Project Manager Life Insurance

Work History **** - Present RMR Business Services

Sioux Falls, SD

Self-employed as a consultant specializing in business

continuity planning and bank internal audits, regulatory

compliance, and loan reviews.

1996-2005 BANKFIRST

Sioux Falls, SD

Business Continuity Manager (2000 - 2005 )

Responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive

business continuity (disaster recovery) program for assuring

operations of five branch banks and two large credit card

call centers having large-scale network, client-server

applications, and telecommunications systems.

Y2k Project Manager (1998 - 2000)

Led the Bank's project to prepare all computer systems and

departments for the millennium date change. When it

occurred, there were no incidents.

Internal Auditor (1996 - 1998)

Started and managed the internal audit department. Also

assisted performed regulatory compliance reviews and

assisted start-up departments with developing their policies

and procedures to comply with bank regulations and for

proper internal accounting controls.

1989 - 1995 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Racine, WI

Supervisor, Internal Audit

Examined and evaluated cost accounting, plant production,

inventory, warehouse, and distribution center functions for

ways to improve internal controls, efficiency, and

profitability.

Frequently found and resolved computer applications and

systems conversion problems.

Recommended a simple way to increase sales by an estimated

$500,000.

Found the "bug" in a computer program that caused an

inventory discrepancy of $800,000.

Determined suppliers' overshipments cost the company

$900,000.

1987 - 1988 Midland National Life Insurance

Sioux Falls, SD

Manager, Internal Audit

Managed the internal audit department.

Performed IT audits of the life insurance system and IBM

mainframe, and also was the mainframe's CICS security

administrator.

Determined 1,500 policies were left in "suspense" in the

computer system -- not billing, lapsing, or anything.

Found investment accounts were out of balance by $2.5

million because they were not properly reconciled.

Work History 1981 - 1987 Citibank (South Dakota), NA

(continued) Sioux Falls, SD

Working Audit Manager

Performed, supervised, and trained others in financial,

operational, regulatory compliance, and loan portfolio

quality examinations.

Started the bank's regulatory compliance audit program

(e.g., BSA, Regulations B, E, and Z).

Determined finance charges were miscalculated, resulting in

refunds of excess charges and mailings of new credit card

agreements to 1.2 million cardholders.

Analyzed bad debt reserves determining they were understated

by $5.5 million.

Education University of South Dakota, School of Business

Vermillion, SD

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

Major: Accounting

Certification CPA

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