Facilitate month-end close, monthly financial statement preparation and prepare weekly invoices.

• Conceptualized the product at company’s inception• Responsible for obtaining and maintaining licenses with over 70 institutions which required handling compliance issues such as providing product samples, maintaining fair labor practices, and ensuring royalty compliance• Worked with intellectual property attorneys to obtain patents including coordinating changes to patent designs, making modifications to applications• Recruited employees and negotiated contracts for independent contractors, including attorneys, artists, IT consultants, sourcing agents, and independent sales representatives• Negotiated insurance umbrella to include requirements necessary to distribute through some of the largest retailers in the world• Designed fulfillment system for backend website function• Responsible for financial reporting to all institutions based on GAAP principles and regulations specific to the licensing industry• Managed the artwork process and ensured compliance with regard to all logo and trademark issues and changes made by Universities

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