★The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts provides a unique environment that fosters a creative academic approach to learning and a development of talent in the arts that is built upon passion, discipline and a commitment to excellence and provides an integrative educational experience that inspires all students to believe in themselves and what they can accomplish.►Member of the Development and Finance Committees.

Provide the leadership, management and vision necessary to ensure that the company has the proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, and people systems in place to effectively grow the organization and to ensure financial strength and operating efficiency.

Guide financial decisions by establishing, monitoring and enforcing policies, procedures and strategic planning. Protect company assets by monitoring internal controls. Maintain adequate support staff to handle day-to-day accounting transactions. Design controls and budgets to mitigate risk, enhance accuracy of financial reports and provide KPI reporting data for budgets, cashflow, AR/AP, credit/collection and compliance. Oversee HR functions.Key Achievements:• Utilize lean six sigma manufacturing methodology to provide budget and expense variance analysis KPIs for monthly review. Achieve increase in net profit and revenue growth by 20% as result of this process improvement.• Implement automation of the treasury function by upgrading commercial banking platform to attain streamlined dual controls, visibility and increased cash flow for domestic and international companies.

New Concept Staining (NCS) is a woman-owned company that provides color concrete staining services to commercial and residential customers in the mid-Atlantic region and parts of New England. The company was formed in response to an overwhelming market demand for concrete staining services, predominantly in the commercial construction industry. NCS' work commonly includes the artisanal staining of bridges, sound walls, abutments, and buildings. The company's expertise is not limited to concrete staining, additional services include graffiti removal, pressure washing, and specialized anti-graffiti treatments.

Civic Theatre of Allentown is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with 90 years of history in the Lehigh Valley. Started by two Morning Call reporters in 1927 as “Civic Little Theatre,” the current day Civic Theatre of Allentown relies on the creativity, passion, and inspiration of the staff members, the board, and the thousands of volunteers that are mutually invested in Civic’s growth and success.

Established strategic planning, budget preparation, financial policies, procedures, controls and reporting systems to maximize return on financial assets. Ensured legal and regulatory compliance for all accounting and financial functions such as SOX 404, S Corp tax strategy and employee census data. Prepared financial analysis for mergers and acquisitions. Oversight for HR functions.Key Achievements:• Served as Accounting lead for implementation of new ERP system for US Domestic and International companies. • Realized net profit increase of 2% by sharing monthly KPI data on budget and expense variance analysis.

Managed policies and procedures in accounting, administration and human resource departments. Ensured optimization of financial and administrative roles and created standard operating procedures for maintaining appropriate labor force, finance and accounting reporting, profit and loss reporting, internal and quality audits and utilizing various ERP functionality to streamline and automate workload.Key Achievements:• Reduced raw material costs by 3% by introducing Open-to-Buy methodology for managing merchandise strategies.• Realigned A/R process and reduced A/R from $1M to $200,000 within 6 months which allowed company to refrain from using Line of Credit unnecessarily.

Creditsafe USA– Allentown, PASpearheaded introduction of prospecting methodology throughout US divisions to peak the interest of prospective clients to thoroughly review product offerings. Achieved $1M sales in first year. Not-For-Profit Confidential Client – Bethlehem, PAConsulted in Controller function and ensured client was prepared and compliant for external audits. Established SOX 404 controls.Confidential Client – Allentown, PAConducted fraud investigations and reviewed transactions in detail to identify fraud patterns. Prepared summary of findings and designed anti-fraud processes based upon observations of trends and system enhancements.

Developed and executed strategies to support growth objectives. Partnered with global sales and accounting teams on creative strategies for new business opportunities. Created sales targets to align with sales territories. Redesigned prospecting practices to build client relationships to ensure client retention. Researched business opportunities and new viable income streams.Key Achievements:• Redesigned prospecting practices to support organizational growth objectives so business operations could efficiently support sales team and allocate sales targets and realign sales territories. • Collaborated on transformation al strategic business initiatives targeted at improving business development acumen by 15%.

★The New York City Department of Education (DOE) is the largest school district in the US, serving 1.1 million students in over 1,800 schools.★Led the financial prioritization process, which strategically allocates resources; implemented principles designed to optimize economic returns as well as achievement of business objectives.►Implemented initiative tracking system report to monitor $30M of strategic cost reductions as per mayoral directives. ►Successfully prepared NYC DOE $22B budget for 2010 and 2011.►Spearheaded strategic cost reduction initiatives within the DOE and monitored the year-over-year cost savings.►Managed the reconciliation of the Mayor's Oversight Office of Management and Budget (OMB) appropriation to the DOE of $22B annually, supervising a staff of 20 who partnered with various operating leaders throughout the DOE.►Provided ongoing oversight of the fiscal forecast, including variations in revenue and expenditures to ensure the DOE goals were preserved amid a declining economy.

★Jonathan Levine Gallery is committed to new and cutting edge art. The catalogues they publish, prints they distribute, and museum shows they help to produce reflect their dedication to their artists and community. ★Served as senior accountant leading and improving the entire book close function and reported results to leadership team with commentary and suggestions for management actions.►Consulted on fraud investigation from design to report and recommendations and implemented improved risk management and fraud prevention processes for the increasing ecommerce transactions while preserving data protection.

★Touching Humanity, Inc. (THI) is a community-based arts and health education non-profit organization. They are committed to promoting disability awareness through arts programming, particularly the performing arts, and educational events that support wellness, health and active participation in life.

★Dun & Bradstreet’s solutions provide the knowledge to tackle crucial challenges and opportunities, mitigate risk, streamline operational practices and engage new audiences. With over 225 million records on businesses from around the world, they have more data and insight about businesses than any other information company on the planet.★Drove cohesive efforts among Global Business Units, Internal Audit group, and External Auditors and consistently analyzed and determined company risk, compliance, and status of internal controls.►Invested $2M in CRM SOX 404 compliant system, which produced incremental revenue of $13M in 6 months time by reducing administrative back office work from salesforce. ►Trained US sales force and re-engineering team on prospecting, which increased new business sales by 2%. ►Educated international reengineering team on Six Sigma skills which resulted in ~$11M in improvement initiatives. ►Partnered with business to develop, implement and administer reengineering initiatives in stringent alignment with SEC regulatory requirements and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) criteria►Administered PMO to optimize reengineering effectiveness and cost control in accordance with FASB146, SAS70 and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).►Prepared all footnotes to the Restructuring Charges in accordance with SFAS 146.

►Served as PMO and paralegal coordinating the withdrawal of SEC allegations of an improper sale related activities to BIL Holdings who purchased D&B’s French Operations. ►Completed budgeting process including litigation accruals and other loss contingency accruals. ►Instituted a Knowledge Management system for cataloguing corporation legal activities.

►Implemented over 4000 SOX 404 Compliance Controls from mapping to self-testing through external auditors. ►Restated all revenue recognition rules in conjunction with SOX enacted, Section 302 reporting for corrections of errors in public company GAAP financial statements filed with the SEC.