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ISP Building and Operating a Hybrid (Fiber & FWA) Broadband Network across the rural and small town landscape of the Midwest

ISP, Building and operating Fiber and Fixed Wireless Broadband Networks across Rural America.

AI based optimization algorithms to enhance wireless network performance.

Newport Beach, California, Us

Wireless Infrastructure, small cells.

CFO at NCN of a $100M revenue company. Negotiated, implemented and administered $250M credit facility and raised $100M in equity. Managed financial, contractual, administrative and H/R functions.

Built the company to over $100M in annual revenue and have raised over $100M in capital. Member of Executive leadership team. Lead financial, H/R, regulatory, legal and administrative teams and functions for domestic Mobile Network Operator (MNO) owned by T-Mobile.Extensive strategic, negotiating, asset sale structuring, revenue enhancement and cost reduction experience.

Austin, Tx, Us

Chief Financial Officer with full responsibility for the strategic planning, development and leadership of the entire corporate finance organization for this wireless mobile financial services, SaaS provider. Direct financial planning and analysis, accounting, tax, treasury, budgeting, regulatory and administrative functions. Build the annual revenue to over $100M and raised over $200M in private equity and debt transactions.Key strategic and negotiating roleLeading effort for significant capital raiseSuccessful commercial launch of nationwide MVNO and mobile financial services/e commerce business-built revenue stream from $0 to $50 million annuallyLaunched the world's first Western Union mobile money transfer capability

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Built to over $2B in annual revenue. Led team of 20 in the execution of the following functions: Corporate Finance/Capital Markets, Treasury Operations, Risk Management, Capital Structuring, Investing, Financing, Working Capital Management, Cash Forecasting & Analysis, Banking, Payment Processing, Investor Relations, Credit & Collections, Business/Strategic Planning, Managerial/Financial Reporting and Analysis and InterCarrier Finance.Successfully structured and executed $1.5B in senior secured credit facilities and notes and a $150MM in high yield senior notes to fully fund the business.Raised $746MM in private equity transaction: $50MM in primary proceeds and $696MM secondaryIntegral role in IPO process and manage rating agency relationshipsImplemented CPM system, Outlook Soft Everest; direct team in the execution of enterprise wide strategic/business planning, budgeting and managerial/financial reporting and analysis functions. Perform all major initiative financial analysis and modeling. Prepare monthly budget vs. actual results (BVA) and KPI analysis. Significant role in M & A activities: FCC auction 58 license acquisitions, license acquisitions from Cingular and Verizon Wireless.Extensive experience and expertise in Telecommunications prepaid/pay in advance operations, billing, service and business model and payment structure design and execution.Served as interim Controller and interim CFO in addition to Treasurer during a period of explosive growth and transition for the company in the 2004 -2005 timeframe that positioned the company for a successful IPO.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Directed a national team of 35 in execution of enterprise wide Credit & Collection strategy and policy; managed finance function of corporate Marketing department and 14,000 employee Customer Care department Extensive involvement in development, analysis and execution of enterprise wide prepaid strategy and execution.Implemented a factoring of aged receivables process that has netted over $ 5M. Implemented behavioral scoring program to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the in house A/R management and collections. Improved DSO by 20%, increase liquidation rate by 25%.Developed uniform measurements and targets for customer care to better measure and increase productively and effectiveness. First call resolution increase of 30%.

Built to over $300M in annual revenue. Provide strategic leadership and direction for a staff of 70 people in the performance of all Treasury Operations, Risk Management, Capital Structuring, Investing, Financing, Working Capital Management, Cash Forecasting & Analysis, Banking, Payment Processing, Investor Relations, Credit & Collections, Revenue Assurance, Roaming and Fraud Prevention Management functions. Negotiated and executed a $350M Japanese Leveraged Lease (first in Telecommunications Industry), Vendor financing (Infrastructure, Handsets, Systems), bank facilities, tower sale lease back transactions, equipment leasing.Created & directed implementation of revenue assurance function & usage reconciliation and error management process for a real time billing function (Industry recognized subject manner expert & public speaker on Revenue Assurance).Designed & instituted state of the art payment center program for customer account replenishment with over 2,000 points of presence that processes and updates customer payments on a real time basis (Industry first, TMA Pinnacle award winner, authored article for the TMA Journal).Implemented Subscription and Cloning Fraud systems, reports & procedures that produced a 300% decrease in subscription fraud expense.Serve on steering committees for pre-paid service, churn reduction, IT system requirements, OC&C., pricing. System owner of the billing system. Recipient of the prestigious President's Award for track record of achievement and sustained demonstration of firm's core values.

Directed staff of 30 in the performance of general accounting, fixed assets, A/R, A/P, inventory & retail accounting, revenue accounting, P/R, microwave relocation, tax, roaming, financial internal and external reporting and analysis.Established company-wide general, fixed asset, inventory and revenue accounting standards, policies and procedures and internal control structure.Managed a six-month implementation and migration to People Soft financial systems.Coordinated successful external, Partner and internal audits.Reduced monthly closing cycle time by 75%.Reduced A/P processing time by 40%.Lead cross-functional task force successful in reducing subscriber billing credits and adjustments by 25%.Served on steering committees for business planning, commercial launch of the business, and billing system implementation.

Responsible for directing 100 employees in the performance of all financial, operational and administrative functions. Negotiated lucrative long-term contracts with wireless telecommunications and paging carriers, lenders, major vendors and lessors. Increased residual revenue by 50%.Increased gross margin by 65% and net income by 125%. Reduced payroll costs by 35%.Established customer service function to increase customer satisfaction, reduce churn and significantly increase collections from disconnected subscribers. Increased collections by 200%, reduced churn by 45%.

Responsible for managing the Financial Reporting, General Accounting, Treasury, Billing, Tax, Roaming, Agent Accounting, Business Planning/Budgeting, Payroll, Auditing, Record Maintenance and Inventory Functions. Directed staff of 25.Instituted and successfully implemented numerous revenue enhancements and cost reduction measures during a period of explosive growth in sales, subscribers and acquisition costs. Reduced billing expense by 10%.Designed numerous Managerial computer reports to improve efficiency of operating and capital budgeting and forecasting process, cash management, fixed asset tracking and inventory processing. Reduced overtime expense and utilization of external work force by 30%. Reduced external auditing costs by 25%. Instituted bank lock box processing of receipts to expedite payment processing by 15%.

Bsba, Finance

Master'S Degree, Accounting