VeriFone Finance is the leasing unit of the VeriFone division, the leading worldwide manufacturer and marketer of transaction automation computer systems and software. VeriFone Finance did $50M/year in new business.

IT Manager, Unit Information Officer

Responsible for

• All software
• Desktops
• Servers
• Networks (LAN, WAN)
• Telephone system
• Security

• Department Goals / Objectives
• Capital Projections
• Budget Accountability
• Staff supervision, mentoring, motivation, and coaching, performance evalutations
• Interview, hire and build team
• Educate management, make recommendations, help define company objectives
• Develop alliances with vendors, customers and peers.

• New Business Acquisition
• Tracking of Lease / Rental Portfolios
• Sales
• Inventory
• Repair
• General accounting
• Receivables
• Payables
• Tax

• Coordinate IT, Accounting, vendor
• Research, acquire and implement GL, AR, AP, Shipping, and Order Entry.

Major Accomplishments

• By focusing the staff on long term goals, Covey's Quad II, we reduced staff through attrition by 30% while the business doubled.
• We developed the systems to run a new business, Petroleum Capital, which increased business by $30M per year.
• Developing a web based order entry system increased sales of used equipment by 20% or $80K per month.
• Automating the manual accounting processes allowed for the increases in business without increasing accounting staff proportionately, resulting in a net profit increase of $60K per month.

Environment
HP-UX, UNIX, Linux, ORACLE, MS SQLserver, Novell, Windows 95/98/NT, NT server, Platinum, LeasePlus, PTMS, Vertex, HTML, Javascript, Perl.