WORK EXPERIENCE

OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC, Tampa, FL June 2008 - March 2010

Senior Treasury Manager
* Manage and maintaining treasury operation strategies and controls aspects and
implement procedures to improve treasury and cash management operations
o Reporting to the Vice-President and Treasurer - manage letter of credit facili
ty, other financial instruments and short term investments.
o Manage payment systems administration including developing policies and proced
ures to ensure internal controls and optimum cash management.
o Established framework and maintained on-going review of the implementation and
administration of debt and management reporting, including covenant calculation
s and compliance;
o Manage department of five reports consisting of Treasury Manager, two accounta
nts and Purchasing Card Administrators
* Other Responsibilities/Experience
o Project management
o Assist in forecasting and reporting responsibilities for capital spending.
o Policy and Procedure Implementation, Risk management and cash management respo
nsibilities
o Developed RFP for $4B merchant services program
o Developed and led RFP project to transition property, casualty and liability i
nsurance coverage
o Established $20M/yr. purchasing card (PCard) program
o Multiple Cost Saving Initiatives
Illinois Tool Works, Inc, Glenview IL February 2005 - May 2008
Supervisor, Treasury Operations
* Supervise aspects and implement procedures to improve treasury and cash manage
ment operations
o Reporting to the Vice-President and Treasurer - direct, manage and monitor a $
1.4B pension portfolio (funding, rebalancing, disbursements)
o Work in conjunction with other departments in performing financial due diligen
ce on acquisitions, mergers and divestitures
o Develop and maintain operating guidelines for banking services across 4 banks
and 400+ accounts;
* Treasury Liaison for outside service providers
o Manage company wide (+250 accounts, $80M Revenue) credit card acceptance/proce
ssing program
o Manage $89M Foreign and Domestic Letter of Credit Facility
* Other Responsibilities/Experience
o Project management
o Short-term/Long-term borrowing and investment (fixed income/bond/commercial pa
per and equity products)
o Develop and implement periodic budget and forecasting reports to executive and
senior management
o Manage and direct monthly intercompany payments
o Serve as backup to cash management supervisor.
o Manage access to treasury banking systems for all corporate and business unit
level personnel
o Supervise and assist with the scheduling of treasury personnel work load
o FAS 133, SOX Compliance, Policy and Procedure Implementation, Risk management
Illinois Tool Works, Inc, Glenview IL June 2000 - February 2005
Senior Treasury Analyst
* Responsibilities
o Daily cash management activities (Funding and Liquidity management)
o Monthly bank pricing and cost analysis
o Manage $1.1M bank relationship
o Price negotiation for letter of credit and cash management banks
o Served as liaison for business units on all treasury compliance-related issues
(FX, Treasury Policies, Funds Transfer (foreign and domestic), and Account Acti
vation)
Plastic Engineered Components, Lincolnshire IL October 1998 - June 2000
Assistant Accountant
* Responsibilities
o Produce monthly sales analysis
o Daily cash management activities
o Supervise the accounts payable for 8 divisions
o Assisted with journal entries, GL posting and month-end closings
o Maintained inter-company balances and generated reports to determine daily cas
h balance and cash forecasts
o Coordinate, create and initiate presentations for audit compliance meetings
Fort James Corporation, Deerfield, IL October 1997 - June 1998
Cash Management Assistant
* Responsibilities
o Responsible for electronic general ledger postings and journal entries Daily c
ash management activities
o Responsible for daily balance of cashbooks and wire transfers Assisted with jo
urnal entries, GL posting and month-end closings
o Processed payment of payroll, vendor invoices, and employees' insurance paymen
ts
o Determined borrowing and payment of revolving credit facility
Inn-Room Systems, Inc, Schiller Park, IL (Formerly Wheeling, IL) March 1996 - Se
ptember 1997
Accounting Assistant
* Responsibilities
o Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivables processing
o Purchasing and negotiation
o Account statement and report processing
o Month -end closing activities
o Reconcile general ledger accounts on a monthly basis
o Bank reconciliation
EDUCATION
Colorado Technical University , Colorado Springs, CO May 2007
Bachelor of Science Business,
Minors in Finance and Project Management
Phillips Business College, Chicago IL April 1992
Associates Degree - Accounting,
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Treasury Professional, CTP (formerly CCM) June 2002
Certificate in Project Planning August 2006
Certificate in Human Resource Development May 2006
MEMBERSHIPS
Association of Financial Professionals June 2002
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
o Established $50M company-wide purchasing card program netting a $4M annual sav
ings
o Reduced fees on and redesigned structure of merchant services program negotiat
ing shorter contract term and saving $8M annually in fees.
o Re-negotiated structure of Letter of Credit facilities obtaining favorable ter
ms, reduced fees, improved cash management and client servicing. - 7bp/annual sa
vings on $90M Letter of Credit Facility (ITW)
o Launched company wide (+200 locations) credit card processing program utilizin
g web based applications, negotiated contract terms and established new relation
ships thereby saving company $100K annually and streamlining credit card accepta
nce procedures. (ITW)
o Introduced cash-efficient disbursement procedures and policies, reducing month
ly account excess by $3 Million in the area of defined benefit/pension managemen
t.(ITW)
o Assisted in developing company fraud reduction procedures in the areas of pape
r and electronic disbursements and credit card processing. (ITW)
Computer Skills:
Application Knowledge: Microsoft Suite including: Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Ex
pression Web, Project, Publisher and Word.
Systems Knowledge: Multiple Treasury Workstations, Database Systems Management,
Systems Development, Computer Information Systems