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Denver Metropolitan Area

Contract Consulting: Interim Controller, Accounting Management.

Co & Ks

Managed the Denver Corporate HQ and KS-based field operations personnel which at its peak included 11 office employees and 180 field operations employees performing seismic land surveys in CO, KS, NE, ND, OK, UT and WY. Managed company for owner and decisions regarding banking, insurance, legal, and payroll/benefits services. Departed the company after Corporate HQ was relocated to Garden City, KS. Accounting Sftw: QuickBooks Enterprise.Selected Contributions: Implemented job cost accounting procedures to accounting and field personnel. Improved internal controls and accounting processes gaining efficiencies and accuracy in reporting job results and bid estimates. Improved accountability and enforcement of company policies and procedures.

Greater Denver Area

Contract Consultant- Individual income tax preparations. Interim Corporate Senior Accountant and Corporate Senior Analyst for 9 months with Ball Corporation performing month & year-end Corp. closings, reconciliation of Corporate Balance Sheet accounts, and assisting with preparation of 10Q & 10K reporting. Sftw: JD EdwardsSelected Contributions: Improvements to financial models/spreadsheets and documentation of processes and procedures. Timely and accurate Balance Sheet accounts reconciliations and month-end Financial Statements consolidation including foreign entities’ financials.

Greater Denver Area

Managed the accounting and human resource functions and preparation of Microsoft Dynamics SL (Solomon) generated financial statements. Prepared budgets, forecasts and comparative results of operations financial reports. Improved reliability in project job costs through greater accuracy in allocating overhead burdens and regular project costs communications with Branch and Project Managers.

Greater Denver Area

Contract Consultant: Interim Controller at Visual Products Corporation; Icelandic Design Co.; and Interim Sr. Accountant at Accelent, Inc. – respectively: sign manufacturer; clothing designer/wholesaler; medical instruments mfr. Sftw: QuickBooks, MYOBImproved efficiencies and accuracy in preparation of consolidated financial statements, budgets, forecasts, flash reports, cash flow projections and analysis through enhancement and development of Excel spreadsheet financial models. Contract Consultant: Interim Payroll Manager at CoorsTek, Inc.: Filled-in for the Payroll Manager on maternity leave at year-end 2000, ensuring that Peoplesoft generated federal (W-2s, W-3, 940, 941) and multi-state quarter and year-end payroll tax reports were reconciled and properly completed. Increased efficiencies and accuracy in handling garnishment requirements. Contract Consultant: Interim Corporate Tax Preparer at Graphic Packaging Corporation: Projects included: preparation of multi-company corporate federal income tax work papers; reconcile Ceridian and ADP generated payrolls; prepared and filed amended federal and multi-state payroll tax returns. Payroll tax filing research resulted in recovering over $500K in overpayments, penalties and interest assessments for this multi-organization comprised of 3,500 employees in 25 States.

Golden. Co

Subsidiary of former Coors family operated companies, ACX Technologies, Inc. Subsidiaries of GTC included GTC Nutrition Inc. (corn wet-milling ops); Golden Genesis, Inc. (solar panels mfg & dist); Golden Equities, Inc. (RE Mgmnt); Chronopol Inc. (Bio R&D); Golden Membranes, Inc. (can membranes mfr).Responsible for multi-companies’ month-end G/L closures, financial reports, and budgets. Prepared account reconciliations, corporate federal income tax work-papers, audit work-papers, payroll and various human resource reports (401K administration and censuses), manufacturing reports (MA-1000), sales/use taxes and personal property tax reports. Sftw: MAPICS

Longmont, Co

Hands-on management of: A/P, A/R, Fixed Assets, Payroll, GL Account Reconciliations and Journal Entries. Implemented several payroll conversions from ADP to ODIN to Ceridian. Acctg Sftw: Xerox MRP system

Mba, Accounting

Studies focused on Financial Statements Analysis and Corporate Strategies.

Bs, Accounting