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<h1 id="paul-trowbridge">Paul Trowbridge</h1>
<h3 id="the-hc-companies---wingate-partners"><a href="https://hc-companies.com/">The HC Companies</a> - <a href="https://wingatepartners.com/">Wingate Partners</a></h3>
<p>$300 million manufacturer of horticultural containers owned by Wingate Partners</p>
<p><strong>Corporate Pricing Manager</strong> <em>2019 - Present</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Lead new pricing function for the company</li>
<li>Develop, advocate, and execute price optimization strategy</li>
<li>Build credibility & confidence with sales team through commitment, patience, and results</li>
<li>Train staff to review all quoted business and apply current pricing guidance</li>
<li>70% price-based revenue growth over 3 years while gaining market share within a commodity product industry</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cost Manager</strong> <em>2012 - 2019</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Setup New Accounting Processes Post Acquisition
<ul>
<li>Build in-house financial consolidation logic</li>
<li>Transfer Pricing and all intercompany accounting & elims</li>
<li>Rec and Roll-forward L/T balance sheet items (revolver, term loans, intangibles, promissory notes, OCI, equity)</li>
<li>Bank recs, 401k, payroll</li>
<li>Accounting for mixed asset/stock acquisition</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Forecast Capabilities and Turn-Around
<ul>
<li>Develop planning framework and program for quick ground up detail sales plan from sales team</li>
<li>Develop MRP logic to build production plans from detail sales plan</li>
<li>Forecast balance sheet along with revolver and collateral balances</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Data Deployment and Business Intelligence Introduction
<ul>
<li>Synchronize quotes, orders, invoices with the ledger in a single data set for the org to consume</li>
<li>Write Java ETL application to load data warehouse from live ERP</li>
<li>Maintain linux server for pricing, sales, payroll workloads</li>
<li>Pioneer MS Power BI for the organization and demonstrate capabilities through pricing analysis</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="ppg-industries-optical--specialty-chemicals">PPG Industries Optical & Specialty Chemicals</h3>
<p><em>$1.5 billion division of PPG Industries (NYSE-PPG, Barberton plant)</em></p>
<p><strong>Cost Analyst</strong> <em>2010 - 2012</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Responsibilities with standard costs, cost system, and all period end standard cost processing</li>
<li>Annual operating plan coordination & consolidation</li>
<li>Provide inventory & account accuracy plant-wide (reconciliations, physical inventories, etc.)</li>
<li>Support (and implementation) of conversion from old proprietary COBOL system to SAP</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="masco-retail-cabinet-group-waverly-ohio">Masco Retail Cabinet Group, Waverly Ohio</h3>
<p><em>$1 billion division of Masco (NYSE-MAS) manufacturing assembled and ready to assemble cabinetry</em></p>
<p><strong>Cost Analyst</strong> <em>2007-2010</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Compile annual budgets and monthly spending forecasts</li>
<li>Develop standard labor and overhead burden rates and explain subsequent variances</li>
<li>Provide support for system conversion and standard cost system implementation</li>
<li>Develop and maintain customized BOM explosion program & cost environment</li>
<li>Maintain inventory accuracy through analyses and quarterly physicals</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="education">Education</h2>
<p>The University of Akron BS in Accounting GPA 3.3 2002-2006</p>
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