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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas Area

As a Consultant, I leverage deep financial and accounting acumen, technology expertise, and leadership strengths to advise clients on a wide variety of business challenges.My successes with clients arise from cultivating relationships with leaders of the client’s companies. Good relationships provide a sound environment that produces successful strategies as we combine our experience, skills, and insight. I am able to turn strategies into action plans that, by working with or managing others, become successful projects. I then analyze business processes and workflows, gather requirements for aligning technologies with operations, and determine and allocate suitable resources to assure on-time, quality deliverables and customer satisfaction. Select Projects:2005–PresentClient: SOUTHWESTERN CONTROLSRoles: Director of Operations | Financial & Technology Consultant2000–2005Client: DDB CHICAGO, INC.Role: Project Manager & Primary ArchitectClient: DELL COMPUTER CORPORATIONRole: Designer, Developer & Program Analyst1996-2000Client: NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINES, VERIZON & IMPERIAL HOLLY CORPORATIONRole: Project Manager & Primary Architect

Houston, Texas Area

Southwestern Controls distributes pneumatic, hydraulic, and industrial automation fluid power equipment throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and Mexico. Their portfolio includes lines of 37 domestic and international manufacturers.During my most recent consultant role, I managed all aspects of accounting, customer service, material control, information technology (IT), and communications functions to support business objectives. I advise and collaborate on the prioritization and execution of strategic investment, business development, organizational structuring, technology implementation, best practices, and process improvement initiatives. Select Highlights:~ Played an instrumental role in negotiating and starting up a new line of business with a Taiwanese manufacturer.~ Laid out a pathway for improving gross margins by as much as 30% over two years while minimizing risk during recent oil business downturn.~ Enhanced quality of service and support by establishing lines of accountability and restructuring and revitalizing underperforming customer service groups in Houston and Dallas branches.~ Fostered and empowered learning-focused, collaborative work environment; expanded range of capabilities through strategic re-organizing of talent and implementing improved training.~ Fulfilled on-going needs of directors, shareholders, and tax authorities by simplifying accounting and reporting structure.~ Provided technical leadership and management guidance to contractors and employees during transition from a VPN to MPLS telecommunications infrastructure.~ Enabled well-informed routine and opportunistic decision making in multiple areas through implementation of a robust ERP system reporting regime.~ Directed team in mapping business processes, altering ERP system configuration, realigning existing business processes, and updating training documentation.

Chicago, Il | Round Rock, Tx

During this period, I designed an Oracle database and helped create applications to utilize big data by working closely with Fortune 500 computer technology company, Dell and their advertising agency on the development of custom systems and applications. Initially I collaborated with five Dell marketing executives on the development of a custom application for rapidly calculating and reporting marketing communication and campaign return on investment (ROI) metrics.Highlights from this project include~ Streamlined processes and accelerated run time from 13 hours to 20 minutes, providing critical decision-support data for determining effectiveness of marketing efforts in record time. ~ Calculated marketing communication ROI for each customer by combining Dell’s data warehouse with advertising and telephone system data.~ Enabled ability to aggregate and disaggregate customer ROI data according to lines of business.Following successful completion of that initial project with Dell, I was referred to their ad agencyto envision and manage the development of a multi-user advertising planning system that interfaced and shared ad agency statistics with the Dell data warehouse. I was successful in executing the ideal solution according to budget and within the scheduled timeline by consulting with both Dell and DDB management personnel and leading three skilled developers in fulfilling all client user requirements.

Various Locations

Early in my career, I helped clients advance and control operational procedures, reduce risks, prepare for an IPO, simplify processes, and enhance supply chain reliability by leading strategic PeopleSoft modification, integration, and upgrade engagements. PeopleSoft, Inc. was a leading developer of human resource (HRMS), financials and supply chain (FSCM), client relationship (CRM), and enterprise performance (EPM) management software solutions that was acquired by Oracle.