Objective
Multidisciplined, down-in-the-trenches Leader, Team Builder and Business Developer, a finance pro with proven skills in managing operations and empowering sales teams.
Background of delivering bold and visionary Financial and Operational Leadership, extensive Big 4 Accounting and Manufacturing experience, insight and decision-making support to Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors and management teams.
Strategic Business Planning | Financial Reporting | HR Oversight | Logistics & Warehousing | IT Management | Legal Oversight | Regulatory Compliance | Health, Safety, Environment | Negotiations & Contracts | Board Memberships
Experience
Expertise
-Financial and Operational Leadership. Initiated productive working relationships with investors and banking institutions, as well as customers and suppliers. Developed improvements in business processes and operating systems. Well-skilled understanding of the interrelationship of various organizational departments.
-Financial Reporting. Enhanced financial reporting content and processes to provide end users more useful, consistent and timely information.
-IT. Implemented new hardware, CRM and ERP systems, ERP/SAP system migrations and integrations, backup and contingency plans.
-HR. Involvement with personnel policy, hiring practices, compliance, training, handbook development, and creation of a more expansive dual review process that promotes employee openness and continued development.
-Legal/regulatory. Experienced working with attorneys regarding patents and intellectual property, employment law, DEP/ DEM / EPA / OSHA matters, as well as with various state and local boards and agencies
-Health, Safety, Environmental. Involved with the development of safety programs and policies, investigating workplace injuries, working with outside consultants on waste removal, air quality, and related issues and reporting.
-Contracts. Keen understanding of the finer points of contracting, with refined skills in negotiating and executing multimillion-dollar contracts. Extensive work as point person on key defense contracts assuring all manner
Career History
GLOBE COMPOSITE SOLUTIONS, LTD. 2008 to present
Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer
SOLUOL, INC. (formerly Soluol Chemical Co., Inc. 1997 to 2008 Chief Financial Officer / Treasurer
FREEDOM YACHTS, INC. 1995 to 1997
Chief Financial Officer / Treasurer
CARLIN, CHARRON & ROSEN (formerly Suls, Westgate & Parente)1987 to 1995 Senior Manager
EARLIER POSITIONS
Senior Manager, ERNST & YOUNG
Education
BS, Business Administration (Accounting), Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
Certification
-Key role in the successful turnaround of a manufacturing firm during severe financial crisis, making significant impact to the deteriorated financial and operational health of the business (Globe)
-Achieved a significantly higher run rate in growing sales from $5M to $9M in one year (2008-09), climbing to $14M by 2011
-Thrust into all facets of operations, production, logistics, etc., and established critical vendor trust
-Personally worked with suppliers to secure needed materials which allowed Globe's president to intensify personal sales and marketing efforts
-Reestablished credibility with bank soon after coming on board, devising a realistic new projections for 2009-2011 that proved on target and close to budget parameters
-Provided a much safer work environment after receiving heavy OSHA fines, with a superior work force and new production manager
-Instrumental role in key contracts and pricing including a major capital project for USPS, Defense industry submarines, and consistently error-free government audits
-Orchestrated the complete chemical company relocation, including site identification, financing, retrofit, start-up, and transition, closing / sale of old facility, working with real estate agents, bankers, contractors and government officials, and dealing effectively with EPA regulatory matters
-Successfully designed a new, safer and more efficient chemical manufacturing facility from scratch . Subsequently designed and relocated machining and warehousing operation
-Promoted after six months of hire from CFO to COO of specialty manufacturer providing global services to a wide range of industries including military and defense
-Oversaw the complete organizational restructuring including recruitment of several key mid-management personnel
-Revamped existing SH&E program
-Established a second manufacturing / warehousing facility
-Key role in securing the two largest contracts in firm’s history
-CFO of a specialty chemical manufacturer completing a variety of projects
-Implementation of a new enterprise software system
-Establishment of a standard costing system
-Acquisition of a key business unit
-Relocation of company’s operating facility: orchestrated entire relocation from site selection and planning to contractor management and site start-up, and bank financing
-Executed ultimate sale of company in 2008 to DSM, a multinational life & material sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands.
Skils
• A finely tuned business sense and the highest standards integrity, ethics and morals.
• A driving force in building or expanding businesses, working closely with company leadership in engineering major business expansions, as well as the seamless relocation and shutdown of chemical plants.
• Achieved the highest operating efficiency and effectiveness and maximizing stakeholder value across the board.
• Served in key roles in both senior management and advisory capacities to Boards, while continuing to tour the front lines to see operations in process and maintaining contact with staff as part of their team.
• Broad exposure to zoning boards, contractors and local governments.
• Founding and longstanding member, Board of Directors, and Treasurer of the Rhode Island Manufacturers Association.
• Former member of RI Society of CPAs / AICPA
• Former Chairman / Member of Board of Directors of the RI Multiple Sclerosis Society
• Service on the Budget Board for the Town of Lincoln (1997-2005) and appointment to the Lincoln School Facilities Task Force (2004)
• Parish Auditor, St. Ambrose Church