I am a Managing Director with Deloitte’s Tax Management Consulting (TMC) group that specializes in tax organizational structure, process, and technology solutions for large tax departments.

Tax Consulting practice lead for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Global lead of Accenture's Direct Tax Offerings.Selected Projects:• Led the implementation of cloud based solution for data collection, tax provision, and BEPS Country by Country Reporting for a global pharmaceutical company operating in 50+ countries using Oracle's Tax Reporting Cloud Service "TRCS". Integrated with Cognos Controller and SAP S/4 HANA.• Led the transformation of tax accounting processes and BEPS Country by Country Reporting for a global consumer technology company using Hyperion Tax Provision and Hyperion Tax Governance on Amazon's AWS cloud infrastructure; automated tax forecast, tax provision, cash flow reporting, and uncertain tax positions processes. Integrated with SAP BW, SAP BCS, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP ECC.• Designed a tax risk management framework covering transfer pricing, direct tax, indirect tax, personal tax, and customs risks for a global consumer technology company.• Participated as Tax Lead in multiple Finance Transformation strategy and design projects for global companies in manufacturing, beer, education, fashion design and retail, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceuticals industries - Assessed current state versus leading practices in tax process, technology, and operating models - Designed placement of work in shared services (SSCs), centers of expertise (COEs), and local - Defined process and technology initiatives to improve centralization of the work

Selected Projects:• Led the design of global processes and operating model for direct tax, indirect tax, and statutory reporting in a Finance transformation setting up Enterprise Business Services and Tax Centers of Excellence in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. • Solution Architect leading the end-to-end technical design of a global direct tax automation and reporting solution that includes tax-sensitizing SAP GL and Fixed Assets, designing a Tax Chart of Accounts, developing a Tax Data Mart, and implementing software for Tax Provision, Document Management, Tax Calendar, and Audit Management. • Led an assessment of issues with data from SAP and HFM for tax processes in North America, Latin America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. Included intercompany transactions, withholding tax, foreign tax credits, GL account analysis, chart of accounts, fixed assets, data collection and reconciliation, tax provision process, and local country reporting. Defined solutions, implementation roadmap, cost estimate, and business case.• Led an assessment of issues in VAT calculation and reporting in Oracle AP/AR processes to identify root causes. Documented key VAT requirements, identified gaps in the current tax configuration, recommended process and technology improvements with Vertex O Series, and developed an implementation roadmap and business rationale.• Led an evaluation of automation alternatives for VAT, GST, Sales & Use Tax for a 70 country SAP implementation. Assessed alternatives of native SAP functionality vs. bolt-on tax software (Sabrix, Vertex, Taxware). Developed requirements matrix, cost estimate, business case, and Sabrix implementation plan aligned with four-year SAP roll-out.• Led the transition of tax processes and systems in a newly spun-off business, including setting up tax applications for sales & use, property, and income taxes, a tax data warehouse, and a document management system, and establishing agreements for audit and IT support for NewCo.

I led Accenture's Tax Excellence practice in EMEA, where I• grew practice sales, revenue, and delivery capability (people aligned to Tax and people with relevant skills in other practices)• developed the annual business plan and financial and staffing targets for the practice• managed the sales pipeline and coordinated staffing of Tax roles on projects• aligned EMEA practice activities with the direction set by the global Tax Excellence practice lead and by Finance & Enterprise Performance service line leadership in EMEA• presented on Tax Transformation topics at European tax conferences to increase market awareness of Accenture’s Tax offerings• conducted tax training, web seminars, and presentations to increase internal awareness of our Tax capabilities• grew and managed relationships with key vendors of tax software and services in EuropeIn addition to my practice leadership responsibility, my primary roles were as leader or solution architect of tax transformation projects for several multinational clients in the resources, products, and telecom industries.

As part of the US national Tax Performance Improvement practice, I focused on tax technololgy and processes including tax provision, data, and document management for clients in the Energy and Media & Entertainment industries.

Implemented custom-built tax provision automation, workflow, and document management solutions for large corporate tax departments in the Energy and Telecom industries.

Led the Gulf Coast tax technology consulting practice based in Houston. Focused on technology and processes for income tax, motor fuel excise tax, and property tax for clients in the Energy and Financial Services industries.

Technical Architect and Project Manager. Finance & Performance Management line of business. Implemented customized tax provision automation solutions for large companies in the Manufacturing and Defense industries.

• Led the Release Management Team for Western’s Omega Seismic Processing System, a large (10,000 files and 3 million lines of code) multi-platform software used in the exploration of oil and gas. I was responsible for software builds, version control, configuration management and software distribution to clients. • Systems Programming Supervisor leading team responsible for system administration of UNIX and mainframe computers.