• Scratch-started fastest growing franchise in Maid Right history.• Awarded ‘Rising Star’ for partnering to create the most successful entrepreneurs in the shortest amount of time.• Nationally recognized for creating “Best Office Culture” using the Servant Leadership philosophy.

• Lead financial due diligence on 52 targeted companies resulting in the successful purchase of 45 with total sales over $350M.• Integrated the financial functions of all acquisitions to common Praxair IT platform resulting in over $3M in accounting department synergies realized. • Oversaw financial guidance on operation type acquisition synergies of over $40M.• Saved $600K annually through development of supply chain analysis model for new expanded product line.• Recovered over $3M in assumed lost cylinders by redesigning and adding integrity to the reconciliation process lost from the IT conversion.

• Advised and partnered with all levels of Region Management team to enable the team to achieve over 110% growth in less than four years. • Developed all budgets and financial modeling for ongoing operations, new store openings, and over $50M of the region’s acquisitions.• Successfully merged financial functions of three different business units and seven acquisitions into one regional unit.• Created the financial modeling for a large customer proposal which aided salespersons across multiple Praxair companies to win the largest single contract in the region.• Developed and presented all capital investment proposals, ensuring proper ROI and quick approval, both necessary for the rapid growth pace that the company achieved.

• Coordinated all budgeting activity that unified expectations.• Streamlined the monthly financial close process and consolidation for seventeen divisions across U.S. and Canada, successfully reducing the close cycle from nine to four days.• Created first budgeting platform that successfully reduced budgeting time by two months. • Established the first financial forecasting tool that enabled the corporation to make faster management decisions for changing economic situations.• Consolidated and reported all financials for the corporate president and VPs.• Created and centralized new standardized reporting/dashboards/KPIs and designed the reporting platform which allowed all levels of management to gain quicker and easier access to financials.• Refined cost accounting methods and standard cost models that aided in better end-pricing strategies and more efficient sourcing methods.• Financial lead in Praxair achieving over $200M in cost reductions.