Operations Accounting / Administrator

To be in a position to learn and experience new ideas. Able to share ideas that will benifit the company.

EXPERIENCE:
Oct 2009 – Current Robert Half Management Resources – Contract Consultant
• Financial Analyst
• Review, evaluate, develop and implement internal controls for client’s purchasing, receiving, inventory and accounts payable processes
• Calculate earned value, analysis and forecast of cost for client’s programs
Mar 2005-Sept 2009 Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. – Operation Administrator (Consultant)
• Area Operation Administrator – Manager of shore base office and staff
• Supervised daily accounting and prepared monthly accounting reports
• Coordinate foreign immigrations and customs for company personnel and OFE
• Coordinate company civil affairs with local agencies and government agencies
• Shore based - Doha, Qatar; Sharjah, UAE; Cairo, Egypt; Tripoli, Libya
• Administrator Major Capital Projects – Manager of cost and staff for major capital upgrades
• Analysis of upgrades cost (capital expenditures $500,000,000 annually)
• Identifying cost drivers to projects
• Tracking cost drivers and activity; reconciliation of cost to G/L
• Prepared bi-weekly cost reports for upper management
• Supervised onsite personnel at various locations (approximately 4 ongoing projects simultaneously)
• Satellite Locations - Port Arthur, TX; Brownsville, TX, Mobile, AL; Pascagoula, MS; Corpus Christie, TX, Brazil and UAE
1996-Feb 2005 Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. - Administration Manager–Domestic Operations
• Cost accounting for capital and major expenditures $750,000,000 annually
• Prepare annual budget for Domestic Operations department
• Coordinate authorization for expenditures for department mangers
• Forecast actual cost expenditures to budget and report to department head
• Facilitate company administration and accounting policies for offshore Domestic Operations department
• Engaged in special projects for department head
• Facilitate company administration and accounting policies for major capital projects
• Prepare a written capital project cost accounting report for upper management’s review
• Forecast capital cost expenditures and report to upper management
• Reconciliation of G/L accounts

EDUCATION:
Abilene Christian University – Abilene, TX
• B.B.S. Accounting, Magna Cum Laude