Managed planning, budgeting, forecasting, logistics, warehouse and administrative functions for international locations as well as the closing, moving and opening of new branches. Designed and maintained scorecards and metrics to ensure business objectives were obtained. Developed professional relationships with suppliers, driving growth initiatives and negotiating terms and conditions. Increased efficiency and reduced cost to improve service and sales initiatives using LEAN principles and tools in North American locations and in conjunction with ISO in remaining international locations. Developed and managed the LEAN Leadership Plan for the international group, certifying white belts, sponsoring yellow belt certifications and leading multiple Kaizen events.Liaison to cross functional teams such as legal, treasury, marketing, tax, human resources and financial services in the planning and creation of new country entities. Created plan for an international service center to manage exports from non-certified U.S. branches and to offer competitive pricing to international locations for U.S. product. Developed IT plan for the international group to move from seven operating systems to three.

Developed an export compliance program from a regional to a companywide program. Responsibilities include working with implementation team to develop internal controls and workflow processes in new computer system, a training program for sales, operations, purchasing and finance as well as the daily processing of export and import orders.

A/R Portfolio of $300MM for areas including Texas, Louisiana, International and Oil&Gas. Staff of eight including area managers, collectors and administrative. Responsible for extensions of credit domestic and international, collections of A/R, dispute resolution, legal and working with collection agencies. In addition supervising the automated billing personnel and developing export compliance procedures for the Gulf Coast Region.