Consulting Assignments

Company and type of Engagement:
 

Wyndham International Hotels & Resorts:

  • Balance Sheet Reconciliation-Multiple Months
  • Interim Controller role: 
    • 750 Room Hotel in Texas
    • Two 250 Room Hotels in California
    • 250 Room Hotel in San Deigo, CA
    • 650 Room Hotel in Orlando, FL
  • Hired and trained a Controller at each of the above assignments. 
  • Provided training and turn-around guidelines for each property.

Destination Hotels & Resorts:

  • Converted manual vacation tracking and reporting system to an automated system.
  • Developed Labor Productivity Reporting System for large property.    
  • Provided direction and assistance with development of Unit Owner Accounting system for 450 unit property management division with multiple unit types and varying rental management agreements.
  • Assisted a major resort with a PMS conversion.

Interstate Hotels & Resorts:

  • Interim Dir of Finance assignments:
    • 1400 room property in CA.
    • Acquisition/Conversion to IHRCO for 300 room property.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts:

  • Acquisition Property Assistance
  • Disposition Property Assistance
  • Interim Controller roles:
    • 300 Room property in CA.
    • 350 Room property in CA
  • Generated over 100% flow through with implementation of labor and purchasing control system for above properties.

Le Meridien Hotels:

  • Acted as pre-opening Controller for 300 unit Condo Hotel, including developing an Owner Accounting System to properly track and distribute revenue and expenses to individual Condo Unit Owners.
  • Provided interim Controller assistance for 5 months to assist in transition from Le Meridien to Starwood Hotels & Resorts management.  Uncovered over $250,000 in missed revenue and expense opportunities in the five months at the property, as well as implemented several expense control procedures and pushed perceived revenue limitations.

Other Assignments: 

Have assisted other clients in various parts of the world, including assisting two property management system companies develop their Condo Hotel Accounting System.  

Systems Experience:

  • SAP with both Wyndham and Starwood
  • Opera, Micros Fidelio
  • Clarus
  • Hilton’s On-Q system (conversion)
  • MAS-90
  • SUN Systems
  • Visual 1
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