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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Export, Pa, Us

Moon Township, Pa, Us

Held the Chief Financial Officer role for an aggressively growing rail industry supplier owned by a private equity group. Oversaw 5 acquisitions in a 3 year period tripling the overall size of the business. Roll-up your sleeves position with significant exposure to M&A, debt financing, SAP implementation, Big 4 audit oversight, and numerous operational problem solving opportunities.

Galway, Ie

Responsible for overall financial planning and analysis for our $900M Data and Devices business unit.

Galway, Ie

Responsible for all Financial aspects and responsibilities of the $300M Medical business for TE Medical, with primary manufacturing operations in Suzhou, China; Wilsonville, OR; Guaymas, Mexico; and 4 smaller locations from a recent acquisition (AdvancedCath).

Galway, Ie

Responsible for Budget, Planning, Business Intelligence analysis, internal investor relations communications and ad hoc projects for a $3.1B Segment of TE Connectivity. Segment spans connector technologies across 4 business units in the end industries of Energy, Aerospace, Defense, Marine and Offshore, Factory Automation, Factory Equipment, Medical, and Rail and selective exposure to DataComm, Consumer Devices, and Appliance end industries before business re-organization.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Individual contributor role consisting of special project assignments working directly for the CFO of UPMC. Assignments included: active management of bankrupt or distressed critical vendors, development and implementation of a company-wide risk management process, development of a company-wide Finance vision, special analysis and recommendations surrounding major company decisions around insourcing and outsourcing, major and multi-year vendor contract assessments with our sourcing organization, and selected special investigations of critical issues.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

CFO of a newly created growth and expansion piece of UPMC surrounding the commercialization of select developed or co-investment technologies, International expansion efforts, external sale of internally developed IT solutions, and active management of equity direct investments (30+ | ~$250M of invested capital). Included projects in Qatar, Ireland, Cyprus, Italy, UK, and Japan.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Newly created position at Corporate level to oversee total Company ($12B) implementation of standardized policy and practices. Included responsibility for centralized Accounts Payable (and related staff) as well as selected Accounts Receivable collections. Position was to create standardized governance practices overall numerous site locations and site Controllership functions.

Chicago, Il, Us

Corporate Controller for GE Rail. Included all aspects of financial Controllership such as annual Pre-Close reviews, policy compliance, world-wide account reconciliation monitoring, SOX compliance, monthly closing activities. Job also involved overall Controllership of Mexico site locations, including Oracle implementations. Responsible for selected transaction review on difficult commercial arrangements to align with appropriate rules and regulations.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for all aspects of Financial planning, due diligence, and financial integration of GE Rail's acquisition of certain assets from Wabtec Corporation. Consisted of integration of multiple site locations in NY, PA, IL, and Mexico. Significant exposure to integration plan development, opening balance sheet adjustments, intangible valuations, tax planning strategies, financial policy implementation, financial ledger mapping, budget and forecast process development, and coordination with other functional work stream dependencies. Job involved approximately 80% travel.

Chicago, Il, Us

Financial P&L owner for our Advanced Systems P&L. Formerly JV with Harris Corporation. Products focused around train logistics and movement planning. Supported a SW development team of 150+ people with locations in Melbourne, FL and Kansas City Area, Missouri. Job entailed planning, budgeting, forecasting, accounting and monthly financial analysis and support.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for full P&L-side financial planning and analysis of $2B+ for GE Rail. Job entailed budgeting, forecasting, productivity tracking and reporting, Corporate Accounting and Corporate FP&A reporting, scenario planning, risk mitigation, R&O summation and substantial involvement in all C-level presentations and report outs.

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Focused primarily on full scope financial statement audits and due diligence audit activities. Client base was predominantly small to mid-size businesses (< $250 million in sales) in a variety of industries such as heavy and light manufacturing, contract accounting (private and government), pension and 401(k) plans, service industries and a privately held investment company. Additional responsibilities included financial statement review and preparation, generation of internal control and business improvement recommendations, engagement budgeting, staff development and coaching. Achieved Audit Manager position in less than 4 years after starting from college (2 years Staff and 2 years Senior – early promoted twice). Earned CPA certification in 1996.

Bachelor'S, Accounting

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