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West Dundee, Il, Us

Northern Fox Valley, Il

Emergency dispatch system for 10 police and fire agencies serving over 68,000 residents in the Northern Fox Valley area in Illinois.

Sleepy Hollow, Illinois

Kane County, Illinois, United States

Provide taxpayer oversight of local governmental entities serving residents in Northern Kane County, Illinois. Activities include budgetary and financial reporting analysis as well as public hearing commentary on financial matters including proposed tax levies and review of Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.Also serve other civic organizations with operating and capital budgeting, financial analysis, benefits administration as well as property and casualty insurance advice, selection and oversight of public accounting firm and capital planning for projects including land, building and infrastructure projects.. In addition, as a taxpayer watchdog provide residents advice on public referendums involving property tax levies..

East Dundee, Il

Elected to a four year term as a member of the Board of Trustees to serve the library district's 70,000 residents. The Fox River Valley Public Library District provides patron services from a Dundee Library and a Randall Oaks Branch in West Dundee, Illinois.

Prepared initial Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) internal control documentation for business units of a $205 million heavy equipment manufacturer in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Italy.Conducted SOX compliance testing for an equipment manufacturer and distributor's Minnesota, South Dakota and Illinois operational and corporate processes.Developed SOX documentation of U.S. operations for international public company serving the world's recycling needs.

Achievements include a) developing corporate performance reports for monthly management reviews, b) auditing standard cost changes utilizing current & legacy SAP systems, c) supporting an excess/obsolete multi-million dollar inventory reduction program converting material to cash, identifing root causes and recommending process improvements, and d) participating in SEC Financial Advisory activities including drafting sections of a comprehensive 5 year 10-K filing. Transaction skills include acquisitions, divestitures, a joint venture, and IRB financings. Business process skills include SAP R/3 systems migrations and a SOX assessment. A registered Illinois CPA with a CFO services firm providing consulting in the critical areas of accounting operations, resource management, business performance and risk and regulations. Assignments capabilities span business, government and education operations including interim controller or CFO roles.

Reporting to division CFO and businesses, provided a $400MM U.S. entity’s accounting, reporting, planning and analysis for three resins units supported by six U.S. plants supervising five site controllers and an analyst. (Former Resins, Inks & Monomers business unit of Eastman Chemical)

Reporting to President of U.S. subsidiary, provided finance/accounting and HR services supervising IT and billing.

Reporting to President, provided accounting, treasury and property management services supervising corporate and subsidiary controllers, credit and collections, tax, planning, IT and internal audit.