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Toledo, Ohio, United States

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Created, assessed and recommended improvements to third party supplier contract inventory for a division of a Fortune 500 firm identified for sale

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Lead a team of strategic sourcing specialists in managing approximately $1B in spend for employee related expenses to mitigate the risks and maximize the value of that third party spend

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Lead and develop a team of 3 - 5 sourcing leaders that minimize risk and maximize the value of National City's information technology investments. Hire and train new sourcing leaders. Successfully sourced major initiatives managing cost, risk, quality and flexibility to meet or exceed sponsor requirements. Annually achieves savings goals of $1.0MM or more.

Hudson, Ohio

Directed Hackett’s Finance Benchmarking practice, consisting of 6 direct report professional consultants and 20 subject matter report experts, to 12% profit growth while managing day-to-day execution as well as ongoing research and development of Hackett’s renowned finance best practices benchmark. Grew the annual conversion rate from 14% to 29% of benchmarking engagements that generated consulting project revenues, which were 400% greater than the previous year. Identified reductions in excess of 25% of the annual finance budget for a global manufacturer of retail products by combining organizational redesign with the adoption of finance best practices. Provided a 50% reduction in the time required each month to close the general ledger by raising materiality limits, enforcing standards and realigning transaction processing for a Fortune 100 company promoting more timely business decisions.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Planned, staffed and led the Global Infrastructure Services Controllership ($40M operation) for Agilent Technologies throughout the divestiture from Hewlett Packard Company. Managed the consulting firm and internal team that successfully planned and reduced IT baseline spending at Agilent Technologies by $130M over an 18-month timeframe. Planned and staffed the financial support for the information technology portion of Agilent Technologies’ $1.7B divestiture of its Healthcare Solutions Group. Directed the Information Technology financial support team for Agilent Technologies Merger, Acquisition and Divestiture function, which reduced the initial IT forecasting time by one week while improving risk management controls. Developed and led on-campus recruiting teams for Agilent Technologies finance function successful attracting and hiring/retaining MBA interns and graduates.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Created and managed the 14-person Hewlett Packard U.S. Information Technology Data Center Financial Planning and Reporting team and consolidated six regional data centers into three service centers resulting in a reduction of $20MM annually. Managed the 28 person multi-site U.S. functional team and the phased projects for a financial, manufacturing and personnel systems multi-year implementation of SAP. Led a campus recruiting team for Hewlett Packard's finance function successfully attracting and hiring 4 MBA graduates/interns per year (average over 7 years).

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Assisted in the planning, staffing, creation and efficient operations of Hewlett Packard’s U.S. financial shared services including development and reduction of the $60M annual budget to $53M while revenue more than doubled over the same 5-year period. Developed Hewlett Packard shared service center SLA’s (service level agreements) including fixed and variable cost allocation activity drivers generating annual process improvement efforts that reduced financial shared service center costs by 10% for three consecutive years. Led the planning, staffing, training, consolidation and continuous improvement of Hewlett Packard’s U.S. general ledger process reducing staffing by 20 employees for an ongoing annual savings over $1.5M. Led on-campus recruiting reams for Hewlett Packard’s finance function successfully attracting and hiring MBA interns and graduates.

Rockville, Md

Designed the standard coding structure and led the 6 person financial team that tracked cost and revenue growth by business segments across Hewlett Packard’s North American Test and Measurement business unit promoting the identification of under invested growth segments. Upon implementation, the program sustained 7% annual growth in sales while maintaining flat spending ($850M business unit). Key member of team, which planned, implemented and documented Hewlett Packard’s initial and subsequent U.S. sales force voluntary severance initiatives producing $12M annual savings. Trained and facilitated Total Quality Control (TQC) teams throughout Hewlett Packard’s U.S. order fulfillment, general accounting and financial reporting functions that generated over $10M in annual cost reduction projects.

Master, Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Quantitative Business Analysis

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