inventory processing time by 30 while improving accuracy
• Accomplished year end close and audit without prior knowledge of operation

• Moved a six-month manual financial process to an automated Peachtree system including payroll, P&L reporting and analysis, A/R and A/P, and financial projections. Hired and trained telemarketing staff, human resources professional, and administrative support. Generated a five-year financial plan and prepared presentations to prospects.
• Increased sales appointments by 300 through improved telemarketing staff.

• Verified a 16 million budget generated from the marketing department and loaded inputs into a Honeywell mainframe.
• Developed responsibility accounting review system to compare actual financial performance to plan and provided each responsible manager with reports and analysis.
• ECreated and installed ABC activity based cost system after identifying the activity drivers for the various manufacturing operations.stablished on-line banking access for both investments and borrowing.
• Supervised a staff of four to provide reporting on A/P, A/R, payroll, forecasting, month-end/year-end reporting and operating analyses.
• ABC system reduced expenses 10 by identifying improvement opportunities
• Reduced interest expense by 41 in one year
• Increased interest income by 31,000 by implementing a cash control model

• Evaluate and supervise a staff of seven to manage all financial operations and raw material and purchased parts inventory for three plants.
• Re-installed cycle counting for improved inventory controls and provided financial reporting and support for plant consolidations.
• Reduced stock outs 20 by implementation of daily cycle counting system
• Decreased slow moving/obsolete inventory through review and sell off
• Implemented receiving procedures, improving accuracy and timeliness

• Hired, evaluated, and supervised a staff of 13 including IT support, data inputs into the central financial system for A/R, A/P, P&L, and cost accounting.
• Verified 80 million revenue budget, processed payroll for 500 hourly and salary personnel, and generated financial reports for two plants including forecasting, operations analysis, and month-end/year-end review.
• Improved order generation time by 40 + one day reduction by installation of Novell based LAN order system
• Reduced quote time by 67 with ABC system. Improved quotes won by 30
• Reduced inventory by 25 fewer stock outs by launching an MRPII beta site

• Assisted in an on-time, on-budget, 12 million downsizing involving a plant purchase and relocation.
• Managed a review and purchase of a mainframe and MRP acquisition.

• Managed finance, HR, and benefits administration.
• Moved 18 million accounting system from a manual operation to a computerized system reducing financial statement closing time by 60 .

• Created, designed and installed computerized cost reporting system.
• Increased market share 10 through a dynamic cost/projection model.
• Coordinated the division business plan.

MBA, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. Major: Management
B.S., University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. Major: Business Administration

• Activity Based Cost ABC management for continuous improvement
• MRPII implementation
• Quality Circle
• Priority Time Management

• general ledger
• bills of material
• inventory control
• product cost structure

• Main Frames: IBM S/3, S/34, AS400 and Honeywell
• PC: Excel, Lotus, Quattro Pro, Word, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook