Ed Love

About Ed Love

GE leadership trained problem solver with strong business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit, who has led six successful turnarounds in multiple industries by identifying root causes, developing strategic solutions, building talented teams, and implementing initiatives. GE Master Black Belt with strengths in Lean Six Sigma, finance, and sales. Business Leader, who has repetitively created value through enhancing - financial plans, operational efficiencies, product quality, and service excellence. Competitive advantages are:ANALYTICAL & ACHIEVER: Highly skilled in financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, and valuations.TEAM BUILDER: Excels with all levels of organization, leads by example, builds diverse teams, earns respect and follows through on commitments, extremely disciplined with firm integrity.INNOVATOR: Creates new approaches to solve problems, is not bound by what has been done or what others say can’t be done, takes chances on creative ideas produced by teamwork, quick learner.COMPETITOR: Refuses defeat, constantly thinks, strategizes, and plans until a solution is found, stays with the job until goals are achieved and implementation is complete.COMMUNICATOR: Proactively communicates issues to affected parties, honestly answers questions when asked, deals with problems early and while options remain.FACILITATOR: Asks questions and takes time to listen, believes solutions are known by the employees.Specialties: OPERATIONS, LEAN SIX SIGMA, AND FINANCE EXPERT, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, AUTOCAD, INVENTORMulti-engine commercial Pilot certificate with instrument ratingAvid watersports-slalom, wakeboard/surf

Experience

1. President & Chief Financial Officer

   Sound-Craft Systems

   Apr 2015 — Present · Morrilton, AR, US

   In April 2015, I joined Sound-Craft Systems, and led its turnaround. Since 1947, Sound-Craft has been providing communication solutions worldwide. For over seventy-six years, they have been designing, handcrafting, and selling beautiful, high quality presentation furniture to customers such as the White House, Pentagon, Smithsonian, FBI, MIT, Penn, Vanderbilt, William & Mary, Texas A&M and more.Wrote business plan, secured funding, acquired assets, realigned headcount, transitioned accounting, divested real estate, redesigned products, streamlined supply chain, outsourced non-key tasks, created website, and established an online store to increase sales. Transformed company from near bankruptcy to a profitable company that is positioned to grow.

Education

• University of Arkansas

  Electrical Engineering

  1986 — 1987

• SMU Cox School of Business

  MBA, Finance, Strategy, & Marketing

  2008 — 2010

• Vanderbilt University

  BE, Electrical Engineering

  1987 — 1990

• University of Virginia

  ME, Electrical Engineering

  1992 — 1993

Skills

• Negotiation
• Restructuring
• Inventory Management
• Coaching
• Six Sigma
• Customer Relations
• Cost Reduction
• Management
• Team Building
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Budgeting
• Product Development
• Analysis
• P&L
• Strategic Planning
• P&L Management
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Project Management
• Forecasting
• Business Strategy
• Entrepreneurship
• Income Statement
• Sales Management
• Management Consulting
• Process Improvement
• Process Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Change Management
• Lean Manufacturing
• Sales
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Customer Service
• Contract Negotiation
• Start-Ups
• Financial Analysis
• Supply Chain
• Leadership Development
• Budgets
• Problem Solving