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Name Confidential
Phone
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Chief Technology Officer
Gamon International, Inc.
Elk Grove Village, IL 600
(Point-of-Purchase Display)

Vice President Sales, NA
AFCON Control and Automation
Schaumburg, IL
(Process Control Software)

Regional Sales Manager
GigaTrend, Inc.
Carlsbad, CA
(DAT Storage Devices)

Key Accomplishments Orchestrated a new customer service profit center for P-O-P manufacturer. Utilized Activity Based Costs (ABC) to develope the operation within the budget. Result: Year 1 achieved $1.6MM in Gp and in the next three years generated $13.2MM GP.

Established a satellite manufacturing location for international customer. Result: Increased total profit margin from 22% to 45%. Net Profit on project of $980,000 was $430,000. Lowered client’s cost by $220,000 on project.

Designed premium confectionary P-O-P display. Proposed modifications while maintaining the brand identity. Result: Generated $4.2MM in sales over three years and a gross profit of $1.9MM while improving customer sales to sustain a 10% annual growth.

Opened international markets in Canada, Mexico, Central and South America. Result: Developed sales representation throughout the hemisphere and grew sales from $0 to $1.2MM in first year.
Education / Skills Arizona State University, Engineering Sciences, one year study
University of Arizona, Engineering Physics, three years study
University of Arizona, Nuclear Engineering, one year study


Name Robert
Phone 708-494-2461
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $101K - $125K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? No
Recent Positions Controller
Weinstein Wholesale Meats Inc
Forest Park, Il
(Wholesale meat distributo)

CFO
Faip North America Inc
Elk Grove, Il
(Pressure washers and hose)

Controller
Gordon Kapes Inc
Skokie, Il
(Telecomm & audio control )

Key Accomplishments • Managed $5M to $10M A/R portfolio. Held A/R over 21 days to 8.5% and over 30 days to 1%. Achieved DSO of 18.25 days. • Formalized credit application process and performed credit research and analysis to approve set up of new customers and assign credit limits. Approved sales orders outside prescribed credit thresholds. • Established and managed credit hold function; instituted credit insurance over portfolio; enhanced credit management systems features to control A/R and restrict sales outside established parameters.

• Converted GL from Peachtree to in-house ERP system. Created company’s first ever monthly financial statements. Reduced monthly closing time to 11 days. • Created reporting of borrowing base, covenant reporting, and credit reporting. Converted payroll to online reporting. • Automated loan borrowing transactions and had bank assign us to dedicated customer service. • Held shrink on $5M inventory to under $10k. • Slashed A/R write offs from $350k in 2010 to $0 in 6 months

• Key team member that implemented 2 systems conversions to MAS 500 for 2 entities. • Selected and implemented new banking relationships. Reduced line of credit borrowing from $9M to under $5M. Implemented spending controls. Managed multiple bank audits. • Reduced inventory levels from $18M to $9M. Eliminated need for leased warehousing space. • Developed business plan for acquisition. Performed due diligence reviews of acquisition targets. Led acquisition financial integration

• Launched finished goods inventory count program resulting in 25% improvement in inventory record accuracy. Reduced inventory shrink loss 30%. Improved inventory record accuracy to 90% from under 30% via improving inventory part number, bill of materials, and production work order processes. Directed inventory planning team. • Reduced time to take physical inventory counts for 2 main businesses by 33% saving $10k. • Designed daily one-page summary report that informed customer service of future production dates and quantities enabling accur
Education / Skills masters project management from Keller BBA accounting from Loyola Green belt six sigma




Name Anthony
Phone 815.529.6333
Email Click here to email me!
Salary $76K - $100K
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Project Manager
Communications Test Design Inc.
Elgin, Illinois
(Eng./Logistics/Service)

Project Administrator
Motorola
2200 Galvin Dr.
(Telecom Eng/Design)

Business Analyst
Motorola
Schaumburg, IL
(Telecom Eng/Design)

Key Accomplishments Provide leadership and support in a fast paced, highly automated distribution center averaging consistent 99.7% same day ship metrics with average daily activity of 21,000 lines totaling over 1M pieces.

Coordinated the activities of multiple disciplines to ensure successful launch of new products, (i.e. Canopy, Astro/Stingray, Waris, XTL), with revenue impacts of more than $50 million each.

Managed globally-dispersed project team to integrate multi-million dollar Wireless broadband product platform into Motorola business model and into distribution center resulting in $30 million revenue enhancement.

Led project to reestablish domestic manufacturing process for previously offshore-manufactured products; initiative enabled company to participate in new General Services Administration (GSA) sales channel and enhance revenue $2 million.
Education / Skills Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, Chicago Deming Assoc., 2009 PMP Certification - Project Mgmt Inst., 2009
MBA - Webster University, St Louis, MO, 2009 B.S. Business(Finance & Mgmt) - Columbia College of Missouri, 2007
Project Mgmt Certificate - George Washington Univ., 2004
A.A.S. in Industrial Engineering - Mchenry Cty College, 1992

Name Charles
Phone 847-486-8220
Email Click here to email me!
Salary Negotiable
State Illinois
Willing to Relocation? Yes
Recent Positions Assoc VP
Infor
Greater Chicago
(Applications Software)

CIO / Vice President - IT
EKCO Group
Greater Chicago
(Consumer Products )

Corp IS Manager
Baxter Healthcare
Greater Chicago
(Healthcare Products)

Key Accomplishments Extended the ERP systems, and increased software sales by designing and leading development teams building Java-based, web-enabled supply chain management applications (SCM, SRM, and CRM)

Drove profitable growth by expanding ERP with enhancements to better support the changing requirements of the business, including: Customer Service Level Reporting, Outbound Logistics Management and Tracking, and CRM Data Warehouse applications.

Decreased overhead by 8% and increased sales volume by implementing eCommerce with 100 trading partners using 12 different EDI documents. Created a Vendor-Managed Inventory system and Shipping Label Tracking to support major retailers’ requirements

Increased labor productivity by 20%, and improved the accuracy of both inventory and shipment contents to above 99%. Led the automation of the finished-goods warehouses with a RF-based warehouse management system (WMS).
Education / Skills BME, Cum Laude, University of Louisville CPIM – AOM / APICS MPM – AAPM / IPMC Lean - Six Sigma Green Belt IT Leader
Problem Solver Strategic IT Planning Business Process ReEngineering Project Management eCommerce EDI Logistics CRM
Applications Development Leader ERP Enterprise Resource Planning Manufacturing Systems Warehouse Management Systems W
Supply Chain Planning Computer Operations Budget Management, Infrastructure Management Staff Development Acquisitio

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

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