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Advise and testify on complex litigation involving embezzlement, money laundering, Medicare-Medicaid fraud, RICO claims, cybercrime, real estate fraud, mortgage fraud, personal injury and accidental death claims, environmental damages, valuation fraud, securities & investment schemes, insurance fraud, billing malfeasance, bribery and corruption, Ponzi schemes, wire fraud, and trusts & estates. Federal, state, municipal, and local court experience. Consult on data analytics and determine risk using statistical and visualization software. Provide organizational fraud examinations and internal control reviews. Detect, deter, and mitigate financial crime via specialized software. Audit accounting information systems. Lead business and patent valuations for trials and mediations. Determine business interruption and lost income damages. Serve as forensic accounting expert witness for attorneys and law enforcement, 60% criminal and 40% civil.

• Provide authoritative expertise on accounting, auditing, and financial practices, world-wide securities, banking laws and systems, conventional and non-conventional financial institutions, national and international business.
• Develop new forensic accounting techniques applicable to various financial investigations.
• Serve as an expert forensic accountant and authority in the identification, examination, and analysis of financial data.
• Coordinate the examination of financial aspects of investigations.
• Assess the value of financial evidence.
• Unravel sophisticated techniques for moving funds and shielding illegal activity.
• Provide financial profiles of individuals and groups.
• Compile extremely complex financial findings and conclusions and prepare in-depth forensic accounting reports.
• Utilize various computer applications to review and interpret implications on a vast number and variety of financial transactions, and other corporate business, and financial processes, associations, and record-keeping systems.
• Produce in-depth financial investigative reports and exhibits.
• Interview witnesses.
• Provide consulting expert witness or testifying expert witness services in financial crime and civil matters.
• Develop forensic accounting presentations, trial notebooks, court exhibits and charts, and suggested direct, cross-examination, and re-direct outlines for counsel.
• Critique opposing experts’ reports or testimony.
• Maintain appropriate contacts in law enforcement, private industry, and other government agencies to advance investigations and to share best practices.
• Mentor and instruct inexperienced forensic accountants and financial analysts.

Selected Clients & Experience:
• Law Office of the Public Defender, State of New Mexico: Consult as Forensic Accounting expert witness on financial felony matters, including embezzlement, money laundering, and real estate fraud.
o Presented findings before a Judge and Attorney General’s Office in a $1.1M+ real estate fraud restitution case resulting in an 87% decrease in total repayment due.
o Delivered testimony as expert witness that assisted Judge in acquitting defendant in a felony embezzlement case involving a $421B+ annual revenue retail chain.

• Criminal Justice Act (CJA) Panel Attorneys & Private Attorneys, United States District Court of New Mexico: Advise regarding felonies in embezzlement, money laundering, conspiracy, willful failure to file, tax evasion, and Medicare-Medicaid fraud as Forensic Accounting expert witness.

o Drove fraud data analytics for a federal embezzlement matter representing defense resulting in
the identification of unsubstantiated charges totaling 73% of the $3.6M charged.
o Spearheaded analysis of discovery for a $2M+ Medicare-Medicaid case with 50 alleged fraudulent billing charges, revealing 90%+ of charges could not be supported.
o Standardized data analysis and reporting for high-volume 1.6M+ pages of eDiscovery by developing proprietary analytical methodologies to identify patterns and trends, reducing case time by 60%.

• City of Albuquerque: Led reconciliation of funds, grants, and contracts for the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) with $3B net position as Principal Accountant.
o Created template to reconcile Citywide payroll account, reducing reconciliation time by 70%+.

• City of Santa Fe: Led annual operating $334M and 5-year capital improvement plan budgets $353M as Budget Director. Directed financial functions of the newly built Buckman Direct Diversion (BDD) water treatment facility with budget of $6.9M in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and governmental accounting standards (GAS) as Financial Manager.
o Revealed multiple material discrepancies in budget versus actuals totaling over $12M/year.
o Developed general ledger reconciliation template resulting in increased productivity of 30%+.

• Taos County: Drove fraud data analysis on fuel malfeasance matter for the prosecution as Forensic Accounting expert witness.
o Led financial fraud analytics scenarios resulting in 100% substantiation of embezzlement.

Additional Information
Certified Public Accountant (CPA), New Mexico, License #6554 Issued 04-19-2011; expires 04-30-2018
Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Colorado, License #26485 Issued 05-28-2008; expires 11-30-2019
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certification #112383 Issued 08-20-2004; expires 03-31-2018
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certification #ECC00822086251 Issued 04-13-2016; expires 04-12-2019

• Penetration testing; Kali Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, Oracle Virtual Box, Windows & Office Suite, Apple OS & iOS; Nessus, Metasploit, Nmap, BurpSuite, Aircrack-ng, Wireshark; AccessData FTK; wrote keylogger in C++
• Oracle EnterpriseOne; Insight Hubble; Kronos Timekeeping; QuickBooks Accountant
• Developed and presented two webinars to attorneys regarding experts in forensic accounting and cybersecurity

Education
Completion Date Institution Location Degree Course of Study
2006 Columbia University New York, NY Ed.M. Org. & Leadership
2003 Columbia Business School New York, NY MBA Finance & Management
1992 Wharton, Univ. Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA BBA Accounting