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Carson City, Nevada, United States

The Public Employees’ Benefits Program (PEBP) administers a group health and life insurance program which offers comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, vision and life insurance. Our organization is responsible for designing and managing a quality health care program for approximately 43,000 primary participants and 27,000 covered dependents, totaling over 70,000 lives. The Board’s purpose is to adopt regulations, Nevada Administrative Code (NAC), enforcement, and policy for the agency.

Carson City, Nevada

Be an Ambassador and advocate the mission for the growth and continuity of a local 4-star hospital. Activities include reaching out to the public and companies vested in the common purpose by creating formal or infomal alliances. Represent the Carson Tahoe Hospital Foundation in fund raising events such as sale of raffle tickets and secure sponsorships to support the programs of the hospital.

San Francisco Bay Area

Carson City, Nevada

The Audit Committee will maintain oversight of the auditing function, both internal and external resulting in increased integrity and efficiency of the audit processes for the city and the city's system of internal controls and financial reporting. Make recommendations to the Board of Supervisors regarding the annual financial audit, performance, compliance and efficiency audits, including specific issues of concern providing a higher level of accountability over the use of public funds.

Carson City, Nevada

Advise start-ups on strategies and finance operations excellence.

San Francisco Bay Area

Projects include:- Managed a US and Intl. multi-disciplinary project team of Purchasing, A/P and IT to evaluate P2P processes and deploy an early payment program for a $14B data storage company. - Conduct monthly close and year-end audit for a $10B consumer product distribution company.- Audit vendor invoicing and optimize utility billing rate for a large paint manufacturer.- Develop a SOX program to transition a $2B leading innovator, marketer and producer of quality branded products for the pet and lawn and garden supplies markets to the 2013 COSO framework.- Manage a team to review multi-year contracts, develop a revenue recognition policy and recast revenue for an emerging SAAS company under the new 606 Accounting Standard.- Interim controllership duties to support financial operations for a national construction company.

San Leandro

Served as part of the executive team that transformed the company to financial stability. - Created scalable systems and processes, including policies, procedures, and controls that stabilized operating expenses and revenue in compliance with lending covenants, union, insurance, OSHA, Department of Labor, and GAAP requirements.- Researched and established asset-based alternative lending relationship to procure new line of credit with a 60% lower interest cost; paid-down substantial loan advances in the 1st year and met all monthly disbursement obligations.- Accelerated collections processes and implemented self-financing operating model; collected $4.5M written-off debt and reduced DSO by 50%. - Conducted a robust business analysis to identify financial and operational performance improvements; restructured organization and renegotiated vendor contracts; reduced monthly expenses by 40%- Developed technology infrastructure with telecom, wireless and IT consultants to replace failing hardware, modify applications with due diligence, implement maintenance, redundant configurations and back-up policies to minimize business interruptions from external attacks and power failures.- Streamlined quote-to-cash, procure-to-pay, time and attendance, and asset tracking processes; improved monthly close by 42% for the first time in company history

San Francisco Bay Area

Created infrastructure, and hired and trained staff to drive finance department performance; worked with the CFO to manage $90M Title 4 student loan disbursements.- Contributed as part of the Microsoft Dynamics 2010 Great Plains reimplementation; developed business requirements and new chart of accounts; advised software integrator on configuration mapping and data conversions; enabled reporting by business unit and program for the Board by the 13th day of the month.- Researched, selected, and converted human resources, time attendance, and payroll system from ADP to Paychex, which improved payroll cycle time and reduced errors.- Completed annual audit, tax returns, and financial aid compliance reports within 2 months with limited data, evolving processes and company knowledge.

Led a 3-person team, and worked with CFO to maintain finance operations. - Adopted vendor portal that automated purchase order generation, shipment confirmation, and bank generated payments for accounts payable, which streamlined 10,000 monthly transactions, eliminated errors, reduced labor expenses by 75%, and introduced scalability to support growth.- Created financial models to generate pro-forma statements and cash flow projections.- Prepared financial data for Board of Directors, and venture funding marketing presentations.

San Francisco Bay Area

Served as founding member of the Bay Area risk advisory consulting practice. - Managed multiple engagements in Technology, Medical Devices, BioTechnology and Pharmaceutical industries.- Generated $2.5 million in annual incremental revenue.

Led Sales, Service, Finance and Systems teams in organizational restructuring, planning and business process improvements supporting over $7B in revenue. - Integrated Product and Service Sales organizations in record time of 6 months by implementing common systems, processes and policies.- Identified process and organization restructuring opportunities to yield 12% resource reduction in a 225 staff organization.

Principal advisor to region and country sales management responsible for over $600M in revenue from 8 subsidiaries- Enhanced accounting & finance internal controls which resolved subsidiary legal and tax potential exposure of over $18M.- Supported revenue growth of over 30% in the country portfolio using market responsive financing options, contract restructuring and resource allocations.- Awarded Sales Excellence Club.

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