Proud to be part of Comlink's field teams across four states! Project management. facilities, fleet, and a host of talented technical specialty construction personnel.

Established accounting and financial protocols, monthly closing routines, reporting and forecasting. Enhanced banking relationships and debt management. Manage outside audit, employee ownership plan and company valuation. Provide financial analysis supporting customer profitability and division goals.

Provide business performance and financial operations services to the seven state National Region in Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska and Utah.

[FNA - U.S. Water Services] Responsible for solidifying the back office infrastructure needed to enable a trebling of revenue through organic expansion and M&A. Primary areas include, capital deployment, fleet logistics, risk management, customer service, business cases, customer contracts, target acquisitions, due diligence and definitive purchase agreement. Closed the first M&A deal under ALLETE ownership in November 2015.

Identify and close company acquisitions for the competitive industries platform program. Rebuilt and redeployed the M&A program from 2011 to 2012 for Board of Directors approval. Two years of due diligence and negotiations culminated with the $168 million acquisition of U.S. Water Services in February, 2015.

M&A due diligence. Financial model preparation and review. Operations improvement.

FNA Eschelon Telecom, a leading provider of communications services from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. $350 million in revenue and a doubling of IPO share price achieved prior to its successful sale to Integra.- Vice President of Operations, reporting to the COO. Group leader to 150 customer facing production personnel in 10 states. Four level control span and $15 million annual operating plan.- VP and General Manager Consumer Equipment Group. Directed the sales, service, operations, product, and finance teams for a distinct IP communication systems line of business. $65 million revenue and $25 million gross profits. Repeated A+ customer and vendor satisfaction year after year.- Mergers and Acquisitions. Completed due diligence on 8 target companies, closing six. Established integration projects for cost controls and synergies needed to achieve return thresholds.

Independent internet, voice and data communications company launched by entrepreneur Craig McCaw. Grew from $0 to $1.2 billion in revenue across all major US cities in 7 years.VP Finance & Operations, National Sales Division, reporting to President 2000 to 2002- Assembled a new team of 30+ professionals in Dallas, TX to handle monthly financial close, business cases, capital justification, annual plan, forecasts and customer operations for $500 million division.- Wrote monthly revenue, cost of service, SG&A and EBITDA reviews. Presentation to C-level team.- Created the sales productivity metrics, commission system, and contract compliance process.Vice President of Finance, Midwest Division, reporting to President 1999 to 2000- Defined and monitored financial policy for a 5-state region of decentralized start-up companies with large capital investments and $250 million in revenue. Duties included:- G/L, financial statements, business cases, capital spending, budgets, forecasts, pricing, customer billing, revenue assurance, cost accounting, margin management, and profit goals.

One of the largest regulated telephone companies in the United States that was independent of the Bell System. Frontier was also the first company in the country to open its borders to competition.Group Controller, reporting to VP Finance 1995 to 1999 - Provided all accounting, financial management and analytical support for 40 companies, $785M in revenue.- G/L, reporting, payroll, billing, cost accounting, fixed assets, budgets and operations critique. - Completed full scope GAAP audits, along with regulatory reports to state and federal agencies.

Universal Telephone, Inc. holding company in Milwaukee, WI.- Supervised a department of 14 providing centralized accounting services to 9 affiliates, including all taxation, budgeting, G/L, payroll and financial reporting.- Executive team member developing 5 year strategic plan. Served on committees analyzing pension plan, FCC compliance and IT development.- Prepared financial models to substantiate earnings levels and seek rate changes. Prepared and delivered testimony under oath at public hearings.

Provided audit and acquisition review services to clients in government, manufacturing, insurance and telecommunications. Most firms were first time engagements allowing me a higher degree of independence and judgement on the job.