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Lawrenceville, Georgia

Provide all accounting services for retail business including computer data entry for purchases, sales, inventory control, financial statements, sales tax returns and related accounting needs.

Greater Atlanta Area

Open Hand helps people prevent or better manage chronic disease with home-delivered meals and nutrition education as a means to reinforce the connection between informedfood choices and improved quality of life. I home deliver meals weekly to clients as well as volunteering for special events.

Norcross, Ga

Independent supplier of refurbished and used servers, storage and networking IT hardware and support. $100M in hardware inventory on hand available for immediate shipment to meet emergency and regular business needs. Annual revenue of $100M. Contract Senior Accountant March - April 2011Assisted Controller in preparing for upcoming external audit by preparing audit schedules for inventory purchases, write-offs and potential wash sales.•Prepared schedules of transactions from database of 800,000 records using Excel pivot tables, vlookup & hlookup functions to meet auditors’ guidelines, scope and criteria. •Provided complete audit schedules with supporting documentation for direct submission to auditors after review by Controller.

Multi-National telecom consulting group providing technology direction and support in new technologies for equipment manufacturers, providers and large users of wireless spectrum. Annual revenue $60M Company was purchased by VeriSign, the internet backbone and domain name provider, in Dec 2006 and merged with other Communications Services within the company. Accounting functions for inCode were transitioned to VeriSign corporate accounting in Nov-Dec 2007. VeriSign changed company directions in Oct 2007 and decided to divest all Communications Services enterprises including InCode. I remained with VeriSign during sale and divestiture periods performing accounting functions remotely. Responsible for general ledger accounting and management for all company operations. >Coordinated and lead team effort to close books monthly, reduced closing time from 15+ days to 4 days. >Maintained two GL systems, parent decided to keep legacy system, Lawson, for certain modules but required Oracle to be main set of books for accounting. >Worked on transition plan, trained new team and transitioned duties to home office staff with minimal disruption. >Continued as remote support of Accounting Team at home office while parent company seeks a buyer. >To create financials for the sale it was necessary to bring all transactions from the parent's books on Oracle into the Lawson system and then create an Excel Pivot table to drive the financials for the units that were for sale. I created, balanced and presented data trail and finished product to senior management for use in sale by both buyer and seller. >Remained with VeriSign for six months after close of sale to record final transactions, reconciliations and transfer data, information and support to new owners.

Position was responsible for cash accounting and management for operations in twelve countries. >Initiated all cash and funding transfers between company operating accounts and bases. >Recorded all cash transactions in Cash and GL books of account.>Maintained banking relationships and positive pay transaction system. >Reconciled all bank and GL cash accounts. >Maintained and updated foreign exchange rates in accounting system for transactional and translational tables. >Gained experience using Lawson GL and Cash Books.

Corporate level support center for company owned restaurants in the fast food industry. Annual revenue $100M. Senior Accountant - Fixed Assets Group Contract position supporting fixed assets group in effort to relieve backlog of open construction projects and acquisition assets not recorded at restaurant level. >Audited and closed out CIP projects according to company policy.>Audited and recorded equipment acquisitions, disposals & transfers per company policy. >Recorded group restaurant purchases in detail at the unit level.>Balanced subsidiary level records, on FAS, with company GL control accounts.>Produced detail property listings for Tax Department use in filing sales & use taxes.>Produced group property listings for Tax Department use in filing property & franchise taxes.

All-inclusive turnkey flight operations for charter airline program operator serving the leisure travel industry. Annual revenue $60MController 2004-2006Controller for group of operations that included two travel agencies & Flightserv. Performed accounting functions of AR, AP, GL and cash for Flightserv. Maintained group consolidations for three entities for reporting to parent company. Initiated implementation to Great Plains software package. Continued employment with company through shut down of operations by parent company. Accounting Manager 2002-2004Accounting Manager for charter airline program operator. Restructured accounting operations to segregate duties and streamline operations. Retrained existing staff for new duties aligned with corporate focus.

>Single source of contact for outsourcing of payments for cell site utilities for SE region consisting of approximately 7,000 accounts. >Problem solving with outsourcing contractor, Cass Information Systems, regarding new account setup and reporting of utility consumption data back to field personnel. >Outsourcing program was expanded to include all company divisions, additional 18,000 accounts added. >Trained new support team personnel to process and support expanded region. >Gained experience with JD Edwards and Oracle software.

>Maintained monthly reconciliations of AR sub ledger and GL control accounts for non-regulated divisions of electric utility. >Performed reconciliations, creating and posting necessary correcting entries to keep accounts in balance with control accounts. >Gained experience with Oracle accounting system.

>Cash desk activities for manufacturing operation of larger consolidated corporation. >Performed daily cash transfers, ACH transactions, credit card funding and corporate cash transfers. >Maintained monthly reconciliation of all cash accounts on GL and bank statements. >Gained experience with KBM, Seagate Crystal Reporting and Bank of America Oncore accounting systems.

>Cleaning and maintenance service serving the wireless & cellular telephone industry. >Founded cleaning & maintenance business as a sole proprietorship with one major account. >Business grew from servicing 40 cell site locations to 350 cell site locations in metropolitan Atlanta area. >Discontinued business due to change in major account status.

>Performed intakes, screening and assimilation into legal assistance program for persons with HIV disease relating to obtaining social service benefits, discrimination and appeals of cases. >Served on local HIV/AIDS Planning Councils representing affected service community. >Acted as agency IT manager for agency information systems & network operations. >Provided training and staff development for computer enrichment, assistance and operations. >Gained experience with WordPerfect and Novell systems.

>Coordinated, tracked and reported on all legal service cases referred to private attorneys for Pro Bono representation within Judicial Circuit. >Recruited by Executive Director who was Board Chairman at previous job with CAP of Palm Beach County.

Recruited to nonprofit AIDS service organization providing social and support services to individuals affected by HIV/AIDS in Palm Beach County, Florida. >Reorganized all financial activities of troubled nonprofit organization to get it on sound financial standing with all of its funding sources. >Coordinated all day to day financial and administrative operations of agency as well as grant writing.

Subsidiary of Mediplex and division of Avon Products. Private 70 bed psychiatric hospital. Relocated to be closer to family. Controller for proprietary 70 bed psychiatric hospital in Port St. Lucie, FL

Subsidiary of Schick Laboratories and Frawley Corporation, a 50 bed private substance abuse hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Administrator for 50 bed proprietary hospital.

A subsidiary of Health Group, Inc, 50 bed private medical/surgical hospital, which was sold in 1985. >Controller for troubled inner city private medical & surgical hospital in Dallas

Subsidiary of Charter Medical Corporation, Macon, GA Controller for 65 bed private psychiatric hospital in Northwest Arkansas.

Subsidiary of Charter Medical Corporation, Macon, GA Assistant Controller for a 64 bed private medical surgical hospital in Northwest Atlanta.

Position was responsible for all parking control activities on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus and adjacent medical center. Administered the student operated parking control program for the University with a staff of sixty student employees and several full time staff members. Other duties included operations of the campus Visitor Information Center, providing sports parking coverage and maintaining fiscal control over all programs.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration - Accounting

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