At O’Mara, we understand that you’re looking for a manufacturer that can be flexible in creating products and machinery tailored to suit almost any industry. Between our high-quality equipment, skilled employees, and adaptive mindset, our teams are capable of producing a huge variety of machines and equipment. We’ll customize your product to make sure it fits your needs throughout each step of the project.

Board Member since June 2013. Incoming Treasurer Elect 2014

• Lead a finance team of 12 accounting professionals for a $230M distributor with 16 locations in Iowa and Nebraska. • Perform all Controller duties (monthly financial reporting, annual audits, etc). • Created a LEAN culture in the focused on continuous improvement and team-based problem solving. Outcomes include:- Reduced billing exceptions by 46%, immediately releasing over $615k in sales with measures implemented to prevent future exceptions.- Negotiated with merchant processor to reduce their fee from 100BP to 9.8BP resulting in $60k annual savings.- Established a lockbox through Wells Fargo resulting in a 65% labor reduction for the cash posting process.- Implemented a document management system that reduced document handling by 25% while eliminating 400 sq. ft. of cabinet space.- Reduced monthly close from 15 to 5 days.- Over 100 improvement ideas implemented, several saving multiple person hours per month.• Process improvements allowed for the permanent reduction in staffing from 15 to 12 through attrition.

Various accounting tasks - payroll, cost accounting, some financial reporting, a/p, a/r