SUMMARY:

• Pragmatic thinker and innovator who can effectively drive high impact insights within a team of subject matter experts and focus the activities of a strong team to build on the capabilities of an existing group of experts and develop their talents and abilities in complexity, and the changing nature of a high level internal and external role in a fast moving department. W ith fifteen (15) plus years of experience in overseeing and assessing the adequacy of the risk controls in Client’s organization(s) by comprehensive program of audit coverage through technology assessment framework primarily focused on internal controls over financial reporting and systems to make recommendations of improvement of financial operations, system effectiveness, and maintenance of the integrity of financial information in accordance with Confidential Circular, Appendix A.
• Additional expertise in Compliance of B ank Secrecy Act and Anti - Money Laundering (AML) compliance and enforcement in the evaluation of financial regulatory information, including evaluating for Confidential compliance, currency transaction reports (CTRs) and suspicious activity reports (SARs) to regulate intelligence, and law enforcement research in support of possible civil enforcement actions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Contractor

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained requirements to safeguards the financial system from the abuses of financial crime in the form of white-papers in support of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( Confidential ), to prevent and detecting financing, money laundering, and other financial crime.
• Supported the agency in financial intelligence unit models to protect the United States financial system to give support to Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s ( Confidential ).
• Produced a study of provide data-driven tactical and strategic perspectives to a broad range of customers, including law enforcement, regulators, the intelligence community, foreign partners, and the financial industry focused on illicit finance and financial criminal networks compromised financial institutions and jurisdictions, and schemes and methods related to a geographic region or functional area.
• Responsible for collecting, producing and evaluating policies, data, trends and/or financial programs that contribute to the deterrence and detection of foreign and domestic financial criminal activity while managing a team that maintained interface requirements and interface design information for assigned sub-system, system and components in order to support the execution and monitoring of cost, schedule, risk, and Contract Data Requirement List (CDRL) delivery to facilitate formal decisions and trade studies to drive design and document results.
• Advised the Client to Develop and maintain requirements verification and compliance, and supporting artifacts to provide Systems Engineering input to support vehicle level Systems Engineering activities and program milestone reviews that would be a selling point to other organizations.
• Trained staff on System engineering processes and methods to manage day to operations through Audit logs and System health check related scanners.

Senior Associate

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Directly managed internal controls (including Confidential ) to be put in place and adequately maintained including proper segregation of duties in the performance of processes and procedures, as well as the proper reporting of financial information while also conducting engagements in areas of high risk to the Client organization with Oracle Financial through ERP- Financial Management, Oracle Federal Financials (OFF release 11/12), Methodology, Documentation, Configuration of Applications, Testing, FA Modules, ISO27001, 27002, IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-82, NERC-CIP, NEI 08-09, COBIT, Sarbanes-Oxley, systems implementations, IT, engineering, operational and compliance audits.
• Ensured all financial reporting/budgeting/forecasting, including start dates, completion dates, fee sales, labor sales, labor forecast, regional forecast, forecast ranges as part of advisement to the Client in responsibility of managing accomplishment of Department of Defense contract audit work for an assigned group of Field Audit Offices (FAOs) to include accounting and financial advisory services regarding contracts.
• Led a team to work directly with law enforcement units to identify and investigate unusual, suspicious, and potentially fraudulent activities, both internal and external Client FMS systems and also developed recommendations for additional control requirements and process enhancements.
• Provided written materials regarding national policy initiatives and strategies on asset forfeiture and money laundering-related issues including development of legislative initiatives and strategies, preparation of positions on legislation proposed by Congress including data extracting meaning from large quantities of complex date, find connections, and identify anomalies, trends, and re-occurrences.
• Analyzed to recommend the appropriate course of action when fraud is detected and provide well-documented results of research and analysis in analytical support with various types of ongoing fraud investigations.
• Ensured proper controls are in place for the detection and prevention of suspicious activity to include the use of automated systems, reports, and other technological tools

Management Consultant

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Provided support and recommended operational, procedural and systems modifications to support accounting operations, financial reporting and adequate internal controls to support Battle Plans for Fraudulent activity in the Financial Management system mainframe.
• Assured the integrity of internal controls in developing and maintaining Client’s financial systems to include monthly and year-to-date reconciliations between subsidiary accounts and the general ledger.
• Led a team to make improvements in internal controls and procedures to ensure that data is accurate and reliable.
• Designed and modified existing accounting reports to meet PMO and Client’s requests by reviewing documents, records and accounting reports and processes to assure conformance with accounting principles, new procedures and new regulations in FISMA, FIPS, NIST, and FedRAMP .
• Researched and analyzed data to develop and prepare a variety of financial documents, management reports and presentations.
• Served as the agency's primary contact liaison with GAO, stakeholders, contractors and System Owners.

