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Greater New York City Area

•Independently developed and reviewed Prior Property Approval (PPA) packages to ensure NYS Voluntary Operated Program sites are in line with the OPWDD’s guidelines and the Department of Budgets’ capital cost thresholds. •Created a new procedure to review past PPAs prior to issuing new PPAs to ensure agencies are only receiving the proper funding they are entitled to resulting in numerous recoupments of over payments totaling $3.2 million within the first month of implementation. •Worked with DOB’s Budget staff, if necessary to review, investigate, and approve requests that exceed capital cost thresholds.•Reviewed Development Representatives work and trained them on OPWDD policy and procedures.•Independently reviewed and processed documents, such as Property Option Agreements, Feasibility Cost Estimates, Fair Market Appraisal Reports and related vouchers, to ensure compliance with policies and determine the accuracy of the information presented.•Analyzed the capital finance projects of multiple program sites to determine whether the projects were cost beneficial to the state, and determined if there was a more economical solution to the sites problems.•Signed off on voluntary agencies program sites, for certification, by verifying compliance with OPWDDs health and safety regulations.•Acted as liaison between the voluntary agencies and various NYS agencies (OPWDD, DOH and DOB), by researching and obtaining requested information.•Created a tracking system, in Microsoft Access, for all property approval projects, to ensure accurate record keeping of projects and total expenditures for each project. •Trained clerical staff in performing basic functions in Microsoft excel, word and outlook.•Altered the PPAs processing time from two weeks to three days for completion, by establishing weekly meetings, between the Finance and Development representatives, to ensure that all projects are properly vetted; to prevent downtime in the completion cycle.

Commack, Ny

•Reviewed and approved of development proposals for the creation and relocation of Individual Residential homes for the developmentally disabled.•Reviewed and assisted with the oversight of placement for Aged-Out individuals from residential schools. •Reviewed and approved placement applications for individuals wanting to attend site base Day Hab. •Performed biannual units and billing reconciliations to ensure agencies have adequate funding to administer their programs. •Reviewed and approved 200+ Family Support Services, Environmental Modification and Individual Support Services (ISS) contracts.•Reviewed and approved State Funding Authorization Request. •Served as administrator on call to ensure the after hours safety of the individuals within the Long Island region. •Supervised and trained nine staff persons on various forms of the day to day operations. •Assisted voluntary providers with State and Medicaid billing issues or problems. •Provided technical support to various not-for-profit providers to ensure their viability.•Streamlined contract processing by remodeling the approval process and rolling redundant contracts into one master contract.•Reduced regional office’s ISS contracts by 50% though the use of Assistive Support conversation and by merging individual ISS contracts with Agency held contracts. •Streamlined the Aged-Out Assistive Support Process to ensure agencies received the correct amount of funding upfront to ensure the viability of the not-for-profit entities. •Successfully integrated the Family Support Service Programmatic unit into the Fiscal unit. •Created a process to verify individuals’ SSI offset to reduce New York State’s monthly subsidies.•Implemented cross training throughout the entire Fiscal and Family Support Services units to prevent a loss of institutional knowledge. •Worked on the Governor’s housing initiative by creating a housing model for the developmentally disabled in the Long Island region.

Greater New York City Area

•Independently performed complex financial, operational, compliance, performance and forensic audits of State agencies and authorities in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS)•As an Auditor-In- Charge, I supervised multiple financial and performance audits to ensure agencies achieve their established goals, while protecting government assets from fraud, waste and abuse.•Reviewed my staff’s working papers; directed and distributed daily work assignments; provided on the job training to employees; and evaluated employees’ performance.•Assisted my audit team in developing audit findings, providing updates on status of audit assignments, sharing information and identifying any changes to audit steps.•Developed audit plans and audit charters focusing on areas of highest risk and most significant impact to government agencies.•Performed detailed testing and examining of agency’s accounting systems and records, along with reviewing agency management’s policies and procedures, to ensure they were incompliance with accounting and auditing principles.•Independently obtained sufficient audit evidence and prepare adequate audit work-papers, which are organized, hyper-linked, and referenced to supporting documents in auditing software TeamMate.•Held opening with agency management and executives, to ensure they understood the scope of the audit, our objectives and establish our audit liaison. In addition, I held the closing conference to inform the agency’s management of our audit findings and recommendations. •Prepared Preliminary audit findings documents to submit to the agency throughout the audit describing the issues we have found and the corrections needed. In addition, created the draft reports for each audit I oversaw. •Research special topics for future audits, performed any special projects assigned, and created audit plan for the following year.

Albany, New York Area

•Analyzed and Documented system user’s processes and created recommendations to make them more efficient.•Reviewed user’s systems and document their ins and outs in Use Cases.•Interviewed the end system users to understand their requirements and created Use Cases for System Developers to be able to create the system needed.•Facilitated meetings with department staff and executive management to discuss functional and technical solutions, to the end users problems.•Created test cases and conditions for testing system designed by developers and recommend changes as well as performance enhancements. In addition, created project charters for the creation of new systems.•Meet with Federal officials to find out the procedures they used in processing payments for State Supplemental Income and with various State officials to find out what steps they performed to take over payment processing from the Federal government, to ensure New York State used the best practices and procedures to mitigate expenditures, from unnecessary mistakes.

Albany, New York Area

•Analyzed procurement documents to ensure proper use of State funds.•Conducted comprehensive audits of governmental agencies in accordance with generally accepted government audit standards to determine the compliance with laws, rules, and regulations.•Created reports for State agency officials informing them of audit findings.•Created recommendations to ensure State assets and resources are safeguarded.•Advised State agencies in establishing polices and procedures to adhere to State laws. •Reviewed all medical claims payment for the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF), to check for any up coding by providers and to ensure that expenditures made from the fund correspond to the individual’s disability.•Reviewed NYSIF’s disability payments to claimants to ensure that the injured only received the monies they were entitled to receive. •Reviewed NYSIF’s contracts and contracting procedures to ensure they were in line with State Finance Law.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

•Created new policies and procedures; resulting in the company recouping of 177k from over payments.•Created quality checks to spot fraudulent transactions and processing mistakes.•Reorganized the telecommunication system to eliminate duplicate services.•Analyzed trends and transactions to assist in the budget creation process for various departments.•Processed medical claims to ensure the accuracy of the charges and prompt payment of claims.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

•Created a quality assurance check systems to ensure that Federal and State regulations were being met and adhere to for billing purposes.•Organized the billing systems to create a more efficient tool for managers to know how they were performing.•Audited random case loads to ensure proper billing for the multiple funding programs we were receiving.•Created quality check surveys, to ensure the needs of our clients were being met.

Legal Assistant/Paralegal, 4.0

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management, 3.51

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Criminal Justice / Political Science (Dual Degree), 2.68

Associate Of Arts And Sciences - Aas, Criminal Justice / Forensic Investigations, 3.47

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa (Honor Society)Graduated with Honors, was on the Dean's List three semesters in a row.