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Smithfield, Rhode Island

Taught Project Management for Accounting Leadership. The focus of this course is to have students leverage the technical skills gained through their various undergraduate accounting and business courses and the development of a new, project-level approach. Using an analogy, the goal of the course is to transform the student's perspective of a project from 1,000 feet to 30,000 feet.

East Hartford, Ct

Successfully performed infrastructure and installation assessment for existing implementation and recommended upgrade and maintenance path for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 365 on-premise deployment.Successfully completed upgrades from CRM 2011 to CRM 2016, and CRM 365. Responsible for Microsoft Dynamics CRM on premise installations. Responsible for project management in the areas of customer service and supply chain logistics for commercial and military engines operations.Serve as IT Project Manager from original concept to final implementation. Define project scope, objectives and goals in terms of terms of understanding project complexities.Create and maintain project schedule, budget, and necessary reports. Apply quality assurance practices and procedures, and ensure project documentation accurately reflected the current state of changes and outstanding issues.Determine business, technical, and functional requirements for various applications.

Administer all aspects of daily operations including personnel management activities such as staffing, training, performance management and compensation. Supervise a staff of five functional and technical staff plus consultants. Reported to Vice-President of Information Technology.Directed implementation of Eatec Food Management system and integration with PeopleSoft Purchasing, Inventory, and General Ledger. Automating the manual process of inventory, recipe management, food requisitioning, and cost accounting for Foxwoods 30+ restaurants, bars, and kitchens.Senior member of project team that performed requirements and gap analysis, business process analysis, system testing, procedures and training for PeopleSoft Financials/Supply Chain Management 7.5 to 8.8 upgrade.Directed implementation of HighJump Software Data Collection Advantage and Par Inventory software with integration into PeopleSoft Inventory. Solutions increased inventory and order accuracy to over 99%.

Mashantucket, Ct

Accountable for establishment, implementation, and supervision of accounting, budgeting and financial reporting practices at newly opened museum. Coordinated the preparation of annual operating and capital budgets along with presentations to executive management and Tribal Council.Oversaw a $192 million construction budget. Presented cost analyses and financial forecasts to project management.

Mashantucket, Ct

Directed a staff of nine professional and clerical personnel responsible for the Tribal government’s financial systems and procedures, general accounting, payroll, accounts payable, and fixed assets accounting.Team Leader - PeopleSoft implementation projectDefined target business processes and requirements to be supported by PeopleSoft General Ledger, Budget, Fixed Assets, and Project Accounting applications. Responsible for decisions and recommendations for redesigning business processes and system features. Assessed the fit and resolve gaps between processes/requirements and the PeopleSoft module capabilities.

Hartford, Ct

Provided a combination of audit assistance, tax advise, and business advise to emerging and middle-market companies. Developed financial projections; prepared liquidation analyses; and preformed fraudulent conveyance and preferential payment review for Debtor-in-Possession and U.S. Trustee in real estate bankruptcy assignment.

Hartford, Ct

Provided accounting, audit, and tax services to client companies and their owners. Recommended ways to improve profitability and efficiency in client’s operations with ratio and trend analysis. Responsibilities included computer needs analysis, system recommendation and implementation for small businesses.