Experience

Optimum Business Services

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• BUISINESS SERVICES AND TAXES

  • May 2022 - Present

  Illinois, United States

• Owner

  • 2009 - Present

  Greater Chicago Area We concentrate and work only with small business owners to provide tax advice. Our firm specializes in helping your business maximize profits and pay the least amount of taxes legally possible.



Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc.

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Sep 2009 - Present

  Berwyn, Illinois, United States

• ceo

  • 2009 - 2015



OPTIMUM TAX CONSULTANTS & OTHER ENTERPRISES, INC

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Sep 2009 - Sep 2009

  Berwyn, Cicero, North Riverside, Hillside, Northlake, Oakbrook and Villa Park IL Financial Services Bookkeeping and Tax Services to individuals, entrepreneurs and small-medium sized companies, IRS tax debt resolution assistance, ITIN center and family insurance. Credit Resolution Specialists - Individual Credit improvement - Credit Counseling and Business Credit Management



Kraft Foods Group

• Audit

  • Jan 2007 - Dec 2008

  Reporting to the Vice President Audit and Senior Director North America Audits. Reduced operating expenses and audit execution time saving millions of dollars



Kraft Foods

• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Compliance Officer

  • Jan 2001 - Dec 2006

  Developed Kraft's first global compliance program ensuring company policies, procedures and standards were in full alignment with Sarbanes-Oxley and other key regulatory requirements including US antitrust laws,, European Community Competition laws and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Rolled out Kraft’s US employee hotline system globally by working with 120 country managers to convince local union groups including all European works councils to accept system with no legal recourse.… Show more Developed Kraft's first global compliance program ensuring company policies, procedures and standards were in full alignment with Sarbanes-Oxley and other key regulatory requirements including US antitrust laws,, European Community Competition laws and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Rolled out Kraft’s US employee hotline system globally by working with 120 country managers to convince local union groups including all European works councils to accept system with no legal recourse. Developed global employee compliance awareness which was translated into 29 languages for more than 50,000 employees. Show less



Kraft Foods International

• Director of Internal Controls

  • 1991 - 2001

  Identified and eliminated $200 million in fraudulent activities. Improved the internal control environment through the utilization of auditing and fraud prevention techniques to identify poor accounting and management practices and then eliminating them through the implementation of strong internal control procedures.



Altria

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Audit Manager - Latin America Region

  • Aug 1982 - Dec 1991

  Identified management fraud scheme totaling several million dollars which led to significant improvements in management reporting and accounting practices. First to integrate systems audits with financial and operational audits achieving a 20% reduction of field audit work. .