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New York Metropolitan Area

Over the past twenty years Target has earned its solid reputation by providing Its valued clients with reliable employees and through offering personalized attention. Target, in business since 1999, is a full-service staffing firm capable of providing quality personnel in a multitude of job categories. Whether it is on a Temporary, Temp-to-Hire, Consulting Professional, or Direct Placement basis, our talent pool ranges from entry level to the most senior level. Target has always been fixated on understanding its clients and continues to work tirelessly to offer a valuable staffing solution. Allow Target to become your one call for all your staffing needs. We offer solutions to keep your company functioning at all levels

Secaucus, New Jersey

• Performed financial management responsibilities for this privately held Technical Production and Event Company including Point-person with banks and other equipment financing lenders.• A key member of the Senior Management team helping to create policy and plan direction of organization, including the establishment of a Company Handbook and other personnel policies.• Direct charge of Accounting, Purchasing, and Payroll (in-house). Improved month-end closes from over one-month to less than five days. Established cost analysis, comparison, and supplier sources for items needed. • Negotiated and established relationships with both Vendors and Customers to better assist the Company during its cash-tight periods.• A key member of the senior management team helping to create policy and determine the direction of the organization and helped to create Company Handbook and related personnel policies.• Prepared, audited, and reconciled 401(k) plan for potential funding and regulatory issues.

East Meadow, Ny

• Strategic consulting services which include business planning, sales strategy and operational support. • Evaluate and establishing organizational goals and procedures resulting in assist them through restructuring and/or streamlining of their operations, reporting, and teambuilding.• Perform Financial Management responsibilities for companies and organizations in positions of CFO and Controller. In addition, when required, prepare for Audit the books and records of public entities.

Uniondale, Ny

• Performed financial management responsibilities for this Public Entity as its interim Controller.• Prepared books and records for Audit of this Public Entity (including its subsidiaries) for the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 calendar years as well prepared the 10-K’s and 10-Q’s reports.• Properly adjusted the records of the Parent Company after analyzing all transactions recorded through standard, journal, cash, and intercompany entries. Reviewed and made adjustments to accurately reflect proper timing of transactions and in effect causing their respective transactions to be reflective in the proper months, quarters, and years.• Created a Chart of Accounts for the respective entities. Set up internal controls and procedures. Performed reconciliations of transaction from the banks, transfer agents, and investors.

Hauppauge, Ny

• Positioned and re-established this Division of Robert Half International in the Long Island and Queens markets for placement of consultants and senior level accounting and financial professionals for interim assignments and projects.• Recruited and interviewed candidates and in the process assessed their skillsets for the purpose of determining their placement potential for positions and assignments.• Cultivated, communicated and met with Clients to determine specific project needs and coordinated efforts with other lines of business in an effort to satisfy those needs.

Inwood, Ny

• Helped grow the company from infancy as a privately held company in a single location (New York), to a publicly traded, multi-million dollar business operating in seven U.S. states, with an international presence.• Led management team and approximately 150 employees - in operations, sales, facilities management, accounting, and human resources – across multiple locations with 10 direct reporting in areas of accounting and customer service and an additional 20 direct line managers. • Responsible for Financial Management, Strategic Planning, restructuring, Human Resource and outsourcing functions.• Responsible for SEC regulatory compliance issues, preparation of quarterly 10-Qs and annual 10-K reports, and worked directly with internal and external auditors. Prepared consolidated statements of parent company and its subsidiaries.• Negotiated with Venture Capitalists for financing and on corporate contracts for leased equipment and facilities.• Responsible for M&A/Integration Management of other entities into the Cargo Connection network, including: • Spearheaded efforts in the 1998 acquisition of a competitor in the expedited truck transportation industry – including negotiation of acquisition and the merging and integration of five locations into the current network operations. • Led the integration team following the successful 2001 acquisition of the Atlanta and Miami locations of a competitive airfreight transportation company and set up controls and procedures through their integration process.• In 2005, formed Cargo Connection Logistics Holding, Inc. to facilitate additional funding to go public and investment options for the company, becoming CFO/COO, and a member of its Board of Directors. Helped to negotiate and secure necessary venture capital corporate financing. Member of committee formed for the selection of, and liaising with, corporate investor relations organization.

Merrick, Ny

• Positioned upstart company to compete in Freight Forwarding marketplace.• Maintained contacts overseas to assist customers after Purchase Orders were initiated.• Coordinated Customer Service efforts and sales trips to customers.• Handled all books and records, including collections and vendor relations.

Brooklyn, Ny

• Recruited by owners of this multi-million dollar manufacturing company to strengthen the financial position and grow this privately held manufacturing company to its next level. Responsible for financial area and managed controller and other employees in accounting and finance, with dotted line responsibility for information technology, spearheading the conversion of company’s information systems from Main Frame to PC-based network computer system. • Maintained books and records for owners for their real estate, personal ventures, and other investments.• Assisted owners in development and negotiation of favorable collective bargaining agreement, working closely with local and national building service workers’ union representatives.

Yonkers, Ny

• Assisted the owners of multi-million dollar national importer/distributor of silver-plated tabletop and giftware organization in turning around the company through the implementation of processes that streamlined operations, resulting in a strengthened financial position, which made the company viable for the sale to a competitor.• Responsible for daily administration and operations to help restructure the company’s financial debt and reduce costs after the company had sustained heavy losses. Oversaw the company’s daily operations with supervisory responsibilities for its facility, office, and warehouse, which consisted of 45 employees. This included managing receiving and shipments, customers service, order processing, billing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, foreign and domestic purchasing, inventory control, human resources, along with managing finance and accounting. • Strengthened relations with international suppliers by improving communications and managing payments through better improving banking relations (borrowing base lending, line of credit, and letters-of-credit) which resulted in on-time shipments.

Brooklyn, Ny

• Worked with General Manager and Parent Company to integrate company through monthly reporting to Board of Directors and implemented inventory cycle counts and valuations and the set-up of month-end and year-end procedures and reports. • Spearheaded conversion of company’s information systems from manual record keeping to Main Frame computer to Networking computer system with Parent Company located in Illinois.