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E X P E R I E N C E
S U M M A R Y
Federal Financial manager, CPA,
and JD with 30
years of high level experience with the Department of the Treasury,
Financial Management Service and Federal Accounting Standards
Advisory Board (FASAB) in financial concepts and standards, reporting, auditing; legislation
and policy analysis; ..
Qualifications
Thirty years of Federal financial management
experience (February 1976 – October 2005) with Treasury’s Financial
Management Service (FMS) including seven years as a Senior Advisor
to the Assistant Commissioner for Government-wide Accounting. The
Assistant Commissioner area I worked in has, among other things, the
statutory responsibility to prepare the Consolidated Financial
Report of the United States Government (CFR). I had major
responsibilities relating to the CFR including the preparation of
Management’s Discussion and Analysis. (I was a member of a small
team that prepared Treasury’s first prototype CFR in 1976.)
For 15 years I provided staff
support to Treasury’s Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)
member [Fiscal Assistant Secretary Gerald Murphy (1991-1998); Fiscal
Assistant Secretary Donald Hammond (1998-1999); Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Accounting Policy Robert Reid (1999-2005)]. I served
on many task forces that addressed accounting policy issues and I
worked closely with FASAB staff to ensure that Treasury’s FASAB
member was well represented in policy deliberations. My work
related to FASAB culminated in 2005 when I served as the project
manager for a FASAB Statement of Federal Financial Accounting
Standards that changes accounting requirements applicable to the CFR
based on concepts articulated in FASAB Concepts Statement 4 Intended
Audience and Qualitative Characteristics for the Consolidated
Financial Report of the United States Government.
In 1998 I was honored by
Treasury’s CFO by being nominated to serve as Treasury’s
representative on FASAB’s Accounting and Auditing Policy Committee (AAPC).
The AAPC is a standing committee chaired by FASAB’s Executive
Director that resolves accounting and auditing questions and issues
Technical Releases that become part of Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles (GAAP).
I have been involved with systems
development work and served as a project manager in developing
systems related to financial management programs conducted by FMS.
Also, I drafted a regulation that provided for state tax withholding
from members of the military and consolidated tax withholding
agreements with states and localities for Federal employees. I
worked with Treasury’s General Counsel, State Tax Commissioners, and
Senior Officials of the Department of Defense to promulgate the
regulation.
Prior to going to work for FMS, I
worked as an auditor for Deloitte Haskins & Sells in Boston.
E D U C A T I O N
& C E R T I F I C A T I O N
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Tufts University
Medford Massachusetts
BA 1968 Majors: Economics & Political Science
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University of Pennsylvania
Law School
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
JD 1974 Major: Law
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Rutgers University Graduate
School of Business Administration
MBA 1975 Major: Accounting
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Licensures & Certifications
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Honors & Awards
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U.S. Army Commendation
Medal for service in Viet Nam (1969-1970)
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Massachusetts Society of
CPA’s Certificate of Achievement for passing the CPA exam at
the first sitting (November 1975)
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Approximately 25 awards
from FMS including a Special Act Award in 2005 for developing
a FASAB exposure draft
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