• Three years as president of this upscale residential construction company. • Used updated procedures and training to achieve a 50% increase in gross margin. • Brought basic management techniques to the company.

- Senior Management of all large construction projects.- Typical CFO duties.- Construction project analysis

- Controller reporting to the CEO. - Responsible for customer service.-Hands on position with no direct reports.

• Controller for a 15 employee, customer service company in Monterey. Duties include all CFO functions and supervision of customer service. • The company has gone out of business and my final assignment was working on closing issues.

• As a department of one, reported to the president for this high tech, social networking, virtual reality start-up company during a period of rapid growth. Ecommerce experience.• Duties included all CFO functions: treasury, general accounting (GAAP), credit card processing, collections, taxes, state reporting, banking relations, insurance analysis and renewal, etc.• Google Analytic models.• Installed new credit card processing system. • Revenue recognition responsibility.• Instituted a 401K plan for the company and was the trustee. • Daily cash flow monitoring and forecasting was a vital component of this position.• Human Resources: benefits; employee personnel issues; stock option tracking; employee manual; created employee annual review process.• IT: firewall, virus protection, hardware upgrades, Q&A testing, troubleshooting, etc.

• Financial consulting for small entities like Goldmans where one of my responsibilities was Corporate Store Director for this 7 store retail chain. • Self-taught HTML and created one of the first real estate websites. It generated sales in the top 5% nationwide.• ‘Scratched my itch’ and wrote two (yet to be published) books.

• Chief Financial Officer for a $30 million dollar retailer with 8 stores.• Responsible for GAAP accounting, variance analysis, financial reporting functions, sales audit, accounts payable, accounts receivable and inventory control.• Treasury and bank relations. Restructured debt to attain friendlier interest rates. Also, procured financing for new store development.• Directly produced budgeting, financial goals and forecasting modules.• Responsible for the annual audit with outside CPA firm.• Installed a new accounting system, and POS inventory system by Triad. This included installation, testing and implementation.• Worked extensively with the Board

• Director of Corporate Accounting - Directed the accounting cycle, management reporting, and actual vs. budget analysis. Also responsible for SEC reporting (10k, 10q), the footnotes and financials for the annual report, tax filing and the annual external audit. Had property management responsibilities for over 200 properties. Reduced staffing levels by 20% while decreasing the close cycle by five days.• Director of Operational Accounting – Managed the sales audit, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and inventory control departments. Total staff of approximately 60.• Manager of Inventory Control – Responsible for physical inventories, merchandise open-to-buys, and gross margin analysis. Active member of the committee which designed, programmed, tested and installed the new corporate merchandise inventory system.

• Director of Capital Accounting - Included job costing experience in new store construction, and property management of over 200 locations.• Director of Merchandise Planning Control & Systems Southwest Division – Promoted to this position after the department received a failing audit. 60 days later received an outstanding audit.• Controller of the Southwest Division – Drove capital expenditure plans, budgets and financial analysis for the region.• Senior Financial Planning Analyst – Designed, created, tested and installed new automated capital expenditure system. Technical analyst for corporate budgets, capital expenditures and five year goals; financial analyst for new store site approval.• Payroll Manager – Managed a staff of 30, paying over 20,000 employees in 8 states.• Remittance Processing Manager – Installed new computerized system for accepting customer credit card payments.