International Development Consultant

• Aug 2019 - Present

Forensic Accountant

• Jun 2017 - Present

Business Consultant

• May 2009 - Present

International Development Consultant

• Oct 2013 - Sep 2019

Deputy Assistant Inspector General for MCC

• May 2012 - Oct 2013

Served as the Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) within the USAID Office of Inspection General (OIG). My primary responsibilities were to direct financial and performance audits and reviews, including the planning, fieldwork and reporting phases; and ensure that the audit work complies with auditing standards. This also included directing the preparation of MCC's portion of the annual audit plan, developing the budget, overseeing contractors, and other administrative tasks. I managed two division directors (Performance Audits Division and Financial Audits Division), fourteen auditors and program analysts, interns and a program assistant. He has oversight responsibility for independent public accountants that conduct the annual financial statement audit of MCC and fund accountability statement audits of recipient country entities.

Director, Fiscal Accountability

• May 2010 - May 2012

Served as a member of the Department of Compact Operations with responsibility for ensuring that US Government funds are properly planned, budgeted, obligated and expended, and for working with MCC staff in the execution of fiscal accountability and other related functions (e.g., procurement, legal) throughout the compact mobilization, implementation and closure lifecycle. Formulates and recommends plans to improve program policies, practices, methods, and organizational structure, as it relates to financial management and fiscal accountability. In addition, I serve as an authoritative representative of the Agency on fiscal accountability and financial management matters to senior officials of foreign governments receiving MCC assistance.

Director, Financial Audits Division

• Jan 2007 - May 2010

As Director of the Financial Audit division in the USAID OIG for MCC, I was responsible for managing all financial related audit activities. My major duties consist of supervising the division's work related to: oversight and monitoring of the contracted annual financial statement and FISMA audits of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC); audits and limited-scope reviews of MCC and its Accountable Entities (Compact Countries); desk reviews of Independent Public Accountant's reports of the semi-annual Fund Accountability Statement audits of the Accountable Entities, and issuing audit recommendations to agency management on findings and questioned costs; Quality Control Reviews of the Independent Public Accountant's Accountable Entity audit reports and working paper documentation to ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS); vetting audit firms for inclusion on the OIG MCC Auditor Approved Lists; developing annual audit plans and budgets, responding to congressional requests, and evaluating and monitoring MCC management's comments to recommendations resulting from audit findings. I was also responsible for reviewing working paper documentation, evaluating staff’s performance, coordinating team's training and career development using individual development plans, and providing cross-training.

Assistant Director, Financial Audits Division

• 2003 - 2007

As Assistant Director in the USAID OIG Financial Audits Division (FA), I was responsible for managing the activities of the External Audit Team and reporting results to OIG management. My major duties consist of supervising the team's work related to: Oversight of the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) (For-Profit Contractors) and Independent Public Accountants (OMB Circular A-133 audits of Non-Profit Recipients) audit reports. This included tracking DCAA audit budgets, monitoring DCAA reimbursable billings, desk reviews of OMB Circular A-133 and DCAA audit reports, and issuing audit recommendations to agency management on contractor and recipient findings and questioned costs; performing Quality Control Reviews (QCRs) of Independent Audit firms working papers pertaining to audits of USAID recipients; Conducting special audits of USAID contractors and recipients, and responding to congressional requests; evaluating and monitoring agency managements comments to recommendations resulting from contractor and recipient audit findings; and, providing audit support services to OIG Investigations. I was also responsible for reviewing working papers, evaluating the team member’s performance, coordinating subordinates training and career development using individual development plans, and providing cross-training. In conjunction with the activities of the External Audit Team and as the USAID National Single Audit Coordinator, I represented the USAID OIG in the Department of Education's National Single Audit Sampling Project, the National Single Audit Roundtable, the Domestic Working Group Grants Accountability Project, and other Interagency and Non-Government professional committees.

Team Leader, Contract Audit Management

• 1999 - 2003

As a team leader in the Contract Audit Management (CAM) Branch Office of USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance, I ensured that my team provided accounting and audit support to USAID's Contracting and Agreement Officers located in Washington, DC and overseas missions. This support included daily coordination with Contracting and Assistance Officers on issues related to preaward responsibility determination, management decisions on OIG audit recommendations resulting from audit reports issued by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) and independent public accounting firms (IPAs). I performed and supervised reviews of USAID contractors and recipients; including preaward accounting system and financial capability, proposals, budgets, and special incurred cost audits requiring travel throughout the United States and overseas. My team also managed USAIDs use of non-USAID audit services by determining the required scope of audit, requesting, and monitoring the timeliness and adequacy of the outside services. In addition to the above, from October 2000 until February 2002, I was co-acting Branch Chief of CAM. This involved day to day and long term planning elements present in managing an audit and administrative staff, as well as representing CAM inside and outside of USAID.

Senior Auditor, Washington Contracts Division

• Aug 1998 - Feb 1999

As an auditor with the US EPA, Office of Inspector General, Washington Contracts Division, I worked exclusively with the special agents in the Mid-Atlantic Investigations Division. I conducted forensic audits, and provided financial investigative support services for criminal and regulatory investigations. Although only in this office for 7 months, I received an award based on a peer nomination from two special agents for audit services provided in an investigation of allegations of labor cost mischarging.

Senior Auditor

• Sep 1983 - Aug 1998

My fifteen years with the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) included assignments in five Field Audit Offices, providing audit services in seven US states, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. As a field auditor, I performed various types of audits (proposal reviews, incurred cost audits, accounting system and financial capability reviews, etc.) of contractors and non-profit organizations. My years at DCAA included extended assignments at large contractors (Sundstrand Aviation in Rockford, Illinois; Avco Systems/ Textron in Wilmington, Massachusetts; and Raytheon Submarine Signal Division in Portsmouth, Rhode Island), and a major corporate headquarters (Lockheed Martin Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland). In addition, as a member of mobile audit teams (Northeastern Branch Office in Burlington, Massachusetts; and European Branch Office in Wiesbaden, Germany), I audited many small and mid-size manufacturing, engineering, A&E construction, and non-profit organizations.