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Macon, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Velociti was a startup facility services company. As Controller, I worked with a small team to implement an ERP system and associated processes to grow from 6 employees to over 2500 employees in 2.5 years through an acquisition of a carve out from another company.

Perry, Georgia

Training venue for first responders, military, and federal and state agencies.

Wichita, Kansas Area

Completed due diligence and integration of 3 acquisitionsLed implementation of sales tax software and processes for filing sales tax in all statesHandled incorporation of Canadian subsidiaryResponsible for all financial and risk management functionsAssisted in preparing company for sale by PE firm to a strategic buyer.

Atlanta, Georgia

Responsible for all financial and risk management functions of the company. Left position to accept CFO role at QSI.

Manage month end close for operations throughout the Southeastern US and Puerto Rico. Annual budgets, monthly forecasts and support of operations initiatives in labor and cost control. Ensure tight internal controls and SOX compliance within all operations in SE region. Manage senior accountants, financial analyst and Accounting manager located in various.

*Responsible for financial analysis and reporting for an energy consulting company focused on the supermarket industry. Aztec is a subsidiary of Danfoss, a manufacturer headquartered in Denmark. Position eliminated due to budget shortfall.

*Small privately held Swiss custom window treatment manufacturer. Responsible for all financial and administrative functions in the company (payroll, human resources, payables, receivables, reporting, budgeting, management reporting, insurance, banking, etc). In 2010 was asked to also function as acting general manager for the US operations. Parent company.

*Privately held company provided linen laundry and rental services to hospitality, healthcare and other industries. Company was privately held and in a turn around situation. Within one year, turn around was achieved and company sold.*Responsible for all accounting functions (payroll, general ledger, payables, receivables, reporting and taxes).*Working.

*Dutch owned company supplying industrial and medical gases to various manufacturing, medical and other industries along with welding hard goods to the welding/manufacturing industry. *As controller, responsibilities included all financial reporting, year end audit, management reporting, budgeting, treasury, insurance, acquisition due diligence and more..

*Company was a publicly traded optical retailer with stores mainly in Wal-mart (Vision Centers). Expanded with acquisitions of optical retailers in Minnesota, California and Arizona. *Director, Domestic Accounting was repsonsible for SEC reporting, financial accounting, taxes, fixed assets, acquisition due diligence and more.

*Company provided cellular phone service nationwide (forerunner to Verizon Wireless). Contel merged with GTE in 1991. *Started with company as tax accountant and progressed to manage accounts payable, payroll, internal audit and inventory. *Received awards for leading QIT (Quality Improvement Team) of the quarter (twice) and for the year as payables.

*British conglomerate with a number of industries. *Prepared corporate income taxes for the company's holdings in trucking and construction equipment rental.

*AA& Co was one of the "Big 8" accounting firms. Starting as an auditor and asked to help the tax department in tax busy season, I stayed in the tax department. Following year I was asked to return to audit for one financial services firm audit. *Worked on a variety of audit and tax clients, but tax clients were mostly in the real estate area with a focus.