Project Clients & Past Employers

• GE Capital (financial services subsidiary and traditionally the most profitable group within the General Electric Company)
• Affirmative Insurance publicly traded insurance company with over 200 retail locations in thirteen states
• AmeriServe Foodservices (largest food service distribution company in the United States, major clients are Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC)
• Metromedia Restaurant Group - Parent Company of Steak & Ale, Ponderosa and Bonanza restaurants
• Stream Holdings Corporation (an international leader providing global customer relationship management services)
• MGA Entertainment (an international privately held Consumer Entertainment Production Company) Acting Controller
• Deloitte & Touche (Big 4 Senior Manager serving the Enterprise Risk services practice)
• Price Waterhouse (Big 4 experience as staff and senior auditor in the Audit practice)
• Walden Residential Properties (NYSE Real Estate Investment Trust)
• Paragon Group (NYSE Real Estate investment Trust focuses on multi-family and commercial real estate)
• Vista Management Company (privately held international sales and marketing organization)

Functional Finance & Accounting Experience

General Accounting & Reporting
• Extensive background enhancing and maintaining internal control processes for GAAP compliance.
• Worked with Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) that entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a privately help international company in a transaction valued at 225.8 million.
• Management experience in accounting and finance at the CFO and Controller levels.
• Background in general accounting, including period-end close, G/L account analysis & reconciliation, AR, billing, credit/collections, A/P, job costing, payroll and financial statement preparation.
• Preparation of SEC filings including 10K, 10Q, MD&A, Proxy Statement, summary of significant accounting policies and supplemental reports & disclosures.
• Implemented controls to eliminate duplicate payments then assembled and led a team which: built a vendor database, assembled detail documentation for vendor packages, contacted vendors, and collected the erroneous payments.
• Reconstructed entire accounting records for new company since inception allowing external auditors to complete the audit assignment.
• Chief Financial Officer responsible for all financial, accounting, administrative and strategic planning for this closely held international marketing organization with offices in Dallas, Texas and Mexico City, Mexico. Charter member of the Board of Directors.
• Independent Financial Consultant providing key assistance in planning, preparation and filing an Initial Public Offering, which raised $290 million. Consulting services including implementing systems and locating and hiring personnel that would accommodate SEC public reporting
• Monthly reporting to Board of Directors including acquisition integration reporting, audit committee reporting, strategic advisory services, public reporting, regulatory and compliance reporting, and served as board secretary in absence of general counsel.
• Responsible for all audit, regulatory compliance functions, security and integration of acquired operations at the $2.5 billion bank. Reported functionally to the Directors' Audit Committee and administratively to the Bank's Chairman/President. Member of the Executive Committee, Management Committee, Investment Committee and the Hedging Committee.
• Served as Chairman of the Management Information Steering and Conversion Committees. Attended all Board of Directors' meetings. Through coordination with external auditors and management was able to reduce the Bank's total audit fees by over twenty percent.
• Provided litigation support services including forensic testimony and forensic diagnostic and testifying as an expert witness.
• Full responsibility for administering a nine-person audit department, reported directly to the Audit Committee and served as a representative of management at all Board of Directors' meetings. The audit plan for this $1.7 billion association included annual audits of the 47 branches, coordination and support for external auditors, internal control reviews and numerous operational and financial audits.

Sarbanes Oxley 404
• Preparation of documentation including process narratives, process flowcharts, identification of key controls, control matrix, identification of areas needed for remediation, remediation plans and test plans.
• Performed testing of key controls and review of tests performed by other individuals.
• Project management of companies Sarbanes Oxley 404 process from planning of project, identification of key processes, scoping of project, design of documentation, discussions with outside public accountants and legal counsel to actual project execution.
• Experience includes single entity companies up to multi-entity, global operations.

Financial Audit/Internal Controls
• Built internal audit function for a newly formed 2.5 billion dollar financial institution. Developed audit charter, strategic audit plan, staffing requirements and built an efficient and effective internal audit group within a six month period.
• Instituted construction audit programs that reduced the financial institution's exposure to premature funding and over funding of loans. Identified cost saving opportunities and redundant billings that resulted in cost reductions in excess of three million dollars.
• Nationwide Service Leader for Loan Monitoring Work programs assessing loan performance metrics.
• Identified deficiencies and overvalued assets that resulted in a significant purchase price adjustments for a company purchased out of bankruptcy

Systems Expertise: Selected Detail

Microsoft Office
• Proficient user of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Publisher

Oracle General Ledger Package
• Proficient User

Axapta
• Proficient User

QuickBooks/Peachtree
• Proficient user

Other
• Directed several complete system conversions from third party financial institution service providers.
• Directed conversions of acquired companies and branches into acquirer's system environment.

Education & Credentials

• Southern Methodist University, Executive MBA Program (Company sponsored and funded), Masters of Business Administration - August 1992
• Indiana University, School of Business, Bachelor of Science - Accounting, May 1980
• Member American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Member Texas Society Certified Public Accountants