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Portland, Oregon, United States

Owings Mills, MD

Chief Executive Officer and creator of TwangriLa - Country Music Utopia website. Develop and execute podcasts on different themes related to country music.Write music reviews, concert reviews, and band interviews.Design website with current and interesting content.Network with record executives, management, and public relations firms to find new talent to.

Cincinnati Area, KY

• Manage a staff of 7 employees.
• Review 2,000 loans monthly to determine charge off balance.
• Calculate and post the monthly recoveries from REO sales and short sales.
• Re-engineer processes in charge off division that need improvements to efficiency and effectiveness.
• Instituted improvements related to ordering of BPOs that has saved the Bank $15,000 monthly.
• Instituted improvements in reconciliation procedures using automation that saved 10 workdays per month.

Washington, DC

• Managed staff of six employees responsible for GSA process improvements over real estate, leasing, automotive, information technology, and stock programs.
• Negotiated and provided technical direction to contractor and staff related to Sarbanes Oxley.
• Coordinated information technology (IT) control testing for Sarbanes Oxley.
• Risk rated all financial systems and develops testing plans for IT testing.
• Coordinated testing and risk management efforts for GSA lines of business such as real estate, stock, long distance, information technology, and automobile leases.
• Reviewed and provided recommendations related to strengthening controls over purchase, travel, and fleet cards.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Managed staff of 3 employees who performed a variety of general control, data integrity, and efficiency audits of environmental data systems and financial systems.
• Planned and lead information system audits relating to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) various operating divisions.
• Reviewed and edited audit reports and communicate findings to senior management of the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the Agency, and contractors.
• Reviewed numerous policies and procedures related to financial systems, financial operations, and information systems operations and wrote critiques of these policies that are distributed to senior management of the.
• Wrote management challenge and material weakness reports related to data quality and data standards that were published in the annual Performance and Accountability Report.
• Acted as Office of Inspector General Representative on various steering committees and task forces to offer OIG perspective on general, data, and financial controls.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Coordinated audits of third party administrators of Aegon throughout the United States.
• Wrote audit reports and communicate findings to senior management.
• Advised senior management of audit recommendations and process improvements.
• Created database analysis tools.
• Reviewed contracts with counterparties and verify compliance.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Prepared monthly interest income and expense financial package distributed to Senior Management.
• Created new interest analysis tools to aid Senior Management in reviewing data.
• Analyzed interest and expense accounts monthly and resolved any discrepancies.
• Prepared income and expense entries relative to Western Asset Global Offshore Funds, a Legg Mason subsidiary.
• Coordinated money transfers for Western Asset Global Offshore Funds.

Hamilton, Bermuda

• Worked as project leader for implementation of new treasury system for accounting phase. Developed the interface between the accounting system and the treasury system, created new chart of accounts, managed and.
• Coordinated budget process and forecasted future revenue and expense amounts. Reduced fiscal year 1999 actual and projected expenses by $700 thousand, or 15%. Negotiated with Executive Management regarding final budget.
• Developed database for maintaining counterparty and country credit limits and reported where credit limits have been violated.
• Created schedules and commentary for the annual report.
• Analyzed monthly revenue and expense figures and researched any discrepancies.
• Prepared value at risk analysis for foreign exchange trading and reported daily results to Executive Management.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Coordinated the implementation of new accounting pronouncements and changes in the chart of accounts within Treasury.
• Developed policies and procedures for new and existing Treasury Products.
• Implemented system to verify monthly net interest margins and explained variances for all Treasury related products.
• Provided accounting support and documentation for system initiatives, mergers, and centralization projects (i.e. life cycles, general ledger mapping tables, and accounting procedures).
• Prepared monthly volume studies for all Treasury products and explained any significant variance from the prior period.
• Prepared monthly Treasury financial package and monthly regulatory reports.

Certificate In Accounting

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting And Finance