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01/1996 -
present
LobaTek
Incorporated-
Big Ideas for Small Business: Owner,
special projects in accounting, bookkeeping, income tax *individual or
corporate*, financial/technical contract and program management, grant
writing, government regulatory compliance risk assessment and reporting,
technical writing, tech support for small business since 1996.
Worked 20 years w/IRS rules and regulations for accounting and income tax.
08/07 – 10/07 – Interim Village Manager, the Village of
Stockbridge, Michigan.
budget amendments, municipal codes, ordinance violations,
emotions around signage, personnel load balancing, facilities and technology
management, technology purchases and implementation, visits to new and
established businesses, change management, safe-keeping our children walking
to and from school, the management of expectations around present and future
community projects, taking into account economic and financial limitations
of municipal government.
Designed
the Stockbridge Defining Moment Campaign -
http://www.lobatek.com/
Software tools:
BS&A software tools for government municipalities, Office
Professional 2007, Adobe Photoshop
Training: Essentials of Zoning, Municipal Planning, and Site Review
Creation and Evaluation, Sept’07
US Dept. of Homeland Security, National Incident
Management System – Federal Emergency Management Association Certifications
Sept’07:
"IS-00800.A" entitled "National
Response Plan (NRP), an Introduction ",
"IS-00200" entitled "ICS for Single
Resources and Initial Action Incidents"
"IS-00100" entitled "Introduction to
the Incident Command System, (ICS 100)"
“IS-00700
National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction”
06/07
– present –
Contract Accountant,
Kendall Microtech Inc. Jackson, MI, and Excalibur Personnel, Williamston,MI.
Set up and monthly maintenance of the books,
management of payroll and quarterly federal and state tax reports.
Technical and accounting training and troubleshooting.
Software tools:
Quickbooks Pro 2007
01/1996 - present
Owner,
LobaTek Inc., DBA Van Dyke Zinnias @ Redbud Farms in Stockbridge, MI found at
www.redbudfarms.com,Internet Storefront since 1998. I am webmaster for the site
(MS FrontPage 10 years)
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Web development & promotion
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Expanded web presence through niche marketing techniques,
customer service email strategies, and customer Brag Book pages on our
current web site
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MS FrontPage web design and content developer; e-commerce
promotion and tracking
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Developed a training CD for MI SBDCs to teach small business about
government regulatory compliance (IRS, OSHA,EPA, and DOL)
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CD/web-based applications to train small firms operating in
complex, government regulatory environments
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Corporate accounting and federal/state tax reporting
Software
tools: MS FrontPage, SubmitWolf, StatCounter, RocketSales, Just Add
Promotion software, Quickbooks Pro 2007 job costing (15 years)
02/01/07 – 03/31/07 – Forensic Accounting Project through LobaTek
Incorporated for Advanced Equine Dentistry,
a Michigan corporation.
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Designed tools for staff and small business in support of the
administrative, accounting, budget and finance functions and learning
solutions (forensic accounting analysis)
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Forensic accounting for small business prosecuting pervious
bookkeeper for embezzlement and prepared final report for legal counsel and
the prosecutor.
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Suggested and implemented systems of accounting controls for
management
Software tools: QuickBooks Pro, Excel, MS Outlook, MS Word
CONSULTING EXPERIENCE & SKILLS – OTHER THIRD PARTIES
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07/07 – Aug/07
– Senior Analyst, Robert Half
International, working as a
contractor to FASCO Motors, Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Assist with
monthly close of the standard cost accounting system. Inter-company journal
entries, consolidation of cash accounts and inter-company transfers between
Juarez, Nappanee, Piedras, Thailand, and Canadian plants.
Software
tools:
Excel, Everest, ORACLE.
03/10/06 –01/31/07 -
Consultant, Millennium Technical Consultants, Inc.
IT Recruitment firm, client: Lansing Community College -
Cash
and payroll reconciliation and documentation of ORACLE payroll process and
suggest procedural improvements.
Software
tools:
ORACLE 11i, Excel (pivot tables, V-Lookups, macros), MS Word, MS
Project
06/13/06 – 12/31/06, Michigan Electric Transmission
Company, LLC and International Transmission Company, Budget
Coordinator/Database Administrator,
Ann Arbor/Novi, MI under contract with Management Recruiters
International.
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METC
Electric Tariff, Attachment O FERC Form 1 Data within a financial model
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SARB-OX
compliance requirements considerations
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Review
monthly financial statements & spreadsheets, including budget to actuals,
comparing download from Great Plains to Business Objects calculations and
reports.
