EXPERIENCE:

Senior Cost Accountant. WireCo Worldgroup - Kansas City, MO (7/07 to 3/10)

* Set cost standards; maintain item master, bill of material, and machine routin
gs for cost rolls.
* Investigate, analyze and report on manufacturing cost variances for material,
labor, and batches.
* Analyze and summarize PPV, inventory adjustments, margins, absorption, and pro
duct mix.
* Interface with plant management in development of the annual budget and machin
e OH rates.
* Develop US and international costs estimates involving currency and metric con
versions.
* Participate in implementation of new JDE ERP integrated manufacturing system.

Sales/Financial Analyst. American Italian Pasta Company - Excelsior Springs, MO

(8/96 - 10/03)
* Support Directors of Business Development and Exec VP of Sales by developing a
nd maintaining customer profit & loss statements for existing and targeted custo
mers, analyzing current and proposed pricing changes and preparing new bids for
profit optimization and cost reduction.
* Prepare and maintain sales volume, price, and cost forecasts.
* Help develop, coordinate input, and maintain cost parameters for the annual an
d quarterly budgets.
* Perform audit analyses of industry product lines and benchmark AIPC pricing to
industry standards.
* Input volume and cost data, and retrieve production, cost, and profit reports
from Hyperion database.
* Work closely with operations personnel in scheduling, inventory, packaging, an
d purchasing.
o Senior Engineer. Shell Oil Company - New Orleans, LA and Traverse City, MI (6
/79 to 2/91)
* Held progressively more responsible positions in production, reservoir, and pe
trophysical engineering.
* Performed surveillance of oil and gas wells to assure they were producing at t
he optimum rate at the least cost, and designed completion equipment and procedu
res to attain these goals.
* Economically justified work, specified equipment, and wrote field procedures f
or offshore rig foremen for use in completing new wells and performing remedial
action on existing wells to optimize production.
* Led teams that performed field studies and economic analysis for field redevel
opment drilling.
* Prepared reserve estimates, production forecasts, and performed project coordi
nation and supervision.
o Temporary Accountant . Various Clients. (1/96 to 8/96)
* Cargill: accounts payable clerk, Comcast: inventory analyst, Sprint PCS: billi
ng analyst, and Missouri Housing Development Commission: general ledger. Howard
Attwood, CPA: Individual and trust taxes.

EDUCATION:
University of Missouri at Rolla - 8/03 to 5/07 (Missouri S&T) Master of Science
 degree in Engineering Management -- Finance.
Central Missouri State University - Warrensburg - 1/93 to 5/95 (UCM). Bachelor
of Science degree in Business Administration -- Accounting. Cum Laude
University of Missouri at Rolla - 8/75 to 5/79 (Missouri S&T) Bachelor of Scienc
e degree in Geological Engineering. Cum Laude