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Chippewa Falls, Wi

New Auburn, Wi

Assisted controller with start-up sand mining company, including A/R, A/P, G/L entries & balancing, along with month-end financial consolidation. Review and submit payroll and benefits data.

Eau Claire, Wi

Provided all facets of accounting from A/P, payroll, financial statements, G/L balancing, sales/use tax, and year-end functions. Also performed office duties such as routine server maintenance and upgrade, answering phones, sorting mail, office supply ordering and interfacing with store managers.• Reduced accounting budget by $13k by doing payroll in-house• Reduced month-end processing time from 60 days to 21 days• Created documentation/process for store managers weekly packets to corporate in order to meet month-end deadlines and reduction in processing time

Chippewa Falls, Wi

Assisted Finance Director in month-end closing activities including journal entries; variance, exception, and sales/use tax reports; balancing site G/L; monthly closing of APT system; uploading and posting journal entries to G/L; managed four positions including functions of A/R, A/P, credit & collections, data entry, and receptionist; performed rack and inventory audits; created and distributed daily sales tracking report; created, reviewed and submited payroll for sales rep commissions.• Performed Finance Director functions during their 10 week absence.• Reduced time to generate reports by 50% by better use of MS Excel functions.• Attended corporate training sessions and disseminate information to improve processes.

Chippewa Falls, Wi

Assisted in development of automated software using PERL, maintained test equipment, installed new software, trained new technicians, helped with more difficult troubleshooting, attended on-site customer training sessions, resolved test platform and software issues by working with customer engineering group, assisted in project management of new customer introduction.• Maintained 90% customer approval rating during 5 years of business.• Participated in team meetings that achieved a 15-day WIP cycle. • Assisted in project management of new customer introductions.

Chippewa Falls, Wi

Developed hardware and software components for test platforms using Labview, trained technicians on functionality of boards and accompanying tests, maintained mature and existing test fixtures.• Developed on-time hardware/software for mainframe Warning and Control Systems.• Maintained mature and existing product test fixtures.• Interfaced with production floor to resolve test issues to meet commit dates.

Chippewa Falls, Wi

Troubleshot new module prototypes being introduced into manufacturing, work with engineering to resolve hardware related design issues, lead technician on new product introductions.• Developed debugging tools using C language to reduce troubleshooting time by 25%.• Lead technician on new product introduction and existing products.• Involved in team meetings which resulted in 1st test pass yields >95%.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

OOP (Java, Servlets, JSP), Database Management, Operating Systems, Visual Basic, Visual/C++, Data Structures, Information & Security.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Accounting

Associate'S Degree, Accounting

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Electronics Technology