Provide comprehensive financial, accounting, and management consulting services for start-up and established clients across multiple industries within the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Draft business and strategic plans, prepare information packages, and coordinate software migrations. Facilitate budgeting, forecasting, cash flow analysis, account and financial statement analysis, financial reporting, and MD&A. Perform business valuations and orchestrate financial and banking arrangements. Spearhead organizational development and business transformation initiatives to improve overall operations and profitability.Selected accomplishments:• Create GAAP complaint financials, “clean-up and package” PE investment from workout planning and interim senior management through valuation, deal structure, negotiation and due diligence.• Created industry specific accounting information systems using custom and off-the-shelf applications for numerous nonprofit and for profit clients.• Negotiated and secured multi-million dollar financing arrangements using revolving lines of credit, asset based lending, equipment leasing arrangements, and factoring.• Provide complete accounting from transaction processing through financial statement and management/Board presentation.• Brought clients into compliance under applicable federal, state and local regulations including tax.• Developed and implemented complete financial systems including internal controls.• Improved financial reporting including: KPI’s, Balanced Scorecards, dashboards, and other crucial operating and financial metrics.

Serve as member of senior management team. Establish and enforce finance and accounting policies / procedures to maximize cost efficiencies; direct investment strategy. Prepare and administer agency and program budgets. Interface with independent auditors; prepare interim and year-end consolidated statements. Directly manage 3 revenue-generating social enterprise businesses employing homeless individuals. Liaise with all levels of the hierarchy, including Board of Directors, senior leadership and staff. Oversee HR functions and lead 4 direct reports supervising 40 program participants. Manage facility operations.Selected accomplishments:• Designed and implemented new accounting information system to address specific non-profit accounting requirements.• Initiated overhaul of agency operations and financing to achieve position of financial strength while maintaining 70-80% of resources focused on programs.• Significantly improved liquidity from .3:1 to 4.2:1, reduced leverage from 50% to <5% of assets, improved days cash from 1 to 145 days, increased net assets from $218K to $6M (2777%), decreased days inventory from 77 to 14 days, and increased working capital from negative to $440K.• Instrumental in construction of $11M facility using a combination of public, private, and New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) funding expanding housing footprint and increasing agency assets.• Oversee IT operations, including infrastructure and network management; maintain 99% uptime.• Devised strategy for enterprise growth through new offerings with resultant doubling of enterprise revenue.• Prepared agency, BOD, and budget for turbulent economic conditions approximately 10 months prior to 2007-8 banking meltdown and economic/financial crisis. • Provide detailed reports for Executive Team and BOD, including source, program, and restriction, comparative statements to prior period, and agency budget.

The Company was organized in 1994 for the purpose of providing information technology consultants on a contract basis to Fortune 1000 companies nationally. Created the business plan, financial plan and strategic plan providing roadmap for future. Established budgeting and forecasting standards. Implemented cost structures and accounting and financial systems. Designed and implemented timekeeping and billing processes and accounting information system. Secured all financing for the organization and subsequently administered funds and banking relationships. Managed Joint Venture relationship with UK affiliate. Prepared consolidated financial information. Worked as a liaison with corporate attorneys and CPA firm. Selected Accomplishments:• Secured initial funding for the startup increasing each year thereafter up to $2.5 million line of credit. • Prudent fiscal management allowed company to achieve operating and financial results better than industry averages and perform above benchmarked industry leaders.• Vital role in supporting company revenue growth from startup to achieving in excess of $1 million in revenues for year 1 and growing to run rate over $20M in year 4.• Authored “Company Story” and drafted offering memoranda to secure offers of 12-16X earnings and 2-4X revenues.• Instrumental in company recognition on Inc. 500 listings of fastest growing companies.

Troubled company work out situation for company in both temporary and permanent placement markets. Negotiated with vendors, creditors, and taxing authorities on payment plans and schedules. Designed and implemented controls and associated computerized systems in conjunction with operative systems. Approved operating and administrative policies. Compared performance with established operating plans and reported the results to all levels of management, as they related to personal areas of responsibility. Prepared internal monthly financial statements and worked with Independent CPA firm on year-end audit. Provided advice on all matters to the CEO. Assisted the CEO in the formulation of overall corporate objectives. Selected Accomplishments:• Established credit & collection policy that resulted in reducing DSO from 55 days to 35 days. • Implemented cost structures and designed industry specific accounting and financial systems.• Interfaced with banking officer to continue relationship that was in default.• Devised budget, cash flow and work out scenario and presented it to bank workout committee.

Managed financial and administrative matters for company in temporary employment markets. Established budgeting and forecasting standards. Implemented cost structures and accounting and financial systems. Recruited, hired, trained and managed corporate accounting staff of 7. Designed and implemented purchasing system and accounting information system. Coordinated and implemented benefit programs of health, life, and disability and deferred compensation. Administered funds and banking relationships. Worked as a liaison with corporate attorneys and CPA firm. Prepared, administered and reviewed management objectives of all cost centers and accompanying personnel. Formulated corporate objectives, mission and strategic planning with CEO.Selected Accomplishments:• Increased line of credit from $215,000 SBA loan to a $2.5 M revolving line of credit in three years. • Established credit & collection policy which reduced DSO from 55 to 42 days. Expediting collections allowed for increased ability for internal funding of growth while reducing reliance on external financing sources.• Key role in growth as efforts supported company revenue growth from $840K to $24M in 3 years.• Instrumental in company’s growth of three additional strategic business units.

Provided accounting and financial management for venture capital company actively pursuing acquisitions. Established, coordinated and administered adequate plans for the control of operations. Such plans included cash flows, projections, sales forecasts, expense budgets and cost standards for each of the separate companies. Reported on the operations of divisional groups, the individual companies, and the business combination. Established and executed programs for the provision of capital required by the individual businesses, including the negotiation and procurement of capital and maintaining the required financial arrangements. Prepared company consolidated and combining financial statements.