Drawing from over ten years' worth of experience in customer service, finance, and retail management to provide critical, hands-on product development and business management to bring Gardenia's Fire unique line of gourmet pastry bouquets and centerpieces to market. Involved in every aspect of strategic planning, financial planning, quality management, forecasting, budgeting, process improvement analysis, territorial analysis, and reporting for this internet enterprise.

Provides corporate-wide strategic planning, financial planning, quality management, forecasting, budgeting, process improvement analysis, territorial analysis, and reporting for multiple retail businesses, including eight retail stores and several commercial internet enterprises. Most specifically, monitor financial performance by measuring and analyzing results; and initiating corrective actions. In particular:• Accomplishes finance human resource strategies by determining accountabilities; communicating and enforcing values, policies, and procedures; implementing recruitment, selection, orientation, training, coaching, counseling, disciplinary, and communication programs; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation strategies.• Develops finance organizational strategies by contributing financial and accounting information, analysis, and recommendations to strategic thinking and direction; establishing functional objectives in line with organizational objectives.• Establishes finance operational strategies by evaluating trends; establishing critical measurements; determining production, productivity, quality, and customer-service strategies; designing systems; accumulating resources; resolving problems; implementing change.