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Stoney Creek, Ontario, Ca

Oakville, Ontario, Ca

Samuel is a $3.8 billion dollar competitor in the metals and packaging industries. With a diverse collection of businesses, Samuel is a significant distributor of carbon, aluminum and stainless products to a variety of industries, including energy, automotive, construction and HVAC. Samuel's Manufacturing Group manufactures parts and components for the HVAC, automotive, rail car, energy, pressure vessel and packaging industries.During my 19+ years at Samuel, the Company grew from $700 million annual sales to the current levels primarily through a series of successful acquisitions.

Oakville, Ontario, Ca

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, primary responsibilities included the due diligence lead on mergers and acquisitions, business development and financial improvement projects.Led Samuel's 15 member acquisition team on the purchase of Main Steel LLC., from start to finish of a multi facility processing business in the USA from private equity. As project lead, led all aspects of the transaction including due diligence, evaluation, negotiation and finalization of the share purchase agreement. Led the post integration team to ensure synergies realized. The acquisition was a key component of fulfilling Samuel's current 5 year strategic plan.Worked with the US Service Center Group President on developing the profit improvement strategy for 17 separate service center distribution businesses. This included detailed operational analyses to support a build to suit facility and open a new strategic location for the business.Worked with the Executive Team to develop and present a detailed automotive market strategy for Samuel to the Board of Directors, by providing data driven financial insight and detailed knowledge of the operational impact of various alternatives and decisions.Mandated by the CEO to identify a solution to Samuel's inventory management crisis. Engaged an inventory consulting group that identified purchasing control procedures that assessed min/max purchasing levels, identified common inventory items and combined purchasing efforts across multiple branches. The very successful initiative positively realigned purchasing/inventory levels within six months.Started up the implementation of Lean 6-Sigma into Samuel.

Oakville, Ontario, Ca

Formally Samuel Manu-Tech (Sales in excess of $850 million), a group of 6 distinctive business groups, acquired in 2011 by Samuel and taken private by Samuel, Son & Co., Limited.Requested by CEO to be VP Finance of the Group to lead the integration of and realization of synergies from taking the business private. After the acquisition was completed, there was a significant corporate cultural wall that had to be overcome. Breaking it down required strong communication skills, an open mind and recognition of the various skill sets both in the acquiring and acquired business.Led the analysis of a $100 million business that led to the disposition of a manufacturing facility, consolidation of remain products and processes into 2 locations and enable the company to realize a $20 million EBITDA annual improvement.Working with local management, led the process to combine several facilities, plant rationalizations and negotiated several state incentives to increase plant utilization, reduce costs and increase profitability.Led the 5 year strategic planning process for the group, annual budgeting, monthly reporting.

Oakville, Ontario, Ca

Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, was responsible for the acquisition and integration of several key acquisitions as the company grew dramatically through a series of transactions.Led the acquisition and post integration of Samuel's largest Canadian competitor. Performed all quantitative analysis and prepared Board of Directors presentations. Ensured management in multi provinces successfully rationalized 12 manufacturing facilities into 6 facilities over a 12 month period. Coordinated the system conversion of all locations into Samuel's existing IT platform.Project lead on the significant restructuring of a significant US business which led to the closure of one manufacturing location and start up of 2 new facilities that were more suitably located to the customer base. This project turned a business around from a loss of $3-4 million annual EBITDA to a profit of $3 million EBITDA.Led turnaround of significant Western USA acquisition that encountered significant purchasing and commercial issues after the purchase.

Oakville, Ontario, Ca

Worked on several significant acquisitons and restructuring projects within the company. Work with various general managers developing strategies to improve branch profitabiltiy.

Mandated by the CEO to build an international sourcing and metal trading group to increase Samuel's supply options for metal procurement.Starting the business from 1 employee, managed a sales, procurement and administrative staff of 14 people. Obtained significant experience internationally as the business developed and grew from $35 million to $250 million in sales in 3 years.Developed new procurement sources for Samuel within China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Turkey and Russia.

Managed budging, forecasting and financial reporting for two manufacturing plants. During my time I reduced the month end close from 10 days to 4 through several process improvements.

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After obtaining my CA I moved into the small business owner managed business segment where I could provide owners with value added recommendations to improve profitability.

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