GARY ROWE

• After school tutoring to elementary and middle school students in all academic subjects. Assisted children in achieving better understanding of specific subject material.

• Business management, financial management, and customer support of IT programs for F-35 aircraft development and F/A-18 aircraft production.
• Complex financial process and systems environment to support varied customers, including internal Integrated Systems business unit, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Department of Defense.
• Advanced paperless work environment with multiple financial operating systems, including Hyperion Essbase, SAP, MPM, MS Project, various MS Access databases, various web-based applications, and in-house accounting and purchasing applications.
• Transitioned to SAP and other company-wide "one-source" software applications.
• Enhanced "earned value management system" of financial planning and reporting.

• Managed expenditures for a $300+ million I.S. Dept. annual budget. Supervised contractor assistants. Continuous management and coordination of financial activities of IT operation outsourced to IBM staff of 600+ people.
• Collaborated to plan and build overall I.S. Dept. annual budget. Monitored and controlled costs of 200+ IT projects per year against budget.
• Contributed to navigation of highly successful departmental budget performance, fully utilizing and not exceeding $300+ million annual budget.
• Financial and strategic consultant to manager on a variety of finance, strategic planning, and complex ad-hoc issues. Delivered financial oversight and advice to project managers.
• Departmental liaison for work with auditors, consultants, customers, vendors, and numerous Nissan financial departments.
• Responsible for I.S. Dept. accounting process. Supervisor and management approver of journal entries and accruals.
• Primary approver of IBM invoices totaling $12 to $20 million per month.
• Coordinated and implemented process improvements, and managed process change in a complex and dynamic environment.
• Established consolidated financial reporting and forecasting of I.S. costs of North American affiliate companies.
• Reengineered North American I.S. cost center organization to align with global I.S. financial structure, and to increase budget accountability of local managers.
• Built allocation models to derive affiliate chargeback revenue.
• Collaborated in planning and oversight of MS Access database. Utilized completed database and advanced Excel applications to improve operational efficiency of project cost management, SAP journal entries, and financial reporting.
• Member of SAP global consolidation project team. Worked with Ernst & Young consultants to transition project financial reporting from SAP internal orders to SAP project module and "WBS elements." Designed specifications for SAP project module to fully accommodate project reporting, rather than just capital reporting.
• Advanced Excel analysis involving automated data matching of vehicle receipt and billing files, SAP data retrieval, and AS 400 file transfers and conversions.

• Performed all day-to-day and month-end close accounting operations for parent holding company of 12 departments with $460 million in assets and $10 million in annual expenses. Collaborated in financial consolidation of 23 North American subsidiaries with over $1 billion annual revenue.
• Prepared various departmental expense budgets, and Hyperion Retrieve balance sheet and cash flow. Compiled and consolidated departmental data for quarterly forecasts and semiannual budget.
• Single-handedly developed and implemented Hyperion Enterprise budget application. Successfully transferred company budget operations from Excel spreadsheets to a shared-network Hyperion application.
• Tested and implemented Hyperion Enterprise consolidation application. Collaborated in Hyperion consolidation of quarterly financial results, semiannual budgets, and quarterly forecasts.
• Advised and supported personnel from subsidiary companies in their efforts to load and transfer financial and budget results to the Hyperion consolidation application, including hands-on formal classroom instruction.

Ordnance Administration Officer, Weapons Officer, Damage Control Assistant, and collateral assignments including: Command Duty Officer, Welfare and Recreation Officer and Fund Custodian, other various custodial positions, various auditing positions, and many others

• Third in charge of 95 U.S. military and 130 Japanese workers, with (capacity for) 48,700 tons of ammunition.
• Managed 13 highly-trained technicians, directly accountable for $10 million of equipment and 50 tons of ammunition.
• Directed 19 Engineering Dept. personnel full time, cross-departmental leadership of 85 people.
• Rotational 24-hour command of 250 person ship and 50 duty personnel, responsible for all after-hour ship operations.
• Daily public speaking in several capacities, frequent interdepartmental negotiations for manpower and equipment, management of multiple cross-functional teams.
• Southwest Asia Service Medal for Operation Desert Shield, secret security clearance, honorable discharge.