Devon Hawkins Email & Phone Number

Conway, Ar, Us

Conway, Arkansas, United States

*Taught the following courses:- Philosophy for Living | Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 (2 sections)- Critical Thinking | Fall 2020- Continental Philosophy | Spring 2020- Academic Writing and Research | Spring 2020 (2 sections)- Introduction to College Writing | Fall 2019 (3 sections)

North Canton, Ohio, United States

*Taught the following courses:- Moral Philosophy | Spring 2019 (2 sections)- Philosophy of Human Nature | Spring 2019

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

*Taught the following course:- Basic Philosophical Questions | Fall 2018

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

*Assisted in course design, lecture, exam creation, and grading for the following courses:- Basic Philosophical Questions | Fall 2017 and Spring 2018- Christian Philosophy | Spring 2017- Philosophical Ethics | Fall 2016

Kent, Ohio

*Taught the following courses:- Introduction to Philosophy | Summer 2015, Spring 2016, and Summer 2016- Introduction to Ethics | Fall 2015 (2 sections) and Spring 2016 (2 sections)- Introduction to Logic | Summer 2015

*Taught the following course:- Reading and Writing Connections | Fall 2015

Kent, Ohio

*Assisted in course design, lecture, exam creation, and grading for the following courses:- Introduction to Philosophy | Spring 2015- Introduction to Ethics | Fall 2014

*Member of the implementation team for SAP 6.0, SAP Business Objects, and Business Explorer -Solely responsible for producing training materials, and carrying out training, of product costing and settlement in SAP 6.0 -One of 15 super-users who trained management and advanced users in SAP Business Objects and Business Explorer -Provided on-going oversight and support as a subject-matter expert and super-user*Set budgeting standards for all manufacturing facilities -Developed consistent expense assignments to ensure proper alignment with standard recoveries -Created an Excel-based budget model for overhead expenses, standard costs, and manufacturing variances for use by all manufacturing facilities -Provided oversight and training in use of the budget model -Loaded all budgets into TM1 for consolidation -Produced consolidated budget reporting and variance explanation*Produced the company-wide operations report monthly -Responded to queries from senior leadership regarding report results -Improved accuracy and efficiency of the operations report by creating standards for data submission and retrieval -Created documentation for compilation of the highly complex report*Focused on continuous improvement initiatives, to include: -Created new financial and operational reports -Streamlined existing financial and operational reports -Participated in Lean Six Sigma projects as a finance representative

*Generated and consolidated plant overhead budgets for the west manufacturing region in conjunction with plant resources*Created standards in SAP and Excel-based models for the west manufacturing region*Estimated monthly overhead expenses and manufacturing and material-usage variances by coordinating with plant resources for submission to corporate *Performed product cost settlement by running settlement transactions in SAP and verified results*Calculated and developed standardized reporting of manufacturing variances*Produced overhead accruals, reporting, and variance explanations*Reconciled general-ledger accounts, which included aging of balances, investigation of old or suspect balances, and clearing when necessary*Reconciled manual alcohol-usage records with SAP and completed and filed domestic and customs drawback claims with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)*Crafted ad hoc analyses as requested -Revamped inventory status analysis for site resources and for use in obsolescence accounting and reporting -Cafeteria Subsidy Analysis -Downtime Analysis -Review of master data relevant to standard costing in SAP -Analysis of reporting packages for possibilities to increase efficiency and standardization

*Initiated and helped to manage the budget process -Created entity-wide budget templates using Hyperion -Analyzed historical trends to predict future costs -Understood cost variances in support of budget validity -Forecasted capital acquisitions and depreciation expense -Consolidated budget information for corporate Web-based reporting*Analyzed monthly financial statements -Worked with several departments to understand major variances -Detailed variance-related information to management*Created Excel-based financial reports for management using Hyperion and AS400*Prepared PowerPoint presentations regarding budgeting and forecasting for executive management *Assisted in conversion to SSA ERPLX from AS400

*Compiled division financial statements-prepared journal entries, analyzed accounts, and readied supplemental reports for submission to corporate*Created and maintained cost-allocation tool-Allocated high-level community costs to a job (house) for margin-calculation purposes*Prepared statistical analysis of unit information (i.e. sales and closings) on a weekly basis for corporate consolidation*Assisted in quarterly financial forecasting, developing multi-year estimates of performance *Maintained financial aspects of the vendor rebate program*Reconciled Accounts Payable, payroll and depository bank accounts*Prepared and filed use tax, personal property tax and personal property declarations*Indirectly managed various personnel-Performance training and project management*Various projects -Key to successful implementation of a new financial system (SAP) at the division level-Integrated existing systems, documented and reported progress to corporate SAP-team management -Implemented automated payment authorization by purchase order (invoiceless payment system) -Developed budgeting tool for land-development department -Created new organizational process flow for management of sales contract files -Assisted in creation and maintenance of job profit projection tool

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: American Philosophical Association, Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, Society.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Philosophy Graduate Student Organization *Master’s Thesis: “Schelling, Heidegger, and Evil” - Advisor: Dr. Gina.

Bachelor Of Arts, Accounting, International Business, And Spanish

Activities and Societies: Who's Who of American Colleges and Universities, Dean's List, Academic All-American *GPA: 3.89/4.0, Magna Cum.