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 review, partnership tax return preparation, IT desktop support, systems management and data backup. Produce and provide detailed production dashboard reports, ad hoc reporting, collaborating with management in monthly board meetings to allow effective strategic company growth and employee development.

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 contracts for over 300 vendors. Vendor Management duties include working as Purchase Order Administrator of over $40M in IT spend, contract negotiation, coordination of procurement with all project managers.

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 and conditions for consulting contracts and maintenance agreements related to the IT environment and IT datacenters. Also responsible for vendor management, asset management support and disposal of hardware as needed. Systems utilized: PeopleSoft - purchase requisitions, purchase orders, receiving, asset management and accounts payable, nVision query and reporting, Remedy system - over 1200 procurement related tickets closed in three years, MS Access and Excel - maintained contract expirations through shared databases. 2002 - Group duties included the integration of significant IT outsourcing project.2003 - Purchase support and move support for major data center move.2005 - Leasing program initiated with major hardware purchases and transitional procurement for a company spin off.2006 - Support for companywide VoIP project.Training includes Caucus IT Procurement Conferences 2003 and 2005 and additional local training sessions in Houston involving topics on negotiating, total vendor management and procurement strategies.

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. Responsible for $1.0 million in annual contract savings to the company and performed an important function in the dissolution of the IBM contract. Also responsible for planning the 2002 EES IT budget of over $100 million.September 1998 to March 2000.● 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 management of all contract labor invoices, approximately $2 million each month, approving hardware/software purchases of approximately $500 thousand per month. Provide monthly and historical project cost reports to project managers.● 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 processing. Implemented time capture system in 1999, which enabled direct transfer of project costs to the G/L system. Authored the EES IT capitalization policy to properly treat internally developed software costs per GAAP. Skills include SAP financial, SAP Project Systems, Access, PowerPoint and Excel including financial modeling and forecasting. Very capable at utilizing raw data and authoring quick turnaround reports to corporate. Training courses include: Principles of Project Management, Project Management Earned Value.

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 accountants and account executives. Provided ongoing customer service support in resolving disputed invoices and historical reconciliation. Training courses include: Electricity 101, Derivatives I – Futures, Swaps and Options, Derivatives II – Advanced Structures & Marketing, Energy Risk Management Overview, Understanding Pipeline LDC Rates & Tariffs, Nominating, Allocating, and Balancing Gas Transactions.

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.

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.

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.