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Houston, Texas Area

Worked with CFO to handle investor relations, investor presentations and lender compliance reports. Prepared financial forecasting models for M&A due diligence, debt refinancing and internal management activities including income statement, balance sheet and cash flow forecasting. Part of team responsible for $70MM revolving debt refinancing and a preferred stock offering. Worked with outside financial advisors during bankruptcy process. Responsible for banking relationships and cash management and forecasting. Maintained and redesigned TM1 business intelligence cubes to handle changing business requirements post-implementation.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for managing accounting staff and overall corporate accounting, working with the Controller and CFO to coordinate preparation of public financial reporting along with accounting reporting policies. Collaborated and directed requirements with external consultant on IBM TM1 financial reporting and forecasting project, including design work that automated preparation of external financial statements and footnote schedules for 10-Q/K filings. Cash flow preparation reduced to a 30 minute monthly process for monthly actual results as well as a similar reduction in time preparing budget and forecasted cash flow reports. Preparation and review of documents relating to $50MM public bond offering and shelf registration.

Houston, Texas Area

Worked with Regional Controllers to analyze and prepare monthly financial statements. Prepared ad-hoc reports for management and outside auditors. Reduced ADP based monthly payroll posting and bank reconciliation process by ten hours monthly while increasing accuracy and providing additional reporting capabilities. Streamlined numerous processes, including credit card posting and lease and maintenance expense posting. Project lead on a web based workflow application. Developed the specifications and managed the project though all phases of the project. Developed an Access based system to consolidate equipment information from multiple data sources in order to streamline the reporting process for property tax renditions, inventory, and insurance reporting.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for maintaining, improving, and developing Lotus Notes applications. Developed project management system. Redesigned Best Practices workflow application to improve stability and workflow processes. Updated electronic form applications in order to standardize process and simplify the creation of new forms. Developed migration tools to migrate from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange.

Houston, Texas Area

Developed VB program to automate distribution of Hyperion Pillar files to remote field locations via the Lotus Notes API. This program reduced the time spent in preparing the distribution by four hours per distribution. Designed Excel VBA macros to automate accounting processes. Developed a Lotus Notes database to communicate accounting polices to field locations. Worked with outside consultants to design and deploy analytical models using Hyperion Essbase during initial implementation, eventually taking over all development work.

Houston, Texas Area And Caracas, Venezuela

Supervised and led a team of five accounting clerks. Coordinated the reporting of financial information from field crews located worldwide. Prepared monthly and ad-hoc reports for accounting and executive management. Consolidated budgets from local operations into the consolidated budget. Responsible for training newly hired Operations Accountants