Contractor

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed and direct all accounting functions to include general ledger accounting, financial reporting, cost accounting, payroll/timekeeping, accounts payable and receivable.
• Utilized SAP-Finance module to manage accounting services, accounting schedules, and all internal and external financial audits.
• Collaborated with the Stakeholders on the strategic financial planning including assisting in the development and negotiation of contracts by assessing the financial risks of all prospective contracts and advised the Confidential Client on programmatic design and implementation.
• Ensured adequate controls are installed and that substantiating documentation is approved and available to ensure compliance with government and independent audits.
• Provided the Confidential COMMAND with an operating budget that was workable with the relevant stakeholders to ensure programmatic success through cost analysis support, and compliance with all contractual requirements.
• Interpreted regulations to ensure compliance with all federal and contractual guidelines to ensure adequate cash flow to meet the organization's needs and played a key part in overseeing the production of monthly reports including reconciliations with funders and pension plan requirements, financial statements and cash flow projections for use by Executive management.

Senior Financial Analyst

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Directly led the communication and Interfacing with the client, various offices within Confidential ( Confidential ), and external naval activities.
• Managed the user log and use of MISIL, DIFS, Cobra, Wish, Proud, STARS, SCIP, CEPT, EDA, Information Warehouse, and PRISMS including the financial status of all open funding documents including leading the communication framework with multiple Confidential officials to obtain funding documents and determine the status of these funding documents.
• Created work packages to resolve discrepancies, review and generate weekly and monthly reports from accounting, document systems, and report status of open documents to client.
• Performed annual active case reviews for active cases and obtain required reports for the review and analyze the information.
• Led the technical project managers to ensure support provided meets or exceeds all work performance objectives and standards.

Contractor

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Implemented policies and supported organization technology that reported the operational risk profile of the Client’s organization by leading all aspects of Organizational Change Management including strategic communications, end user training, and stakeholder management in support of a large DHS agency based Finance system implementation.
• Effectively collaborated with Client to ensure that Information System Security Officers (ISSOs) and other System Stakeholders adhere to Federal Information Assurance policies and procedures to acquire and maintain an Information System’s Authority to Operate (ATO) under The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 following NIST 800-53 guidelines and NIST-800-53a security controls assessment practices.
• Successfully developed a process of deliverables to assist the Program Managers in establishing and maintaining budgets, forecasts, reports and other finance related artifacts through: Organizing Project Financials, Budget Management in Clarity, Management Reporting and audit reports on Enterprise organizations. Developed, analyzed and tracked financial business cases while collaborating with other teams to mitigate project risks and dependencies. Implemen ted keys plans for vulnerability and scanning tools and well-versed in interpreting risk posture resulting from assessment reports in order to mitigate new risks and issues and provided guidance to the Client in the development / documentation of risk, issue, control descriptions and remediation plans.
• Collaborated extensively with multiple senior-level stakeholders (system owners, mission leads, IT Governance, and the Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO)) in the conduct of system compliance and protection activities covering both domestic and international projects.
• Supported work with mission and technical teams to perform security analysis on in-development technical solutions and provide security compliance and guidance input as required.
• Successfully evaluated systems (either in development or in production) for compliance with Federal security requirements and develop corresponding documentation to assist system owners with identifying and utilizing relevant enterprise shared services and solutions to enable compliance and security activities.

Consultant

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Provided management, strategic direction, and oversight of the Pharmaceutical products and their financial performance.
• Served as the primary liaison with Confidential office and Management.
• Lead a three-man team to present Risk Assessments on Market volatility before product launch.
• Collaborated with stakeholders, including private funders, U.S. government agencies, host governments, donors, local organizations and partners to strengthen a proven record of integrity and excellent management, leadership, and decision making skills to maintain strong communication and interpersonal skills, including being an articulate speaker and sympathetic listener to facilitate private/public partnerships.
• Performed trade-off analysis of performance, life-cycle cost, risk, reducibility, and other system or program requirements.
• Successfully assessed architecture and current hardware limitations, defined and designed system specifications, and evaluated input/output processes while working parameters for hardware/software compatibility with the Technology team.

Project-Coordinator

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the technical teams to perform security analysis on in-development technical solutions and provide security compliance and guidance input to show security vulnerabilities and risk.
• Successfully developed and maintained system risk assessments, remediation and mitigation plans to become a trusted security subject matter expert supporting various mission leaders and activities to perform technical IT system security/vulnerability assessments using provided tools - interpret results and manage remediation's as needed to support various other security-related activities including facilitation of change control processes.
• Planned and performed high-level analysis, evaluation, design, integration, documentation, and implementation of complex solutions that required a thorough knowledge of the pharmaceutical product.
• Performed trade-off analysis of performance, life-cycle cost, risk, reducibility, and other system or program requirements.
• Successfully assessed architecture and current hardware limitations, defined and designed system specifications, and evaluated input/output processes while working parameters for hardware/software compatibility with the Technology team.