Detailed Resume
Professional Experience
SENIOR MANAGER and DIRECTOR OF CONSULTING
Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC (1998 - present)
- Responsibilities:
- Supervise and perform audit and accounting engagements
- Consult with clients on management and other areas
- Advise firm members about accounting and auditing matters
- Perform pre-issuance technical reviews
- Lead in-house technical training sessions
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Industries Serviced:
- Colleges and universities
- Construction contracting
- Employee benefit plans (single and multi-employer plans)
- Financial institutions
- Manufacturing
- Municipalities
- Not-for-profit organizations
- Peer reviews
- School districts
- SEC
- State and local governmental units
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Other Services:
- Fraud investigation and fraud prevention consulting
- Internal auditing
- Data extraction and analysis
Top of Professional Experience
SENIOR MANAGER
Brooks, Stednitz & Rhodes, Accountancy Corporation (1996 - 98)
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Responsibilities:
- Performed and supervised audit and accounting engagements
- Consulted with clients on management and other areas
- Planned and coordinated the firm's professional knowledge and training program
- Advised other firm members about accounting and auditing matters
- Monitored and advised about information technology applications
- Wrote and maintained the firm's Web site
- Performed pre-issuance technical reviews
- Managed installation of computer network upgrade
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Industries Serviced:
- Construction contracting
- Employee benefit plans (including ERISA audits)
- Manufacturing
- Not-for-profit organizations
- Professional services
- Wholesale and retail
- Peer reviews
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Peer Review Program, California Society of CPAs (1990-96)
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Peer Review Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the evaluation of peer review reports and letters of response
- Answered technical peer review, accounting and auditing questions from other CPAs
- Mediated disputes between reviewers and firms
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Management Responsibilities:
- Supervised and evaluated Society staff and per diem technical reviewers
- Public speaking on peer review and other topics
- Staff liaison for:
- Accounting Principles & Auditing Standards Committee
- Assurance Services task force
- Enhancement of Small Business task forces
- Facilitated group problem-solving sessions
- Prepared budgets for responsibility areas
- Wrote publications and courses:
- California Reviewer, the Peer Review Program newsletter
- Advanced Reviewer
Symposium, a training class for peer reviewers
- Peer Review Program Technical Reviewer's Manual
- Practice aids for reviewers and firms
- Drafted the business plan for the Society's technical hotline service
PARTNER
Clark, Wong, Foulkes & Barbieri [now RINA Accontancy Corporation] (Oakland, CA, 1981-90)
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Responsibilities:
- Partner in charge of auditing, accounting, and quality control
- Client service partner
- Interviewed and evaluated professional staff
- Audit and accounting trainer
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Industries Serviced:
- Construction contracting
- Employee benefit plans
- Governmental
- Manufacturing
- Not-for-profit
- Professional services
STAFF ACCOUNTANT
Weinlander, Fitzhugh, Bertuleit & Schaier
(Bay City, MI, 1979-81)
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Responsibilities:
- Audit, accounting and tax engagements
- Management consulting
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Industries Serviced:
- Governmental (city and county)
- Health care (hospital)
- Manufacturing
- Not-for-profit
Education and Licenses
- BA, 1979, Michigan State University
- Current CPA license in Michigan
- Annual continuing professional education
Professional
and Volunteer Roles
American Institute of CPAs
- Discussion leader at AICPA Peer Review Conferences
- Discussion leader at the AICPA's 2008 Practitioners Symposium
- Instructor for federal and state court judges at the National Judicial
College
Michigan Association of CPAs Task Forces
- Accounting & Auditing Standards (current
member and former chair)
- Accounting & Auditing Conference Planning
(current member and vice chair)
- Peer Review (current member)
- Nonprofit Conference Planning (past
member)
California Society of CPAs
- Instructor
- State Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards Committee
(past member and audit subcommittee chair)
- San Jose Chapter AP&AS Committee (past member and chair)
- Quality Review Committee (founding task force member and past committee member)
- East Bay chapter (past director and committee chair)
- East Bay chapter Bulletin (past editor)
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Institute of Internal Auditors
IMA (Institute of Management Accountants)
Rotary International District 6310
- Assistant Governor for Area 9 (2007-10)
- Membership Development chair (2005-07 and 2010-11)
Rotary Club of Saginaw-Sunrise
- President 2003-04, 2010
- Board of directors 2001-05, 2010-2011
- Chair, Club Services Committee 2002-03
Japanese Cultural Center and Tea House
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce
- Alumni Member, Ambassador Club
St. Charles Community Schools
- Treasurer, Board of Education
St. Charles Athletic Association
St. Charles Music Association
Previous Civic Roles:
Writing
and Teaching Experience
AUTHOR/INSTRUCTOR:
- Audit Planning:
A Practical Guide To Integrating the Standards
- Nonprofit Issues with Fraud, Risk Assessment, Internal Control and Volunteers
- Ethics and Independence
- Fraud Prevention and Detection
- AICPA's Current Issues in Practice Monitoring
(advanced peer reviewer course)
- Financial Management for Nonprofit
Organizations
- AICPA's Peer Review: Are You Ready?
- Internal Control: What Every Organization
Should Know
- FASB/GAAP Update
- Advanced Reviewers' Symposium (CalCPA)
- Future of the Accounting Profession: Assurance
Services and Facing New Challenges
- How to Perform an Executive Level A&A Engagement Review
- Financial Statement Disclosure Issues
- Auditing Strategies for the Local Practitioner
- Internet Security and Identity Theft
- Quality Review: The Advanced Reviewer Seminar
- Inspections: How To Perform Them and Correct Common Problems
INSTRUCTOR:
- CalCPA Education Foundation (Accounting and Auditing Update; Risk and Materiality;
Analytical Review Techniques; Audits of Small Businesses; FASB/SAS Update)
- Oregon Society of CPAs (Current Issues in Practice Monitoring)
- California Department of Corporations: Audit Planning
- California county internal auditors: Internal Control
- Contra Costa College (Beginning Accounting)
Technology Skills and Experience
GENERAL:
- IDEA data extraction software (DES)
- HTML
- Creative Solutions
- Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word)
- OpenOffice
- Adobe Acrobat
- Mind Mapping software (Mindjet MindManager, Buzan's iMindMap, SmartDraw)
OTHER INTERESTS:
- Database design
- Expert systems
What
I Do in My Spare Time
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Besides spending time with my family, I love to write, sing, play the acoustic guitar, make fishing
lures, and help our local school through volunteer activities.
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Current as of June 24, 2011