Management Manager

RONALD R. BROWN

**** **** ***** **** **** Phone: (203)

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E-mail : ****@*******.*** Stamford, CT 06903 Cell Phone: (203)

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PROFILE

Formerly licensed Real Estate agent and current Real Estate Administrative

Assistant with access to CMLS.

Highly goal-oriented financial and operations professional with extensive

and diversified property management experience coupled with corporate

finance, business planning and budgeting, controllership, treasury

operations, and risk management. Possess a strong reputation for

instituting needed cost controls and reporting documentation, and for

managing the annual budgeting and strategic planning processes. Trained in

Total Quality Management and particularly adept at creating process and

financial metrics and benchmarking. Dependable, collaborative team player

and skilled motivator with supervisory experience.

EXPERIENCE

30 WEST AVENUE, LLC.

2009 - Present

Property Manager, Rental Agent

Responsible for managing the operations of a 22 unit low to moderate income

housing project located in South Norwalk, CT financed partially with LIHTC

tax credits associated with CHFA. Duties included:

. Market and lease all available rental units.

. Supervision of contractors responsible for daily/weekly maintenance of

property grounds including seasonal landscaping.

. Assuring that all units meet required local and State housing

authority occupancy codes.

. Maintain vendor relations and perform vendor reviews to assure that

all necessary repairs to units were performed on a timely and cost

effect basis.

. Collection of all tenant rents on a timely basis in accordance with

lease stipulations

. Maintenance of all common areas including laundry facilities.

. Assignment of parking spaces and policing of same to assure compliance

with property complex rules.

. Supervise and assure that unit vacancies are expeditiously refurbished

and made suitable for rental on a cost effective basis. Average

vacancy rate is between 1% and 2% with open units on the market 30

days or less.

. Personally perform move in /move out inspections

. Administer all paper work and reporting associated with new tenant

leases and local town CAO requirements and Section 8 guidelines.

. Insure that Landlord / Tenant communications are maintained.

. Process all local, state and federal reporting requirements, both

financial and statistical, associated with low to moderate-income

housing, CHFA and anti-discrimination laws.

. Maintain financial records for the complex in compliance with

Generally Accepted Accounting Practices for processing for tax

purposes by an independent accountant.

UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH, CT 2012

- 2014

Director of Finance and Administration

Responsible for all aspects of financial and operational management

including financial reporting, A/R and A/P, cash management, facilities

management, vendor relations, IT, banking and investment management

relations, human resources, risk management, budget and annual audit.

AMERICAN RED CROSS - GREENWICH CHAPTER, Greenwich, CT

2003 - 2011

National and international non-profit humanitarian relief and disaster

planning and preparedness organization

Community Chapter Finance Director - Metro New York Region COE

2010 - 2011

Manage all financial and operations planning and accounting at chapters

located in Greenwich, CT and Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk counties in

New York State.

Interim CEO - Greenwich Chapter

2010 - 2011

Oversight of all Chapter activities including disaster preparedness, staff

and volunteer training, disaster supplies logistics and warehouse

management, Health & Safety programs, fund raising and event planning,

strategic planning.

Director of Finance and Administration (Chief Financial and Administrative

Officer) 2005 - 2010

Manage finance, administrative and facility operations including cash and

investment management, AP/AR,

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payroll/benefits management, risk management, capital improvements and

project management, the annual budget process, capital budgeting and

strategic planning and annual audit with outside accountants.

. Introduced automation to budget process virtually eliminating clerical

errors and reducing overall budget cycle by 25%.

. Initiated periodic vendor review process to renegotiate contracts to

control costs. Savings between 15%-20%.

. Managed introduction of e-commerce capability, including vendor

selection, and on-line payment processing to Chapter website as a vehicle

to increase retail sales, donor contributions and reduce processing

costs.

GREENWICH ASSOCIATES, Greenwich, CT 1997 - 2002

A privately held $60 million research based strategic consulting firm to

the global institutional financial services industry.

Manager, Business Planning and Analysis 1999 - 2002

Reporting to the COO, selected to bring discipline to the financial

planning, analysis and reporting function and provide financial analysis

and support across the firm including monthly management reporting. Member

of firm's Total Quality Management (TQM) council providing leadership in

process improvements and cost control.

. Coordinated the firm-wide annual budget and profit planning process,

including overseas offices, drawing together over 140 separate worldwide

revenue and cost forecasts in numerous currencies.

. Developed program profitability management reporting package creating

product line P&L's and actions leading to revenue improvement and cost

reduction. Overall program costs as percent of revenue reduced by 5%

while maintaining or improving product quality.

. Developed and launched firm's first CRM system tracking critical client

information, sales history, real time sales revenue and management

reporting. Reduced invoicing errors from 20% to below 5%.

Product Manager, Stockbrokerage Sector 1997-1999

Hired to lead a team of 10 research associates responsible for execution

and delivery of 12 global research programs annually with responsibility

for coordination of fielding, data collection and tabulation, production

and cost control

. Prepared and managed the sector's annual revenue and expense budgets.

. Successfully brought two new research programs to market contributing

$800K of revenue and achieving first year profitability.

. Devised and implemented system for monthly program revenue and cost

reporting as a management tool.

. Maintained high team morale and lowest attrition rate of any product

sector in the firm.

SMITH CORONA, INC., New Canaan, CT 1993 - 1997

A $200 million marketer of home and small office equipment including

typewriters and word processors.

Manager, Budgets, Financial Planning and Analysis

PITNEY BOWES, INC., Stamford, CT 1983 - 1993

Product Manager, Meter Systems; Manager, Market Development for Small

Business Markets; Senior Business and Financial Planner - Mailing Systems

AMAX, INC., Greenwich, CT 1975 - 1983

A Fortune 200 worldwide natural resource company.

Assistant Division Controller, Coordinator of Profit Planning, Assistant

Manager of Cash Forecasting, Financial Analyst, Staff Auditor.

EDUCATION

MBA, Corporate Financial Management, Boston College, 1975

BA, Cum Laude Boston College, 1973

AWARDS/ACTIVITIES/LICENSES

American Red Cross Tiffany Award for Employee Excellence - 2008

Outstanding Volunteer, United Way of Stamford, CT - 1993

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, QuickBooks

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