Interested in a CEO/COO position in an emerging growth oriented market.
Experience
2/99 – Present Vice President – Channel Revenue Group
PRG-Schultz International, Inc.
$400 million recovery audit company
• Provide executive direction and leadership to a decentralized organization focusing on financial goals, operational excellence and organizational cohesiveness. Increased revenues from $3.4 MM to $8.1MM in twenty-four months.
• Successfully developed a sales organization of internal and external Account Executives to grow and expand the revenue recovery group. Added 20 new clients in two years resulting in 115% increase in revenue.
• Spearheaded expansion of international clients exceeding company expectations and resulting in 60% of 2003 revenues generated abroad.
• Pivotal executive who lead team of intellectual property attorneys and specialist in successfully protecting company trade secrets in multi-million dollar lawsuit.
• Lead a multi functional management team along with investment bankers in preparation and presentation of the Confidential Offering Memorandum for divestiture of business unit to prospective buyers.
7/92 – 2/99 Director - Payables Accounting Group (Dallas)
Sea-Land Service, Inc. (Controllers)
$4 billion containerized shipping company
• Effectively managed and directed the consolidation of Sea-Land's North American administrative processes to Dallas Texas that included accounts payable, bank reconciliation, fleet payroll, land payroll, and general accounting. The consolidation was effective with these departments processing in excess of 500,000 invoices, disbursing $2.4 billion annually.
• Through strategic and tactical cash management, accumulated $104.6 million of disbursement float for year end reporting purposes.
• Implemented Sea-Land's financial control policies and procedures through the establishment of oversight committees, reducing unauthorized payments by 94.7%.
• Project management experience in Asia, Europe and the Caribbean.
10/89 - 7/92 Manager - Planning & Finance, Pacific (Tacoma)
Sea-Land Service, Inc. (Sea Operations)
• Designed and implemented a cost awareness program that involved all functional areas of Sea Operations and resulted in the identification of millions of dollars in savings from vendors and shipyards.
• Administered the financial planning, cost control, and vessel payroll functions for 25 U.S. flag ships operating in the Pacific region.
• Responsible for the personnel process and annual vessel payroll of $25MM for all ships’ home ports in Tacoma and Long Beach.
• Coordinated development of onboard and shore-side financial systems with Fleet Services.
10/86 - 9/89 Vice President / Treasurer
Financial Consumer Insurance Corp., Seattle
$50 million insurance management company
8/85 - 10/86 Treasurer
Philadelphia American Life Insurance Co., Houston
$200 million group life and health insurance company
5/81 - 9/85 Finance Manager
American General Fire and Casualty Co., Houston
$300 million property and casualty insurance company
Education
University of Texas (Dallas) MBA
University of New Orleans BS Finance |
