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Jacksonville, Florida Area

Accomplishments:Recent account audit provided business with $8 million operating profit for the second half of 2020. Created cost books of approximately 4,000 standard valve configurations allowing business to understand as-sold vs. as-executed margins to provide execution performance visibility at the factory levelDeveloped product line reporting at sales.

Conde, France

Accomplishments:Reduced overdue backlog 30% by driving rigor around clean orders, accurate engineering drawings, timely material procurement and reduced assembly stoppages during the supply chain assembly processLed team in installing a rapid response eAndon tool across the shop floor, reducing response time 25% from initiation of issue to problem.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Oversaw budget and construction finances of a greenfield 515,000-foot manufacturing facility for GE Oil & Gas businessManaged $63M restructure budget over 2-year period and managed $76M property, plant and equipment budget by budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and reporting Tracked the P & E spend, managed the CIP balance, executed the fixed asset.

Houston, Texas Area

Developed roadmap for a creating a successful factory finance team using best practices from other businesses, the COE model, as well as past experiences, to assemble a new finance team for the Jacksonville facilityAnalyzed the capital expenditures ($76M) of the overall project to ensure focus on productivity projects, clear pay back analysis and key.

Houston, Texas Area

Led the "go-live" SAP conversion process, ensuring team members met deliverable deadlines, provided support for data cleanse, performed data reconciliations to ensure the business had a successful SAP conversionEnsured business obtained favorable spend for the year ($7.0M excluding SAP acct change representing a 20% reduction versus PY) and worked with the.

Arkansas City, Kansas

Partnered with senior management providing decision-making support to improve quality, reduce costs and maximize operating margin, focused on financial reporting/planning, controllership and team leadershipLed variable cost initiative to decrease site costs while business sales volume increase in excess of $1B and coordinated fixed asset budgetBuild strong.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Led divestiture of the Welding business from GE companyAssisted legal, IT, HR and EHS teams with procedures and processes during the negotiation and transition phase of the business divestitureWorked with finance and corporate tax teams in both Canada and Mexico to ensure the business was tax compliant in both countries

Wichita, Kansas Area

Prepared monthly financials for a multi-location service organizationOversaw accounts receivable, accounts payable and purchasingPrepared weekly payroll along with all required periodic reportingDeveloped central purchasing system

Wichita, Kansas Area

Led the finance team in areas of accounts payable, accounts receivables, inventory control and invoicingTransitioned into warehouse lead to improve inventory accuracy and delivery improvement performance

Wichita, Kansas Area

Worked with clients on financial planning, portfolio management and strategic investment decisions

Bachelor Of General Studies, Psychology

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Accounting