TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Reporting IP IVR Call Routing Team Building
• DTMF HTML Coding T1, DS3, SIP, NAT Redundancy
• POTS and IP Telephony Network Topology Network Monitoring Project Management
• Log Management Security
• Server Administration Contract Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Telecommunications Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Authored and negotiated project bids that included hardware, vendor management, configuration and installation.
• Negotiated with to allow one client out of signed contract scope and another to retain existing contract term
• Vetted SIP vendors and established service relationships on behalf of clients Telephony
• Installed/customized a PC/Linux/Asterisk/MySQL based predictive dialer for 10% of the cost of closest bid
• Installed and configured o enable VOIP savings of as much as 96%
• Installed/configured hosted VOIP service,VOIP phones and IVR, to eliminate POTS PBX hardware for client
• Configured and installed PC/Linux/FreePBX based micro ATX, SSD servers with Cisco/Yealink VOIP phones for small offices
• Used OSI model application layer protocols DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, NTP, POP, SIP, SMTP, SSH, Telnet and SSL
• Configured transport layer protocols TCP, UDP, NAT, SSL and QoS to assure the quality of VOIP traffic
• Established wireless mesh networks to enhance Internet access
• Tracked fraudulent attempt to access Asterisk server through bruit force password attacks and locked down server
• Used Wireshark to filter network traffic and analyze VOIP reliability issues Software/Backup
• Designed/Installed RAID and Cloud backups for KLS Law that survived Ransom Virus attack
• Installed local SSD Linux backup server with single non - user login to block user account based Ransom Virus attacks
• Installed CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu distributions of Linux
• Migrated ASP.net website to Apache and coded new HTML/CSS/PHP/JS website for customestateplans.com

Financial Analyst

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Implemented standardized "Quick Close” G/L entries for global $158 MM General Services Contract (GSC)
• Automated monthly charting of $500 MM of global GSCs’ forecast and budget variance for senior management
• Mined GSC billing data monthly to amortize multi-year contracts resulting in $2.3 MM of annual expense reduction

VP of Finance

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Authored a corporate pro forma to project venture capital requirements for a new biotech venture that included production-costing and detailed standards for laboratory operations
• Developed an Excel model that fore-casted debt and equity needs for a $100 MM Las Vegas real estate project

VP of Finance

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Responsibilities:

• Recruited by CFO to correct and enhance broken business processes across departments
• Realized over $200 K of expense reductions by re-engineering and legitimizing the budgeting process
• Automated reporting, using VBA and ODBC, to send managers custom periodic budget variance emails
• Reduced annual purchasing spending over $60 K and recaptured $250 K of revenue by auditing insurance sales

VP of Finance

Confidential, Royal Oak, MI

Responsibilities:

• Filed origination of corporation and implemented all budgeting, benchmarking, purchasing and forecasting systems
• Generated financial presentations which lead to over $7 million in new venture financing

Finance Director

Confidential, Royal Oak, MI

Responsibilities:

• Filed corporate origination, provided strategic advising and investigated alternative deal structures
• Generated pro forma financial statements and investment dilution models of target firms the modified deal structures
• Presented Internet firm concepts to Bain Capital at their corporate offices in New York City

UNIX Systems Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed HDTV animation system development which resulted in a new design methodology at Confidential Motor Company
• Authored and implemented a security plan that became part the standard architecture of the designers machines
• Established standard software and OS load that eliminated crashes and facilitated administration

Consumer Market Analysts

Confidential, Troy, MI

Responsibilities:

• Managed an accounting and financial reorganization that resulted in conformance with standard practice
• Managed call center ACD and configured new agent stations
• Resolved unpaid Single Business Tax through direct negotiations with the State of Michigan

Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Exceeded TIGER GIS base county map goal of delivering 60 counties and delivered all 3000 US counties
• Managed the integration of thematic state and federal environmental data into the Oracle database

VP/Controller

Confidential, Fraser, MI

Responsibilities:

• Internalized monthly statement generation from external CPA that resulted in greater detail of reporting
• Performed Job-costing and analyzed variance that resulted in opportunities for cost reduction
• Reduced inventory 75% and freed cash flow through just-in-time production and procurement

Financial Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and sold software that generated oil and gas financial models to Chemical Bank and Goldman Sachs & Co