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Portfolio company for private equity firm Union Park Capital. Focused on industrial technology, software and data analytics to enable decision makers to improve their reaction time to weather and environmental events, helping to protect communities, people and infrastructure.

Private equity owned, global manufacturing company providing high quality, highly engineering solutions to roll/web based manufacturing processes with strong brand equity. 18 locations across North America, Europe and Asia with operations in 6 countries and 8 states. Company is actively growing through organic growth and acquisitions. Four acquisitions since joining the company and a successful, very dynamic and active sale transaction. Led a strong team driving upgrades to technology, legal entity structure, processes, continuous improvement, data analytics, and lean approaches in a performance based culture to drive stronger customer responsiveness and corporate performance. Responsible for Leading the Global Financial Team and IT Management including global treasury, tax, FP&A, budgeting and forecasting, ERP & BI implementations, debt and cash management, and also the transition to our new ownership's reporting structure beginning 6/2018.

A member of Patina Solutions’ diverse portfolio of accomplished and specialized business professionals. Help organizations achieve their goals by performing interim executive & manager roles, managing & executing important special projects, and providing professional support through consulting and mentoring. Patina Solutions works in flexible ways across industries and functions. My specialties are financial management, global operations, manufacturing, cost accounting systems, distribution, ERP systems selection & implementation and business intelligence systems.

Privately owned, global manufacturing company focused on the sailboat hardware industry that was known for highly engineered, high quality products with manufacturing or distribution operations in 10 countries. Harken was a global leader in high quality sailboat hardware with a strong customer service culture concentrated in the Sailboat Hardware market with growth initiatives into industrial applications. Responsible for Global Financial Management and IT including multiple ERP system implementations globally. High growth environment with top line growth over 900% during my financial leadership tenure at Harken. Strong quality of earnings growth as EBITDA growth peaked at over 2600% growth. Growth drivers were a mix of organic growth, R&D investment in new products, acquisitions, and distribution company start-ups globally. Profitability and financial strength was maintained through the GFC in spite of negative growth end markets and growth challenges. Led 2010 acquisition negotiations, due diligence and financing negotiations for a large supplier acquisition to take strategic control of a key supply chain risk. Managed global banking relationships and financing agreements. Managed tax exempt financing project to support the company growth and investment in a new manufacturing facility to consolidate multiple facilities.

Direct responsibility for multiple ERP selection and implementation project teams and management of Harken USA IT team. Designed, selected and implemented strategic business intelligence system to enable ready access to key financial and operational data.

Assistant Controller at a Publicly owned, SEC registered, market leading commercial skylight manufacturer

Financial auditing for a variety of manufacturing, distribution, healthcare and not-for-profit clients. Mix of private and publicly owned. Turnaround consulting for a privately owned manufacturing client.