Director, Assurance and Business Advisory

• Jan 2023 - Present

Audit Director

• Aug 2018 - Oct 2022

Assurance Senior Manager

• Jan 2015 - Aug 2018

I am an assurance senior manager at BDO dedicated to the Restaurant Practice working from the firm’s Cincinnati – Blue Ash office. This office is the hub of BDO’s restaurant industry practice, serving franchisees, franchisors, and independent restaurant companies across the country. I serve as the main client contact on audits, reviews, and compilations, including employee benefit plans and internal control reviews.www.bdo.com/restaurants

Assurance Manager

• Oct 2010 - Dec 2014

I am a senior associate in the assurance services department in SS&G’s Cincinnati office. I am in the in-charge and main client contact on audits, reviews, and compilations, including employee benefit plans, for a variety of manufacturing and technology companies, but primarily in the restaurant industry. I have also completed several SSAE 16 audit engagements as well as internal control review projects for restaurant clients.Specialties:Audits and assurance services of restaurant companies.

Assurance Associate

• Dec 2006 - Oct 2010

Operations Manager-Admissions Department

• Apr 2000 - Aug 2006

Managed the daily operations for the Admissions Department, including daily ticket sales, season pass sales and processing, parking entry area, park entry, group sales, concert ticket sales, and lost and found. My key responsibilities included directly managing a staff of 6 area managers, and 12 supervisors (in addition to a department of 150 line associates), crowd/line management, handling escalated guest situations and problem solving, managed and optimized staff scheduling to ensure customer satisfaction within departmental budgets, oversaw hiring and firing for the department, harassment prevention, and worked towards a stable loss prevention program. In addition to those responsibilities, I also implemented and ran an associate incentives program and initiated and produced a weekly informational newsletter for the department.