Profile - * Extensive experience developing and running world class financial operations, building, designing, transitioning and streamlining accounting systems for domestic and internationally based businesses, leading to consistently clean audits and revitalizing financially distressed business, across an array of industries including - Die and Precision Tool Manufacturing, Construction, Sheet Metal, Service, Transportation, Retail, Engineering, and Amusement Parks, as well as Public Accounting, JVs, PE holding and portfolio companies. * Additional in-depth experience extending to purchasing and operating efficiencies, with notable competency in most other business functions * Extensive successful record of recruitment to companies to revitalize or streamline all major phases of development, i.e., startup - establishing full-blown accounting systems - hypergrowth, turnaround to profitability, as well as major expansions and M&A for multi-business companies and multi-state corporate groups with over 100 employees, and developing financials for international partnerships and joint ventures * Repeatedly chosen to take on the most difficult tasks * Key financial leadership role in several successful turnarounds, expeditiously returning financially distressed businesses to profitability and long-term stability, doubling or tripling in size in one year, and preparing a business for sale to a PE firm * Specialize in vendor and tax negotiations, detailed cost analyses, system redesign, quoting process and training * Effectively and efficiently managed complex financing and strategic planning for acquisitions, expansions, equipment and working capital * Record of exceedingly low employee turnover, working arm-in-arm to develop and empower people who typically express desire to remain under my leadership * Reputation for building new robust systems, improving or reengineering existing systems and consolidating multi-company systems into a single cohesive unit * Adjunct Professor of college-level accounting instruction for five years including cost systems and case analysis * Assisted in the successful purchase and launch of a multi-company corporate group, including business planning and financing * Developed and implemented existing accounting and cost systems, cash management and forecasts * Developed and managed the first working accounting process for numerous international partnerships and joint ventures * Advanced technical skill using numerous standard and custom accounting and business software packages, including QuickBooks, ComputerEase, Spectrum, Crystal Reports, Peachtree, Microsoft Excel, Word, Access and Asset Keeper Pro Key Competencies (A-Z) * Accounting System Upgrade (Audit-tested) * Bank and Alternative Financing * Banking Relationships * Business Sale * Business Valuation * Cash Management * Collections including Construction Liens and Bond Claims (including Florida Lien Law) * Communications and Presentations * Cost Analysis * Crystal Reports Custom Report Writing * Custom Accounting Packages * Due Diligence (Financial) * Equipment Management and Financing * Forecasting, Template Creation * Financial Statement and Cash Forecasts * Financial Consolidations and Cost Analysis * International Transactions and Letters of Credit Management * Investor Reporting * Job Costing System Development and Implementation * Management Information Systems (MIS) * Marketing Plans * Negotiations (inc. Agreements With Banks, Attorneys, Tax Authorities, Vendors, Customers) * Post-Acquisition (Software) System Integration and Consolidation * Process Design/Redesign * Project Accounting, AIA Billing, POC Accounting * Purchasing * Quoting System Development * Restructured Financings * Software Migration * Working Capital Expansion

Highlights:

• Construction
• Equity
• Private Equity
• CFO
• Management
• Accounting
• Acquisitions
• AIA
• ARM
• Associate in Risk Management