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Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States

Provide leadership to the business and other Finance teams while overseeing financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and costing for carve-out business from Sonoco. Developed 13-week Cash Forecasts and manage AR reviews and cash forecasting.

Arlington Heights, Il

Promoted to Controller for key Consumer and Transportation business units within Sonoco Protective Solutions.

Arlington Heights, Il

Managed staff of 4 Costing Analysts to provide front-line costing/quoting support for all 3 of Sonoco Protective solutions business units (Consumer, Automotive/Transportation, and ThermoSafe).

Arlington Heights, Il

Transferred to drive ongoing development and integration of financial and business processes (e.g. Cost modeling, Pricing, I/C Accounting) for Sonoco's newest and largest acquisition (Tegrant).Provide direct strategic/financial planning and guidance for 3 VP of Sales managing a total portfolio of $0.5B across multiple markets (Automotive, Medical, Food/Beverage, Industrial/Commercial Packaging).Perform strategic studies and provide guidance to Senior Management on options to best optimize financial performance of this newly created division.

Hartsville, Sc

Recruited to provide direct support to 7 General Managers and their global sales staffs selling packaging and services to Sonoco’s 7 largest Consumer Products customers (e.g. Unilever, Nestle, etc.) – a $1.1B portfolioDevelop and coordinate all financial aspects of cross-divisional sales proposals for Corporate Customers covering all of Sonoco’s product lines (Rigid Paper, Injection-mold/Blow-mold/Thermoform, Flexibles, etc.)Provide direct strategic/financial planning and guidance to VP-Global Plastics and Corporate CustomersIn conjunction with HR, develop annual sales incentive program, measure performance, and award payments

Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States

Recruited for and to specifically build an all-new position supporting North American Sales division of a multi-billion dollar global multi-national IT Services companyLed cross-functional team to develop processes and systems to create a detailed cost allocation of sales acquisition expenses (“Presales”) across global divisions and ensure proper accounting of selling expenses in SAPDeveloped resource cost projection models to drive senior management discussions at a global account level to improve North America resource cost distribution and utilization

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Hired as part of new program at Blue Cross Blue Shield to enhance strategic partnership between Finance and key operational departments.Oversee $250M strategic spending portfolio at BCBSM ofnearly 500 projects and 17 portfolio segments to drive overall strategic value delivery.Streamlined budget using detailed capacity analysis by nearly $40M while ensuring value delivery.

Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States

Recruited by ACS for a 5-month consulting project as Transition Lead of a 40 headcount off-shore transition of Cost Accounting staff for ACS's client in Detroit. Personally selected and staffed 30 transition employees in less than 3 weeks to jump start project. Developed detailed staff training and performance measurement plans to measure progress of knowledge transfer to overall project plan. Delivered all phases of project deliverables on-time and under budget - project successful launched in August 2009 and transition stabilization is currently underway.

Based on previous success with large, complex projects, recruited to manage transition of 30 Accounting employees and over 250 job processes with approximately 1,000 individual procedures to off-shore vendor as part of overall corporate off-shoring initiative. Work was successfully migrated to two separate outsource locations and the project launched on time and within budget in Dec. 2008.

Transferred to Corporate Accounting from Sales and Marketing Finance to manage the SIRIUS IT Project full-time. Designed and led cross-functional IT team to implement systems solution integrating pre-validated operational data with financial systems in SAP to create easy-to-administer monthly financial settlements in support of a multi-million dollar business relationship, delivering the solution on-time and 15% below budget. Discovered issues with assembly plant part sequencing systems and interfaces to production payables processes and worked directly with Production Control and Assembly Systems IT to correct, resulting in savings of over $15M. Uncovered a problem with assembly plant vehicle part traceability systems related to capture of key radio data and worked directly with Advance Mfg. Engineering and Assembly Systems IT to ensure capture of key data, resulting in proper collection of millions of dollars of hardware subsidies by reducing operational error rate from 15% to 0.001%

Recruited from Business Strategy organization for one-year assignment to evaluate adequacy of existing financial processes in support of multi-million dollar Sales and Marketing business partnership and implement new financial systems and processes where necessary.Reviewed supporting processes for multi-million dollar business partnership and identified critical control weaknesses of which the company was not aware were resulting in millions of dollars of uncollectible receivables. Championed case for change to Senior Management, convincing them to approve $1M systems development project under my leadership. Led IT project to redesign the Sales and Marketing option margin forecast systems in Hyperion Essbase resulting in a 300% improvement in cycle time with increased accuracy and enhanced reporting capabilities.

Recruited to be part of small staff created after the Daimler-Benz/Chrysler merger that reports directly to the CEO to guide strategic execution and manage the performance of the company. Developed Chrysler Balanced Scorecard and Senior Management target setting process for strategic performance management whose excellence was recognized by induction into the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative (Kaplan/Norton) Hall of Fame.Led cross-functional international effort of 15 employees to develop key performance indicators (KPIs) as part of a DaimlerChrysler-wide project to create a common balanced scorecard across diverse business units to measure performance and strategy execution. Over 20 KPIs were developed and approved by the DaimlerChrysler Board of Management.Led cross-functional executive project teams of 5 to 10 executives to investigate and address key strategic issues such as Fuel Economy, Retail Network Optimization, and Manufacturing Footprint Transformation. Coordinated annual cross-functional Scenario Planning and 10-year strategic business plan and communications.

After one year as an Analyst, I was promoted to Manager to lead staff of three brand-new employees to resurrect and redesign product line full cost operating profit and margin reporting packages, at request of the Chrysler Executive Committee. Developed bottoms up 10-year operating profit plan by product line to support corporate concept and product approval process. Performed special studies on product profitability/viability and related plant sourcing/shutdown at the request of senior management to identify vehicle cost trends and competitiveness.

Multiple Finance/Accounting positions of increasing responsibility in the following areas:ABC & Profitability Analysis Operations Reporting Mexico OperationsFinancial Reporting

Master, Business Administration

Graduated Cum Laude

M.S, Information Management

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

B.S, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Delta Sigma Pi (Chancellor and Scholarship Chairman), Beta Alpha Phi Honors Dual Major in Accounting and in IT.