SUMMARY

• Operational Management Professional with over 10 years of expertise in materials management, logistics, distribution and supply chain management, with highly analytical skills and the ability to provide creative solutions to today’s business challenges. A driven thought leader with excellent communication skills and a focus on diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
• A proven history of high levels of performance in competitive environments and in - depth training and experience in Operations, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources (HR) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• JD Edwards, Oracle R12 & 11i, SAP, PeopleSoft, Hyperion (HFM), Blackline, Nakisa, Acorn, Preview, BI, SQL, Noetix, Capstone, Salesforce, Essbase, Smartview, Kronos, Discoverer, nVision, Peachtree, QuickBooks, COGNOS, Impromptu, AS400, BPCS, Auto CAD, Meridian, UNIX, ACT Database, ADP, MS Office Specialist, Comp TIA A+ Operating System, IC3 certification.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Beaumont, TX

Operations Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provided specialized clerical work for the maintenance, utility, welding, and landscape departments. Completed duties such as managing maintenance information, ensuring the smooth operation of the all departments, operating office equipment, generating computer reports, compiling different sorts of information, and maintaining inventory records.
• Scheduled and tracked equipment for required maintenance.
• Maintained and organized stock rooms and aided staff with assigning duties.
• Responsible for ordering equipment, picking up and distributing.
• Performed payroll for inmates.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Operations Consultant/Product Controller

Responsibilities:

• Results-driven and highly accomplished production management professional with a solid finance/accounting background with experience in high-quality, low customized volume manufacturing operations.
• Proactive manager with strong track record of reducing net manufacturing costs and lowering inventory volumes while maintaining adequate stock on hand to meet daily production flow.
• Implemented critical activities to raise OTD (on time delivery) from 51% to 94.6% within a year.
• Cost reduction efforts which totaled a monthly reduction of $100K in < 2 months by consolidating locations.
• Created, implemented and audited standards of work (SOW) for manufacturing accounting at site locations.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Finance & Accounting Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed accounting processes analyzed, implemented and monitored the effectiveness of the establishment of improved cost accounting processes and practices to ensure delivery of efficiencies in accordance to GAAP standards and Confidential policies, practices and procedures.
• Identified process improvements and incorporated new accounting practices and controls.
• Implemented KPI’s for 9 locations and published them daily to the management.
• Completed inventory accounting, cost accounting and gross margin analysis.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Controller

Responsibilities:

• Setup procedures for analyzing financial information for Manufacturing, Product and Test Engineering groups.
• Worked with management to develop budget, analyze budget to actual variances and investigate unusual activity.
• Increased EBITDA by 7 points.
• Productivity and efficiency of the company increased by 20%.
• Improved working capital by negotiating terms and contracts with vendors & reduce purchase costs by $484,000 in < 2 years.
• Set procedures for WIP (work in progress) and job costing and project accounting and also performed ABC costing.
• Used POC (Percentage of Completion) on recognizing revenue for large projects.

Confidential, Temple, TX

Cost Accounting Manager

Responsibilities:

• Published Controllable Expense Analysis for all departments, comparing spending to budget, forecasts, and prior year.
• Completed analysis on monthly statistics and published reports that contained statistics including OTD (on-time delivery), DSO (Days Sales Outstanding), DPO (Days Payable Outstanding), customer satisfaction, and inventory turns.
• Worked closely with product and process engineers to establish standardized bills of materials and routers to simplify the costing system and ensure cost and inventory accuracy.
• Liaison between Confidential and ERCOT during Noodles implementation. Initiated and implemented SOX compliance for the plant and the division.
• Identify cost reduction and efficiency opportunities while worked with production area managers.
• Worked in the development of forecasting and budgeting of operating budget for the business.

Confidential, TN

Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Used lean manufacturing principles to improve processes and work procedures in support of Rapid Continuous Improvement (RCI) programs.
• Received training in Apollo Root Cause Failure Analysis Investigations in case of production stoppage.
• Participated in several SOX audits and ISO (9001:2008 and 14001:2004) audits for the location. Liaison between EPA and Confidential regarding Air Permit Title V and was also OSHA coordinator.
• Managed operations and ensured quality control of water supply, storage, distribution and purification activities.
• Managed accountability for scheduling and dispatching petroleum products through pipelines and other distribution facilities.
• Negotiated contracts with local Afghan vendors and transportation drivers for providing fuel supply to Bagram Airfield.
• Provided technical support during deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan for proper logistics movement.
• Accountable for reports and billing information to the Defense of Energy Support Center via the Fuel Automated System.
• Managed DOD contracts for fuel, water, waste water, mortuary services, food rations, transportation and supplies.