James C. Maher Iv, Mba Email & Phone Number

Gaithersburg, Md, Us

Stand-up comedian performing in New York City and the DC Metro area at venues including Comic Strip Live and the DC Improv. For bookings and performance dates, follow me on twitter: @veryfunnyjimmy and on Instagram: veryfunnyjimmy

New York, Ny, Us

Organizational Re-shaping:Creating Current Operating Model and Target Operating Model based on work load assessments and desired cost reductions and made recommendations to achieve improved efficiencies and address staffing and skills gaps. Created a communication plan including schedule and messaging to deliver information from leadership to staff across a variety of media. Tracked monthly job movements and reductions to provide status to executive team.Business Development:Wrote sections of the technical volume for 3 different contract proposals and documented requirements. Wrote white papers and 2 page executive summaries of various aspects of the reorganization to be assembled in a suite of KPMG service offering documentation. Created a methodology to standardize non-standard processes.National Banking Client:Served on an audit-readiness team to review the New Products process (from conception to customer dissemination) and to identify and verify controls and weaknesses in the process. Identified gaps and made recommendations to remedy them.Created or reviewed process maps (VISIO) for a number of different Bank internal processes, such as maintaining safe deposit boxes and clearing checks, and identified/documented all risks, controls (key, non-key), and gaps associated with the processes. Also created and updated a Risk and Control Matrix for each process map. Met and led meetings with client members from various functional areas of the Bank and collaborated with them throughout the mapping process. Also provided recommendations to remedy gaps.

New York, Ny, Us

National Banking Client:Reviewed branch referral cases for potential Money Laundering or other criminal actions, reviewed account activity, and determined whether or not suspicious activity had occurred (wrote a SAR if deemed necessary). Trained other KPMG employees and client employees to perform case analysis and review.Allergan, LLC:Developed a Spotfire Dashboard for the CFO and Financial Team to identify potential fraud in employee Travel & Entertainment expense submissions.Government Client:Advise Government Agency Chief Financial Officer in Process ImprovementAssisted in training incoming Deputy Chief Financial Officer on processes and requirements of the positionDocumented and verified over 50 processes in visio to build the "CFO Operating Model." This effort is primarily for audit-readiness purposes and involved interviewing individual process owners and documenting major steps with an eye for process improvement and increased efficiencies. If required, created baseline SOPs and worked with process owners to complete them.Identified manual process that requires 20 minutes to complete and happens, across the agency, at least 60 times per month. Created an Excel Macro to complete the task in less than 10 seconds, saving a minimum of 20 work-hours per month. Client estimates that this Macro, now an Enterprise Tool, is saving 2400 Labor-Hours per year at total savings of $208,000 annually.Created and updated process flow diagrams using Microsoft VisioCreated training presentations to improve Excel skills, including Macros, VLookup, relative vs. absolute references, and keyboard shortcutsGranted TS//SCI with CI

Bethesda, Md, Us

Supports 6 control account managers (including material management) and oversees 300+ control accounts.Serves as backup team lead, providing a trusted voice of program controls to Program Management in my lead's absence.Was awarded Spot Award for contributions to the Joint Surveillance Review preparation team, including organizing and leading Control Account Manager mentoring and evaluation.Perform analysis on control account variances from plan, assist in planning new budget, work with account managers to load new budget and ensure that it is at our contract authorized target.Submit bi-weekly invoices to the US Treasure through IPP.Prepare and maintain montly Contract Funds Summary Report (a customer deliverable document) that tracks the contract funding profile.Present Program's Financial Status to customer program office at our monthly Business Management Review.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Supports 6 control account managers (including material management) and oversees 300+ control accounts.Was selected to participate in a 12-member team to develop solutions and recommendations to eliminate Audit findings on Work Authorization Documents, with the results being presented to vice presidents of IS&GS Security and Performance Excellence.Was awarded a Special Recognition Award from the Finance and Business Operations organization for my general success as a cost analyst as well as for general improvements that I implemented in the Program Control organization.Was awarded a Special Recognition Award for my efforts leading the design and development of new work authorization document tracking tool, which has greatly improved performance (document creation time reduced from minutes to seconds) and has eliminated the problem of lost work authorization documents falling through the cracks.Developed spreadsheet tool to track actuals against our forecast to track performance, detect unforeseen trends, and evaluate our account managers' forecasting abilities.Perform analysis on control account variances from plan, assist in planning new budget, work with account managers to load new budget and ensure that it is at our contract authorized target.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Granted TS//SCI with current SSBI to fulfill my role on the Software Engineering & Prototyping (SWEP) TeamModify baseline product offerings to ensure that the product is in line with customer needs and compliant with security requirementsPerformed product research, analysis, and performance testing to support the program's chief software architectLed effort to improve the configuration tracking process by driving the implementation of a database that wuold merge four redundant spreadsheets and reduce time spent tracking changed by 75%Created, prepared, presented, and tracked change requests to the program baseline in order to provide the most up-to-date suite of products to our customer, compliant with security requirementsTrained others to perform SWEP activities, including design decisions and change requestsSupported Project Earned Value Management (EVM) to assist in scheduling, statusing, and budgetingVolunteered to assist in morale- and team-building activities including corporate Diversity Week and SWEP social events

Officiate baseball games at the Little League through Varsity High School level.

Notre Dame, In, Us

Worked as umpire for interhall baseball games (including the 2007 championship game) and intramural softball games. Also worked as a referee for intramural flag football games.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Examined vehicle hauling contract with Norfolk Southern railroad, determining route improvements that would result in a possible savings of $5 million over the remaining three years of the contractWorked on answering internal audit questions to assist in insuring that Materials Planning & Logistics was Sarbanes-Oxley compliant

San Diego, Ca, Us

Developing software applications to provide information to Navy Decision-makers for crisis-action planning.Experimented with using only time references to group documents using different methods of clustering, resulting in a paper and a set of experimental tools.Created and managed softball team to play in company league.

East Lansing, Mi, Us

Directed labs and exams for CSE 232 - Advanced ProgrammingServed as Lead Teaching Assistant for 2003-2004 Academic Year

Greater Chicago Area, Il, Us

Developed internal website for Post Cereal division of Kraft Foods to promote the division throughout the company and to provide employees within the division with information about the company.

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Criminal Justice/Family Law

Mba

M.S., Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science