Mark Carter Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Engaged as the Chief Financial Officer for VoicePulse, Inc., a Voice Over Internet Protocol telecommunications company. Reviewed and restated three years of records and revamped financial and regulatory processes to improve efficiency and compliance.Conducted an investigation into a corporate purchasing card fraud, identifying more than $600,000 in fraudulent purchases made over a 5 year period. Conducted a review, revising and establishing effective internal controls over the corporation's purchasing and accounts payable function.Directed an investigation, reviewing court transcripts, audit work papers, electronic evidence collection and storage methodologies, identifying and interviewing potential witness, and developing an appropriate public relations strategy to prepare an appeal strategy for a CEO of a public company who was convicted of lying to his auditors.Planned and implemented an IT security review and electronic threat countermeasures inspection of a private equity company’s offices in California, New York, London, and Hong Kong.Adjunct Professor of Accounting at Stratford University, Woodbridge, VA.Adjunct Professor at Utica College teaching online courses in Economic Crime Management.

Created four real estate investment and development companies.Developed governance, accounting, and financial reporting processes to manage each company.Negotiated and put in place $6 million in purchase and development financing.Contracted for the purchase, development activities, and sale of commercial and residential real estate.

Engaged as the Chief Financial Officer for VoicePulse, Inc., a Voice Over Internet Protocol telecommunications company, reviewed and restated three years of records and revamped financial and regulatory processes to improve efficiency and compliance.

Conducted due diligence and prepared valuations and forecasts leading a private equity purchase of VarTec Telecom assets out of bankruptcy for $82.1 million.Generated a return to profitability for the $360 million company by creating operational and strategic forecasts, budgets, and management reports to drive efficient operational decision making.Restructured and directed the activities of the Tax, Treasury, Billing, Accounting, Network Cost Management and Management Reporting Departments, reducing personnel by 50 percent. Reviewed and approved tax filings for federal, multi-state, and hundreds of local tax jurisdictions for C Corporation and Limited Partnership entities.Designed and implemented a migration from Oracle accounting systems to Great Plains accounting systems saving $1 million in annual fees.Negotiated and put in place a $30 million asset based line of credit.Reviewed and approved all merger and acquisitions financial due diligence reviews and accounting.Established a Sarbanes-Oxley compliant system of internal controls.Approved all budgets and expenditures and prepared and approved the monthly closing of financial statements in accordance with GAAP and FASB standards.Selected and contracted with an independent auditor and received an unqualified opinion for the 2006 financial statements.

Co-founded the company, assembling a team of investigative and IT forensics specialists providing investigative, computer forensics, and electronic discovery services to Fortune 500 companies.Managed finance and operations, growing the company to more than 40 employees and $7.5 million in revenue.Maintained GAAP compliant accounting processes and prepared federal, multi-state, and local tax returns.Structured a Sarbanes-Oxley compliant system of internal controls to prepare for sale to a public company.Supervised due diligence investigations of companies and executives for private equity and investment banking clients and personally directed multi-million dollar high profile investigations into financial fraud and trade secret theft, testifying in federal court as a computer forensics expert and as an accounting expert.Led CoreFacts through its sale to a public company for after four years of operations.

Supervised 90 professionals located in 7 states with a budget of $11 million.Championed the development of an ethics and compliance program to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.Centralized four units, reducing expenses by $1.6 million and improving results in key areas.Managed the Federal Government security clearance and classified information programs.

Conducted investigations of federal crimes to include Bank Fraud and Embezzlement, Fraud against the Government, Public Corruption, and Fraud by Wire.