Human Resources Management

Adam M. Valdez

***** ******** ***** ********: 818-***-****

Encino, California 91436 E-mail: *******@********.***

PROFILE Senior Executive

Overview - Energetic and decisive leadership with ability to guide

organizations to their fullest potential. Qualified by over 20 years in

business management with Big Four and as principal and consultant in

private ownership providing results-oriented focus on business

development, internal infrastructure, marketing, and strategic alliances.

Established history includes: (1) successfully shaping financial and

marketing strategies; (2) creating rapid growth in start-ups and mature

businesses; (3) analyzing opportunities and aggressively pursuing

competitive direction with business alliances; and (4) improving

operating efficiencies and margins.

Financial Management - Equally effective in a variety of organizational

structures includes: financial analysis, planning, profitability

analysis, P&L accountability; analysis relative to acquisitions including

business and legal analysis, due diligence, managing acquisitions; and

guidance of financial progress within internal organizations to meet

corporate objectives of target return and aversion to risk.

Value Offered - Cross-functional management strengths, consultant,

motivator and catalyst, establishing cohesive internal business cultures.

Negotiator and leader of marketing, and business development, network

development, distribution, quality programs, and operations to increase

shareholder value and business growth. Global business acumen to

integrate business potentials into cross-marketing opportunities. Bi-

lingual Spanish / English

EXPERIENCE

Paragon Consulting Group, Los Angeles, California 1994 - Current

Principal

Highlights: Founded human resources consulting firm based on my background

with audits, tax, corporate finance, and retirement plan consulting.

Develop strategic and operational plans for wide-range of businesses,

evaluating, structuring; improving operating efficiencies with general

financial/statistical analysis, cost analysis, budgeting, financing,

benefit planning, staff forecasting. - bringing solutions to small-and

large-scale issues. -Sample Contributions include:

Business Development

. Business Strategy: Identify highly specialized projects and match the

talent, systems, tools, and parameters to meet the client need.

Utilize a broad range of analysis to provide an interchangeable mix of

capabilities to bring to short and long-range objectives. Conceive,

develop, and implement strategic planning processes of organization.

. General Management: Combine operational knowledge, profit center

management with administrative balance that requires an independent

assessment of profit objectives, budgets, and client strategies. Work

closely with clients across disciplines including legal, labor

relations, human resources, business affairs, programming, finance,

technology, market, press, and more.

. Business Growth: Grew business enterprise-developed a national business

enterprise. Select and train highly specialized professional staff, and

deliver consulting services to ensure a proactive client relationship

and overall servicing to a broad spectrum of businesses.

Apply a rich understanding across disciplines of actuarial, legal,

business management, human resources - beyond the normal scope of

business expertise and delivering a broad range to the client.

. Project Synopsis: Consulting projects varying time from five month

period to twelve month+. Included, in one case, an actual physical

move from California to Virginia that involved transferring a massive

amount of information, processes, and selection of staff -accomplished

without incident.

Other projects have included, but were not limited to: historical data

cleanup and reconciliation of work history for payments made to

terminated vested participants in company's pension and 401(k) plans;

documentation of company workflow processes and conversion of

retirement plans; retiree healthcare redesign; implementation redesign

of Health and Welfare plan to new service vendors; satisfying

corrective calculations to IRS Employee Plans Closing Agreement Program

("CAP"), and a clear involvement with HR needs and servicing of

employee benefit plans and HR functions.

. Personal Business Clients: A partial representative client list

includes:

. Charles Schwab (San Francisco); Transamerica (Los Angeles;

UNOCAL Corporation (Los Angeles); Sempra Energy (San Diego);

Union Bank (Los Angeles); Fidelity Investments (Boston);

Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles); Mercer/Foster

Higgins & Company (Los Angeles);

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CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

Paragon Consulting Group, Los Angeles, California

. Personal Business Clients (Cont'd)

. Towers Perrin (California, Virginia, New Jersey, Colorado);

Franklin Templeton (Sacramento); Northern Trust (Atlanta) The

Benefits Group(Los Angeles); Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank ( Los

Angeles); Watson Wyatt Worldwide ( Los Angeles); Kraft Foods,

Inc. (Northfield, IL);

. Mellon/Price Waterhouse Coopers (Fort Lee, NJ); Wells Fargo Bank

(Los Angeles); Arthur J. Gallagher (Woodland Hills) Hewitt

Associates, LLC (Atlanta);

. EDS (Chesapeake, VA); AECOM Technology Corporation (Los

Angeles) Louis Kravitz & Associates (Encino); Zions Bank (Salt

Lake City); Experian (Orange, CA); Buck Consultants (Los

Angeles);

. T. Row Price Associate, Inc. (Owings Mills, MD); Cummins Inc.

(Indianapolis, IN).

. Staff Clients: Other firm client-examples: American Airlines, Quest,

Baxter, etc; also, represent as Third Party Administrator (TPA) to

numerous companies.

Accomplishments:

. Develop professional and administrative staff to maximize their

potential. Lead by example.

. Partner with major company/clients working closely to achieve

objectives. Negotiate and finalize professional services

agreements.

. Possess leadership, business acumen, creativity, and concern for

people.

. Utilize bi-lingual Spanish/English to interpret Human Resources

(HR) plan administration protocols for employees.

. Track procedures and improved standards identifying Best

Practices.

. Implement consistent procedures that added value to each

business enterprise and increased overall efficiencies.

. Represent company's image as a key point-of-contact. Design

service strategies for clients to maximize the potentials of the

project. Build partnering relationships and proactive approach.

. Reengineer corporate departments involving processes, employees,

systems and chart out what will make efficiencies in operations.

Offer special strength in the implementation of overall company

objectives in appropriate competitive strategy.

. Shift analytical skills to meet client needs. Assess and advise

projects involving executive level nonqualified benefit payments

ranging to $20 million+.

Oxxo Films, Los Angeles, California 1995 - Current

CEO / Principal

Highlights: Concurrently, developed Oxxo Films to raise the profile of

Spanish-language films in the United States. This production and

distribution company is currently a leader in the home video entertainment

market, television and cable. The company mission is to pioneer Spanish-

language films to the U. S. studio film entertainment market and is

recognized as a major player on both sides of the border. Company growth

includes film assets of over 450 titles.

Prior - Gained initial financial / business / consulting experience:

Manager, ABC Group (Actuarial, Benefits, and Compensation), Deloitte

and Touche, LLP,

Los Angeles, California

Consultant, A. Foster Higgins, Inc., Los Angeles, California

Senior Plan Administrator, Watson Wyatt Company, Los Angeles,

California

EDUCATION M.S., Taxation, Golden Gate University, San Francisco

B.S., Accounting/Business Administration, University of Science and

Arts of Oklahoma

Continuing Education: Over 30 hours of graduate-level business

coursework

CERTIFICATIONS CPA, State of Texas

Licensed Real Estate Agent, State of California

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