Management Real Estate

SUMMARY: Certified Senior Treasury Professional with MBA and more than 10

years of experience in all aspects of Global Treasury Operations including

Corporate Finance, Risk Management and Cash Management.

Broad based responsibility in the Corporate Finance include managing

fix/float mix, interest expense, covenant compliance, leasing programs,

intercompany funding and repatriation strategies, financial statement

reporting and SOX compliance. Expertise in Risk Management area includes

establishing foreign exchange & commodity risk management program, exposure

management, hedge execution and FAS 133 accounting. Experience in Cash

management includes forecasting cash flows, managing daily liquidity,

investment and debt management, managing RFP process and daily treasury

activity reconciliation.

EXPERIENCE

. TRW Automotive Inc., Livonia, Michigan. ($12 Billion Tier-One Global

Automotive Supplier)

Manager - Global Capital Markets May

2008 - Present

- Analyze and implement capital structure decisions such as issuing or

retiring debt (open market and 10b5-1 programs), refinancing credit

agreement with bank syndicate and issuing or repurchasing stock.

- Assisted in the issuance of convertible bonds ($225m) and senior

unsecured bonds ($250m)

o Working knowledge of offering memorandum (OM), term sheet,

pricing call, due diligence call.

- Ensure compliance with the company's credit agreement covenants,

indenture covenants and Board of Directors covenants. Propose limit

increases and/or amendments for future re-financings.

- Responsible for company's annual interest expense budget ($250m) and

five-year forecast.

- Oversee Quantum workstation daily activities including bank balance

reporting, cash reconciliation, vendor payments, customer collections

and intercompany payments.

- Optimize fix/float mix of company's debt to align with current

economic trends and long-term strategic plan.

o Executed $325 million of fixed interest rate swaps that

effectively hedge our variable rate debt.

o Executed $350 million of floating interest rate swaps that

effectively hedge fair value of our fixed rate debt.

- Estimate and propose WAAC metrics for evaluating the feasibility of

strategic proposals.

- Support purchasing department in monitoring commercial credit risk by

evaluating counter-party exposure to TRW and evaluating credit support

proposals to/from suppliers.

- Oversee global lease process to ensure competitive lease pricing,

covenant friendly lease terms and efficient end of lease management.

Oversee development of internet based global leasing tracking database

to facilitate centralized lease reporting.

- Oversee global intercompany loan portfolio to ensure compliance with

treasury, tax and legal lending requirements, monitor monthly changes

and monitor foreign exchange risk.

- Analyse, model (in Excel) and provide recommendations on various

treasury proposals including lease vs. buy, debt refinancing, bond

repurchase, government and supplier financing.

- Support tax department in devising tax efficient capital structure,

dividend policy, intercompany funding plans and capital repatriation

for foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures.

- Focus on efficiently bringing back cash from overseas operations,

minimize trapped cash in foreign jurisdictions and fund subsidiaries.

- Prepare GAAP financial statements, footnotes and MD&A related to

various treasury activities.

- Work with banking and financial institutions to meet the company's

credit and operational needs.

- Provide the professional leadership necessary to build and maintain a

"best practices" treasury department.

- Supervise, train, lead, mentor and perform annual employee evaluations

for treasury analyst.

. TRW Automotive Inc., Livonia, Michigan. ($12 Billion Tier-One Global

Automotive Supplier)

Senior Treasury Analyst - Risk Management October

2006 - May 2008

- Work with senior management to formulate a global foreign exchange and

commodity risk management policy and establish an active hedging

program to minimize P&L volatility.

- Develop Value-at-Risk models to quantify foreign exchange risk and

propose hedging strategies.

- Execute hedge strategies to mitigate price risk arising from exposure

to financial market volatilities.

o $2.5 billion FX hedging program covering North American

including Mexican Maquiladoras, European, Asia Pacific and South

American operational exposures.

o $100million strategic hedging program comprising of royalties,

interest Income and HQ charges.

o $200 million commodity hedging program covering Aluminium,

Nickel and Copper consumption.

o $20 million energy hedging program covering natural gas

consumption by North American units.

- Work with new trading partners to negotiate ISDA agreements for FX,

commodity and interest rate swaps.

