TR Brummels *** South ***th Street

402-***-**** Elkhorn, NE 68022

abl647@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Business Executive with over 15 years successful senior management track record of

meeting profit driven goals with fiscal responsibility while working with Executive

Management, Investors, and Owners in achieving organizational strategic goals.

Core Competencies

• Energetic, team-centered, result-orientated

• Excellent background in strategic planning and business planning for start

ups, small, medium and large companies

• Creative in business analysis, collaborative business development

opportunities, growth strategies and implementation

• Strong emphasis in detailed financial modeling, analysis, forward thinking

projections, cash flow projections

• Competent in Market analysis and research including market penetration

plans

• Efficient project management skills with a focus on organizing, developing,

communicating, implementing, managing and measuring business directives

• Effective communication skills

Experience

Edgewater Company

Consultant in Financial Management, Business Development & Business

Analysis

(1997 – 2007 & 2009 to Present)

Responsibility:

Execution of contractual opportunities in Business Development, Business

Analysis, Financial Analysis and Market Analysis Strategies for clients, including

various startup projects, small and mid range companies. Assisted in Business

Development growth strategies and implementation for business-to-business

relationships increasing sales of up to 10%, and over $30 million dollars in total,

for various companies. Provided financial modeling and analysis, special project

financial analysis working with investment bankers and commercial lenders on

projects up to $500 million dollars. Provided consulting management for

business analysis on long-term IT projects implementations and reporting

strategies. Project management services on selective projects. Industry

experience includes renewable fuels development, commercial & multimillion

dollar residential construction projects, large scale integrated data centers for

redundant mirror imaging of secure data, digital imaging / printing companies,

franchises and working with owners, investors, investment bankers, lawyers, and

bankers on small business mergers, accusations and turnaround situation

advising.

Accomplishments:

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• Working as a consultant on the commercialization of $300 million sugarcane

cellulosic ethanol and biomass power project with gasification 2009 to present

• Provide support for financial / business terms and modeling for customer

contracts and partnerships

• Financial evaluation and analysis for new product and business development

initiatives for growth including market analysis.

• Worked on franchise investment and role out for 5 retail locations in Midwest,

including commercial banking assistance for over $1.5 million dollars 2009

• Worked on three $100 million dollar Greenfield corn ethanol projects from

2003 – 2007

• Participated in the successful financing of one corn ethanol project with

owner/developers, including investors and institutional financing 2003 -2005

• Assisted in the negotiations and sale of one corn ethanol project to a large

international agribusiness 2005

• Developed for many companies detailed financial modeling / forward

projecting financial modeling and analysis, cash flow projections and budgets,

annual business plan financial modeling, market analysis including integrated

market modeling for development sites, planning for infrastructure

requirements, and reviewing institutional financial requirements.

• Strong emphasis on cash flow modeling, institutional loan renewals and new

business lines of credits.

• Worked with business owners, investors, financial institutions, federal, state

and local governing bodies on infrastructure development and tax incentives,

analyzing technologies, and reviewing risk management on project site

development.

• Performed Business Analysis services for clients customers insuring accurate

and prompt reporting guidelines for IT development of various software

related projects

• Capital Assessment – Investment Matrix / Risk Analysis

• Project Finance

• Various consulting positions included B2B review and development,

contractual reviews, restructuring opportunities, and evaluation of acquisition

opportunities.

California Ethanol & Power, LLC

Vice President Finance (June 2007 – July 2009)

A Greenfield project development company having the goal to develop, finance,

build and operate three $500 million dollar sugarcane to ethanol facilities co-

located and integrated with 50MWhr biomass power generation facilities in the

Imperial Valley of California.

Responsibilities:

Complete Financial Management oversight, including the strategic financial

modeling for each project financing campaign, construction cash flow

management and operation cash flow projections for bringing each project on

line. Working relationship with Management Committee (the working Board of

Directors) on all development expenses, variances, and financial reporting.

Selecting and working with a large public accounting firm on year-end audits

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and tax returns. Co-labored with the COO, CTO on the project design build

contract, reviewing technologies ensuring accurate costing and cost effective

value engineering ensuring overall budget constraints.

Accomplishments:

• Management and Leadership of the finance team, tracking and reporting of

financial performance of the company and operating divisions while

maintaining internal control policies and accounting procedures

• Created detailed financial models of each project, the corporate holding

company financial model, and an agricultural growing and harvesting model

with growing cost projections and analysis. All models include multiple

sensitivities for analysis.

• Created financial presentations for institutional investors on project financing

and equity investors on investment opportunities.

• Modeled financial investment returns for both before and after tax basis.

• Developed a working relationship with seed capital investors.

• Developed business collaborative relationships for opportunities with respect

to environmental assets evolving into potential revenue opportunities and

respective agreements.

• Participated with executive team on the development of various business

initiatives, negotiations on the Ethanol Off-take and Power Purchase

Agreements, modeling financial cost assumptions, including contractual

negotiations and legal council contractual reviews.

• Participated with the COO, CTO on the project design build contracts and

associated costs.

Advance Business Sciences, Inc

Executive Vice President / Board of Directors (1993 - 1997)

An early development stage company with a patent pending integration of the

combined technologies of GPS, GIS, wireless communication and data pack

transmissions with custom integrated software for individual tracking and

monitoring.

Responsibilities:

Complete management oversight of the Company’s strategic business

development markets, Business Analysis for entire software development and

reporting to new customers and overall financial management.

Accomplishments:

• Became a member of Board of Directors in 1995.

• Promoted to the Executive Vice President in1995.

• Hired as the Controller, promoted to Vice President Finance in 1994.

• As VP of Finance successfully implemented of all financial reporting,

accounting policies and procedures and selected CPA firms for audits and

year-end tax work. Hired replacement when promoted.

• Developed company strategic market strategies and successfully implemented

market strategies through synergistic business alliances, garnering revenue

increases from $1 million to $12 million per year and from one-year service

agreements to five-year service agreements.

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• Successful Business Analysis and implementation of software development

group and software support team in conjunction with market strategies and

market demands for user friendly GIS mapping and tracking real time on

window based electronic devises.

• Assisted in securing $8 million in private equity financing working with

corporate legal council on Private Placement Memorandum.

• Worked with outside corporate legal council in creating and implementing

five-year risk adverse service agreements.

Education

1984 - Bachelor of Science Business Administration from the University of

Nebraska with a double major in Finance / Economics and a minor in accounting.

References

Available upon Request

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