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Lake Forest, Illinois, US

• Executed IT application delivery and systems support for $10,000,000,000 North American MRO distribution business spanning 300 applications and enabling supply chain, sales/customer service, and financial shared.
• Developed and executed long-term labor strategy to outsource IT run operations, reducing operating expenses $3,000,000 annually
• Created multi-year plan to deliver a single SAP instance for North American operations
• Enabled ability to plan for over 200,000,000 product/location combinations daily, ensuring product availability and streamlining purchasing

Lake Forest, Illinois, US

• Led delivery and support of applications for all of FSS as well as supply chain operations. Managed talent development, staffing, and delivery of new capabilities to continuously improve finance and supply chain.
• Devised three-year roadmap to build near shore financial shared services operation in Panama, reducing operating expenses by $4,000,000 annually
• Implemented Teradata TVA Creating ability to analyze profitability at ay granular level by customer resulting in $40,000,000 in margin improvement through improved pricing and contract negotiations
• Partnered with credit department to redesign and enhance credit and collection operations by customizing SAP FSCM screens to streamline collection calls and achieved a $1,000,000 productivity improvement
• Led team of 20 systems analysts and business SME's to migrate finance and accounting process from Oracle Financials to SAP
• Led upgrade of SAP platform from SAP version 4.7 to ECC 6.0

Paris, France, FR

• Combined finance and accounting knowledge with strong business partnership skills to deliver large, complex systems deployments across various industries
• Migrated over 50 critical applications to enable outsourcing for tier 1 automotive parts supplier
• Turned around financial project for global chemical manufacturing company following failed U.S. go-live
• Leveraged an Accelerated Solution Design method to complete a complex systems blueprint in 8 weeks for a major telecommunications company

St. Louis, Missouri, US

• Financial Process Redesign, Finance Manager Accounting & Financial Planning, Consolidations, International Finance
• Led financial process redesign initiative enabled by SAP R/3 client server technology. Completed project two months ahead of plan and $650,000 under budget

US

Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Accounting, Cost Accounting

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General

Bachelor Of Science Accounting

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.)