Joined homelessness service organization with primary charter of improving Accounting/Finance systems. Learned quickly that finance back office was in disarray. Re-focused demoralized Accounting team on finishing 8+ month-old financial and A-133 audit for organization's FY '13. Began parallel effort to create annual operating budget without benefit of intelligible or comprehensible prior years' actuals. Finished FY '13 audit and immediately began installing new accounting software system (Deltek). Went live July 1, 2014 after only six week implementation period, with limited outside help. Finished bottom-up, highly integrated, ~40 tab budget model for FY 2015 board approval. That was the first six months.Completed software implementation; including cloud-base, integrated timekeeping system; trained approximately 20 project managers to take ownership of public (HUD, two counties, and various cities) and private grants. Defined cost accounting structure for entire organization that is consistent and in compliance with GAAP and A-122. Project managers now receive monthly cost reports, full labor detail (hours by project by employee by pay period), facility operating costs at each of IVSN's fifteen locations, Corporate administrative costs, billing, and revenue for approximately 100 individual projects. Reports include month, YTD, total costs, budget, backlog, labor and non-labor detail. Allocations of Operating and Admin costs to each project in compliance with A-122. Rationalized and streamlined job costing and billing.On-boarded replacement CFO and a Controller. Fine-tuned Deltek implementation, trained staff. Ready for next challenge.

Child Care Coordinating Council for San Mateo County. Payback to community. Financial, accounting, HR, IT, Facilities, Insurance, and other 'back office' management and supervision. Moved offices, secured leasehold improvement loan, migrated payroll, upgraded accounting/reporting systems, built bottom-up budget/forecast model. Generated first surplus in several years, accelerated outside audit, Form 990 submittal. Improved financial reporting to Board.

Venture capital-backed startup with a mission to invent and commercialize environmentally friendly, sustainable, 'green' exterior building products (brick, pavers, tile, hardscape, etc.) Employee #2, adult supervisor. Set up back office, implemented accounting system, set up prototype production facility, HR, Purchasing, IT, Insurance, benefits programs, recruited PhD researchers and lab techs. Worked with equity investors and lenders on A, B, and C rounds ($30M total) and $3M venture debt. Three clean audits, two with D&T, implemented 123R, managed cap table. Company consolidated offices in Wisconsin factory.

Turned around ailing finance & accounting function, turned $~2M restricted fund deficit into $300K unrestricted surplus. Finished 990 audits in 3 weeks for 2005 and 2006. Managed staff of ~12 - in Accounting, HR, Facilities, Clinic Operations, and Development - cultivated three billionaire potential donors. Implemented project/grant oriented accounting software (Deltek) in 90 days. Opened three satellite Parkinson's clinics for pockets of patients in northern California. Expertise in government contract/grant accounting.

Twenty years of progressive experience at several small to mid sized defense, electronics, aerospace, government contracting firms - W-J, Western Microwave, COMSIS, DISC. Worked primarily in Silicon Valley with eight years in the Washington, D.C. area. Developed expertise in government contract accounting (GCA) as well as more general government contracting issues. Managed several administrative functions as well - HR, IT, Document Processing, Facilities, etc. Sold and implemented Deltek GCA software on West Coast for two years.

Owned Government Contract Accounting (GCA) consulting business in Washington, D.C. area. Worked with small ($5M sales) to large ($1.5B+) government contractors with an emphasis on accounting - FAR, CAS compliance, DCAA audits, etc. Expert in Deltek GCA software. Consulted on implementation of Lawson ERP software in large ($1.5B) government contractor. Certified in Lawson financials. See link to GCA book site below.