JOEL C. STOKES, CPA
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Focus of Interest: Accounting Finance Program Management
QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE
Dynamic, hardworking, and detail-oriented professional, with broad-based experience in accounting and finance, program coordination, strategic planning, business operations, and people development. Demonstrates solid commitment in providing management services, establishing lifelong client relationships, and obtaining continuous career advancement. Resourceful and hands-on leader with strong analytical skills and outstanding communication, presentation, problem-solving, and technical aptitudes. Known for work ethic and unsurpassed dedication to consistently produce remarkable results within all fields of endeavor.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
- Successfully passed all sections of the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) examination at the first attempt.
- Handpicked by the management to execute and control the corporate charge card travel advances program, as well as eliminate various petty cash accounts across the IBM Austin site.
- Significantly contributed to IBM’s regionalization of the Ledger in Endicott, New York and the nationalization in Raleigh, North Carolina by leading the IBM Austin Team.
- Drove a manufacturing overhead spending analysis that resulted in a 30% annual reduction.
- Progressively led the financial transition and growth of the IBM Electronic Card Assembly and Test (ECAT) plant from an IBM cost center to a Solectron profit center.
- Instituted the ex-IBM plant by handling the preparation and measurement of the first 2 quarterly hard calls; consequently accomplishing revenue, profit, and employee variable compensation program (VCP) objectives.
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
- Won the IBM development server card prototype builds previously fabricated by local vendors at Raleigh, North Carolina, USA and Greenock, Scotland.
- Oversaw the teams which transferred HP Business Desktop repair operations from Malaysia and Indonesia, and Lucent Router repair operations from North Andover, Massachusetts, USA.
- Implemented and spearheaded the worldwide corporate account scorecard process.
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IMPACTS
- Received the following awards and recognition at IBM:
- Management Excellence Award, for outstanding dedication to work and management expertise
- Two (2) Ideas Program Awards totaling $8K, for successfully designing and implementing a program which provided significant airfare travel expense savings for the company
- Obtained the “Controls Were Very Good” rating on IBM’s Corporate Travel Accounting Audit.
- Created high-performance and sustainable initiatives by integrating expertise in the technical and finance business, pioneering innovation, and honing business ideas.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Flextronics (worldwide electronics design, fabrication, assembly, and test company) Austin, TX 2007–2012
CUSTOMER SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER 2012
- Maintained constant coordination with the Program Management and Procurement personnel and key customers in providing competitive, profitable component pricing in 6 Flextronics customers’ bills of material.
- Pursued and acquired a significant inventory modifying buy down payment from a previously unresponsive customer.
PRICING PROGRAM MANAGER 2007–2012
- Established and negotiated printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) prices for the Cisco products.
- Proficiently consolidated the team's database management role with current pricing tasks in the company.
Solectron Global Services (acquired by Flextronics in 2007) Austin, TX 2001–2007
CORPORATE STAFF; SENIOR MANAGER OF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 2006–2007
- Administered the worldwide implementation and coordination of commercial claims process for 22 sites.
- Leveraged the global oversight of the company’s program management staffing, training, and support, as well as onsite training and crisis management.
- Assumed multi-national accountability for the accounts receivable’s troubleshooting and resolution initiatives.
SENIOR MANAGER OF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND MATERIALS 2001–2006
- Oversaw 6 professional program managers leading the account acquisition and networking and computer PCBA repair settings management; simultaneously oversaw the Materials organization of 4 managers and 100 headcount.
- Built and maintained professional working relationships with key customers, which included Cisco Systems, Inc., HP, Dell, Lucent, Intel Corporation, and McDATA.
- Multiplied profits and revenue over the 5-year period by proactively serving as business manager of the Computer Service and Repair Facility with 430 employees.
- Played an instrumental role in staffing and building the company’s engineering organization.
Dell, Public Services Sector (one of the largest technological corporations in the world) Round Rock, TX 1999–2000
CONTROLLER, DELL CUSTOM FACTORY INTEGRATION 1999–2000
- Positioned company for growth as reflected in rapidly delivering increase in annual revenues from $148M to $211M, as well as pushing net income from 19% to 26%.
- Spearheaded and supervised 7 results-driven financial professionals in a high-turnover field and heavy workload; consequently maintaining stable functions and full oversight.
- Facilitated the team which substantially reduced weekly revenue report production cycle time by 48 hours.
- Achieved high approval ratings on employee opinion survey.
EARLIER CAREER
Solectron (acquired by Flextronics in 2007) Austin, TX 1999
SOUTH TEXAS CONTROLLER 1999
IBM (Ranked as the 18th largest firm in the U.S. by Fortune) Austin, TX 1990–1999
ECAT (ELECTRONIC CARD ASSEMBLY AND TEST) SENIOR PLANNER/BUSINESS OFFICE LEAD 1998–1999
ECAT PROGRAM MANAGER 1995–1998
2ND LINE AND SENIOR MANAGER, ECAT FINANCE 1992–1995
SITE GENERAL ACCOUNTING MANAGER 1990–1992
EDUCATION
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN ACCOUNTING (MAGNA CUM LAUDE)
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ACCOUNTING (MAGNA CUM LAUDE)
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI
LICENSURE
Texas Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
TECHNICAL ACUMEN
Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and Access) SAP Oracle Internet Applications