Mike Maples Email & Phone Number

Springfield/Kansas City Metro Areas

Through both consulting and employee assignments performed projects to increase communication, reduce costs, and increase efficiencies in office operations. With a tool box of accounting skills, tempered with the experience accumulated over a career of diverse situations and combined with an understanding of EIS/DMS (Enterprise Information/Document Management Systems), I enjoy new challenges; whether short term to address a specific issue or workload solution, or longer term to build, manage, and deploy process improvements.

• Recruited to early stage, publicly held manufacturer/distributor of leading-edge and innovative audio delivery systems.• Established full Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance and built accounting/administrative team within 6 months of hire.• Key member of executive leadership team; worked with CEO on strategic planning, financing, and operations.

• Instrumental role in growing engineering/consulting company from $15 million to more than $100 million over 9 years.• Worked closely with CEO, serving as trusted advisor and resource for strategic, financial, and growth planning.

Provided financial consulting services for diverse client base across a wide range of sectors and from early stage to Fortune 1000 firms.

• Recruited to stabilize and manage accounting functions for $10+ billion publicly held group of financial companies following FDIC/RTC intervention, liquidated $9 billion securities portfolio and sale of retail branches to multiple buyers.

• Key member on the team that completed financial/operational turnaround of an engineering and manufacturing company and positioned it for sale to a $3+ billion Swedish conglomerate.