Has had extensive strategic oversight and day-to-day financial and operational responsibilities in a vast array of businesses. (Listed in alphabetical order.)
A.C. Vromans Bookstores (Pasadena, CA) Retail Bookstore (multiple locations)
- Accounts Payable Manager
- Hands on support for Accounts Receivable & Sales Reporting
- Systems Management
10% Productions (Hollywood, CA) Wholesale, Retail and Direct Consumer Products
- Chief Financial Officer & General Manager
- Took company from $100K in sales to $2 million
- Oversaw the acquisition out of Bankruptcy of Alluvial Entertainment
- Managed merger of staff
- Integrated new product lines
- Launched Internet strategy that generates millions per year in sales today
- Developed business plan and corporate strategy to effect privately held company to evolve to investor based company
- Managed investor relations and funding of business plan
CEOS (W. Hollywood, CA) Consulting
- Founded company that provides a diverse client base with innovative corporate strategies
- Operational and financial reviews that reduce costs, improve efficiency and grow businesses
- Services include company re-engineering via finance, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, operations, technology
- Strategic business planning and implementation.
Expo Promotions, Inc. (Las Vegas, NV; San Diego, CA; Tijuana, Mexico) Promotional Products, Wholesale, Retail and Direct Consumer
- Comprehensive operational, system and financial analysis
- Strategic recommendations and implementation that yielded a $1 million benefit to the bottom line in less than 1 year
- Technology integration and oversight of database development
- Extensive financial analysis and forecasting
- Evaluation of software system integration for financial and operational efficiencies
- Technology integration of new systems that delivered a multi-million dollar savings within 1 year
Las Vegas Casino (Budapest, Hungary) Gaming
- U.S. liaison for first western style gaming institution in country
- Managed legal, financial and operational issues from U.S. perspective
- Integration with U.S. corporate parent
National Medical Enterprises, Inc. (Santa Monica, CA) Health Care
- Payroll reporting for multi-state hospital network
- Hands on design, development implementation of technology solution for tracking vacation and sick time for corporate division
- Assisted in transition to new corporate parent, Tenet Healthcare
NPA, Inc. (W Los Angeles, CA) Promotions & Marketing
- Financial & Operations analysis and strategic recommendations for 2 divisions and parent company
- Merger & Acquisition analysis on 3 separate potential targets
- Top to bottom systems analysis and design of new tracking system
- Capital valuation analysis
- Day-to-day operational and financial oversight
- Co-owner
- Effected business acquisition
- Handled all financial and operational activities for the entity, including reporting and day-to-day sales analysis, forecasts and trends
- Supervised staff
- Insured store earned and retained "A" health rating
- Vendor Management including placing all orders to insure freshness of product with appropriate availability without stockpiling
- Teamed with business broker to effect sale