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Hampton Roads Branch Office

As a Field Audit Office Co-Manager at the Hampton Roads Branch Office my responsibilities include:• Planning, executing, and ensuring the completion of various types of audits either (i) those requested by Department of Defense contracting procurement commands as well as those from other Federal Government agencies (i.e. NASA, Department of State, etc.), for contractors whose accounting records are located in Eastern and Central Virginia.• Successfully managing three audit teams consisting of three supervisory auditors, one technical specialist and approximately 17 auditors who this past fiscal year completed 100 percent of their program planned assignments. • Overseeing completion of program planned incurred cost audits, and coordinating with various Administrative Contracting Officers and buying/contracting commands to ensure audits are responsive and relevant to customer requirements and expectations.• Managing timely issuance of various audit reports while also mindfully considering the impact of potential expiring funds, requirements, and the deadlines by the Administrative Contracting Office or the Procuring Command. • Maintaining good working relationships with major customers, such as Defense Contract Management Area-Hampton, DCMA Manassas, Norfolk Ship Support Activity-Portsmouth, and NASA Langley Research Center. • Ensuring coordination with supervisory managers and audit staff for the timely completion of audits by being involved with those that are at risk of missing milestones and potentially not meeting customer agreed-to due dates.• Visiting field office auditors regularly in order to foster team cohesiveness, including meeting with all team members to promote the Agency’s principles and objectives, as well as, to gather feedback by listening to concerns.

Virginia / North Carolina

Field Audit Manager for a Virtual Incurred Cost Team (Team 4), with responsibilities, which include planning, executing, and completing incurred cost audits of contractors whose submissions are based on accounting records located in the geographical area encompassing most of Virginia, as well as all of North Carolina and South Carolina.Manages four audit teams consisting of four supervisory auditors, one technical specialist and approximately 22 auditors. Oversees completion of program plan incurred cost audits, position responsibilities also include coordinating with various administrative contracting officers and contracting commands to ensure audits are relevant to customer requirements including their timely issuance while also considering the impact of potential expiring funds, and the procuring commands' priority of contracts to be closed.Ensures coordination with supervisory managers and audit staff for the timely completion of audits and being actively involved with those that may miss milestones. Promotes coordination with other DCAA field audit offices for purposes of efficiently completing previously languishing audits and monitoring their completion, and initiating any corrective actions necessary to be compliant with GAGAS where previously lacking. Searches for opportunities to gain efficiencies such as utilizing multi-year auditing techniques, assigning personnel to audits based on aligning skill and experience level, communicating with regional management and technical support resources in order to achieve the optimum balance of adherence to Agency, Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards, and employment of finite auditing labor resources.Visits field office auditors regularly to the optimum extent possible in order to foster team cohesiveness, including visiting other offices and auditors and meeting with all team members in order to promote the Agency’s principles and objectives, as well as, to listen to workforce concerns.

Hampton, Va

Supervised a mobile audit team who performed various reviews of numerous government contractors including DoD and NASA contractors. Supervision duties include: ensuring audits are compliant with such criteria as those specified by Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards, the Federal Acquisition Regulations including contract cost principles, and Cost Accounting Standards as well as supplemental agency regulations, i.e. Defense FAR Supplement and NASA FAR Supplement. Audits supervised included: pre-award accounting surveys, pre-award pricing reviews, forward pricing rate reviews, labor audits, requests for equitable adjustment, and audits of annual incurred cost submissions. Received performance awards and also four-time guest instructor at the Agency's Defense Contract Audit Institute for training. Additional duties include being responsible for review and approval of public vouchers submitted by numerous contractors, proficient in use of Microsoft Office tools, which are essential for performing analytics and writing well organized and structured audit reports. Assists, at the government contracting official request, with the monitoring of the status of contract performance, approval of progress payments, as well as reviewing and providing auditing advisory services related to contractor proposals. Performed audits of proposals for contract modifications and contract change orders, and assisting in negotiation of contract modifications, termination settlements, and unilateral determination when an agreement cannot be reached. Additional duties include cost analysis of proposals, involving multiple years and cost escalation for labor and material costs. Audits sometimes involved conducting extensive and complex cost/price and financial analysis. Participated as a member of a negotiating team, providing accounting and auditing assistance to contracting representatives during contract negotiations.

Newport News, Va

Supervised a team of auditors assigned to the contractor's site at a audit resident office. Auditors under my supervision performed extensive oversight duties of a major national defense contractor by ensuring compliance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards, Federal Acquisition Regulations, Cost Accounting Standards, as well as supplemental agency regulations. Received numerous performance awards, guest instructed at the Agency's training institute, responsible for review and approval of public vouchers submitted by major contractor, proficient in use of Microsoft Office tools necessary for performing analytical procedures and writing audit reports. Personally performed cost data queries using SAP ERP accounting software to facilitate reviews and verifications of contractor billings and claims. Also, duties involved negotiation support to the Administrative Contracting Officer during their extensive discussions with a major defense contractor. Accomplishments included: office coordinator for completion and compiling from the subpackages of several years of the overall incurred cost audit report (issuing CFYs 1997, 1998 and 1999). Supervised audits numerous high profile audits including indirect costs, basis for weighted guidelines, material cost transfers and their potential impact on incentive based contracts, among others.

Newport News, Va

Monitored, assessed, and reported on the adequacy of a major defense contractor's compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulations and Agency supplemental regulations for ten specific internal control systems including: SAP ERP based accounting system, SAP ERP based purchasing system, compensation system, estimating system, SAP ERP based material management accounting system, budgeting system, billing system, information technology system, indirect/direct cost accounting system, and labor accounting system. As the field audit office internal control technical specialist, responsible for advising field audit office staff on risk areas related to these ten control systems and their potential impact on Government interests, assets, and billings at this major contractor. As ICAPS technical specialist or senior auditor at Newport News Shipbuilding issued or participated on the audit team that issued: Purchasing System, indirect ODC, and MMAS among others.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Accounting And Finance, 3.82/4.00

Relevant course work included: management accounting, financial accounting, quantitative methods (statistics), project management.

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting, 3.6/4.00

Graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. Included among the 30 plus credit hours of accounting were the following.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services, 3.4/4.00

Activities and Societies: National business honor society Beta Gamma Sigma and national honor society Phi Kappa Phi Graduated.