• Responsible for accounting and HR functions of an established supplier of the rubber, aerospace, medical and automotive industries.• Proficient with QuickBooks 2016 – Manufacturing Edition.• Created Excel templates to track orders, sales, cash flows, payroll taxes, expenses and monthly journal entries. • Negotiate with suppliers to obtain favorable pricing on raw materials and tools.• Produce custom weekly financial reports as well as monthly, quarterly and year-end financial statements.• HR functions include interviewing and hiring hourly employees.

Worked with companies looking for candidates to fill professional positions, particularly in engineering, management and accounting fields. Counseled professionals and offered advice regarding salary, benefits and other factors to consider when making a career change.

• Ability to accurately calculate product cost and recommend possible courses of action to reduce expenses and material costs.• Developed controls to ensure processes were consistently followed and deviation was kept to a minimum. • Performed walkthrough audits of internal controls and procedures to ensure SOX compliance.• Audited reconciliations, revenue and closing statements for SOX compliance.• Audited service providers, including SSAE 16 reports, to evaluate potential risks to the company. • Evaluated effectiveness of controls recommended by providers and documented adequacy of company procedures.

• Experience in a large ISO 9000 manufacturing facility producing medium to large size stamped steel panels used in automotive industry. • Worked on various types of tooling including draw dies, trim dies, form dies and progressive dies. • Skilled with troubleshooting surface defects on Class A surface panels including roofs, doors and hoods.• Responsible for developing controls to improve productivity, quality and reliability of manufacturing processes. • Improved manufacturing processes to decrease scrap material through blank reduction.• Developed controls and procedures that reduced changeover times from several hours to less than 15 minutes.• Proactively scrutinized and improved product on behalf of our customers. • Developed preventative maintenance schedules on tooling to increase reliability during runs thereby optimizing manufacturing capacity. Remedied recurring quality issues that ultimately saved the facility $200,000 per part run. Designed and constructed welding fixtures for automotive sub-assemblies.  Hand built checking fixtures for verifying product quality.• Perfect attendance 19 years with five absences in 24 years.