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Houston, TX

Manage complete back-office for full-service legal staffing firm, including developing meticulous and effective policies for growth, from start-up through multimillion-dollar annual sales. Develop and oversee payroll administration (for temporary and also core personnel), invoicing, accounts receivable and collection, accounts payable, and contracts.

Houston, TX

Software license and hardware maintenance/contract financial analyst and administrator for $30 million yearly spend. Renew and track costs for software and hardware contracts for entire contract life cycle, saving $100k-200k annually. Track annual budget versus actual spend constantly reporting budget variances to IT Financial Director. Maintain database.

Houston, TX

Provided end to end IT procurement services including gathering requirements, quoting, negotiating and awarding bids, purchase order processing, receiving product and payment of invoices related to pc, server, network, telecom equipment and IT services for Calpine totaling $26 million in four years sourcing from over 75 different vendors. Negotiated terms.

Houston, TX

• April 2000 – December 2001.Financial manager for EES outsourced IT contract with IBM. Performed additional duties as transition manager and contract manager requiring negotiation and project management skills..
• Financial manager in the EES IT department where duties included: Budgeting and administration of $60 million for software development projects, hardware/software purchasing and departmental expenses. Monthly.
• Effective manager of five employees including hiring, firing and performance reviews. Directed activities, which ranged from A/P, data entry, contracts negotiating for software licensing and maintenance and invoice.

Houston, TX

Worked in the volume actualization group verifying data integrity on several pipelines using the TransEnergy System and supplied support to A/R and A/P accounting teams. Analyzed and processed transportation invoices and pipeline cashouts. Coordinated all invoicing over 350 customers with customer service representative’s transportation analysts, A/R team.

Houston, TX

Provided financial analyses including risk determination, production, cash flow, rate of return, present value and sensitivity evaluations, for management to determine the feasibility of all exploration prospects submitted to or generated by the company.

Houston, TX

Provided technical support utilizing geological and engineering data for numerous geologists and geophysicists engaged in oil and gas exploration and generated Permian Basin gas prospects. Regional work led to a gas prospect in New Mexico that company secured leases to pursue development.

New Orleans, LA

Petroleum geological consulting, review and generation of oil and gas prospects and well site work. Work experience includes all of South Louisiana productive onshore trends.

Mba, Finance

Ms, Geology

Bs, Geology