Engineer Sales

Leslie Bjornnes

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

Address: ***** ***** *** **** *****

City: Dublin

State: CA

Zip: 94568

Country: USA

Phone: 510-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $50,000

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LESLIE BJORNNES

10111 Lilly Pad Lake Court Dublin, CA 510-***-**** *********@*****.***

CAREER TARGET: ACCOUNTANT

Currently Exploring Opportunities in Tax Accounting, Internal Auditing, Payroll Management, Staff Accountant, and Auditing

Highly accomplished, multi-disciplined professional with extensive experience in certain aspects of financial operations and an innate ability to improve company processes. Articulate and detailed with executive-level organization, communication and leadership skills. Proven track record in risk identification / analysis providing successful and accurate recommendations to executive level management, leading to sound business decisions and company growth.

Adept at needs analysis and taking necessary perspectives into account to exercise critical and effective decision making. Proven leader with experience in exceeding production goals, reducing waste, and increasing profitability in complex business environments. Bilingual in English and Chinese Mandarin.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Tax Return Preparer 2006 Present

FREMONT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER & LIVERMORE LIBRARY AND TRI-VALLY HOUSING OFFICE * Alameda County, CA

* A top performer who executed and prepared over 650 tax returns under IRS sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance / Tax Counseling for Elders (VITA/TCE) program with high accuracy and proficiency. .

* Conscientious educator who strives to teach and educate each and every client on how to save and keep most of their earnings, attaining VITA's main objective

* Recovered close to $200,000 of earned income tax credit refund for the clients served

* Very knowledgeable and qualified individual who often steps in to take on other duty as a tax return quality reviewer ensuring the returns are prepared accurately with no error

* A "coach-quality" tax return preparer who also serves as a mentor to Center's new tax return preparers each tax season, thus promoting the highest standards of quality tax returns coming out of the Fremont Service Center, maintaining Center's top quality producer reputation in the entire Alameda County year after year

Field Representative 2011 Present

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, REGIONAL OFFICE Seattle, WA

* Assigned to manage National Crime Victimization Survey, a complex and sensitive assignment requiring a field rep to contact selected addresse4s and collect wide gamut of crime information from respondents. Regularly completed monthly assignment on time and as accurately as Census regulation dictates

* Devised ingenious methods to reach tough to contact survey respondents or households. Obtaining information from tough to deal households members increasing Bureau's data accuracy rate

* Often lent a hand to other field reps when they encountered difficulty conversing with some certain ethics household members, increasing Bureau's data reporting rate

* A reliable and conscientious field representative who can always be entrusted to handle governmental most sensitive tasks, to be compliant with Bureau's regulation and obtain reliable data

Payroll Clerk / Crew Leader 2010 2011

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU Pleasanton, CA

* Skillfully managed and influenced 15+ field enumerators who came from tremendously diverse educational and social background and be able to elicit satisfactory and consistent survey data from them

* Crew leader had to simultaneously conduct separate field re-interviews of selected household respondents. This follow-up and recheck procedure ensured quality and accurate data were collected by the team enumerators and falsified or inaccurate data were eliminated or kept to a very minimum

* As a payroll clerk working in the Census office, I devised an efficient flow for the payroll processing tasks. Using my method, the time required to process each employee's payroll was cut down by 20% without sacrificing the accuracy rate.

* Within a month, the payroll Department Manager promoted me to the lead payroll clerk position and implemented my streamlined method in the Department. The Payroll Department was able to ramp up from processing 200 employees payroll per day in the beginning to 800 to 1200 employees' payroll per day in its peak of Census operation with ease, and with minimal addition of payroll clerks. This saved the Department 10% of the budgeted expense.

Sales Director 2007 2009

AERO PRECISION INDUSTRIES, LLC Livermore, CA

* Led a team of sales professionals, focusing on high volume business development. Assisted in cost estimation, contract preparation and final contract review including payment terms (net 60 or 90 day).

* Operated within import / Export laws and regulations. Worked closely with all foreign government negotiations. Adhered to multi-million dollar budget, profit margins, sales goals and directives. Liaison between Finance and Accounting (A/R) department.

* Successfully forged a relationship with highly sought after Taiwan HQ Air Force Commander, resulting in an extremely productive and profitable tri-lateral Basic Ordering Agreement.

* Awarded $4.9 million military aircraft spare engine business from Taiwan under extreme adversity and fierce competition.

Technical Sales Engineer 2002 - 2007

ARROW ELECTRONICS Santa Clara, CA

* Serviced accounts in assigned book of business. Worked closely with Engineering and Design of electronic components.

* Consistently exceeded product order development goals.

* Decreased production development cycle through successful cross coordination of company and suppliers engineering resources, resulting in accelerated product release.

* Developed under-penetrated accounts and untapped profit opportunities by leveraging departmental expertise and multi-lateral business relationships among suppliers, customers and production.

Project Engineering Manager 2000 - 2002

LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION Fremont, CA

* Orchestrated the Continuous Improvement Project (CIP) on Conductor Etch tool. Managed all processes within the constraints of the project cost, schedule and performance. In constant communication with Software Development, Testing, and Production to ensure streamlined development of customers requirements. Managed all inter-related directives including adherence to project scope and defined budget and schedule, which assured quality output throughout project lifecycle and ultimately increased customer satisfaction and business potential.

* Spearheaded engineering joint development program to increase wafer throughput in an advanced design / production of interferometer end point subsystem for etch chamber.

* Decreased design error and shortened development time for etch chamber parts by leading a team of engineers in the successful creation and implementation of the first company-wide detailed standards for design review.

* Previous experience includes tenure with United States Air Force as a Chief Systems Engineer, Diplomatic Liaison, Deputy Program Manager System and Avionics Engineer.

EDUCATION

* Master of Business Administration * Certificate of Accounting * Keller Graduate School of Management * CA

* Master of Science * Management Science [Operations Research] * University of Dayton * Dayton, OH

* Bachelor of Science * Electrical Engineering * California State University * Sacramento, CA

* Bachelor of Arts * Sociology / Social Work * National Taiwan University * Taipei, Taiwan

* Accounting and Finance: Managerial Use and Analysis, Applied Managerial Statistics, Managerial Accounting, Intermediate accounting I,II and III, Federal Taxes and Management Decisions, Financial Analysis, Economics, Legal, Political and Ethical Dimensions of Business

* Project Management: Advanced Program Management, Managing Quality Leadership, Organization Behavior and Project Management Systems

* GPA = 4.0/4.0 for all above courses.

CERTIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

* Technical Sales Representative Certificate (Awarded), Arrow Electronics

* Acquisition Professional in Program Mgmt., Engineering Mgmt. and Test Engineer Certificate (Awarded), U.S. Air force Defense Department

TECHNICAL SOFTWARE

Tax Software including IRS TaxWise, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint) and Microsoft Project, 10-key, Quick Books (in progress)

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