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BARRETT PROPERTIES Dalton, GA$50MM AUM Real Estate Investment Firm Vice President 6/2015 to Present• Guided strategic acquisitions and disposals of commercial and residential properties in Northwest Georgia and the Cayman Islands.• Developed a series of accountability processes for property managers, administrators, and executives, that, when implemented, increased annual cash flow by 15%.• Identified underperforming financial managers through periodic benchmarking. Consequently, I designed and implemented an investment and allocation thesis that provided guidelines for our outside money managers that aligned them with our internal strategic goals.• Managed corporate P+L, with responsibility for all aspects of financial performance.• Responsibility to leading and developing skillset of office staff and financial consultants.• Led transformative software change, requiring retraining all office personnel on use of accounting and property management software, while striving to become the internal subject matter expert.ALARM CITY Dalton, GAStart-up Security and Automation ProviderChief Financial Officer 6/2015 to Present• Total P+L responsibility for fledgling security and automation provider.• Operated as de-facto COO for growing organization, with management responsibility for sales, installation, and administrative staff.• Worked with all internal stakeholders to design organizational policies and procedures for all aspects of the organization.• Negotiated with vendors to reduce variable costs by 25% as volume increased.• In concert with ownership, designed and guided the company visioning process.• Implemented a research driven approach to customer targeting, complete with a comprehensive tracking tool.• Created a simple bookkeeping process to evaluate cash flow, financial performance, and attrition.

• Developed and implemented sales and business development program to reframe sales team strategy to focus on customer engagement and foundational relationships.• Coaching of sales and execution teams (10 direct reports) to identify and target strategically critical customers and contracts.• Engaged vendor conglomerates and local field representatives (external) in business development efforts, resulting in 25% YOY top line revenue increase.• Consulted with President of company to design and implement sales incentives tied to bottom line performance.• Led team analysis of annual budget and prior year P&L variances, resulting in identification and rectification of significant misrepresentations.

Strategic projects in addition to process and cost optimization. Leveraged experiences to solidify bottom line performance.Transformational leadership of process deficient/resistant culture.Innovative methods introduced to human resources, accounting/bookkeeping, operations, and project management.

Outperformed sales goals and department averages from outset.Identified as high performer with exceptional business IQ and moved to strategic role.

Led, motivated and managed cross-functional and cross-industry teams to achieve common goals.Nurtured client relationships while exceeding project success benchmark metrics.