“Donna hired me soon after I graduated with an accounting certificate. I was grateful to work with her as I learned so many things including how to be detailed with my work and customer oriented. She didn't micro-manage but knew how to guide me when I had questions or ideas. She created a pleasant working environment and I owe a lot to her in regards to helping me become knowledgeable in the wine business. I only worked for her for a year and a half before I took a promotion, but we continue to keep in touch.”
About
I love what I do! I work with winery owners to bring home more money to their families,…
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Cheers to the 91st anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition! 🍷 Back in 1927, my grandparents purchased a vineyard mid-Prohibition, farming grapes…
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I’m happy to share that I’ve been involved as a Volunteer with ROGUE VALLEY VINTNERS as a Development Committee Member. It's a great organization -…
I’m happy to share that I’ve been involved as a Volunteer with ROGUE VALLEY VINTNERS as a Development Committee Member. It's a great organization -…
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Hey Wine Industry! Here's an opportunity to chime in. Take this survey, and join the report that offers data backed insights into the DTC landscape…
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Mentor
Walter White Elementary School
- 4 years 6 months
Children
All-Star Mentors help 3rd and 4th grade children find more reasons to do well in school. As mentors, we help with school work, we listen and we share our experiences with young children. It is my hope that the children I work with will be leaders in the community.
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Early Start Program Mentor
E. & J. Gallo Winery
- 10 months
Education
This is a Leadership program for high school girls in the community. The goal of the program is to assist these leaders in learning project management skills and to help them complete a major community service project.
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Projects
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Improve Collection and Dispute module capabilities
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By configuring the collection and dispute modules of SAP, we were able to reduce past due receivables by 10%. The module focused the AR team on the right customers at the right time
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Month-End improvements
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Through a thorough review of current processes, implemented processes and automation that reduced the number of days needed to close the month from 9 days to 7
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Increase cash discounts utilized
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Improved the percentage of cash discounts taken from 60% to 95% by establishing procedures and processes to capture as many vendor discounts as possible. First year savings was over $160k
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Created a G3 AR/Gallo AP reconciliation app
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Created an app in SAP that immediately shows differences between G3 AR and Gallo AP thus allowing the inter-company transactions amounting to over $12MM to be in perpetual balance -
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Concur expense reporting
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Implemented Concur expense report software and processes. Trained employees
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SAP Implementation
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As the finance and accounting functional lead, I provided expert accounting and procedural knowledge to our SAP implementers so they could configure SAP to fit and improve the business processes of a multi-million dollar enterprise. This project was the largest system implementation in the history of the company. Our project was implemented on time, on budget, even with increased scope. It was challenging and rewarding.
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MediusFlow A/P Automation software
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Lead the implementation of AP software with optical character recognition and automatic workflow on time, in scope and on budget
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EDI Implementation
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Part of a project team to implement EDI transactions between carriers and our transportation team saving hundreds of hours each year.
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Invoicing Process Improvement
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Organizations
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Toastmasters
President
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