PROJECT MANAGEMENT from Z to A!

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Sometimes your business needs some interim help to keep your operations humming along. Maybe it's due to being short staffed, a manager on leave or a special project where more hands are needed. That's where Zipped Up comes to the rescue.

A CPA and project manager, Carmen uniquely combines the obsessive attention to detail of a number-cruncher with the with the problem-solving skills of a project manager. The result is a sensibility that happily tackles a variety of projects - financial, organizational, or strategic. 

Carmen’s career roots are in accounting.  Her Midwest work ethic coupled with the world-class training received at Arthur Andersen laid a solid foundation. The audit experience working on clients like Equifax, The Southern Company and Pennzoil was a quick immersion into the ways of the corporate world.

As a project manager, her rational auditor side worked well when co-founding a consumer promotions agency and executing national marketing programs for The Coca-Cola Company. She and her team managed the execution of on-air and in store marketing programs in conjunction with promotional partners like NASCAR, NCAA, U.S. Olympic Committee, and retail partners like Kroger, Walmart and CVS.

As a business relocation project manager, Carmen acts as the main point of contact for all parties involved, from landlord to architects to the IT team. She oversees the office space build out, procures furniture, and manages the entire move with exhaustive attention to detail, so her clients don’t have to take a minute away from day-to-day business.

In addition to many other roles, within the financial world, she acts as a liaison with her clients’ external auditors, facilitating the entire audit from beginning to end. This includes working directly with the audit team to provide supporting documentation, drafting financial statements and footnotes in accordance with GAAP and following up on the auditors’ request for information.

So, she’s not just a bean counter, with her financial background and a variety of project management assignments under her belt, she possesses the rare ability to take on your unique projects - whatever they may be.