DONOVAN A CUNNINGHAM

Address:              14 Foster Circle, Bower’s Estate, Old Harbour, St. Catherine, Jamaica WI

Contact No.(s):  Home: (876) 745-3734 Cell: (876) 823-5015  Email:  [email protected]

Executive Profile

Motivated senior executive with more than twenty five (25) years of progressive management experience in professional services, manufacturing, and trading industries.

Skilled and experienced team leader with exceptional record of achieving mission critical results in financial
management, human resource management and administration.
Decisive and proactive change agent ; achieving optimal results through planning, coordinating and executing  programs and strategies resulting in significant increase in both top and bottom line value in various organizations
and  industries.

Skill Highlights

Strategic Planning                                                              Industrial relations and labour negotiations
Change management                                                         New Business Development
Budgeting and forecasting                                                 Project Management
Risk management                                                               Pension fund management and administration
Supply Chain Management                                                 Organizational Design and restructuring
Cost Management and Rationalization                                Tax Planning
Financial Management and Reporting

Core Accomplishments

Manage multi-skilled project teams on numerous occasions to plan and execute change in a number of
organizations, realizing major cost savings and increase in profitability.
Initiated and managed the rationalization and operational restructuring of entire plant operations in a unionized
environment resulting in 20% per unit cost reduction.
Developed and implement a computerized waste management system at a large manufacturing company , resulting in the reduction of  waste from 8.5%FSV to 2%FSV and was awarded the Goodyear TQC regional prize for this effort.
Created a critical indicator monitoring system at Redimix Concrete resulting in the major cost savings and  increase in profits.
Managed the conversion of the Myers Fletcher & Gordon IT platform to a fully integrated management information system – resulting  in productivity improvement in all service delivery areas.
Spearheaded the process of conversion of two pension funds from an unregulated environment to compliance in a
highly regulated environment.

·         Successfully managed organizational change and restructuring exercise in three separate organizational types

Professional Experience

Director of Finance and Administration & Chief Operating Officer – April 2001 to Current
Myers, Fletcher & Gordon – 21 East Street, Kingston, Jamaica
1)  Highest non partner position in a law firm of over forty (40) lawyers and one hundred and forty (140) non legal staff.
2)  Serving member of the Board of Directors of two entities regulated by the Financial Services Commission ofJamaica.

3)  Key member  of the executive committee of the law firm and all related entities.

4)  Initiated and managed the most significant staff rationalization and restructuring exercise ever undertaken at Myers

Fletcher  & Gordon and achieving record profit levels during a period of external economic downturn.

5) Managed the process of achieving full compliance of two pension funds from an unregulated to a fully regulated
environment.

General Manager – Cost Control –  March 1998- March 2001

Mechala Group Limited – 7-9 Harbour Street, Kingston, Jamaica
1)  Implemented and managed cost management systems throughout the construction and development division of a large
group of companies.

2) Reorganized and prepare for sale one of the largest companies in the group.

Group Cost Accounting Consultant – October 1993 to March 1998
Pan Jamaican Investment Ltd – 60 Knutsford Boulevard, Kingston, Jamaica
1)  Developed and managed a group wide system of cost management and reporting for a diverse group of companies.

2)  Restructured and return to profitability; main manufacturing entity within the group.

Cost Accountant, Materials and Logistics Manager – December 1990- October 1992
Goodyear Jamaica Limited – Morant Bay, St. Thomas, Jamaica
1)  Managed cost allocations and reporting systems.

2)  Implemented a computerized waste management realising 80% reduction in final plant waste
3)  Managed an integrated system of purchasing, materials control and shipping in a tyre manufacturing plant
4)  Key factory council team member.

Accountant –  July 1989- December 1990
Wherry Wharf Ltd – Newport East, Kingston
1) managed the financial reporting portfolio of a manufacturing and trading entity. Spearheaded a project that successfully
2) Spearhead conversion the accounting system from a manual to a fully modern and computerized system.

Payroll Clerk/Accountant – January 1985-October 1986
Ministry of National Security – Kingston, Jamaica
1) Payroll officer for staff of one thousand four hundred (1400) police officers.

Education

M.Sc : Accounting and Finance, 1993
London School of Economics – London, United Kingdom
British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholar.

B.Sc: Management Studies, 1989
University of the West Indies – Kingston, Jamaica
First Class Honours Graduate
Citibank Scholar

Affiliations

Membership:

American Management Association (Member since 1998)
Royal Society of fellows -Tax (Member since 2003)
Association of Legal Administrators (Member since 2002)

Professional Development

Attend a number of professional development seminars and conferences sponsored by the Euromoney
organization
Regular contributor at the annual conference of the association of legal administrators.
Regular attendee and contributor at tax and pension related seminars conducted by the Institute of Charted
Accountants in Jamaica (ICAJ)

Executive Education Certificate – University of New Orleans
–       Financial Decision Making  – Cash Management and Strategies in a Global Setting