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Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

Do you live a busy lifestyle? E.A. Sween provides craveable and nutritious food for people on the go and delivers convenience and quality without compromise. We are a family-owned business since 1955, who proudly produces over 100 million sandwiches a year and distributes them through Wholesale, Direct to Customer, and Combined Distribution Centers. Our recognizable national brands include Deli Express and Market Sandwiches, San Miguel Burritos, and Simply Delicious bakery items. We provide grab-and-go food items for some of the largest retailers in the world. We drive success through innovative solutions in both our product and service divisions.As a utility player, I give support and guidance across the company and have the areas of Risk & Legal, Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, and the Final Mile Solutions division reporting into me.

Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

As the Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, I am a partner to the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, and Corporate Leadership Team. Reporting into me are the areas of Finance, Human Resource, and Information Technology. I work with the leaders of these areas and teams to develop strategies, follow-through with execution, and ultimately win by delivering strong results.Successfully guided E.A. Sween through the gauntlet of an international pandemic for various business challenges and our 1,000+ employees, while in parallel driving transformational change through business rationalization of our founding Direct Store Delivery division, as well as partnering in wise commercial opportunity expansion and contract decisions. This strategic planning and execution last year are providing results and adding durable value.Fueled with passion for growth and profit optimization, I’m driving the team to think differently in how we interpret and mitigate risk, increase visibility and foresight, make data driven investment decisions, protect returns, deploy growth strategies in parallel, leverage technology, drive accountability through key performance indicators, and spark motivation and empowerment within teams.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Ca

NorQuin is the largest vertically integrated supply chain of quinoa in the world. With plant-based nutrition on the rise, the company is in growth mode making this specialty grain a household staple through consumer-packaged goods and quinoa derivative ingredient products.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

SunOpta Inc. is a leading global company specializing in the sourcing, processing and packaging of natural, organic and specialty food products through vertically integrated business models controlling quality and value from a seed to the table.VP of Finance, business partner to segment president, "C" level executives , commercial and operational teams to support all strategic aspects of the business to influence decisions and drive growth.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Director of Finance responsibilities include: product margin analysis, strategic pricing decisions, make or buy decisions, product/asset rationalization, modeling, working capital management, capital projects, contractual arrangements, negotiations, strategic budget and planning activities, highlighting trends, breaking down manufacturing complexities, etc.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Owner of all facets of accounting, financial reporting, policies, SOX and planning aspects of the business. Project manager over system implementations and process design. Owned the close process and facilitated the internal and external audits.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Minneapolis, Us

Vega Productions is dedicated to making music available to all students.Spearheaded the company start up including 501c3 tax exempt status and filings and the financial and administrative organization of the company. Directed and pivoted organizational model as we grew, conceived, and developed programs, like instruments in the cloud, as well as, organized large fundraising events working closely with sponsors, media, artists and volunteers.

APSM Systems is a vertically integrated contract manufacturer serving various markets, such as computing, transportation, medical, gaming, telecommunication as well as others. As the cost accountant across facilities I collected, analyzed, summarized in to reporting and prepared recommendations to company leaders regarding new product pricing, costing, profitability and efficiency analysis by product and cost center and inventory and cost management controls. This detailed work included analysis and valuation of complex batching with intermediaries through the vertical integration value steps. An example would be a sophisticated sheet metal and electronic box build. This role was a true business partnering to operations, engineering, sales and procurement. Large projects included collaborating internally and externally to develop multi year pricing strategy recommendations for large Original Equipment Manufacturers(OEM), developed an internal audit monitoring system for inventories and valuation and created the annual standards.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Celestica is an efficient integrated global supply chain environment catering end-to-end product lifecycle solutions through electronics manufacturing services (EMS). The environment was dynamic and flexible for a global public company. Experiences included weekly support of function leaders, ownership of a product set management including customer demand planning and in house production planning through a kanban system, inventory analysis for domestic and international locations, other analysis and case compilation used for customer commitment contract claims, true MRP (material requirements planning) utilization including the monitoring of raw materials and lead time and lot size management for execution against upcoming scheduling and planning, as well as many other applications of academic best practices.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor Of Science, Degrees: Finance And Spanish; Minors: Accounting And Business Administration