Jean-Louis Baron-Hyppolite Email & Phone Number

Greater New Orleans Area

As Owner Manager and partner to some of the most prominent disaster consulting firms, I’ve spearheaded the closeout process for several billion dollars in Hurricane Sandy grants, helped our client achieve strategic focus thru process standardization. Leveraging my experience in helping conceptualize a single settlement for the Louisiana Recovery School.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

As part of a combined grants and project management team, charged with helping the East Baton Rouge School System with recovering from the August 2016 floods, I spearheaded the formulation and obligation of over eighteen million dollars in remediation funding, enabling EBRPSS to recover close to 1/3 of its capital outlays in less than six months. Thru.

Greater New Orleans Area

As head of The Special projects team’s our main goal was to provide resolution for a number of programmatic issues that have built up over the course of the past ten years. The special projects team designed and implemented a disaster accounting subledger, compliant with 44CFR Part 13, GASB 20 and GASB 18 to interface with the state accounting and finance.

New Orleans

As Chief Administrative Liaison to the City of New Orleans, I was responsible for the strategic oversight and closeout of 386 project worksheets for the City of New Orleans. Through a risk based approach to the closeout process he enabled the City of New Orleans to mitigate a number of risk factors inherent to the execution of a large scale program. Mr..

New Orleans

Subcontractor to James Lee Witt Group, LLC working in the capacity of State Applicant Liaison (SAL) for the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security. Managed a portfolio of applicants such as the Recovery School District and the Orleans Parish School Board representing over 2000 grants each with an initial obligation of 700 million.

Miami

• State Public Assistance Officer for Solid-Resources, an O’Brien’s Group Company. As State Public assistance officer for the Department of Transportation of the State of Florida (FDOT) for the ’04 and ’05 storms.
•  I trained both DOT personnel as well as local legal entities (i.e. Cities, Counties and unincorporated municipalities) on accounting control requirements of the FEMA Public Assistance program, Summary of.
•  I reorganized and retooled the FDOT accounting and auditing processes for drawing down funds obligated thru the FEMA Public Assistance program.
•  Achieved the goal of introducing, formalizing, documenting and ensuring the highest quality control standards to the process of documenting the use of public funds.
•  I also prepared FHWA (Federal Highway Administration) ER (Emergency Response) claims for FDOT and contributed to FDOT’s debris management plan.

Public Assistance Coordinator (PAC) for the City of Richmond. As State Public Assistance Coordinator representing the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM), I coordinated with FEMA the recovery from tropical depression Ernesto for the City of Richmond. In the process I conducted kick-off meetings, reviewed PW's, established grants management.

• Provided accounting, auditing, financial analysis, and managerial advice to FEMA Public Assistance Strike Team leader for Orleans Parish, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
• As technical assistance contractor with and an accounting background, I provided daily advice on contracts and conformance to 44 CFR Part 13 which governs the FEMA public assistance program.
• Audited accounting documentation submitted by applicants in support of their request for public assistance.
• Advised Public Assistance Coordinators and Strike team leadership on a number of issues touching upon procurement, accounting systems and controls.
• Coordinated task team meetings whose purpose was to provide subject knowledge and management advice to Strike Team Leader and his deputy.
• Wrote project worksheets with a combined value well in excess of 50 million dollars.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Restructured and controlled all aspects of the accounting operations for a Global provider of Pharmaceutical services. Designed a financial reporting system to analyze the budgeting and forecasting of business unit results, using SQL based querying tools. This enabled the consolidation of forty business units into one consolidation report with full drill.

London, United Kingdom

• Handled large-scale projects for several customers in diverse vertical markets (i.e. Pharmaceutical, Beverage Industry, Financial Services, Hotel, Insurance, Telecommunications and International Non-Profits.). Specific.
• Inventory, cost control and supply management.
• G/L, A/R, A/P, Fixed Assets, Balance Sheet and P&L
• Corporate reporting, budgeting, variance analysis.
• Procurement

M.B.A, Finance And International Business

B.A., Law, Taxation, International Law