Oversee and report to Executive Management and the Audit Committee on an ongoing basis for the company’s Enterprise Risk Management process; coordinate with management and the external auditors with designing, documenting, testing, remediating and reporting on the company’s Sarbanes Oxley 404 audit of controls over financial reporting; responsible for managing the company’s third party loss prevention partner by ensuring that their audits of branch locations for inventories, cash management, theft & vandalism and criminal investigations are in compliance with the company’s policies and procedures; manage management, projects and a professional staff. • Successfully implemented Sarbanes Oxley control framework and obtained a clear audit opinion from ’06-’13. • Maintained compliance with the Massachusetts Data Security Law resulting in ‘no reportable breaches’. • Developed an ERM process, approved by the Board of Directors which met SEC guidelines. • Integrated Sarbanes Oxley 404 controls with field loss prevention plans achieving compliance with company procedures while saving auditing expense, and helping to reduce theft & vandalism costs. • Maintained compliance with both national and local OSHA safety requirements resulting in ‘no penalties’.

Direct and support overall financial operations across three divisions. Assist in the development of the long range plan strategy; acquisition due diligence and integration; consolidate the annual budget and quarterly forecast; evaluate and control capital spending; close general ledger; perform financial analysis and issue quarterly and yearly reporting for both SEC and management; coordinate the annual audit with PricewaterhouseCoopers; established financial controls; maintain and enhance all financial systems; forecast and evaluate daily cash requirements including all treasury duties; oversee and maintain responsibility for accounts payable, payroll, taxes, order management, purchasing, inventory control and revenue cycle; managed a professional staff of thirty. • Designed and installed a new financial & reporting close process resulting in reduced cycle time from twenty-five days to three days, cost savings, reduced errors and a clear audit opinion from ’99 through ‘05. • Performed due diligence & integrated four major acquisitions into the company’s reporting structure. • Assisted in the negotiations & syndication of a $100m credit facility which provided capital for acquisitions. • Developed a budget process to include metrics & input from key personal to deliver a more precise planning process that helped Executive Management and the Board of Directors to achieve strategic results.

Support strategic long-range plan; consolidate worldwide budgets, coordinate foreign inputs and close monthly general ledger (one-day close); publish management performance reporting; perform statistical analysis and expense control; initiate recommendations and issue quarterly earnings commentary. Manage professional staff. • Teamed to achieve the ‘one-day close’ resulting in cost savings & reduced errors. • Received CFO Recognition Award for implementing Oracle Financial Analyzer, a budget development tool for cost center budgets, resulting in reduced cycle time & improved quality.

Recommended and prepared divisional operating plans for revenue, margins, expenses and manpower. Coordinated with marketing (multi product portfolio) to establish sell price and margins, product cost reductions, advertising programs by channel and customer. Managed MRP and factory inventory. Responsible for financial performance, product reporting, project expense, capital and manpower control. • Produced start up plans from strategic concept to full ramp up for fast growing business. Generated timetables, objectives and financial guidelines which resulted in product growth to $75M in fifteen months. • Effectively initiated and produced a substantial modem cost reduction. Teamed with operations management to establish specific achievable goals based on calendar dates and assigned responsibilities. These efforts resulted in renegotiated vendor material costs and manufacturing redesign obtaining a 50% cost savings.