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Greater Cleveland

FocusCFO empowers business owners with sound financial management, forward thinking insights and tools, and proactive financial strategies so businesses and organizations can improve internal cash flow, reduce business risk and increase the value and efficiency of their business or organization.Companies that benefit the most from working with.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Created the FP&A Center of Excellence for North America, as part of the GE Global Operations team with primary support for GE Aviation, GE Power, GE Corporate and GE Digital business teams. Led the teams through unprecedented changes to the strategy of GE, while provides transformational process improvement and productivity to the business teams.

Dayton, Ohio

Led the finance team as CFO for $1.2B (revenues) for 3 unique P&L's with GE Aviation. Finance leader for 22 global sites, with multiple markets and products and drove a complete transformation of the Finance function during the 3 years of tenure through ERP implementations, site rationalizations, digital tools, and use of Corporate Shared Services..

Cincinnati, Ohio

Led the Engineering and Supply Chain Finance teams for a business acquired by GE Aviation (Smith's Aerospace). Established operating rhythms, financial processes and controls, and was instrumental in engaging and building the finance teams into the GE Aviation culture, including ERP implementations at many of the 30 sites globally.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Finance leader for the Engineering teams, leading a team of 57 people world-wide, controller for $1.5B of R&D, with expertise in Military proposals, Government accounting, and Earned Value Management (EVM) processes. Implemented a new labor vouchering system during my tenure.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Finance Leader for the Commercial Sales and Marketing teams. Drove improved controls and deal approval processes and was instrumental in creating a GE-Wide risk management process after 9/11 to better manage exposures with the Airlines impacted by the tragedy. Process helped reduce exposures at high risk airlines by 31%, $500MM.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Six Sigma Master Black Belt for Finance function and Order-Bill-Collect (OBC) business processes driving improved business processes and driving $67MM of incremental profit and over $265MM incremental cash flow for the business.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Finance Leader at a $400MM revenue, 100% wholly owned subsidiary of GE Aviation, the Elano Corporation. Led all functions of finance & accounting and introduced Six Sigma to the financial teams.