SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
 * Professional accountant and manager with broad experience in various
complexities of income tax planning and compliance.
 * Extensive involvement in planning and managing internal projects.
 * Strong leader and dedicated team member experienced and comfortable working
with staff and management at all levels.
 * Solid client relationship manager with successful track record of maintaining
and strengthening client relationships.

EDUCATION:

Master of Accountancy, University of Mississippi - August 1998
Bachelor of Accountancy, University of Mississippi - August 1997

CERTIFICATION: Certified Public Accountant, licensed in Georgia 2002-2008;
Washington 2009

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Bader Martin PS - Seattle, WA
Manager, Tax Services, 2008 - 2009
 * Responsible for managing the completion of federal and state tax returns for
250+ individuals; closely-held S-corporations; professional services and real
estate management partnerships.
 * Successfully transitioned 3 large client groups consisting of 12
S-corporations and partnerships and 43 individual tax returns from prior
accountants.
 * Simplified the estimated tax payment modeling process for 2 large (80+
shareholders) family-owned S-corporations and reduced preparation time by several
days each quarter.
 * Assisted with implementation of an electronic work-flow management system as
part of an on-going process of transition to a paperless work environment.
 * Discovered several tax saving opportunities for a large real estate developer
to optimize current losses and simplify his operating structure resulting in tax
savings in excess of $1 million and reducing his on-going administrative burden.

Assurant Solutions & Specialty Property, Assurant, Inc. - Atlanta, GA
Senior Tax Accountant and Supervisor, 2005 - 2008
 * Initiated collaboration with other departments to establish critical
financial information sharing routine to ensure quarterly deadlines imposed by
outside regulators were met timely.
 * Accelerated quarterly tax provision completion by 3 days for 45
corporations.
 * Reduced annual tax return preparation time 25% per entity over prior years.
 * Streamlined delivery of annual income tax footnotes to financial reporting
while increasing integrity of information delivered.
 * Provided annual tax return and quarterly GAAP and Statutory income tax
provision preparation for twenty related insurance companies and agencies with
revenues totaling over $1.2 billion and assets of $15 billion.
 * Maintained files and documented internal processes in accordance with Section
404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act guidelines.
 * Oversight for Client Financial Services accountants preparing income tax
provisions and tax entries for external clients who sold company products.
 * Responded to inquiries from various external authorities and members of
senior management.

Windham Brannon PC CPAs - Atlanta, GA
Associate, 1999 - 2000
Senior Associate, 2000 - 2001
In-charge Accountant, 2002 - 2005
 * Tax team leader 4 years - liaison between firm owners and accounting staff.
 *  As a group, redesigned internal tax preparation processes to transition firm
to a paperless work environment.
 * Developed more accurate and flexible system of tax return progress tracking
that was consistent with actual workflow.
 * Serve as first reviewer and mentor for new staff to encourage their success
and decrease turnover.
 * Developed and taught classes firm wide on use of tax software, new firm
procedures, income tax projections and new tax legislation.
 * Provided tax planning, compliance and review services for high net worth
individuals, closely-held S-corporations and family partnerships.

National Bank of Commerce, Memphis, TN
Staff Auditor, 1998 - 1999
 * Independently performed twenty-five retail branch audits focusing on
compliance with federal regulations, internal control and bank operating
procedures.
 * Participated in an extensive compliance review of loan data including
identification of data recording and reporting issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Access; Cognos Business Intelligence; Adobe
Acrobat; ProSystems fx Tax; GoSystem tax RS.