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Beverly Hills/Sydney

Arclight Films is one of the world's leading international sales companies for theatrical, television and home entertainment. Arclight Films has sold over 300 motion pictures including the Best Picture Oscar® winner Crash, Golden Globe® Best Picture Nominee Bobby and Lord of War starring Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto and Ethan Hawke and the recent Oscar®.

• Responsible for the daily operations of the financial, information technology, and human resources at this strategic new business development agency that manages more than 200 partnerships for its Fortune 500 clients.
• Developed and implemented systems that enabled revenue growth of 20% during an economically depressed market.
• Improved efficiencies that allowed existing financial/administrative resources to handle the rapid growth of client partnerships by 135%, with particular attention to IT, training, and protocols.
• Streamlined and improved quarterly reporting process for management and clients, while reducing the quarter-end closing time from 45 to 15 days.
• Implemented short-term and long-term cash flow forecasting.
• Designed and implemented time allocation and tracking systems, which provided monthly P&L on all active projects.

• Directed every aspect of financial management and operations for this direct lending institution that finances elective medical procedures nationwide with an outstanding portfolio of over $18MM. Brought in to take full.
• Increased profits by 59.4%, with a 50.2% increase in revenues.
• Negotiated a $20 million warehouse line of credit.
• Provided strategic and operational financial management during period of rapid growth of 126% from 2005 to 2007.
• Increased equity by $416K by implementing an accounting change based on FASB 91.
• Developed systems and improved efficiencies that enabled the portfolio to grow from 7.9MM to 18.1MM, with particular attention to IT, collections, and underwriting.

• Directed financial systems, reporting, planning, financial controls and strategic planning. Supervised a team of 5 with P&L responsibility for this publicly traded Internet/Media startup with over $40 million in gross.
• Initiated monthly budget to actual variance analysis, reviewed, analyzed and recommended corrective action to senior management.
• Designed, implemented and managed a $1.5 million accounts receivable collection program.
• Provided 5-year revenue forecast that secured $10 million dollar bank note.
• Identified and developed new business review strategies that resulted in the acquisitions of Centerlinq.com, Dynamedia and CarRentalDirect.com.
• Implemented statistics based management and Six Sigma principles to a fast growing Internet startup with historically ad hoc management policies.

• Directed all phases of financial management, as well as, participated in management of operations and manufacturing for this privately held aerospace company. The company manufactures high-tech electronic enclosures.
• Integral member of a three-person executive team that successfully executed a leveraged buyout of existing shareholders and replaced them with a new management team that transformed the company from a marginally.
• Modernized production facilities and expanded manufacturing capabilities while increasing factory capacity by nearly 40% and implemented automated production lines.
• Redesigned traditional banking/financing arrangements into a more flexible and efficient relationship, producing annual savings in excess of $65,000.
• Updated accounting information systems, reducing the preparation time of monthly financial statements by 50% and decreasing input labor cost by 25%.
• Reduced the company’s W/C premiums by 82% within 3 years, through a proactive claims review process and by instituting an injury, illness and prevention program.

Mba, Finance/Accounting

Law

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance/Real Estate/Law