Software
tools: Business Objects SRC budget software, Microsoft (Great Plains)
Dynamics, Excel, Power Point
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EMPLOYEE
POSITIONS
02/2005 –
12/23/05, Chief Operating Officer, Ann Arbor Center for
Independent Living (AACIL),
Ann Arbor, MI (position eliminated 12/23/05)
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Executive-level organization leadership & management
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Broad scope organizational change and strategic quality program
planning
Software
tools: MS infoPATH to streamline non-profit reporting requirements
using <oxygen>xml and SQL Server 2005
05/2000
– 02/2005, Finance Manager, Vanguard (USA), Inc.,
Whitmore
Lake, MI
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Lead development effort of
www.vanguardusa.com (asp.net) 1 year
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Budget, Finance & Accounting, MIS, and Human Resources &
benefits management functions
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Broad scope organizational change, technical workforce training
& information systems
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U.S.Customs & Border Protection Tariff Classifications monitoring
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Responsible for cash management & electronic wire transfers to
China ($300,000 avg.), a high trust position
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Integration of accounting data between Chinese mother company
and the U.S. branch
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Accrual and cash basis accounting
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Inventory management to $3M; Accounts Receivable mgmt. to
$2.5M; Payables mgmt.
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General ledger account reconciliation and management, month and
year end closings
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Accounting, multi-state payroll processing, HR, MIS, and
administrative & staff management
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Directed a successful accounting & MIS systems conversion from
DOS-based Great Plains to Great Plains Dynamics e-Commerce, and MaxData
Barcode Inventory Control system
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Restructured the chart of accounts to map corporate
re-organization into profit centers/divisions and modified FRX reports to
produce financial statements reflective of bottom line divisional
performance
Software
tools: Great Plains Dynamics, Excel, Power Point, Max Data Barcode
System for inventory control, FRX financial statement formatting
08/1994 - 12/1996, Program Manager Society of Manufacturing
Engineers (SME),
Dearborn, MI
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Program Management ($20,000,000) for federal & state government
sponsors. In August 1994, Baller left ERIM to assume the role of program
manager at SME, where she managed this project until its completion.
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Team & relationship building, virtual team or standard
corporate environment
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Large scale technical information systems & workforce training
projects
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Coalition building through project execution, creating a
virtual team of 250 people across 26 organizations
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Completed all task deliverables on schedule and under budget by
a quarter million dollars
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Delivered a "How to" book - "100 Insights on Virtual Team
Management" - for the U.S. Dept. of Energy
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Knowledge of virtual team & relationship management,
organizational change and communications strategies
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Created
a training document for 26 government regulatory and contract compliance
administrators.
Software
tools:
MS Project, MS FrontPage, MS Office, Visio, MS Publisher, MS
PowerPoint
07/1993 - 08/1994, Assistant to the President
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM)
Ann Arbor, MI
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Transferred into the executive offices to provide
executive-level computer and technical support and one-on-one training and
to work on business development targeting workforce training grants offered
by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and other
departments of the federal government.
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Extensive experience in government regulatory contract
compliance and dual-use technology or technology transfer
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Bid & Proposal compilation and resource planning. While at
ERIM, Baller served as chief architect of the technical workforce training
project CoNDUIT. A virtual enterprise of 26 organizations/subcontractors
was hand-selected by Baller to bid a $20,000,000 Request for Proposal out of
DARPA. The team won the proposal bid while Baller was still at ERIM;
however, the prime contractor had to be a manufacturing entity; so Baller
moved to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) to manage the overall
program and project details of contract performance.
Software
tools:
ORACLE 7, SQL-Calc, proprietary Resource Planning System
01/1987 - 07/1993 Senior Systems Analyst & Accountant
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM)
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ERIM-
worked with the Assistant Controller on all aspects of defense contracts
management
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Created
and formalized ERIM’s first corporate-wide workforce training function
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Designed traditional and web-based corporate training modules
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Wrote accounting end-user computing documentation and technical
reports
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Served as interface between the Accounting and MIS Departments
Software
tools: ORACLE 7, SQL-Calc SQL query builder, forms and screen design,
Resource Management System for project and cost control and management,
Microsoft Suite of tools, Lotus Notes, Coordinator , Mass11 document
management
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08/1987-08/1995, Adjunct Instructor CIS Washtenaw Community College,
Ann Arbor, MI
Software
tools:
Microsoft Office, DBASE, FileMaker Pro
08/1985 - 01/1987 CIS Instructor – tenure track West Liberty State
College, West Liberty, WV
Software
tools and classes taught:
COBOL, BASIC, Advanced Business BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, MIS, Wage
& Salary Administration
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