In 2020, I was promoted to the role of Accountant. In this role, I now assist with budget development and management and serve as grants coordinator for the Division in addition to my prior duties. During 2020, I led our transition to electronic approval processes and the migration to digital file storage. I have also begun developing materials and presentations to train new employees on budget processes and financial systems.

I began in this position handling requisitions, accounts payables, travel, tuition, and other miscellaneous accounts. When my supervisor retired, I volunteered to take on accounts receivable and extraditions as well. Now, almost every purchase, payable, and receivable in the division comes across my desk filling every day with interesting variables.

After the purchase of ODS Security Solutions by U.S. Security Associates, I stayed long enough to complete the transition before moving on to work for Allied Universal. Although I worked briefly in this position, I made great headway in cleaning up archive files in preparation for the next SarbOx evaluation. I chose to leave this position to aggressively pursue a bachelor's degree and prepare myself for a career in finance.

After working in the payroll and billing department, I made a lateral transition to the technology department. I served as system administrator for most of the software our company used and was in charge hardware management throughout the lifecycle of the products from ordering to recycling. Additionally, I was responsible for preparing and distributing reports as needed, creating job aids for new software, and assisted in research for RFP's and transitions.

I worked as a temp for the first half of the year before being hired on permanently by ODS. In this role, I was responsible for both the payroll reconciliation and the billing for my assigned clients and sites. Additionally, I performed extra duties including report generation, cost and pay rate analysis, and the production of a new client information book to be used as a reference by our department and others.