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NextLevel is a Pacific Northwest-based professional services firm with national resources, providing executive and board services on an interim, project and advisory basis. We deliver a broad range of strategic, operational and financial management services through vetted, expert team members who have an average of two decades of experience serving in leadership positions within the C-suite and boards of directors.NextLevel insists on making a meaningful contribution to your organization. We will give you immediate access to proven executive talent and address your critical initiatives in a timely, effective manner. We will align ourselves with your needs, objectives and culture through a customized engagement structure, remaining flexible to ensure you receive the right amount of support. We will rapidly integrate into your operations, delivering expertise that enables positive change, accelerates the achievement of key initiatives, improves competitive positioning and reduces risk. Value creation will always be our priority.

Led over 400 accounting, treasury, risk management, information technology, investor relations, purchasing, and internal audit staff corporate-wide encompassing businesses engaged in staffing, services, construction, and software in the US, Europe, Asia and South America. Assisted in: • Designing and directing restructuring of $1.6b business from geographically based to customer and industry based separating sales and delivery but with coordinated goals and objectives specific to each discipline to eliminate commodity behavior and drive increased profitability. • Designing and implementing divestiture strategy to eliminate non-core businesses that were losing over $20 million annually and refocusing leadership and operations on primary challenges. • Implementing objective-based executive performance expectations and monitoring, strengthening corporate involvement with and oversight of operating unit performance, improving reporting and measurement against expectations, and instilling enterprise-wide control consciousness. • Leading listing on the NYSE-MKT stock exchange, directing responses to an SEC investigation resulting in no corporate fines, and directing internal fraud and FCPA investigations.Led complex and far-reaching multi-year restatement of multiple accounting areas and remediation of underlying causes including designing organizational change, assessing needed skills and competencies, and redesigning internal controls and accounting processes.Directed reorganization of accounting and other support departments into corporate-wide rather than separate, stand-alone business unit departments achieving improved effectiveness at lower cost.

Participated on executive management team and assisted in guiding multi-year restatement and remediation. Supervised corporate accounting and business unit controllers for multiple business units covering staffing, services, construction, and software businesses in the US, Europe, Asia and South America and for over 200 staff in shared service centers.

Mountain View, CA (Silicon Valley Office) - Lead audits of primarily electronics companies, both SEC Registrants and pre-IPO. • Established and led semiconductor industry focused go-to-market team including target identification, pursuit team assignment, progress monitoring, industry marketing activities, and staff education.• Established and led task force to improve efficiency of audits practice-wide.

Singapore - Led audits and advised on US Accounting and Auditing standards for SEC registrants in Singapore and subsidiaries of SEC registrants across East Asia including China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines.• Increased client satisfaction by refocusing audit team activities on client perspective and needs, advised on redesigning CFO Board reporting and implementing Board education on US accounting.• Coordinated and supervised regional audit services as Asia Regional Partner for a global electronics client and a global clothing manufacturer, reducing client service issues, improving timeliness of resolution of accounting questions and issues, and raising client satisfaction ratings.• Recognized for significantly increasing audit staff technical competence and quality of auditing.

Mountain View, CA (Silicon Valley Office), 2000 - 2002 Supervised large audit engagement teams with significant international operations and demanding client deadlines, primarily public multinational semiconductor and electronics clients as well as several pre-IPO technology clients. Montvale, NJ (National Office), 1998 - 2000Two-year assignment participating on audit methodology improvement team and assisting in defining and building KPMG’s first firm-wide software to support audits and automate routine tasks. Worked with offices worldwide to coordinate identification of auditing issues and address competing viewpoints. Facilitated collaboration among IT analysts, programmers, marketing and accounting professionals.Seattle, 1988 - 1998Served primarily financial services, higher education, research, and not-for-profit clients, and was a recipient of the office annual Quality Service Award. • Instructed local and national technical and audit methodology training courses, and was the recipient of several Instructor Excellence Awards.