Anthony Alston Email & Phone Number

Remote

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• Manage, direct, and monitor client services teams on multiple engagements; plan, execute, direct, manage to budget, and complete internal audits, business process control reviews, and other service offerings in a wide.
• Understand and manage firm risk on internal audit engagements.
• Develop a project vision and set challenging personal and client service team goals.
• Manage, develop, train, and mentor staff on projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end reviews.
• Review operational, financial, and technology processes to provide management with an individual assessment of business risk, internal control, and the overall effectiveness, efficiency and risks.
• Work closely with clients and staff to develop client and project risk assessments, implement opportunities, and recommendations regarding business and IT process optimization, profit improvement, internal control, and.

Redmond, WA

Serving as project lead for various products and services as the shift to cloud computing necessitates a new approach to security. Responsibilities include interpreting and applying IT risk regulations to a complex technology environment while achieveing compliance requirements, and assisting the IT and business teams in control identification.

Bellevue, WA

· Designed and led tests of Finance and IT SOx (Sarbanes-Oxley) Controls, as well as General Computer Controls. · Determined whether narratives accurately reflected the current environment · Performed walkthroughs with business owners · Providee consultative services to computing teams · Evaluated existing systems, processes, and controls to determine the.

Bellevue, WA

• As a consultant, I had the following responsibilities:
• Partnered with business leaders and their teams to help solve problems, implements initiatives, drive change and transfer knowledge
• Addressed the challenges identified by the client and client service team, managing projects as they evolved
• Throughout an engagement, communicated vital information concerning project status and the changing landscape within a client organizationProvided IT SOx (Sarbanes-Oxley) Controls testing assistance at Expedia, Inc. My.
• Determining whether narratives accurately reflect the current environment
• Performing walkthroughs with business owners

• As a SOx (Sarbanes-Oxley) Analyst for Microsoft’s Control Transaction Platform (CTP) group, I have the following responsibilities:
• Coordinate and perform the testing of CTP’s compliance efforts under SOx
• Drive the internal control review process from design review to controls testing for financial controls, general application controls and general computer controls in order to identify areas of potential weaknesses.
• Liaise with the Commerce Operations Business and Engineering teams, and the CTP Compliance Group to ensure compliance with applicable accounting, financial and/or SOx policies and guidelines
• Recommend, test and drive process improvements to strengthen and optimize operating effectiveness of key controls
• Provide support and coordinate completion of key SOx deliverables and performance metrics to monitor compliance efforts within CTP

Owns and operates AFAlston, Inc., which is the parent company of revYve. revYve, slated to open in July 2008, is a wine bar that features wines from the Northwest & California. It is located in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle near the Olympic Sculpture Park. We also serve great eats, such as artisan cheeses, cured meats, specialty chocolates, and.