Financial executive and CPA with exceptional breadth of operating financial management experience. A high energy, hands-on, profit directed mindset, along with organizational sensitivity. On-site experience with international operations.Interim management/crisis management engagements include:- Interim chief financial and operating officer for a troubled private equity-backed medical device manufacturer in Alabama.- Interim chief financial officer for a $100 million+ Pennsylvania-based consumer products company in crisis, subsidiary of a European public company.- Various acquisition, crisis management, and profit improvement assignments throughout the United States and Canada for a Dallas-based diversified manufacturing company.- Acting chief financial officer to take public the United States operations of a German-owned medical service company.- Acting finance officer for a strategically critical subsidiary in crisis of a public medical equipment company.Financial executive positions include:- Director-Internal Audit with global responsibility for Respironics, Inc., a $1 billion+ public medical device manufacturing company.- Chief Accounting Officer for Serv-Tech, Inc., a $140 million public industrial services company.- Chief Financial Officer for Alloy Steel Company, a $80 million steel producer in crisis.- International Auditing Manager for PPG Industries.- Director-Internal Audit for Houston Natural Gas Corporation.- Senior Manager, Arthur Andersen & Co.Contact info:2634 Glenchester Rd.Wexford, PA 15090Res.: (724) 935-0429Cell: (412) 915-8814email: strait.bill@yahoo.com