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Easley, SC, US

Finance leader overseeing all financial activity — including cash flow, annual strategic planning, financial reporting, tax compliance, capital investments, and operational performance metrics.

Roseland, New Jersey, US

• Member strategic PMO serving multiple clients and business units within ADP
• Led cross-company communications, quarterly ops review and annual planning at business unit level.
• Establishing customer metrics and reporting for Health Care/ACA client affordability and eligibility.
• Implemented enterprise metrics and visualization dashboards at associate, manager, and leader levels.
• Launched Effortless Quality Index program and enabled dramatic improvement in Net Promoter Score.
• Orchestrated security improvement programs eliminating errors yielding 3 Sigma improvement.

Augusta, Georgia, US

• Directed company-wide strategic projects, for new products, organic growth and new market acquisitions.
• Mentored project leads in scope, planning, communications, risk mgmt and cost, improving time to market.
• Identified $2M cost opportunity for operational consolidation of product platforms for multiple markets,
• Led design development for golf product lines, increasing gross margins 2% and adding $5M NOP annually.
• Board member developing ANSI standards for International Light Transportation Vehicle Association.
• Prepared competitive survey and growth model, leading to entry and strategic partnership in adjacent market

Providence, RI, US

• Led $300M business unit product marketing, product roadmap, communications, branding, and worldwide sales channel support. Developed strategic 5-year annual operating plan for international golf and turf markets.
• Redesigned 28 products, enabling new Cushman brand launch, and increasing purchase intent by 13%.
• Coordinated new media strategy, increasing media impressions in Advertising by 280% and PR by 500%.
• Implemented web-based print-on-demand proposal tool integrating pricing, product data, and branding.
• Launched marketing tools and products receiving CEO Innovation Award for outstanding market growth.

Providence, RI, US

• Managed product, price, promotion and placement across multiple product lines and brands. Spearheaded product positioning and customer segmentation increasing pricing by 10-15%. Lead product life cycle planning.
• Initiated and lead powertrain development program in less than 6 months, saving $4M annually.
• Developed value-based training modules and sales tools enabling channel to exceed targets by 40%.
• Created new electronic speed selection program, driving new revenue stream worth $500,000 annually.
• Direct support for national account selling activities and competitive conversions.

• Led customer service, technical support, call center, whole goods and parts warehouse, international sourcing, logistics, regulatory compliance and business licensing.
• Launched NetSuite web-based ERP System, including CRM, Customer Service and Finance modules.
• Implemented warehouse inventory to achieve 98% fill rates and same day shipments on all items.
• Developed PO and inventory management controls for 4x improvement in inventory turns and cash flow.
• Developed IT backup and network enhancements ensuring protection of critical company systems.

Davidson, North Carolina, US

• Led for all aspects of the marketing matrix including product development, product offering, pricing, promotion and marketing communications. Manage agency relationship supporting company brands.
• Launched tiered offerings, increasing pricing 30% and gross margins by 25%, for NOP impact of $20M.
• Project manager for new product incorporations targeting the Japanese and Chinese markets.

Davidson, North Carolina, US

• Led gathering of competitive intelligence, managing the lead generation and fulfillment process, and development of a complete golf market share database.
• Established CRM database and KPI metrics, achieving 95% compliance in forecasting and market share.
• Team leader assessing health care market adjacencies for scooter and wheel chair markets.

Augusta, GA, US

• Managed $4M budget, technical call center, warranty policies and procedures, supplier recoveries and systems. systems for a worldwide distribution network.
• Developed management reporting, increasing recoveries from $200,000 to $1,000,000 annually.
• Automated vehicle registration system and battery test process, reducing backlogs 6 months to 5 days.

Davidson, North Carolina, US

• Supported forecasting/budgeting, standard costs, manufacturing variances, activity based costing, JIT inventory control, company-wide physical inventories, Demand Flow, fixed assets, performance and process.
• Implemented Activity Based Costing system, identified non-value costs equal to $15 million.
• Reengineered the order entry process systems and organization, saving $400,000 annually.

Camak, GA, US

• Responsible for complete accounting/budget functions according to GAAP, including all governmental and financial reporting, cash management, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory controls.
• Improved closing cycle from 30 to 3 days.
• Wrote and installed computer program which tracked manufacturing efficiencies and produced 20% improvement.
• Setup daily management report, tracking company-wide metrics for sales, productivity, inventory, and production.
• Reduced audit cost 75%,
• Increased by-product revenues by 13%.

Audits of manufacturing, banking, and distribution companies. Corporate and individual tax returns.

Prepared monthly reports, forecasts, audits, profit plans. Involved in mainframe systems conversion.