Financial Management Specialist for Disaster Recovery Operations. Specialize in Public Assistance Spend Plans, State Management Costs, Recipient Annual Administrative Plans, Disaster Closeout.

Stull & Benoit Associates, Inc. is a private consulting firm specializing in project management and grants administration. Clients included a wide spectrum of local government units, housing authorities, utilities/water/sewer authorities, economic development authorities, and private companies. Business focus on grant implementation and loan programs, often from the point of application through final audit. Examples of grant/loan programs included: • Federal and State wastewater treatment construction • State community public access, parks, and forestry• State Transportation Trust road construction and streetscapes• Federal and State police grants for equipment, overtime, schools, and general safety• Federal Housing and Urban Development – Resident Opportunity Self-Sufficiency• Federal and State human services subgrantee monitoringOther services included public relations and education campaigns, NJ Council on Affordable Housing fair share compliance, Affirmative Action/local hiring compliance. Directed the technical aspects of all projects, including research and data collection, data analysis, preparation of applications, implementation of projects, preparation of reports, and close-out/audit. Examples of successfully performed projects include:• Expert witness reports in two (2) local government audits of wastewater treatment construction claims;• Preparation of a Fair Share report in compliance with NJ Council on Affordable Housing standards;• Audit resolution on demands for repayment on federal construction projects resulting in the erasure of all demands;• Development of corrective action programs to erase audit demands on human services grants;• Development of an indirect cost rate plan used to prorate project costs over numerous municipalities;• Developed and implemented a local hiring plan on a large capital construction project to promote local business use and hiring.

Responsible for information technology planning and implementation, as well as for the daily contracted maintenance of the IT network. Projects completed include the procurement of a new IT Maintenance & Support vendor. Other initiatives under way included the analyses of security, Business Process Review/Enterprise Resource Planning, RFID/GPS, telephone upgrade, and public notification requirements; IT policies; and web site development.Also responsible for the Customer Service call center and the integration of customer information and customer requests into new procedures and technologies.

Director of senior service programs funded under the Older Americans Act. Oversee all fiscal and programmatic functions of the Hudson County Area Agency on Aging, including senior citizen advocacy, procurement of provider agency and professional services (RFP, RFQ,), planning, hiring and personnel matters, grant budgeting and reporting, and the implementation of new program strategies and NJDHSS directives. Successfully restructured the office, hired appropriate personnel, and brought office into compliance with NJ Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) standards.