J. Gabriel Torres Email & Phone Number

Los Alamitos

•Manage cross-functional IT projects, ensuring timely delivery, adherence to budget, and meeting defined scope and quality standards. •Ensure alignment of data architecture designs with business and IT goals/objectives.•Maintain project planning, monitor progress, and proactively identify issues or risks that may impact project success. •Lead the selection process for technology solutions, guide the Request for Proposal (RFP) process, and help assess the most suitable vendors based on business needs and strategic objectives. •Manage relationships with IT vendors, MSP, overseeing contracts in collaboration with Procurement and Legal departments, and ensuring optimal resource utilization. •Provide regular updates on project progress, risks, and achievements to stakeholders. •Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, prioritize projects, and ensure project outcomes align with business needs. •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and mitigate risks and issues that may impact project success.•Responsible for database backups, recoveries, patches, upgrades, design, migration, development, testing, and performance tuning•Conduct systematic performance tuning including database and query performance tuning, database-related component tuning, and product-specific database request tuning.•Improve the operational and strategic health of the enterprise computing environment.Cost Accounting Manager 6/2015–7/2018•Oversee product pricing, inventory costing, reserve calculations and significant inventory and cogs estimates.•Manage cost accounting, inventory control and production data analyst departments consisting of twenty three employees and annual department budget of one million dollars.•Oversee monthly product pricing, compile new product cost estimates and standard costing.

ACCOUNTING MANAGER 1/2012 – 6/2015•Prepare monthly and quarterly financial statements to ensure compliance with GAAP and SOX.•Monthly reconciliations of general ledger, bank statements and inventory.•Manage month end close/open, accruals, fixed asset and prepaid schedules.•Prepare semi monthly asset based collateral report including inventory and accounts receivable analysis.•Schedule, organize and lead bank audits.SENIOR ACCOUNTANT 9/2004 – 12/2011•Manage accounts receivables and payables departments•Perform cost accounting functions including valuation, pricing, cost ratio, product line profitability.•Prepare sales commissions, royalty reports and customer rebates.•Ad-hoc reporting including inventory, purchasing, accounts receivable and accounts payable.•Maintain ongoing inventory analyst responsibilities.INVENTORY ANALYST 6/2001 – 8/2004•Perform inventory analysis including compiling data, analyze data and provide inventory recommendations.•Ensure inventory valuation is in compliance with GAAP. Write down inventory to lower cost of market.•Maintain proper inventory levels in our Belgium Operations in support of $2million yearly sales.•Manage VMI program in Dallas Texas with valuation of $100k and yearly sales of $3Million.•Lead physical inventory and cycle count program.

El Segundo, Ca

•Provide financial and business consulting services to startup, distressed and companies servicing the apparel, chemical, health and nutritional, toy design/distributor and creative arts industries. Clients include Liz Clairborne, Mission Laboratories, BeachBody, Day6 Sports Group LLC and Animated Animations.•Worked with senior management to make bankruptcy-related adjustments to normalize EBITDA; created valuation using liquidation analysis, trading multiples, precedent transactions, and DCF, showing value in $1 Million – $10 Million range.•Prepared valuation using public company comparables, precedent transactions, and DCF; provided analysis showing under/over-valued utilized in offer price negotiations.

•Manage in-house and offshore manufacturing planning in support of $100 million yearly revenues. •Manage bills of materials, engineering change orders and material review board initiatives.•Compiled data in support of standard costing. •Full accounting of work order variances and cost overruns.•Analyze total inventory for slow moving and obsolescence. Set quarterly inventory reserves. •Determine economical build points for end-of-life products based on anticipated cost expenses.•Effectively managed the positions of Cycle Counter, Inventory Analyst and Materials Manager.