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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny

 Founded and grew company from start up to $50MM plus in revenue; establishing the company as the leading diamond reprocessing company in the industry. Spearhead cross-functional teams while ensuring alignment of assigned work stream with the overall strategy. Led activities that influenced multiple teams across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Including acquisitions, sales, finance, marketing, production and product and 60+ employees.  Forefront of cross functional teams while ensuring alignment of assigned work stream with the overall strategy; render support in identifying activities that influence multiple teams.ACHIEVEMENTS  Built and cultivated long-term, strategic relationships - established a $15MM in line of credit + raised over $20MM in venture capital Maintained and Led the analysis and identification of cost-saving solutions - rationalized business processes and functional requirements for - $4M in savings. Aligned group activities to impact bottom line and fostered understanding of company strategy by meeting with Sr. Leaders, Board Members, Investors and Staff  Led the transition of our businesses inventory management and CRM systems from an old tech platform to Salesforce.com completely customized salesforce.com to meet our needs, integrated RFID technology, conga composer, docusign and creating custom visual force pages. Empowering all employees with data anywhere there was internet access Built team cohesion, engagement and development. Designed employee engagement meetings and employee review process and addressed opportunity areas. Led the development of our automated pricing tool – the “diamond valuation tool” – using data scraped from the web to create a real-time price, the tool dramatically reduced the length of time required to price acquisitions and product for sale, and increased consistency of pricing. This resulted in significant personnel cost savings and improved cross brand price consistency.

New York, Ny

MWI/Eloquence Corp is a diamond manufacturing company, DeBeers "sightholder" and a jewelry manufacturing and distribution company. Reported directly to the CEO with responsibilities for sales, marketing, vendor management Led multiple change management initiatives and implemented workforce management programs which produced annual savings through cost reductions, process standardization, metrics identification and business alignment Worked with developers on AS400 system to create solutions to business problems/process that leverage technology and provide efficiency improvements and better user experienceACHIEVEMENTS  Grew annual revenues - from $15MM to $25MM Managed – 6 sales representatives and 15 inside staff

London, United Kingdom

EY is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom. EY is one of the largest professional services firms in the world and is one of the "Big Four" accounting firms. Conducted field audits  Technology specialistACHIEVEMENTS  Managed – field audit team of 10 accountants Qualified – passed all chartered accountant exams and completed all required work experience Technology – spearheaded the transition of our audit work from paper files to digital. Responsible for field-testing new software being released for audit. Assisted in training audit teams during the conversion from Apple to Windows based PCs