Professional Biography

Ms. Schittulli is the founder and CEO of Canterbury Resources, Inc.  Ms. Schittulli brings a diverse set of capabilities, work experiences and professional acumen to an organization.  She is an experienced administrator, manager and leader with 25 years of successful execution in business practices, financial management modeling, performance budgeting, accounting, audit remediation, internal control analysis, cost analysis, and contract financing for multifaceted operations.  Ms. Schittulli earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Business Administration from the George Washington University School of Business.

 

Ms. Schittulli’s financial management experience includes accounting and financial control at a local Washington, DC defense contractor.  When this company was acquired by Cambridge Technology Group, a successful Washington-based R&D incubator for emerging growth companies.  Ms. Schittulli joined the management team as the controller, and within several years ascended to become the company’s CFO and serve as the treasurer and secretary for one of its affiliates.  Her managerial experience directing the organization's finance and accounting functions included

 

 

Ms. Schittulli also served within the military defense sector as a trusted advisor, program executive, manager and subject matter expert for the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) Team.  She assembled and managed the project team and its efforts on behalf of the US Navy to assess, validate and document the financial processes and internal controls at one of its major commands, a $169 billion dollar organization with 22 different business areas located world-wide.  Ms. Schittulli served as the primary interface and trusted advisor with client management personnel regarding strategic issues, and was a key designated NAVSEA audit liaison for several examinations by the Department of Defense Inspector General, the Naval Audit Service, the General Accountability Office (GAO) and an independent public accounting firm (IPA) for multiple financial areas.  She led the team through the completion of the discovery, validation, assertion and attestation phases of the project, which involved the assessment and testing of internal controls to ensure conformance to regulatory guidelines and the confirmation that the implemented corrective actions had been taken throughout the organization.

 

Augmenting Ms. Schittulli’s financial experience are approximately 10 years of health care related experience.  During a tenure at IBM, she was a senior consultant on several IBM Safe & Lean Diagnostic Assessment Projects for the Massachusetts General Hospital, Novant Health-Presbyterian Hospital and MedStar Health.  Her efforts on these projects included developing business cases, financial modeling and cost benefit analyses for the goals and objectives related to several major capital investment initiatives.  Her health care experience also included four years working as a Registered Nurse Clinical Nurse IV- Weekend Coordinator/Head Nurse on a general surgical unit at the George Washington University Medical Center and three years at INOVA Corporation, Mt. Vernon Hospital, on the Head Trauma, Spinal Cord Injury & Cerebrovascular Rehabilitation Unit.

 

Based on her experience as a chief financial officer, controller, a management advisor/consultant, and RN, Ms. Schittulli is well-positioned to support multi-faceted organizations across the public and private sectors by enabling an organization's management personnel to realize a greater confidence in their business operations.