- Work with Asia Pacific and South American subsidiaries to establish

local trading lines and execute in-country hedging strategies.

- Implement internet based global currency risk management database to

centralize exposure collection reporting for over 200 units worldwide.

- Execute, confirm and settle FX forwards, spots and swap transactions

with leading financial institutions.

- Implement an online FX trading and trade confirmation platform to

streamline trading and confirmation processes.

- Implement FAS133 derivative and hedge accounting by managing

designation, documentation, testing FAS133 effectiveness and mark-to-

market reporting.

- Utilize FAS 52 designation (Net Investment Hedge and Long Term

permanent) to hedge cross-border intracompany FX exposures.

- Propose FX and commodity rates to senior management for budgeting and

forecasting purposes.

- Interface daily with financial markets and remain current on economic

news and their impact to the company's economic positions.

. TRW Automotive Inc., Livonia, Michigan. ($12 Billion Tier-One Global

Automotive Supplier)

Senior Treasury Analyst - Corporate Finance

September 2004 - October 2006

- Partner with tax and accounting team to track intercompany funding,

recapitalization of loans, loan repayment, dividend distribution, and

capital repatriation to and from foreign subsidiaries.

- Work with legal department to negotiate ISDA and master lease

agreements.

- Monitor covenants for compliance with our bank credit agreement and

Board of Directors resolutions.

- Design annual and five year budgeting models to monitor and forecast

interest expense for the company.

- Manage North American leasing program and lowered leasing costs by

implementing lease bidding process, master lease agreement and end of

lease management.

- Manage letter of credit portfolio (notional $200 million) and issue

foreign and domestic L/Cs.

- Prepare footnotes and exhibits for financial statements disclosures

(10K, 10Q and other SEC filings).

- Update presentation for the Board of Directors and senior management

summarizing treasury activity.

- Research and reconcile global inter-company loans to track and

document new loan balances, work with subsidiaries to payoff existing

loans and document loans under FAS52 to minimize FX translation.

- Monitor and track fees and interest expense related to US A/R program

($250 million) and ensure that the pricing among six conduit banks is

competitive.

- Work with internal and external auditors to ensure SOX compliance.

Serve as the subject matter expert for the treasury processes and

provide guidance to internal audit.

- Develop and maintain relationship with commercial and investment bank

counterparts.

. Safeway Inc., Pleasanton, California. ($35 Billion Grocery Food Retailer)

Treasury Analyst - Cash Management November 1999

- September 2004

- Manage global treasury operations using cash concentration and wire

transfers to ensure adequate liquidity.

- Improved forecasting process to better analyze and accurately forecast

company's cash and debt balances.

- Coordinate financing strategy for the company through $200 mm CP

program and revolving credit facility.

- Manage short term investment portfolio using commercial paper and

money market instruments.

- Ensure that all international and domestic electronic funds transfers

are executed as per internal controls.

- Re-engineered domestic cash concentration and disbursement process

through automation, consolidating bank accounts, implementation of new

lock box and ZBA structure.

- Initiating and successfully completed an RFP among leading banks to

bid out cash management services.

- Achieved 20% reduction in fees by using the RFP process and

consolidating bank accounts.

- Proactively monitor bank fees using Weiland software to ensure

accuracy of bank fees.

- Work with credit card companies to implement fraud prevention and cost

reduction strategies.

- Develop and implement new treasury solutions to improve cash

collection and forecasting processes and design reports to meet

diverse and changing needs for management reporting.

- Act as Worldwide treasury liaison to regional executive management on

treasury related issues.

. Safeway Inc., Pleasanton, California. ($35 Billion Grocery Food

Retailer)

Analyst - Real Estate Accounting

November 1998 - November 1999

- Match construction invoices with contracts, process for payment and

adjust accruals as needed.

- Manage accounting databases to develop real estate expense forecast

for the company.

- Establish lease terms and rent schedules in accounting systems.

EDUCATION

. Masters in Business Administration (MBA). Santa Clara University,

December 2002.

. Bachelor of Science. Major - Finance and Accounting. University of

Nevada, Las Vegas. May 1998

. AFP Certification - Certified Treasury Professional. June 2003.

skills

. Experience with 360T, Bloomberg, FXpress FIRST, Microsoft Office, Mysis,

Quantum, Weiland.

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