Stephen R. Wilson

105 Seabreeze Lane • N. San Francisco, California 94465

H 408.555.8038 C 488.555.2163

srwilson33@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE

Chief Financial Officer

SUMMARY

Seasoned Chief Financial Officer strong in optimizing organizations to achieve maximum growth and market share that's produced growth or savings of over $80 Million for my employers over the past ten years.

KEYWORD COMPETENCIES

Financial Development

Performance and productivity improvement • Systems Development & Management • Reporting • Cash Management • Cost Accounting / General Ledger • Payroll Control • Inventory Analysis and Control Internal Accounting Controls • SEC Reporting • Big 5 Auditing Process Assistance Consolidated Financial Statement Development • Valuation Leadership • Organizational Fiscal Turnaround • HR • Tax & SEC Filings • Multi-State Sales Tax Filings.

Operations Leadership

Problem-solving/decision making • team-building • Manufacturing, Supply Chain, & Quality Management • Inventory • Warehouse & Distribution • Sales & Marketing • Purchasing • Distribution • Production & Process Reorganization • Business Unit Reorganization • MIS • Tech Support • B-2-B.

Computer Competencies

Mainframe, Windows & Macintosh Environments • Excel • QuickBooks • Word • PowerPoint • SAP • Oracle • Hyperion Pillar • PeopleSoft • DDMS • Visual Manufacturing • Platinum • MAS90 • ASK ManMan • Maxim • Promis • Novell Netware • NetLedger AccPac • Great Plains • PeachTree • SBT • E-Commerce Development and Administration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chief Financial Officer                                                                                                                       2006 - PRESENT

Bayline Construction, Inc., San Jose, CA

Provide effective leadership for this firm with four operations throughout Northern California, and $100M in annual sales. Work in close concert with senior executives and key personnel across the company.

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

● Found $1.1M of billable orders that were never billed to customers by installing a sales order system used in effectively managing multi-million dollar contracts.

● Created savings of $5M on loss locations and customers by discovering which customers and locations were profitable. This reduced work-in-progress inventory levels from  $20M to $10M with just in time shipments by implementing a Job Costing and Work-In-Progress System.

● Improved A/R collection cycle from an average of 75 DSO to current 35 DSO by reengineering billing process resulting in elimination of costly errors and higher billing accuracy.

● Reduced monthly financial statements preparation from 60 days to 5 days by successfully combining separate non-integrated financial systems at 4 locations into 1 integrated system.

● Obtained new financing supporting rapid growth at all locations by taking a leading role in company expansion efforts, utilized negotiating and relationship.

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Chief Financial Officer                                                                                                                          2003 - 2006

Imatex Microsystems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

Analyze and re-focus this company's business, operational, and financial direction.

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

● Helped sales grow from $16M to $36M by reengineering all aspects of company processes and management model to an Enterprise-wide online ASP system.

● Saved $3M in cancelled advertising sources by sourcing, installing, and integrating automated CRM systems capturing all sales leads and sources to eliminate low producing lead sources.

● Saved $750K in low lead advertising rates in first year of systems implementation.

●  Enabled company to secure required outside financing allowing a dramatic growth into international markets by compiling, analyzing, correcting, and rebooking 5 years of historical financial statements. Supervised the execution of a successful first-ever pubic accounting audit.

Chief Financial Officer                                                                                                                             1999 - 2003

Alta Machines, Inc., San Jose, CA

Responsible for all development initiatives from inception to final service delivery, budgeting and cost accounting, payroll & taxation for this privately held high-tech equipment design and manufacturing firm.

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

●  Secured company's first ten customers by replacing OEM parts with company-made parts, sales $0-10M in first 18 months.

● Created next $10M of sales by developing new product lines where our in-house parts replaced slower OEM parts increasing our customer's fabrication throughput.

● Gained the last $5M of revenues by outsourcing large customer's world-wide fragmented training programs with our unified programs.

● Worked closely with client engineering and process managers to identify and incorporate required specifications to save clients significant operational cash flow through ability to outsource resources and capabilities.

CEO - Parent / CFO - Four Divisions                                                                                                     1997 - 1999

The Apex Group, L.L.C., Fremont, CA

Introduce methodologies, improve systems and manage new product development initiatives for this high-tech infrastructure development & manufacturing firm of 200 employees and $50M annual sales.

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

● Acquired two companies adding $15M worth of increased sales revenues. Led and directed acquisition activities, including analyzing acquisition target's financial health, process and operational infrastructure, benefits and insurance programs and existing client base.

● Secured $20,000,000 credit base through acquisition strategy development and acquired two international companies to leverage existing technological resources and intellectual properties into higher net profits. Both acquisition companies were then used to build the parent company's products reducing cost of goods sold by 25% in first year after acquisition.

● Repackaged acquired companies for subsequent sale to large domestic public companies. Renegotiated all contracts, analyzed and authored strategic plans, oversaw process from inception through completion; transferred key product lines to offshore foundries operating in Korea and Pacific Rim. Sold acquired companies for 150% purchase price, profit of $10M.

Previous positions include:

VP, Finance & Operations, Metatech Computer Products, Inc., 1995 - 1997

Chief Financial Officer - EVOX, Inc. & Subsidiaries, 1992 - 1995

Controller - Accumen Ltd., 1990 - 1992

World-Wide Cost Accounting Manager - Eltronix, Inc., 1988 - 1990

Senior Cost Accountant - FG&R, Inc., 1986 - 1987

Cost Accountant - Ultratech Stepper, 1983 - 1986

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

B.S., Accounting, 1984, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California

Passed all 5 parts of CPA Examination, 1987