Patrick W. Self Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

RESPONSIBILITIES:- Coordinate approval processes of invoices and maintain an active invoice filing system. - Process and fulfill check and wire requests.- Code to the general ledger and process vendor invoice payments; including intercompany charges for our entire global team and special projects coding.- Actively maintain relationships with vendors as diverse as local catering companies to large architectural firms and construction companies.- Process and pay our Board of Directors retainers and expenses.- Compose effective accounting and ad-hoc reports summarizing A/P data for Finance, Purchasing, HR Departments and more.- Research and resolve billing and invoice problems ranging from basic services and maintenance to large global construction projects.- Process monthly and quarterly journal entries and accruals.EXPERIENCE:- Experienced on both Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable quarterly closing processes. - Coordinated multiple enhancements to our system of record Oracle with IT Team including AMEX vPay integration, training international employees for standard operating AP processes and currently working on Noetix integration for reporting enhancements.SUCCESSES:- Automated approval process for software licenses with coordination between our Purchasing team and IT Helpdesk.- Utilized Excel Skills and relationships with our Purchasing team and external corporate travel vendors to cut processing time of company Business Travel Account (BTA) from 3 days to 3 hours.- Developed AMEX vPay for virtual card payments; maintained manual record for 14 months until integration project began; coordinated with AMEX and IT team for 3 months until vPay was implemented into Oracle; process time from beginning to the Oracle implementation went from 1 day to 10 minutes.

- Responsible for over 70% of total cash collections and 80% of all invoices issued in the CORP & LATAM theaters- Founding member of the Revenue Team Task Force; a small group with representatives from each Revenue team with the stated goal of identifying process changes and strategizing their implementation- Produce month and quarterly reports for Revenue and Sales Departments; maintain an active knowledge of approval structures, customer accounts as well as company and various governmental compliance policies

Greater Seattle Area

I own and operate ChupaComics, an independent comic book publisher. (www.chupacomics.com). I'm responsible for book keeping, creative direction and design: including individual issue layouts and website design as well as content creation.

Kampala, Uganda

- Interview doctors and patients at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) for the Uganda Program for Cancer and Infectious Diseases (UPCID)- Create written materials for program website, donor solicitations and UPCID database capturing the general population’s perception of cancer, the unique nature of the prevalent cancers, treatment methods and clinic conditions

Certificate, Literary Fiction Writing

Certificate, International Economics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), International Economics

I only attended the University of Washington to finish out my degree. The BA is in Economics and I have a certificate in International.