Manager Accounting

Howard E. Ingram, Jr. (Tad)

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Ruston, Louisiana 71270

Home Phone (318) 255 - 3978 Cell Phone (318) 278 - 3911

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Experience:

South Arkansas Regional Health Center – El Dorado, Arkansas

Chief Financial Officer Mill July 2010 - Current

Responsibilities include Accounting, Purchasing, Data Processing, and Facilities Management for a community mental health center. I supervise fifteen employees. I have successfully reduced outstanding receivables by $250,000 and streamlined the accounts receivable process. Program managers are being coached to improve to improve their financial knowledge. Revising the budget process to improve financial information to managers and allow for increased departmental accountability. Also, I am working with the senior management team to strengthen the short and long range plans for the organization.

Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation - Hodge, Louisiana 1989 – March 2010

Mill Controller- February 1995 to March 2010

Major areas of responsibility included Accounting, Purchasing, Data Processing, Administration, Energy Procurement, and Storeroom. I supervised twenty-six employees – sixteen salaried and ten hourly. Also, I participated in daily production meeting and weekend duty manager for Mill Operations on a rotating basis.

• Reduced salaried headcount by four during this time through increased efficiencies.

• Achieved the best internal audit score in the history of Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation in September 2009.

• Assisted in negotiations and implemented a time if use electricity contract that saved in excess of a million dollars per year.

• Conceived and developed a new costing model that generated more accurate costs by paper machine, product line, and by grade.

• Purchased blocks of electricity when advantageous. Savings typically in excess of $100,000 per year.

• Improved the performance of the Accounting Department employees through improving their job knowledge, more detailed review of work, and better system of account reconciliations.

• Cost reduction has been a way of life at the Hodge Mill. We have saved from $2 - $5 million per year for the past several years.

• A Recovery Boiler had to be taken down for 45 days to replace the floor tubes. In addition, the marketing department required the mill to produce a heavyweight grade mix during that period. As a result, the mill was going to be pulp limited, steam limited, and recovery limited. A plan was developed with the GM, Acting Production Manager, and me to maximize production during the outage. The plan called for purchasing and using substantially more recycle fiber and reject rolls. Also, arrangements were made for required liquor swaps, and changes were made to the feedwater heaters to improve their efficiency. The plan required the efforts and cooperation of the entire mill in order to be successful. The plan worked very well in that difficult time and the mill was able to produce 14,500 tons above the budget.

• Reduced storeroom inventory by $1,600,000.

• Developed and installed a raw material receiving system. This system automatically calculates payments to material vendors and freight companies, vouchers those amounts into the accounts payable system, and generates the invoices for the vendor. Invoices are not received from the vendors. This system saved a tremendous amount of manpower and improved the efficiency and accuracy of payments. In addition, the flow of information to operating departments was greatly enhanced.

Assistant Purchasing Agent – July 1993 to February 1995

Responsibilities included purchasing storeroom inventory and bulk chemicals. Also monitored recycle fiber purchases, usage, and inventory levels.

Manager of Financial Analysis – August 1989 to July 1993

Responsibilities included cost accounting, financial analysis, inventory control, Production and Operating Budgets, Forecasting, and Reporting. I supervised from three to ten employees.

United Gas Pipe Line Company - Houston, Texas 1982 - 1989

Accounting Coordinator/ Supervising Accountant/ Accountant

Obtained a wide variety of experience that included assignments in:

General Accounting

Budgets and Forecasting

Accounts Payable

Accounts Receivable and

Gas Purchase Accounting

Holiday Inns, Inc. - Memphis, Tennessee

Internal Auditor 1979-1982

Responsibilities included internal audit assignments of various Corporate Departments and Holiday Inn Properties. This position required extensive domestic travel as well as international travel.

Education:

University of Florida - B.S. Degree in Accounting 1977

University of Mississippi - M.B.A. Degree in Accounting 1979

Northeast Louisiana University - Associates Degree in Pulp and Papermaking Technology 1991

Certifications:

CPA Certificate - Louisiana

Personal:

Married

Three Children

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