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Hesperia, Us

Providing senior leadership and pastoral advisory and support to churches and nonprofits in strategic and operational planning, budgets, analysis, project management, merger/acquisition, nonprofit formation, change management, audits, internal controls, compliance, organizational development, governance, staff development, human resources, business administration, risk management, corporate real estate, stewardship and advancement ministries, and pastoral coaching. Leader of the technology team in providing expertise and hands-on support in financial and database software implementation, transition, systems analysis, business analysis, and optimization. Initially hired as Finance Director, became Business Operations Director to focus on providing higher level services. Shifted to the Strategy & Advancement Team as Ministry Stewardship Coach to enable more capacity to provide greater breadth of services across Kingdom One services teams as well as to mentor and develop Kingdom One staff.

Fair Oaks, California, Us

• CFO and COO with strategic and operational oversight for finance, HR, risk management, legal matters, IT, facilities, and grant compliance for a nonprofit that provides a unique holistic program for young adults on the autism spectrum for a life of greater independence and fulfillment as they discover their passions and work toward their goals.• Development of improved financial, human resources and operational processes for both improved efficiencies and to better serve and support the staff.• Development of outsourced IT solution with improved expert support resources and reduction of total organizational cost.• Strategic, legal and tax planning for partnerships with other nonprofits that share similar missions and goals.

Rocklin, California, Us

• Excellence in improving the organization’s financial policies, practices, analysis and reporting.• Successfully led the organization’s first ever online auction and virtual gala that achieved their financial goals and dramatically increased social media engagement, as well as an extraordinary year end fundraising campaign that included contributions of $74,000 from over 60 new donors.• Oversight for its two social enterprises, Deer Creek Farm home and gift store and Compassion Planet Thrift. Engaged new purchasing and sales strategies for Deer Creek Farm that resulted in record level sales in dollars and volume in the midst of difficult Covid circumstances.• Leadership in collaboration with our marketing firm that increased social media engagement several hundred percent and sustained the engagement benefiting the organization’s traffic at its social enterprises, and increased awareness of the organization’s mission and impact resulting in many new community supporters and partnerships.• Oversight of human resources functions and engagement in addressing employment and performance matters. Included evaluating and administering Covid related employment and operational requirements plus development and implementation of the Covid injury illness and prevention plan.• Oversight of risk management and insurance administration functions, including providing risk-informed evaluations and recommendations to organizational leadership to aid decision making. Included identification of new risk exposures for which to obtain the necessary insurance coverage.• Negotiated leases for new and existing suites for favorable rates and terms in a challenging real estate season.

Roseville, Ca, Us

• Instrumental in cross-functionally collaborating throughout the company in maintaining leadership oversight of an expansive portfolio of high impact strategic initiatives with the Human Resources, Information Technology, and Finance departments. • Critical leader with oversight participation and responsibility for the merger and acquisition transaction of a church, and for driving the design and program management of an enterprise-wide CRM application, while also implementing the organization-wide entity formation and real estate holding strategy.

Roseville, Ca, Us

• Owned direct responsibility for managing and mentoring 2 managers representing a staff of 15 while maintaining leadership oversight for all accounting and finance duties for the company, and 6 affiliates including real estate organizations and a school. Ensured integrity of the consolidated $58M balance sheet and $31M income statement. Led the annual consolidating audit with high marks from the third-party audit firm.• Directly managed all contract, construction accounting, legal and tax matters associated with the liquidation of 40-acres of excess real estate, including infrastructural land development prior to sale. • Ensured consistent oversight and accountability for risk management to include policy development and monitoring for safety, asset protection, and liability mitigation proving instrumental in maintaining exceptional rating standards with the insurance broker/company• Served as an active member of the board of directors’ audit committee which owns oversight responsibility for all operational finances and represented the company as the liaison to corporate attorneys on liability, contract, real estate, debt, tax and corporate formation matters.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Instrumental in driving leadership oversight for 6 regional warehouse and facility operations servicing the majority of the national network while ensuring asset control and supply chain management for nationwide network of cellular system switches and cell sites. • Served as the Program Manager for de-installation, supply chain logistics and redeployment of equipment representing a $40M program budget encompassing the migration to the latest cellular technology.

• Managed and mentored a staff of over 20 business and system analysts, developers and QA analysts leveraging SDLC standards while serving on a 12-person corporate merger team contributing to the development of formal presentations to potential Wall Street acquirers.• As Business System Consultant, prepared and evaluated business and functional requirements for software and process improvements. As Corporate Accounting Manager, coordinated the annual audit and collaborated with leadership on the preparation of SEC filings including 10Ks and their MD&As, 10Qs and stock offerings.

• Maintained full administration responsibilities for all cell site and switch leases, while leading financial analytics for capital projects. This analytics detail represented potential net-new revenue based on call traffic and demographic growth, and expenses of the initial capital investment including maintenance and sustainability.• Critical contributor in managing the CA/NV’s implementation of Oracle Financials software project and served as the national subject matter expert (SME) for Oracle Financials’ Project Accounting and Fixed Assets. • Received Circle of Excellence award for outstanding leadership for the Oracle implementation.

Managed accounting, finance and human resources for a multi-million dollar real estate development and property management firm with over one million square feet of building product. Worked with lending institutions and attorneys for troubled debt restructuring, and with potential purchasers for sales. Financial analysis for cash flows, market valuation and operating statements. Led staff of 10.

Portfolio and financial analysis for over one half-billion dollars in real estate assets. Financial, portfolio and cash flow analysis. Developed integrated software models for property budgeting and consolidating portfolio analysis. Joined firm as portfolio accountant and promoted to asset manager.

Financial reporting, analysis, cash management and legal matters for a $60 million real estate portfolio. SEC reporting, workpaper and tax return preparation, audit preparation and coordination. Coordinated merger of 3 REIT's and 5 partnerships through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Worked with attorneys and negotiated with lenders on debt restructure.

Supervised staff of 8 for a real estate development and property management firm. Audit and tax workpaper preparation. Accounting system conversion.

Performed audits of start up and publically-held clients of various industries including high tech, real estate and agriculture.