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Osprey, FL, US

• Fractional CFO for Multiple Clients
• Saved a manufacturing client $1.5M in working capital adjustments in an asset transfer transaction.
• Led a restructuring action reversing an annual $1M cash deficit. Provided much-needed insight on cash reports, budgeting and forecast processes, and long-term strategy.
• Mentored a newly seated CFO in a PE-backed service provider company, guiding the development of board packages, budgets, and key operational metrics.

New York, NY, US

SmartChoice is a provider of Unified Communications as a Service (“UCaaS”) and other IT services to small, medium, and large enterprises. The Company services businesses with sophisticated and demanding connectivity needs through SmartChoice SMART Network solution, which empowers companies to standardize, scale and refine connectivity, communication &.

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, US

Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2015 - 2018, board member since 2010 and previous chairman of the Supervisory Committee. Affinity Federal Credit Union is New Jersey’s largest credit union with assets in excess of $3 billion.

Sarasota, FL, US

• CFO (and functional COO) for a private equity backed SaaS unified communications provider leading all the accounting, finance, treasury and operational functions that impact order processing through cash collection.
• Led the efforts to expand the company footprint into European markets through the acquisition of a leading UCaaS provider headquartered in Ireland. Developed the modeling to identify upside opportunities and synergies.
• Upgraded the general ledger system to Great Plains 2015 on a hosted platform. Converted the end of month reporting from excel macros to the GP Management Reporting Module; implemented the Fixed Asset Module, ACH.
• Consolidated multiple billing, collections and cash applications into a single, customer focused organization. Implemented a paperless environment and created workflows in Great Plains to gain collections efficiency.
• Established an operationally focused FP&A team to create the sales management and organizational metrics throughout the business resulting in a detailed financial and management plan. Implemented an executive dashboard.
• Recognized for 2 consecutive years by the Tampa Bay Business Journal as an honoree for the Journal’s CFO of the Year Award.

• Functionally active interim CFO for small and medium-sized businesses providing expertise and leadership in the finance, accounting and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) functions. Interim CFO engagement.
• Development of a multi-year business case for a PE backed California based compressed natural gas business.
• Detail portfolio review of a power generation business that resulted in the pruning of plants and generation of cash.
• Restructuring of a New York based finance team building centers of excellence for accounts payable, purchasing, payroll and collections.
• Designing and implementing an effective control environment including formal policies and procedures for a multi-facility Canadian based company.
• Conversion of a construction and services company from QuickBooks to Microsoft Solomon general ledger resulting in greater efficiency and enhanced visibility.

Eagan, Minnesota, US

• CFO for a private equity backed multi vendor audio-visual and telecommunications distributor/reseller leading the accounting, collections, information technology, purchasing, warehousing, and FP&A functions.
• Developed the business plan and led the due diligence and execution to acquire a video systems integrator.
• Streamlined the financial reporting and analytics for the board and executive management; reduced the number of internally generated P&L statements by half while improving forward looking operational metrics using.
• Led the acquisition integration of the accounting, purchasing and collections organizations utilizing best practices and significant annual cost savings.
• Recapitalized the company through a syndicated offering securing a credit facility and revolving line of credit.
• Drove the evaluation and selection process for the conversion of the service management and customer relationship managements systems.

• CFO for a publicly traded video managed services company with revenues of ~$30 million. Responsible for accounting, FP&A, cash management, treasury, tax, insurance, investor relations and operational improvements..
• Secured the listing of the company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
• Implemented the business discipline that improved profitability by $2.6M in nine months and generated positive EPS in every quarter since joining the company.
• Drove an aggressive cash collections effort that reduced DSO to 35 days, improved cash flow by $1.7M and turned working capital positive.
• Completed the purchase of the customers and assets associated with the Avaya Video Managed Services business using Glowpoint stock as currency.
• Rebuilt the finance team adding expertise in accounting, cash management and financial planning and analysis.

Dallas, TX, US

• Group Finance Vice President and Division CFO at AvayaVice President, Working Capital at Lucent Vice President & General Manager, Small Business Communications Systems at Lucent CFO & Business Operations Director, RHC.
• Chief financial executive at Avaya's largest divisions accountable for a revenue stream of $3B and cost/expense spend of $1.7B; successfully privatized the company in an $8 billion transaction with Silver Lake Partners.
• Project lead of a Lucent cash improvement program that delivered more than $2.6 billion of working capital improvements in less than 6 months; increased cash collections by 33% to over $6B per quarter; assembled a.
• Full P&L responsibility as the General Manager of the PBX division serving small/medium business; turned the division profitable from $100M loss in under 2 years.
• Lead M&A financial executive for the due diligence, acquisition and integration for the, SDX, Curser Computers, Nimcat, Traverse, Ubiquity, Agile and Nortel Networks Enterprise acquisitions.
• Conducted the Lucent weekly sales operations calls managing over $6B of quarterly revenue opportunities; developed a physical and virtual executive dashboard/war room leveraging data visualization and actionable metrics.

Master Of Science (Ms), Management - Organizational Change

Ba, Economics & Finance