CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Senior Vice-President of Financial Systems at Citigroup with significant exposure to major financial systems. Have demonstrated a talent for managing and leveraging the power of the private and public sectors through networking and relationship building. Have excelled and demonstrated expertise in presenting data, recommendations, and issues to senior officials from the private and public arenas. Have demonstrated strong leadership skills with the ability to empower staff managers to successfully manage major restructuring and turnaround initiatives. Proven ability to supply cost containment measures and implement high-profile corporate systems. Successfully demonstrated ability to lead as a strategic, results-driven professional with proven ability to create new organizations, spearhead change, and conceptualize and execute innovative, sustainable initiatives.

Highlights of skill sets:

• Staff Structuring and Relocations: Have demonstrated ability to build staffs from ground up. Have built financial staffs in major corporations, including Time, Inc. and Citigroup. Consolidated financial processing into one ledger system for Time, Inc. Corporation, moving Financial IT support from New York to Tampa. Relocated System support staff for A/P, Fixed Assets, General Ledger and Expense Management from New York to Tampa for Citigroup. These relocations reduced combined operating expenses for Time, Inc. and Citigroup by more than 20 million dollars.
• Ability to Manage Strategic Corporate Systems: Currently serves as Sr. Vice-President of North America Financial Processing for Citigroup. The Group’s ledger systems process and house over 70% of all ledger transactions. These applications process over 200 million transactions per month.
• Cost Containment Specialist: While at Citigroup lead initiative to reduce General Ledger operating costs. Lead effort to migrate applications to more cost efficient platforms and reduced redundant processes by 7.5 million dollars over a 5-year period.
• High-Profile Corporate Implementations: In less than 3 months implemented Consolidated General Ledger System for current employer. This process was required to consolidate 12 US banking charters to 4. This consolidation streamlined capital requirements and freed 3.2 Billion Dollars in reserve capital.
• Recognized for Excellence in Field: Have received numerous awards for dedicated service to employer. The awards include: Citigroup’s - Dazzle award (2000 and 2001); Time Customer Employee of the Quarter – 4th Quarter/1993, 3rd Quarter/1994, and 1st Quarter/1992: Cap Gemini America – Southeast Employee of the Quarter.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager/Senior Vice-President – Financial Systems
Confidential,
Tampa, FL

Currently supports the largest financial support group within the corporate structure, with a 40 million dollar budget. Have assembled and built this organization from the ground up. The group is responsible for support of over 70% of all General Ledger transactions. My organization manages the daily bank close, provides month-end regulatory reporting, supports Bank reconciliations, provides back-end support for billing systems, generates MIS reporting, and supports Accounts Payable and Fixed Assets Applications.

• Supports Financial Applications across diverse platforms including, Server, Mid-Range and Mainframe environments. Supports Peoplesoft, Oracle, Infor (Geac) and custom software applications.
• Relocated staff of 22 Financial IT support individuals from New York to Tampa. This contributed in a $14 million reduction in operating expenses.
• Reduced cycle time processing that shorten the month-end close schedule by 1 day and reduced processing costs by 20%.
• Responsible for build of Consumer front-end Web Process that allows more efficient use of DB2 queries. This process reduced operating costs by $600,000 annually.
• Managed numerous conversions of financial systems, acquired via acquisitions, integrating them into the Citigroup mainframe and server based environments.
• Received Citigroup’s Dazzle Award, in 4th quarter 2000 and 2nd quarter 2001.

Project Manager
Confidential,
Tampa, FL

Responsible for relocation of Financial IT support staff for Time, Inc from New York to Tampa. Built strong local organization that reduced IT support costs by 6 million dollars. Financial IT team consisted of 20 individuals support Accounts Payable. Purchasing, General Ledger, Billing and Fixed Assets applications.

• Consolidated Time Inc’s financials to one area under one platform and software package. Consolidation represented annual savings of over $500,000 in software costs.
• Managed successful Y2K program converting all of Time Inc’s financial systems, encompassing 9 major world-wide divisions.
• Reduced production downtime by 90% using new quality and development procedures.
• Received Time Customer Service Employee of the Quarter Award in 4th Quarter 1993, 3rd Quarter 1994, and 1st Quarter 1996.

Director of Financial Software Support
Confidential,
Tampa, FL

Headed Financial Software Practice Group for Southeast region. Major customers included Coca Cola, May Company, and Disney. Lead group of 9 individuals in implementing software packages

• Managed new practice group to focus on installations of financial software in southeast region. Corporation revenues increased dramatically with establishment of group.
• Award Southeast Employee of Year for 1st Quarter 1992

Project Manager
Confidential,
Bradenton, FL

Managed staff of 12 individuals in support of MRP and Financial systems. Headed conversion of systems from Burroughs to IBM. Responsible for installing Geac E-series applications, (Accounts Payable, and Financial Controller). Lead team in implementation of M-series applications (Payroll and General Ledger). Responsible for implementation of AMAPS (Bill of Materials and Cost Accounting modules).

• Managed selection and implementation of Geac Financial Package to on-time delivery.
• Reduced software downtime from 50% to less than 1%.
• Slashed manual processes by 60% with installation of new software packages.
• Lead IBM conversion team that lead to retirement of Burroughs, reducing annual operating costs by $750,000.

Project Leader
Confidential,
New Orleans, LA

Initially joined Middle South Utilities as Consultant on 1 year assignment as head of Deferred Tax development. As employee managed staff of 52 employees in the development of a 10 million dollar Property Accounting System (PAMS). Installed PAMS software in 5 Operating Companies located in 3 states. Headed development of Deferred Tax System. Played key role in formation of Middle South’s Software Marketing Division, Electec, which sold PAMS software. Through the efforts of Electec, the Pams initial 10 million dollar investment was recouped within 2 years.

• Developed complex reunitization process which allowed Middle South Utilities to annually capitalize 5.5 million dollars in additional charges associated with facility construction.
• Transitioned corporation to employ reusable object oriented programming modules for applications development slashing time-to-delivery by 50%
• Successfully deployed Custom Deferred Tax module to 5 operating companies, 8 months ahead of schedule. This reduced project projected cost by $450,000.

Programmer/Analyst
Confidential,
Pittsburgh, PA

Served as lead financial programmer at P&LE R.R. Responsible for design, programming and implementations of Payroll, Tax Depreciation, and Billing, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, General Ledger and Accounts Receivable applications.

• Within 9 months of graduation became primary programmer/analyst for Tax Depreciation and Payroll systems.

Education
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B.S. - Business Administration
Major – Management
Minor - Accounting

Associate Degree
Major – Computer Science