Experience

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  Internal Revenue Service

  • United States
  • Government Administration
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Supervisory Internal Revenue Agent

    • Sep 1985 - Jan 2017

    Supervisor,team manager, and instructor - Chicago, Illinois. Currently serving on a Lean Six Sigma Team writing policy and procedure manuals for International Individual Compliance; Virtual classroom instructor for functional manager training programs; team leader for Individual International Tax Compliance, LB& I.

  • Supervisory Internal Revenue Agent

    • Jan 2010 - Sep 2012

    Served as team manager for the IRS 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative. Austin, Texas.Supervised a team of 20 employees in the campus operation involving the receipt of customer document submissions, inventory of over 35,000 client files, case development and analysis, and submission to IRS field groups for certification. Advised and reported to high-ranking officials in Campus Operations, Small Business/Self Employed, Counsel, LB&I, and other agency heads as required. Prepared reports and written analyses pertaining to individual taxpayer submissions, payments, information document requests, streamlined programs, OPT OUTS, and non resident alien submissions. Processed original and delinquent tax returns, foreign bank account reports, consents, bank accounts, and offshore penalties.

  • Global Team Manager

    • Apr 2012 - May 2012

    Served as Acting Global Team Manager for a LB&I Team for a large publicly traded petroleum refining company. Managed IRS teams with technical issue development, pre-appeals conferences, IRS rebuttals to RAR protests, IDR responses, QEP process, and fast track initiatives involving abandonment and acquisition costs, line fill, depreciation, and proper accounting for inventories.

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  Internal Revenue Service

  • United States
  • Government Administration
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Internal Revenue Agent -Forest Industry Technical Advisor

    • Jun 1999 - Apr 2006

    Internal Revenue Agent - Large Corporate Examinations. Served as technical advisor and team member for Natural Resource Industry examinations of pulp and paper manufacturers and forest product manufacturing companies. Assisted in the examination and development of Coordinated issues pertaining to logging roads, capitalization issues, reforestation tax credits; and casualty loss issues involving the separate identified property. Collaborated with other tax specialists including economists, international specialists, engineers, and foresters. Contributed to Forest Products Industry Outreach programs with the IRS National Office pertaining to the Single Identifying Property (SIP), and timber casualty losses. Also contributed to identification and classification of tax returns containing Form T - Forest Industries Schedules for depletion allowances, basis determinations, and IRC Section 631(a) and 631(b) sales of timber.

  • Internal Revenue Agent - Special Enforcement Program

    • Aug 1986 - Jun 1999

    Served as liaison to the Drug Enforcement Administration Asset Forfeiture Program and the IRS Title 31 Compliance Program over the Southeast U.S. Testified as expert witness in federal criminal tax trials and as a summary witness for the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Attorney’s Office pertaining to the criminal forfeiture of assets involving large national and international drug organizations. Served as instructor for Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Drug Enforcement Administration.

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  Floyd M. Hovarter & Associates

  • Whitewater, Wisconsin

  • Forestry Consulting

    • Apr 1981 - Dec 1986
    • Whitewater, Wisconsin

    Consulting forester with special emphasis on timber accounting and taxation for private, non-industrial woodland owners. Assisted in financial and budget analysis of forest product companies.Specialized experience includes natural resources management plans; timber sale administration; planning, ...

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  Webster Lumber Company

  • Bangor, Wisconsin

  • Forester - Wood Products Utilization - Lumber yard operations

    • Aug 1979 - Sep 1980
    • Bangor, Wisconsin

    Forester - Employed as a wood product specialist - lumber and wood processing. Responsible for complete quality control of log and lumber inventory from the log yard through the dry kilns and into the dimension processing plant. Responsible for drying approximately 50-MM board feet of quality red...

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  U.S. Forest Service

  • Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin. Lakewood ra...

  • Recreation Assistant

    • May 1976 - Sep 1977
    • Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin. Lakewood ra...

    Forest Recreation Assistant. Campground Administrator.Forester - Summer Intern- Nicolet National Forest. Recreation Assistant responsible for recreation and campground administration, including collection of fees and revenues, maintenance programs and all public outreach programs. Served as inter...