Experience
Partner and Manager (1996-Present)
Cypress Consulting LLC Tucson, AZ 85739
Cypress Consulting provides administrative and financial problem solving solutions for surety companies, attorneys, contractors and architect/engineering firms. Primary services include construction claims management and surety analysis for cases involving administrative, marketing and/or operational situations within the construction/design industry. Cypress provides a contractor review program for surety companies, CPA firms and construction services buyers. Formal business and financial plans are prepared and implemented for clients. This includes a complete review of the marketing, estimating, operations and administrative procedures of the client prior to development of the business plan. Workflow analysis is used to identify and evaluate the resources of the client. Human resource needs are evaluated and blended with the workflow analysis. Company administrative startup or retrofitting services are available. Job costing controls and management information systems are designed and implemented.
Cypress, in conjunction with a national construction consulting firm, has provided forensic accounting, project oversight and insurance OCIP/CCIP program review services.
Chief Financial Officer (1975-96)
Tomlinson Hawley Patterson Inc (part of the THP Group) Trumbull, CT 06611
Complete administrative responsibility for a thirty million dollar per year general contractor/construction manager including accounting, insurance, and job cost control, equipment financing and management information reporting systems. Developed, changed and refined job costing systems to accommodate the changing work environment of both a labor intensive union general contractor and a firm offering construction management services. Established procedures and policies for subcontractor management and audit systems under varied construction management contract formats.
Chief Financial Officer (1980-96)
Fairfield Dock Company (part of the THP Group) Trumbull, CT 06611
Financial and administrative manager for a 3-4 million dollar per year marine construction services company serving clients along Long Island Sound and the lower Hudson River valley. As a self-performing marine contractor, FDC required job control systems for field labor, materials management and owned equipment utilization. Specified and monitored an extensive program of general liability and workers compensation coverage’s unique to the offshore marine construction business.
Chief Financial Officer (1987-93)
Ocean and Coastal Consultants (part of the THP Group) Trumbull, CT 06611
Complete financial and administrative management of a million dollar per year marine engineering firm. Primary controls for project cost management include hourly engineering reporting and overhead burden monitoring. Installed a program for tracking client billings versus budgets on a task assignment basis.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting University of Connecticut
Related Experience
· President, Connecticut Valley Chapter
Construction Financial Management Association
· Management Trustee on several Taft Hartley trust funds
· Chairman, Board of Finance Town of Oxford, CT
· Member, American Arbitration Association
· President, Associated General Contractors of Connecticut
