Chief Financial Officer

Promoted to Senior Vice President responsible for Operations of the Company,including: Delivery, Warehousing and Distribution, Manufacturing, Finance, HR and IT.

Managed treasury, accounting, human resources, order fulfillment and IT functions of Delaware's largest office furniture dealer.

Ran finance, accounting and IT functions of one of Steelcase's largest dealers.

•COO of up to 150 person organization reporting directly to owner with revenues reaching $70 million.•Facilitated customer sales experience along with developing order fulfillment infrastructure to support customer retention.•Instituted several initiatives ranging from information system rollouts to sales incentive programs to stimulate business and control costs.•Managed headcounts, vendor and banking relations during unprecedented industry downturn.

• Managed working and operating capital of business by increasing accounts receivable and inventory turnover.• Planned and implemented sales tax incentive agreement with local municipality.• Managed sales, cash flow and operating budgets.• Cut costs with improved processes and tight expense control.• Negotiated purchase of business from IBI/Steelcase.