Quality Assurance Manager

Thomas Derderian

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Flat Rock, MI 48134

Phone Number: 734-***-****

Email Address: *********@*****.***

Education

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Detroit, MI

BSBA Accounting

Experience

September 2007 Dawn Food Products, Inc.

To May 2010 Douglasville, GA

PLANT CONTROLLER

. Managed General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Logistics,

Purchasing, Inventory Control and Shipping/Receiving for

privately held bakery with $90 million in annual sales

. Worked with Plant Manager to reduce factory overhead

from $1.3 million per month to $1.0 million per month

. Responsible for weekly forecasting, month end close,

preparation of monthly financial statements and

explanations of financial results

. Responsible for preparation and submittal of annual

budget

. Responsible for all Cost Accounting functions, including

New Product Costings

. Performed several special projects as requested

. Active member of Quality Assurance Committee and Plant

Safety Committee

February 2000 Unistrut Corporation

To September 2007 Wayne, MI

PLANT CONTROLLER

. Managed General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Payroll

Departments for manufacturer of metal framing products

with $100 million in annual sales.

. Responsible for monthly accounting close, preparation

and submittal of monthly financial statements and

financial package, including Profit and Loss, Balance

Sheet, Cash Flow, productivity measures, and monthly

EBIT forecasts. Responsible for complete monthly

reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts. Also

responsible for preparation and presentation of annual

financial budget.

. Worked with Plant Manager over a two-year period to

reduce the plant from three buildings with 400 employees

to one building with 125 employees, reducing overhead by

a third and the facility footprint by over 150,000

square feet. Simultaneously, we increased inventory

control and reduced days-to-ship, safety and injury

rates, factory defect rates and rates for scrap

generation and reclamation.

. Brought Financial Reporting, Purchasing, Accounts

Payable, Manufacturing and Inventory Control into

compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. Re-costed the standards

on over 16,000 part numbers, and conducted an intensive

audit of General Accounting, Accounts Payable and

Purchasing, Property Plant and Equipment and Inventory

and Material control. Perform standard re-costing and

internal audits on an annual basis. Defended the Company

in an intensive, four-week, corporate audit and received

a 99.5% satisfactory rate.

. Completed several cost analyses and several successful

cost-reduction projects, including make-or-buy projects,

renegotiation of vendor contracts, staffing and

compensation issues, and liquidation of excess and

obsolete plant assets and inventories.

. Conducted a complete inventory of the Company s fixed

assets. A fixed-asset inventory had not been conducted

at the facility since 1986. Reconciled 90% of cost of

the 1,200 assets in the ledger. Wrote down over $1

million in non-present or obsolete assets, reducing the

Company s annual Personal Property Tax burden by $40K

per year.

. Acted as the financial representative for the management

team in negotiation of two labor union contracts.

. Assumed the duties of Quality Manager in 2002. Merged

the Accounting Department and the Quality Department,

reducing headcount from seven to five. Performed a

complete internal audit, revised the Quality Assurance

Manual and the Quality Procedures Manual, defended the

Company in two external Nuclear-related customer audits,

and conducted five complete vendor audits in two years.

. Member of the Executive Safety Committee and the Pension

Committee

November 1997 Unilever Corporation

To February 2000 Plymouth, MI

SENIOR COST ANALYST

. Responsible for maintenance of standard costing system

. Assisted Controller in monthly accounting closing

procedure

. Conducted monthly cost variance studies and

investigation of all significant variances.

. Responsible for preparation of customer quotes

. Prepared various analyses pertaining to supply chain and

launch of new products.

November 1995 TKE, Inc

To November 1997 Farmington Hills, MI

SENIOR COST ACCOUNTANT

. Managed accounting department including general ledger,

payables and receivables.

. Maintained general ledger and generated monthly

financial statements and forecasts.

. Prepared annual budgeted financial statements.

. Represented the Company in several external audits.

. Assisted the Vice President of Finance in liquidation of

the company assets upon closure of the business.

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