Experience

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  Carroll Center for the Blind

  • Newton, Massachusetts

  • Accounting and Auditing Professional

    • May 2012 - Present
    • Newton, Massachusetts
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  Di Pesa & Company, CPAs

  • Auditor & Tax Preparer- Public Accounting Firm

    • 2005 - 2012

    Perform audits, reviews, compilations for not-for-profit organizations and nonpublic companies. Includes field work, drafting financial statements, management letters, internal control letters, power-point presentations, OMB A-133 and Massachusetts UFR reports and filings. Tax preparation of IR...

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  Massachusetts Bar Association

  • Director of Finance

    • Oct 2000 - Sep 2005

    A voluntary membership organization with over 18,000 members.Reporting to Executive Director and Budget & Finance Committee, responsible for coordinating, preparing and reviewing the annual budget, financial reporting, investing, banking relations, annual audit coordination, etc. for non-prof...

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  Regis College

  • Weston, MA

  • Controller

    • Jun 1991 - Sep 2000
    • Weston, MA

    Managed staff of 7, directed or performed all accounting, payroll, student accounts, Perkins Loan, cash receipt, accounts payable functions for this all women’s private college. Also, internal budget reporting, external financial reporting, preparing IRS Form 990 and related information returns.

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  USA Cinemas (now part of Sony Theaters)

  • Boston, MA

  • Controller

    • Mar 1985 - Jun 1989
    • Boston, MA

    Financial reporting, accounting controls, MIS, M&A, banking, multi-state taxation, lease administration, supervising approximately 45. Staff and revenues tripled during this period due to growth and acquisitions at this 100-site motion picture exhibitor and concessionaire with approximately ...

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  PwC

  • Boston, MA

  • Sr. Audit Manager

    • Jun 1965 - Mar 1985
    • Boston, MA

    practicing CPA managed auditing, tax, SEC services for diverse organizations including public companies, major colleges and universities, etc.