Lonnie Hicks
Chief Financial Officer at SmashGrabNow and Hicks Publishing
Vallejo, CA
Senior Level Management Position
Work Experience
Chief Financial Officer
2009 to Present
CA
CFO at SmashGrabNow and Hicks Publishing two new start-up companies. The latter has over six books published and several CDs. SmashGrabNow has six artists under contract.
Chief Financial Officer
2003 to 2009
Berkeley, CA
Pacifica Foundation is the largest independent Radio Network in the United States. Sixty years old, the Network has five radio stations, New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Texas, Washington D.C and Berkeley, California. In addition, the organization has over 125 affiliate stations around the United States and in other countries.
Pacifica Foundation Chief Financial Officer
* Managed Network finances (18mil.yearly budget) to four consecutive record surplus years bringing the Network back to profitability from a position of near bankruptcy. I steered the finances of the Network to a point where those four years of profit exceeded the total profits of the last sixty years combined.
* Reduced old debt from 4.4 million in 2003 to record surpluses.
* Raised, via a new marketing strategy 5.2 million in new dollars over a five year period.
* Reorganized the financial structure of the Network, instituting new accounting software packages, a new accounting manual and new internal controls.
* Devised and implemented a new strategic plan which encompassed an integration of local, regional and national units.
* Organized and produced the largest fund-raiser in Network history in Washington DC, over 1,800 in attendance.
* Relocated, hired and trained new National Finance team in Berkeley
* Negotiated all of the Networks three union contracts creating savings for the Network and good will.
Executive Director
1997 to 2003
San Francisco, CA
Family Service Agency of San Francisco is a 113 year old Agency serving the San Francisco area with service contracts from the Federal State and City governments. It is the major contractor with the City of San Francisco for cutting edge and traditional services. I supervised: IT, Building and Grounds, Personnel, Finance, and Operations Departments.
Executive Director
* Took the agency from 8 million dollar budget to 12 million dollars
* Won numerous awards as Executive Director-over 40 programs
* Created first strategic plan for the agency of 300 employees
* Introduced the first entrepreneurial programs in the agency creating for-profit, mini-profit centers which included: a house painting company, a personal assistant company for accounting firms and for the City of San Francisco; a employee training company to train individuals to employment office tests.
Chief Financial Officer
1992 to 1997
* Re-organized the financial structure of the 113 year old agency which had 40 health care contracts- serving seniors, mental health, teens, seniors introducing computerized accounting structures for the first time.
* Created for the agency a revolutionary new financial statement format where the cash flow statement, income statement and balance sheet statement were consolidated in to a single statement on one page.
* Computerized the financial structure of the agency.
* Took the agency through period of real estate acquisitions winning an award from the Bankers Association of California for the most creative financing ideas in purchasing a 3.5 million dollar building for the agency.
Chief Financial Officer
1989 to 1992
* Reorganized the financial structure of the Agency which produced and conducted health care studies and then published the results
* Raised revenues by over 25% and created the first strategic plan for the agency
Financial Consultant
1987 to 1989
* Developed Data base for the Hospital for Trauma Designation effort, an effort critical to the future of the Hospital. Designation was
achieved.
* Worked with the Nursing Department to reduce nursing costs and created savings of over one million per year with changes in the nurse
scheduling procedures. Negotiated with the unions to achieve this,
reflecting my previous experiences as Chief Negotiator for the
California Nurses Association
Education
Masters in Business Administration in Public Administration
Master's Political Science in Political Science
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