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Name Edward
Phone 708-308-3977
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $126K - $150K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Credit Manager, National
US Foodservice
Rosemont, IL
(Food distributor)

Regional Credit Manager
Ryerson
Chicago, IL
(Metal Distributor)

Credit Manager
Allscripts Healthcare
Chicago, IL
(Medical technology)

Key Accomplishments Leadership: Spearheaded turnaround strategies for troubled credit departments: Strategies included creatiom of policy throughout the Credit, Collections, and Sales functions, aggressive "clean up" of receivables, risk management and customer service

Risk Management: Lead financial modeling team to construct scorecards and cash flow metrics. Models enabled analysts to assign credit lines while simultaneously reducing risk 50% faster than previous methods.

Sales: Continuously worked with sales and upper management to develop leads, maintain profitability, and strengthen existing customer relations. Negotiations with fledging business resulted in $10 million in annual sales.

Process Improvement: Worked with Sales, IT and Finance to improve the auto release rate of sales orders; improved release rate from 15% to 78% within a 6 month period.
Education / Skills MBA, Finance - Lewis University
BA, Clinical Psychology - Governors State University
Additional certification in financial analysis, customer service and credit law from Dun and Bradstreet
Computer background includes: Microsoft Office, Mac O/S, PeopleSoft, SAP, CARMS, JD Edwards and IBM AS400 software

Name Curtis
Phone 847-398-2303
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $76K - $100K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Senior Financial Analyst
Hitachi Data Systems
500 Park Blvd., Itasca,IL
(computer stoage systems)

Sales Controller
World Kitchen
Rosemont, IL
(consumer products)

Key Accomplishments Implementation of systems that define and manage customer spending and margin. Annual benefit $5 million

Standardization of forecasting and analytical methods.

Consolidation of three companies' systems into one

Education / Skills MBA Illinois Institute Of Technology
CPA - Illinois
BA Governors State University


Name Darren
Phone 847-722-8313
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Assoc.Corporate Counsel
Heartland Home Finance, Inc.
Downers Grove, IL
(Residential Finance)

Investigations Counsel
Hillard Heintze, LLC
Chicago, IL
(Sercurity Management)

Key Accomplishments Developed and managed asset recovery program recovering $2 million in residential loans.

Renewed and maintained licenses in 29 states in good standing without adverse administrative action.

Recovered $103,000 (100 cents on the dollar) from a real estate buyer with collection and litigation effort.

Negotiated the early termination and buyout of five commercial leases saving the company $150,000 in rent expense.
Education / Skills Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR 1999 Juris Doctor Environmental Law Certificate
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1993 B.A., Anthropology
Illinois State Bar Association, Member


Name Patricia
Phone 630.584.8825
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $76K - $100K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Manager Financial Report
Trans Union
Chicago, IL
(Consumer credit reporting)

Manager, Corp Operations
Trans Union
Chicago, IL
(Consumer credit reporting)

Division Finance Leader
Trans Union
Chicago, IL
(Consumer credit reporting)

Key Accomplishments * Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting combining financial and operational management to maintain profits, improve efficiencies, and reduce costs. Created annual $42 million operating budget.

* Saved $456,000 annually in equipment costs by establishing procedures to monitor hardware usage. Created cost/benefit justifications for $5 million in capital acquisitions and lease commitments annually.

* Developed process to migrate billing functions to more efficient Access database resulting in a savings of $24,000 annually in labor costs.

* Worked with Internal Audit ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley for 6,000 annual billing transactions minimizing revenue loss gaps.
Education / Skills Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, MBA, Finance and Healthcare Management
Certified Public Accountant, State of Illinois
Penn State University, University Park, PA, B.S., Business Administration, major in Accounting


Name Gary
Phone 630-624-4748
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $76K - $100K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Mngr, Bus Unit Controller
Sears
Hoffman Estates, IL
(Major Retailer)

Snr Financial Analyst 3
Experian
Schaumburg, IL
(Direct marketing services)

Senior Accountant
Rigby / Reed Elsevier PLC
Crystal Lake, IL
(Educational publishing )

Key Accomplishments Sears - Uncovered $1.5mm in mis-expensed bad debt, and recovered amount to benefit Online P&L, helping to achieve bonus targets for 2009. Corrected over accrual of inventory reserve $3mm, helping achieve bonus targets for 2010.

Sears - assisted Full-Line Marketing management in achieving / beating budgets for 2006 - 2008, while cutting $46mm of expenses over that period, a 5% runrate savings. Managed cost allocation system of Adverting expenses for 800+ full line stores.

Experian - assisted SVP & VP's of I.T. in setting $40mm annual expense budgets and $15mm in capital budgets, and achieving / beating those budgets for 8 consecutive years. Saved $2mm in runrate expense by strategically choosing purchase over lease.

Rigby - submitted monthly full P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cashflow set to U.K. corporate using Hyperion. Created a report to enable affirmed A/R collection calls, which prior had not been possible. Supervised 4 professionals over Sales/Commissions/AR.
Education / Skills Northern Illinois University, B.S. Accounting 1981 Certified Public Accountant, State of Illinois 1983
Hardware - IBM desktop / laptop 30 years, 10-key 30 years, IBM mainframes 5 years, high-speed Oce laser printers 5 years
Software- MS Excel 2007 highly skilled, MS Word 2007 skilled, MS Powerpoint skilled, Oracle Financials highly skilled,
Peoplesoft GL 5 years, essbase 5 years, Hyperion 2 years, Lawson GL 2 years, Proseries 20 years, Quickbooks 20 years.

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