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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Kearny, New Jersey

Rahway, Nj

Guided company through unprecedented growth including expansion into China and Vietnam. Executed private equity offerings, organic real estate development, sales leaseback transactions, and refinancing of lines of credit. Responsible for overhaul of accounting and finance. Prepared meaningful budgets, forecasts, reporting, and global financial plans. Executed international expansion structure in Asia. As COO led operations spanning 25 locations, including responsibility for customer service, software development, and IT infrastructure. Improved efficiencies, standards, support, and achieved significant cost savings. Set direction on new initiatives including Global 3PL System upgrade to support multi-country/currency transactions. Launched the first automated (AS/RS) warehouse in the cold storage 3PL industry.

Responsible for investor relations, management and board reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial plan, accounting, finance, customer service, human resources, product development, software development, and overall operations. Raised additional equity. Launched e-commerce website Bonanza.com, marketplace where people can trade, buy, and sell items. Completed staffing changes to extend life of company.

Responsible for financial, accounting, reporting, ACH billing, administrative, and investor relations startup of company. Launched customer billing system with ACH collection. Raised additional equity capital. Sold company to public company U.S. Wireless Data, Inc.

Clients included Merrill Lynch, NDC, and Williams Communications. Implemented IT internal transfer pricing, contributed to reengineering and consolidation of global IT infrastructure. Completed merger and internal integration of an acquired company.

Managed staff of 50 professionals in finance, accounting, A/P, A/R, billing systems, and purchasing. Developed global transaction pricing model. Utilized cost accounting tools to determine cost of providing service to customers, including telecommunications, data center, customer service, call center, software maintenance/development, and administrative. Implemented centralized purchasing, resulting in expense reduction and improved purchase order processing. Fostered staff development and increased productivity. Improved budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.

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