Sales Manager

Location:

San Leandro, CA

Posted:

October 30, 2012

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Darla Orr

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

Address: **** ********* **** **.**

City: San Leandro

State: CA

Zip: 94579

Country: USA

Phone: 209-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $90,000

Willing to Relocate

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Job History / Details:

DARLA R. ORR

2100 Lewelling Blvd, #14-209-***-****

San Leandro, CA 94579 *********@********.***

Experienced Accountant with 10 years in private industry and 15 years as a CPA with 2 mid-sized accounting firms. Excellent supervisory and management skills. Gained a variety of experience with different industries and software while on interim controller assignments or trouble shooting assignments. Extensive experience training staff at former CPA firms; proficient in Timberline, QuickBooks, Prosystems FX and Creative Accounting Solutions, BNA depreciation software, Excel, Word, Outlook as well as several Apple products. Currently completing on-line classes to reactive CA CPA License

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Controller for Anderson Homes, Lodi, CA Jan 2009 Dec 2010

Home Builders and Real Estate Developers - California, Arizona, Hawaii

Responsible for all aspects of accounting for monthly, quarterly and annual reporting for 16 separate entities; reported to CFO, owner, banks, other investors and loan holders as necessary; worked closely with former CPA firm to prepare and streamline annual GAAP audits, reviews and compilations of corporate, partnership, Personal Financial Statements and annual tax returns.

Consultant/Accountant, Stockton and Lodi, CA May 2006 - Dec 2008

Assisted former CPA firm during busy season on a 1099 basis as needed; performed bookkeeping and other necessary tasks for former audit and tax clients and a local pension consultant; worked cherry seasons (7 days a week, 14-16 hour days for 10-14 weeks) for a grower/packer/shipper of California cherries; prepared invoices, inventory schedules, various daily worksheets and customs documents for international and domestic cherry sales, worked closely with Japanese buyers, air freight forwarders, trucking companies and Department of Agriculture Inspectors; assisted the controller at Anderson Homes during later half of 2008 for 10-14 hours a week before taking over as the controller at the behest of former CPA firm.

Audit Manager, CPA for Bowman Company, LLP, Stockton, CA Jan 1995 - Apr 2006

Managed audit supervisors and staff accountants performing audits, reviews, compilations and preparing GAAP financial statements and annual tax returns for clients in the construction, manufacturing, agricultural, educational and medical industries; presented client financial statements to Boards of Directors, Boards of Trustees and other members of management and answered questions on both a formal and informal basis; trained new staff and worked closely with partners to plan and supervise their growth in the firm; testified and assisted with court cases and fraud audits as necessary; assigned to client offices as temporary controller during emergencies such as a hostile takeover, maternity leave, surgery, or embezzlement investigations and assisted clients with software changes.

Darla R. Orr

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Senior Accountant, CPA for Kueckelhan, Crutcher Sons, Seattle, WAJan 1991 - Dec 1994

Performed audits, reviews and compilations and prepared tax returns for clients in the construction, fishing, architectural and nonprofit industries; assisted the recruiting team in area events and with interviewing and hiring of new staff.

Auditor/Cashier Assistant Supervisor/Sales staff, Grand Canyon National, AZJun 1988 - Oct 1994 (summers only after starting with first CPA firm in 1991)

Managed the cashiers and performed daily audits for the 5 restaurants and cafeterias on the South Rim for a lodging concessionaire; worked as sales staff in backpacking shop of a separate concessionaire.

Accounts Payable/Assistant Bookkeeper, Food Products International, Seattle, WA 1986 - 1988

Issued vendor checks, maintained A/P and assisted Controller with other functions as necessary; automated the accounting system from a manual double ledger system; negotiated letters of credit with international banks; arranged ocean freight and prepared the necessary documentation.

EDUCATION/LICENSING

1995 Licensed CPA in the Sate of California

1992 Licensed CPA in the State of Washington

1990 Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (Accounting), Cum Laude

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

1984 Associate of Arts, Cottey College, Nevada, Missouri

1982 Lake Roosevelt High School, Coulee Dam, Washington

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REFERENCES

Heidi Terrill, Administrator

Anderson Homes