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Finance, HR, Customer Service, Distribution, Manufacturing

• Led three major site consolidations, including a production shutdown/transfer and distribution outsourcing initiative, each achieving savings of over $1 million, while attaining a more focused and effective company.
• Led a site divestiture achieving more than double the target price.
• Sponsored the country implementation of SAP as part of a global project achieving on time and on budget results with minimal business disruption.
• Established and implemented a new North American regional Business Finance organization, realigning staff, responsibility and skills amongst a geographically dispersed staff resulting in a more business focused Finance.
• Led and/or made significant contributions to the acquisition and integration of 4 companies in the paper chemical, coatings, packaging testing and regulatory consulting industries increasing the market depth and.
• Through the duration of periods of considerable change, led a high quality team with deliberate attention to staff development and growth.

• Responsible for all central functions, including Finance, Legal, Human Resources and I.T.
• Led the spin off of the specialty chemicals company during the Ciba-Geigy/Sandoz merger. Set up all central functions within 2 months. Selected, coached and developed a new team to move the operations forward.
• Successfully integrated the operations of the Allied Colloids acquisition into the Canadian organization achieving a high level of synergy in central functions, supply chain and site utilization.
• Directed the consolidation of multiple ERP systems into a single BPCS system achieving a more integrated and streamlined systems environment and better information transparency.
• Achieved the reduction of inventory by 60% from past levels while directing the materials management functions for the Additives division.

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B. Comm., Commerce, Computer Science