Certified Fraud Examiner with more than eight years of experience conducting risk-based financial, compliance, and internal-control audits of governmental entities and organizations receiving public funds. Experienced in evaluating cash, receipts, disbursements, payroll, capital assets, debt, electronic records, and financial-system controls; identifying anomalies, control gaps, and compliance exceptions; and preparing clear, evidence-supported workpapers, findings, and communications. Brings direct experience applying Government Auditing Standards, federal audit requirements, and state compliance requirements, together with a fraud-aware, objective, and technology-informed approach.
Professional experience
Assistant Auditor 3
Auditor of State, Ohio, Youngstown, Ohio. July 2018 - Present
Lead and perform risk-based financial and compliance audits of public offices and entities receiving state and federal funds, applying Government Auditing Standards, Auditor of State methodology, and applicable public-accountability requirements.
Evaluate internal-control systems across financial and electronic-recordkeeping environments; identify control gaps, compliance exceptions, access-control concerns, data-handling weaknesses, and risks affecting the reliability of financial information and audit evidence.
Plan and execute audit procedures over cash, receipts, disbursements, payroll, capital assets, debt, and other significant transaction cycles; trace and reconcile financial activity, analyze system-generated documentation, and investigate unusual variances and exceptions.
Apply a fraud-aware and professionally skeptical approach to identifying risk indicators, assessing anomalies, researching underlying conditions, and determining whether matters reflect error, noncompliance, internal-control deficiencies, or issues requiring further review.
Prepare complete, well-organized audit workpapers, work summaries, findings, comments, and supporting conclusions that clearly connect audit procedures, evidence, applicable criteria, exceptions, and recommended management action.
Research and resolve technical accounting, compliance, and audit issues involving governmental operations, public funds, internal controls, and federal and state requirements; exercise sound professional judgment in developing effective audit responses.
Evaluate controls over financial data systems and electronic recordkeeping, applying risk-based concepts related to access management, change control, and data integrity and maximizing the use of available technology resources in audit procedures.
Communicate audit expectations, internal-control concepts, compliance requirements, and audit results effectively with public officials, agency personnel, and other stakeholders.
Lead training sessions for village fiscal officers on financial compliance, internal controls, and audit preparation; explain complex requirements in clear, practical, workflow-relevant language.
Selected as DITA Champion for the AOS East Region (2026), supporting the use and adoption of technology-related audit resources and tools within the region.
Represent the Auditor of State office at recruiting and speaking events such as WCBA Professional Day 2026.
Recognized as East Region Employee of the Quarter (2025).
Staff Accountant
DJL Accounting, Austintown, Ohio. 2017 - 2018
Bookkeeping, general ledger work, compilations, and preparation of federal, state, and local tax returns for corporate and individual clients.
A full list of other professional experience is on my LinkedIn profile.