* Create daily content and audience engagement* Read and reviewed over 600 books in four years* Created and executed social media strategy using Twitter, Facebook, LibraryThing, Goodreads, Pinterest, FeedBlitz, Bloglovin, BookLikes* Receive over 20,000 page views per month with over 400 regular subscribers* Correspond daily with authors, publishers, bloggers, and publicists* 2011 INSPYs Judge* Co-founded Armchair BEA in 2011 * Increased Armchair BEA participation by 600% in 2 years

- Revamped the monthly financial packet for Operations, which now includes production line income statements, to drive behaviors to improve performance and decrease spending, which resulted in an improvement to spending by five percent of the budgeted total. - Organized and ran the first full wall-to-wall physical inventory in more than five years, which resulted in a net write-off of less than a half percent of total inventory, or $36,000, and no major audit findings. - Created a fully integrated budget workbook that is now the accepted model for all production sites and that has been adapted and is in use for the monthly forecasting, reducing the number of overall files from 30 to one. - Changed the culture within Operations from one that regarded Accounting as a necessary evil to one that now considers Accounting as a close partner and necessary provider of information to help them meet their performance goals.

• Identified excess and obsolete inventory through detailed reporting, thereby reducing inventory reserve values by 75 percent.• Maintain accurate E&O levels with appropriate communication to all involved departments to obtain highest level of visibility and better inventory levels.• Maintain sales, cost of goods sold, and gross margins for monthly reporting.• Collaborate with operations and procurement on product variances and process improvements. • Spearhead physical inventory by coordinating with the auditors and production facilities and overseeing all physical counts.• Manage costing process for raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods inventory.• Analyzing current material master data for all 40,000 materials in SAP to remove duplicates, clean up errors and guarantee accuracy of the information contained within the ERP system.• Process general ledger journal entries for payroll and other account reconciliations.

Created and executed social media strategy using Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, and Goodreads platformsIncreased followers by 150% within three monthsCreate daily content and audience engagementOrganize future promotions and giveaways to drive readership

Responsibilities include pricing all flavors and ingredients sold out of six different locations around North America to customers around the globe, providing detailed sales analysis for new and existing business, and maintaining the pricing database within the current SAP system.• Maintained profit margins and contribution margins even though costs increased by 19 percent in 2011, met revenue, contribution margin, and gross margin budgets in both food and beverages categories.• Increased profit margins in 2010 by seven percent through management and timely reviews of all pricing offered to customers; generated an additional $2.0 million in revenue for fiscal year 2010 and $1.6 million for fiscal year 2009 through the same methods.• Exceeded contribution margin budget by 3.9 percent in 2010.• Assisted winning sixty-three new contracts through appropriate pricing, which was 100 percent of the contracts priced for customers.• Exceeded gross margin growth goal for fiscal year 2010, met gross margin goal for fiscal year 2009, and exceeded gross margin goals and gross margin percentage goals in 2008.• Improved customer wins by 100% by leading the category directors from a cost-plus pricing method to a value-added pricing method in 2008. • Analyze monthly sales, reconcile them to the budget and report this information to the management team.• Analyzed, updated and improved pricing processes for major customers through standardizing reporting templates and reorganizing historical data into a more useful format.• Created and implemented a pricing maintenance plan designed to capture fluctuations in raw material costs, encompassing over 1,000 customers and over 100,000 products, resulting in the generation of an additional $500,000 in revenue.• Manage all pricing tasks created through the various Oracle and Internet-based accounting systems, resulting in more reviews and minimal impact of cost fluctuations on prices.

• Provided accounting expertise to customers on a contractual basis.• On assignment with Degussa Flavors, first as an Accounts Payable Clerk and then as a Pricing Specialist.• Based on results delivered, converted temp assignment into full time hire.

• Appointed to the newly created position of Accounts Payable Officer and improved vendor reconciliation procedures, resulting in annual savings of $14,000.• Saved $3 million by leading the resolution of disparities between contract commitments and obligations.• Developed a document proofing system that resulted in a 90% reduction in payment-processing errors.• Created a document tracking system that enhanced customer relations by improving the timeliness of payments by 50%.• Established control files where none had previously existed, thereby reducing administration errors by 70%.

Established and implemented client relation-enhancing procedures, thereby reducing turnover by 20%.Prepared and executed all payroll activities and business expense payables.