- Led Salesforce Governance Team with Directors to determine priorities, capital project finance approvals and resources.- Directed M&A Salesforce migration efforts from instances of new companies after business process review, data mapping and third party application assessment.- Translate Salesforce initiatives from Sales, Marketing, Quotes and Contract teams to requirements for all enhancement requests.- Manage multiple concurrent projects on Salesforce Roadmap with cross-functional international teams and developers.- Oversee Salesforce instance integrations with other applications, (Malbek, Ariba, DocuSign, Conga, OwnBackup, Altify, Smartsheet, etc.) while developing vendor evaluations, relationships and license renewals.- Created Jira epics, agile sprints, user stories and managed the QA, regression testing and user acceptance testing during all Salesforce projects.

- Implemented company-wide software development and implementation program with multiple vendors, including Salesforce.com, to insure quality transition to upgraded systems.- Customized Salesforce.com Sales Cloud with quotes, order approval functionality, price books, mapping, competitive intelligence, custom workflows, validation rules, dashboards, public groups and phone app. access while managing and testing third party development.- Managed multiple cross functional teams to design and define business cases, create documentation with key stakeholders and an extensive business process analysis to provide complex solutions with a collaborative effort of Accounting, Tax, Legal, Sales, Operations and IT leadership.- Lead mergers and acquisitions transformation teams to identify and provide software enhancements.- Assumed project management ownership to provide team with scope, detailed schedule of assignments, risk mitigation and progress relative to budget with dotted line reporting to Corporate Accounting Director for all quote to cash systems.- Utilized Microsoft SQL Server for data mining during acquisitions, divestitures, forecasting and U.S. Department of Justice inquiries.- Managed a team of three which assisted with systems design, configuration and security. Created a strategy that vastly improved testing methodology of a dozen applications resulting in repeated success.- Assisted in the design of a Quintiq logistics optimization software to provide real-time transfer of ticketing and order data to effect delivery schedule. Project is expected to realize $20M of savings annually with the increased efficiencies.- Provided on-site training and customer support of all applications for all users in the U.S. and Canada to become a trusted advisor.- Served as Accounting lead during the implementation of a business intelligence system, (Arcplan), to provide all financial and sales reporting and data warehouse data integrity.

- Re-engineered national billing process after resolution of $2M year-end audit issues.- Accounting lead for Oracle implementation, design, testing and G/L accounting setup.- Provided management with monthly financial reporting and key metrics vs. budget.- Lead a project team and provided a systems solution that recovered $6M of receivables

Redesigned software application system for the Vice President of Finance to provide all financial reporting to the parent company and fulfill my short term consulting assignment.

( Thompson Financial acquisition of the Dialog Corporation)- Provided monthly consolidated financial statements to parent company in U.K., narrative to CFO and directors as well as year-end audit presentation.- Foreign subsidiary accounting, translation and consolidation while reducing the closing cycle from 10 days to 3 days.- Managed and trained staff of 6 accountants, 2 A/P staff and 2 in purchasing.- Detailed monthly B/S analysis and monthly capital expenditures summary.- Developed budget preparation with analysis, revisions and revenue forecasts.

- Led U.S. team during international G/L financial systems implementation.- Responsible for consolidated financial presentations to U.S. Directors and Sweden.- Automated monthly retail sales consumption reporting to Management team.- Provided the analysis and negotiation of price increase scenarios with The Home Depot.

- Developed automated monthly financial forecasting and ad hoc reporting for presentations to Controller,President and Chairman.- Structured sales and trend analysis reporting relating to upcoming acquisitions.- Assisted with G/L implementation design and financial reporting models.

- Monthly financial reporting and analysis to CFO and parent company in Italy that represented the U.S. Sales of all Giorgio Armani, Valentino, Ungaro, Fezza and Joseph Abboud clothing lines.- Created automated database of inventory flow for thirty-five divisions with A/P and cost of goods sold analysis. - Revised year end audit presentation with new reporting of sales, returns and inventory.- Implemented cost control policies with National Sales Managers of all divisions.