John Murray
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Office:
978-263-3423
Cell:
978-844-0322
Areas of Concentration:
- Financial Modeling & Budgeting
- Strategic Management
- Cultural Development & Management
- Ethics Compliance
- Liaison Development
- Performance Management
- Financial Planning, Research, & Analysis
- Regulatory Compliance & Reporting
- Mentoring & Training
- Union Relations, Negotiations, & Contract Administration
Experience:
Town of Acton ( 1988 – 2013)
Treasurer/ Assistant Town Manager
Managers lead but do not operate in isolation. Each accomplishment reflects the hard work of citizen volunteers, boards and committees, and staff members.
- Financial
- Acted as Chief Financial Officer, Finance Director, Treasurer, and Tax Collector for the Town
- Managed finances through four recessionary periods and three expansion periods.
- Issued over $100 million of bonds and increased the Credit Rating of the Town four levels ( A1-AAA)
- Trustee of the Acton Health Insurance Trust
- Labor/Employee Relations
- Policy Development
- Negotiated 18 Successor Collective Bargaining Agreements
- Served as Grievance Hearing Officer
- Participated in Grievance and Collective Bargaining Arbitration Hearings
- 1st Successful Court Challenge of Commonwealth of Massachusetts Joint Labor Management Commission Decision
- Environmental
- Closure and the reuse of the Town’s solid waste landfill
- Removal of the landfill from United States Environmental Protection Agency contaminated site listing
- Solar Power Generation
- Creating a Solar Farm on the landfill ( currently under construction), which will generate sufficient electricity to remove municipal buildings from fossil fuel generation sources.
- Expanded Recycling efforts
- Purchased Open Space and Recreation lands
- Monitored and amended the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s and the Massachusetts’ remediation plans for the Acton W.R. Grace “superfund site”
- Closure and the reuse of the Town’s solid waste landfill
- Marketing
- Redefined citizens as customers
- Partnered with other municipalities, non- profit organizations and for profit organizations.
- Developed a Regional Solid Waste Market and saved over $12 million
- Passage of 12 Property Tax Overrides
Bryant University 1985-1987
- Associate Professor of Finance
- Maintained a full teaching load in:
- Basic analytical skills and principles of corporate finance.
- Functions of modern capital markets and financial institutions.
- Standard techniques of analysis, including capital budgeting, discounted cash flow valuation, CAPM, and risk analysis.
Johnson & Wales University 1981-1986
- Associate Professor of Finance and Hospitality Management
- Taught Introductory courses in Finance and developed and implemented a capstone course offering for Hospitality Management students.
- The goal of the capstone course was to prepare students for the challenges of hospitality leadership.
- It utilized the case method paradigm and required a class term project, which was presented to a faculty committee of departmental chairpersons.
- This single course represented a full semester academic load for seniors and became a graduation requirement
Westin International Hotels – Seattle Washington 1978 -1981
- Assistant Comptroller – Wailea Maui
- Participated in municipal impact fee negotiations, management systems development, employee hiring and training, including but not limited to a dedicated CERTA program, and operations management.
- The property exceeded all financial and operation goals except during the grounding of all DC -10s in 1979
Sheraton Hotels – Boston Massachusetts 1975-1978
- Assistant General Manager – Sheraton Chicago
- General Operations Management, including but not limited to security for both downtown Sheraton Holes and operating with seventeen bargaining units. Negotiations were conducted on a city-wide basis rather than an individual hotel basis.
- Financial Analyst – Sheraton Houston & Sheraton Plaza Chicago
- Financial Analyst Trainee at the Philadelphia and Houston Hotels
Education:
- Masters of Business - Boston University
- Baccalaureate of Science – Hotel Administration - Cornell University
Certifications:
Certificate Programs
- Massachusetts Tier IV Program - JFK School of Government
- Certificate of Special Study in Management - Harvard University Extension
Professional Memberships / Associations / Societies:
- International City & County Managers Association
- National League of Cities
- Massachusetts Municipal Managers Association
- Northeast Solid Waste Committee
- Presidential Appointment to the Mass Municipal Association’s Labor Relations Committee
- Cornell Hotel Society
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