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Reston, Va, Us

• Drove 36% YOY revenue growth, 60% Win Rate • Lead Business Unit of over 350 programs• Develop business strategies, relationships and solutions focused on customer needs and mission• Deliver innovative services, initiatives and leadership to enhance customer growth and success

• Earned the 2017 Industry Innovators Award for “Best Use of Corporate Restructuring” from Washington Technology. • Received NVTC CFO of the Year award in 2017• Lead Operations of a Business Unit that exceed market growth rates – 8% organically• Provided vision, strong leadership, communications, and team-building skills to build innovative, results-focused teams• Developed business strategies and processes that increased reliability, accuracy and efficiency• Lead a 200-person team to stabilized business unit accounting and finance team to remediate a material weakness in six months by reengineering the accounting and control processes• Added cutting-edge financial reporting Deltek and Microsoft business intelligence systems driven by SharePoint workflow technologies to reduce monthly accounting and forecast cycles by 20%• Created organization-wide project controllers and operations teams through a combination of local and remote, low cost resources attaining 50% savings in G&A cost• Invigorated staff performance and reorganized teams to create a high performing Finance Operations with below Federal Contracting market attrition rates

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

 Standardized budget and planning process and tools across all of the business units and regional theaters to achieve Hackett world class benchmark metrics  Led 40 person team using Unisys trademark business process methodology to create a new agile commercial support process to enhance the go-to-market success Built an offshore finance support group to drive over $10M of savings

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

 Championed a financial turnaround across 4 global services organizations, 5 application development groups and an offshore operation in India and China with annual sales of $500M. Consolidated four separate finance functions into one global finance team to meet the day to day needs of operations plus serve as a trusted business partner. Proactively identified and implemented opportunities to improve revenue and profit to achieve a stretch goal of $56M profit improvement.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

Held various financial positions across the US including the establishment of Unisys Services business which required extensive travel to major cities across the globe to implement systems, processes, and financial reporting and accounting.