Novogradac & Company LLP (Top 100 National Public Accounting Firm)

Senior Accountant II/MIS/IT Auditor - October 2003 – Present.

• Firm specializes in preparing financial audits and tax returns for real estate partnerships in the low-income housing tax credit industry.

• Supervising Senior on Financial Audit and Tax engagements

• Performed detailed review of Agreed Upon Procedures prepared by staff.

• Worked as an information systems auditor performing Sarbanes-Oxley testing of general and application computer controls.

• Experience working as staff on engagements requiring forensic audit procedures related to project construction costs.

Linux Labs

Staff Accountant - March 2002 – September 2003. (Part-time)

• Installed and setup MybooksPro, a Linux based accounting package, to replace existing system.

• Generated custom chart of accounts as well as formatting financial statements, invoices and managerial reports.

• Trained employees responsible for data entry and created accounting policy & documentation.

• Setup and administered corporate payroll with Paychex.

Intertec Publishing (now apart of Primedia Business)

Senior Accounting Clerk - September 1999 – April 2000. (Internship)

• Worked with accounts payable, expense reports, internal financial statements and statistical reporting for management.

• Interfaced with all levels from corporate management to group publishers/editors.

• Performed monthly closing with the Business Manager including recurring journal entries (AS400 experience).

Kennesaw State University

BBA in Accounting1998

BS in Computer Science 2002

Mercer University

MBA IT & Accounting (Candidate) Summer 2005 – Present (21 credit hours completed)

CPA (Currently Studying for Exam)

Certifications

CISA Certification – October, 2006 (#0651157)

Yamacraw Certificate May, 2002

IT Network Security and Information Assurance Certificate December, 2002

Software

Microsoft OS & Office Suites (Strong Excel), Red Hat Linux OS (Strong Gnumeric & OpenOffice), GoSystem (Ace Audit Plus), Quickbooks, Perl/MySQL, Apache, AS400, ProsystemFX Engagement and Tax.