Michael Latham Email & Phone Number

Renton, WA, US

Seattle, USA

• I acted as contract CFO for a Microsoft supplier providing incentivised software learning systems for Microsoft software products, covering the years from 2006. Specifically:
• Supported Owner/Executive and controlled financial operations as CFO.
• Created 3 year financial model for Bargello Farm operations for investor presentations.
• Created & maintained weekly key performance indicator report for Owner - analyzed results.
• Developed and maintained weekly cash flow forecast with one year plus look-ahead.
• Created and analyzed financial projections for UpSellUSA Inc. sale and bank presentations.

Portland/Sacramento/Las Vegas/Seattle

• Many of the projects during this time were in support of new business ideas - creating Investment standard business plans, both text and financial projections. My support involved 'fleshing' out the time frame and.
• Analyzed and evaluated a variety of start-up and continuing projects covering health product manufacturing and sales, on-line poker site development, oil shale development, and a Formula One (F-1) racetrack, and Motor.
• Created Investor Private Offering financial statements, from cash flows to projected P&L’s and Balance Sheets, for presentation in private stock offerings,
• Initiated/developed F-1 project management plan and schedule for construction and marketing operations.
• Created F-1 site assessment protocol to ensure site selection on objective and economic basis.
• Brought in contractors and advisors to development and planning meetings to ensure accurate time and cash flow projections on design, construction, marketing, and operations forecasts.

Honolulu And Reno, NV

• As Co-Founder and CEO of a publishing company based in Hawaii, was responsible for all design, production, and financial issues. Created many new publishing products, culminating in the nationally awarded (for.
• Created and implemented new marketing strategies, expanding annual revenues to $2.2M.
• Managed all design/print operations, and became one of the very first publishers in the USA and Hong Kong to go directly from computer graphic design/layout programs to print film/plates.
• Created detailed expansion plans with cash flow models and 5 year accounting forecasts using key performance factors, to take annual revenue from $2M to over $15M via PPO.
• Supported several Celebrity Sports charity events and created magazines, programs, and introductions to sponsors.

San Francisco, CA

• Responsible for evaluating all Prudhoe Bay (Alaska) construction projects. As part of Joint Task Force (Exxon, ARCO, and BP) analysed and evaluated previous projects, and developed new approaches to reduce costs..
• Recommended, created, and implemented new contract and engineering strategies to reduce project costs reducing SOHIO expenditures by $250M over 4 years.
• As senior SOHIO task force representative, analyzed oil development detail costs (down to design $/manhr and #/hours) for both ARCO and SOHIO (as operators) for Prudhoe Bay oil field. Recommended changes to executive.
• Created Estimating & Economic Analysis and Planning & Analysis departments, for internal and external budget and cost reviews, and analyses for offshore oil/gas lease bidding strategies.
• Created schedule compression forecasting system to provide executive and project management with a tool to optimize project economics, avoiding over $150M in unnecessary expenditures, while simultaneously reducing.
• Coordinated and played lead role in ‘base-line' budget evaluations with project managers and executive management, eliminating further $250M from 3 year oil & gas construction budget.

USA And United Kingdom

• Project Control Engineer for a variety of organizations ranging from defense design and production (low level bomb systems), to industrial and petrochemical construction. This work involved preparation of estimates and.
• As Manager of Configuration Control with British Aircraft Corp, was key manager in creating new systems to manage and control all aspects of design control for complete battlefield systems, mainly involving.