Instrumental in the growth of the first expansion office in Chicago as the first client service professional and the second Chicago hire. During my tenure, the Chicago office grew from three to over 35 employees. Additionally, I received three promotions (Senior Manager, Principal and Director) in less than four years. Select contributions over this period include: - Actively recruited, coached and developed staff in growing the brand in the market place, sales and networking channels while remaining highly utilized performing client service - Played a key role in the internal development of new best practice deliverables, process improvement, and various training courses to develop due diligence and accounting skills - Originated and led fieldwork on multiple complex corporate carve-out projects for a Fortune 100 public company. Grew our presence at the client from two professionals on the first project to 15 working on multiple projects

Responsible for financial consultation to domestic/foreign corporate and private equity clients related to acquisitions and divestitures. - Supervises teams in all aspects of the due diligence process from the assessment of historical and prospective financial information, to the evaluation of other operating risks such as risk management, employee benefits and IT systems - Key buy-side and sell-side analyses includes: assessing the sustainability of historical and forecast earnings, identifying accounting issues, analyzing working capital trends, identifying debt and debt-like items, reviewing financial models and identifying potential costs savings or reductions. - Assists clients including Fortune 500 companies and top private equity groups in the early identification of transaction issues, evaluating post-acquisition opportunities, assessing the sustainability of earnings, preparation of closing documents and price negotiations in transactions ranging from $10 million to $7.7 billion - Transaction experience includes deals in a wide range of industries: automotive, steel, general manufacturing, financial services, medical products, and technology. - Select clients include Joy Global Inc, Delphi Corporation, Wolters Kluwer, Whirlpool, Sun Capital Partners, Roundtable Healthcare Management, Intertek Group, ThyssenKrupp and SSAB. - Extensive experience communicating key findings to senior level finance and strategic client executives - Participates in post-close activities including purchase price adjustments and purchase accounting. - Identifies clients through transaction monitoring (Capital IQ, Factiva, Mergermarket) and develops proposals. - Supervise and coach staff during projects - Develop and teach learning and education courses

Assurance and business advisory services primarily responsible for providing audit services to clients in a wide variety of industries (i.e. private equity, banking and capital markets, consumer and industrial products and insurance).Supervised and worked as a team leader on the following engagements: - Assurance and advisory services to the Jones Financial Companies (Edward Jones) for 3 years. Acted as the team leader responsible for completing the year-end audits of Edward Jones Canada and Edward Jones Limited (United Kingdom) as well as the review of quarterly and annual filings for the Jones Financial Companies. - Assurance services to the Lyndon Insurance Group for their initial Sarbanes Oxley filing. Aided in mobilizing the Sarbanes work by executing site visits to various companies throughout the U.S. - Supervised the audit team and orchestrated the year-end assurance services provided to Prairie Farms Dairy. - Performed the first year audit for a private equity client, Thompson Street Capital Partners (organized into a management LLC, LP and a GP). Acted as the lead contact during the internal Quality Review