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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

A tenured member of Ryan’s Global Tax Technology practice, specialize in helping our clients evaluate and enhance their current tax processes and systems environment. My efforts focus on helping our clients identify opportunities to optimize the management of their Global Indirect Taxes, Withholding Taxes and Transfer Pricing through more efficient and effective investment of their resources and capital. Broad global implementation skill set covering ONESOURCE, Vertex, Avalara and Sovos. Experience with major ERP solutions including SAP, Oracle, JDE and other leading market business operating systems.

Greater Atlanta Area

A member of Ryan’s Tax technology practice and specialize in helping our clients evaluate and enhance their current tax processes and systems environment. My efforts are focused on helping our clients identify opportunities to optimize the management of their global indirect taxes through more efficient and effective investment of their resources and capital.

Experienced in international tax engine (Sabrix & Vertex) vendor selection and global deployment. Leader of Ryan’s Global Tax Optimization (GTO) service. GTO is designed to help clients evaluate and enhance their current tax processes and systems environment to identify opportunities through more effective investment of their resources and capital. In this role I lead Ryan’s efforts to define scope and create the business case and ROI to underpin global tax engine deployments.

Manage business development activities in a multi million dollar territory covering the South East and South West for North America’s premier provider of corporate tax solutions.

Started in a greenfield territory with the goal of converting prospects to sole source National Accounts by offering value propositions that provided both direct and indirect cost savings. Coordinated local sales resources and internal National Account resources to drive profitable growth in expedited time frames.

Senior-level position with a leading provider of logistic services and global transportation services. Excelled at acquiring new accounts and advancing the sale of service offerings, including domestic transportation, international airfreight, ocean freight, custom brokerage, supply chain management and global logistic solutions. Scope of position involved traveling and managing account development activities throughout Latin America, Asia, Europe, Central America, and the Caribbean.