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Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston

• Public (ASX listed) Oil and Gas E&P company with headquarters in Houston, TX.
• Established critical back-office processes including accounting, financial reporting, treasury, risk management, and annual report preparation.
• Improved and streamlined existing business processes including investor relations, corporate insurance, corporate budgeting and modeling, cash management, and administration (payroll, office space, records retention.
• Managed liquidity to be able to pay down debt while remaining solvent during 2020, as oil prices collapsed, and 46 E&P companies filed for bankruptcy.
• Maintain banking relationships and compliance with Company’s $55 million credit facility.
• Currently coordinating and managing due diligence efforts for a potential sale of the Company.

• Led due diligence efforts for key acquisitions, including the merger with Crimson Exploration in October 2013 which created a $1 billion market capitalization company.
• Led several efforts to raise over $160 million in private issuance of common/preferred shares.
• Led efforts to raise over $400 million through divestiture of non-core assets.
• Led lawsuit efforts to recover over $10 million in damages from US government.
• Responsible for all cash management, treasury, and budgeting functions, as well as banking relationship for $500 million credit facility (negotiation and compliance).
• Oversaw risk management and corporate insurance requirements.

• Expertise in preparing models to project future and potential profits, revenue and damages for litigation matters.
• Managed large oil and gas engagements with extensive database analysis and data mining issues.
• Assist in the preparation and review of reports and exhibits for numerous trials, mediations and depositions.
• Expertise in analyzing historical financial, economic, and accounting records.
• Engagements include intellectual property, family law, wrongful termination and breach of contract.

• Assess the market and transportation risks on the U.S., Canadian and European trading portfolios.
• Evaluate the credit risks associated with gas and power trading portfolios and communicate to senior management.
• Liaison with traders on a daily basis to identify and assess key risks, including potential mark-to-market exposure.
• Determine credit worthiness for counterparties by analyzing financial statements, ratings, and other information.
• Negotiate terms and conditions of various collateral instruments and contracts with counterparties and banks.
• Assisted in managing credit lines worth over $1.5 Billion.

• Reviewed financial statements and related schedules for SEC filings.
• Prepared, coordinated and executed detailed audit procedures related to public and private clients.
• Created and executed detailed reviews of client business risk areas.
• Performed testing of internal controls and provided innovative business solutions to improve internal control structure.
• Supervised, trained and reviewed the work of other staff auditors and consultants.
• Researched, communicated and discussed various industry related accounting standards and issues with upper management.

Kings Bay, Georgia

• Honorably discharged as E-6.
• Operated the electrical distribution system onboard a nuclear powered submarine.
• Supervised a ten-member division.

Bba, Accounting, Gpa Acct = 4.00; Overall = 3.92

Activities and Societies: Beta Alpha Psi; Accounting Society; Delta Upsilon

Mergers And Acquisitions, Executive Education