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Carrollton, Texas, United States

VP of Finance for a TX- based Accounts Receivable Management Company. Led all Accounting and Finance activities including:• Full Financial Statement Preparation: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow, Forecast• All Balance Sheet and Income Statement Reconciliations• Multi-Company (20+) Cash Recons• Coordinate all Accounting-IT Projects• Completion of 2019 Financial Audit• Prepared 2019 Federal Tax Information• PPP bank loan application and funds documentation project

Started my own company in the Sports Card market.

Dallas, Texas, United States

Account Director of wholly owned Dallas, TX subsidiary of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina. Leading the relationship with a large client for a new health care business initiative. Coordinated a 70,000+ hour IT project to build a new claims processing systems for this innovative business model.• Main line of communication with C-Level executives of client as well as internal lines of business.• Coordinate project build for client as well as ongoing support model for Application Service Provider and Business Process Outsourcing activities.• Coordinate support for all client requests and support tickets.• Provide input for policy-level direction regarding project and budget constraints.• Negotiate with the client regarding contract modifications.• Support accounting in client forecasting/business modeling.• Create key metric & SLA reporting for client and internal executives.I ultimately left the Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina organization after 10 years of service because I was told it was necessary for me to move to South Carolina in order to continue my position. There was no remote option.I opted not to move to South Carolina. I have a wonderful community here in TX that I love.

Richardson, Texas, United States

CFO and CSO of wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina specializing in payment and health care transaction processing.Manage all accounting, finance, forecasting, billing, client portfolio, customer implementation, customer service and strategic planning. Negotiate all vendor and partner contracts. Coordinate and manage all financial, payment and health care compliance activity including annual audits.• Provide payment processing services including debit/credit/other card processing, e-check/ACH processing and payment guarantee. Provide health care transaction processing including electronic eligibility verification (270/271) and real-time claims processing (837/835).• Responsible for all budgeting, forecasting and financial statement preparation and comparison of actual vs budget. Key metric reports and other transactional and statistical analysis. Responsible for all financial audits.• Oversee the functions for customer implementation, customer support, client training, relationship management, billing, compliance and accounting/finance.• Negotiate all new vendor and partner contracts. Extensive work with internal, external, vendor and partner attorneys working with terms, pricing, SLAs, etc.• Chief Security Officer in charge of complete, annual PCI-DSS and PA-DSS Compliance audits. Maintain all systems according to health care requirements mandated by HIPAA.• Form strategic partnerships in the health care vertical.• Revenue Cycle Management process expertise for health care providers. Practice Management Systems, EHR, patient scheduling and pre-registration, eligibility, charge capture, claim coding and scrubbing, claim filing, patient liability estimation, propensity to pay, remittance processing, payment acceptance and storage, recurring billing, billing statements, patient portals and reminder systems.• Created in-house patient liability estimation tool.

Dallas, Texas, United States

CFO of privately-held marketing company providing business-to-business services to the restaurant industry. Manage all accounting, finance, payroll, tax, and strategic related activities.• Work directly with SYSCO Corporation in the transition and expansion of the iCare Program for the 400,000 U.S. and Canadian-based SYSCO restaurant clients.• Secured numerous marketing agreements with top-tier clients including Yellow Book, HCareers, Sirius Satellite, and Restaurant.com.• Coordinate all new partner and vendor negotiations.• Created cross-promotional campaigns for partners within the iCare Program.• Created new reporting methods and statistical-based tracking for new service signups.• In process of implementing SYSCO Dining Network for restaurants under the SYSCO umbrella.• Member of SYSCO/iCare Board of Directors.

Plano, Texas, United States

VP of Finance of privately-held payment processing company recording annual volume of $500,000,000. Responsible for all accounting, finance, payroll, tax, and risk related activities.• Responsible for producing complete monthly financial statement package along with variance analysis, key driver reporting, and other financial analysis for presentation during monthly Board of Directors Meetings. Coordinated all financial audits.• Completed due diligence and preparation for a venture capital investment round in 2005.• Instituted internal control structure for the organization.• Assisted in transition from S-Corp to C-Corp for tax purposes.• Created all budgeting models including the forecasting and financial implementation to achieve profitability by September 2006.• Negotiated new processing agreement with ChasePaymentech resulting in savings of approximately 15%.• Completed due diligence and preparation for the sale of the Company in December 2006 including negotiation of Asset Purchase Agreement.• Coordinated conversion management for the portfolio and all other wind-up activities for the corporation.• Provided consulting to purchasing company to assist in seamless sales and operational transition.

Plano, Texas, United States

Controller of privately-held payment processing company with over 30,000 customers, 300 employees, and 250 independent contractors producing revenues of $100 million per year. Managed multiple departments including Accounting, HR, Risk, and Rejects/Collections with 7 direct reports and 6 indirect reports. Reported directly to CFO and owners.• Responsible for producing complete monthly financial statement package along with variance analysis and other financial analysis. Coordinated all financial audits.• Brought corporate tax function in-house. Prepared Federal and State Income Tax returns for company as well as owners’ individual returns.• Responsible for 4-cycle-per-month payroll along with 940/941 filing, W2/1099 Mag Media filing, 401(k) preparation and submissions. Handled all Workers’ Comp audits.• Assisted in restructuring company from S-Corp to LP in order to cut Texas Franchise Tax by 99%.• Instituted internal control structure for the organization.• Involved in all capital asset, cost savings, revenue enhancement, and strategic management decisions.• Assisted with update of fraud prevention methods and parameters.• Responsible for ACH creation and billing of approximately $6MM per year to customers.• Reconciled $6MM per month in transaction processing revenues resulting from $150MM in merchant transaction volume processed through two separate processors (FDMS & Vital/TSYS).• Created due diligence package for $65MM asset purchase in October 2003. Created new company and recorded purchase accounting in accordance with FAS 141 & 142.• Responsible for purchase accounting and monthly financial statement package for two subsequent entities acquired by the purchasing company.

Irving, Texas, United States

Professional tax associate for multi-billion dollar international telecommunications provider using SAP accounting systems. Prepared Federal and State Income Tax returns for 5 separate domestic GTE corporations with revenues ranging from $2M to $1B. Coordinated all tax audits for companies under my direction.

Dallas, Texas, United States

Tax Manager for an international home furnishings company with 400 employees, 40,000 independent contractors, and annual revenues of $500MM. Managed a staff responsible for the coordination, preparation, and filing of the six-company, consolidated, international Federal Income Tax return as well as all State Income Tax and Sales and Use Tax returns. Promoted from Staff Accountant to Tax Manager over four-year tenure while attaining Bachelors and Masters Degree. Brought corporate income tax function in-house. Coordinated all financial and tax audits.

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting, Gpa 3.6 And Accounting Gpa 3.8

Activities and Societies: Worked during the whole period of my BS and MS Schooling. Dual Minors in Mathematics & Philosophy. Awarded.

Master'S Degree, Tax Accounting, Gpa 3.6

Activities and Societies: Worked during the whole period of my BS and MS Schooling. Dual Minors in Mathematics & Philosophy. Awarded.

Associate'S Degree, Behavioral Sciences