Senior Accountant, Proposal Manager, Program Management Specialist

9/2008 - 4/2009

Oasis Systems

Contractor / Freelance

• • Assist in reviewing acquisition documentation for major and non-major acquisitions. Assist in reviewing the Government Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and Integrated Master Plan (IMP), as well as producing reports, briefings, and other essential program reporting information. • Evaluate programmatic documentation, to include contract deliverables, for operational and modernized logistic systems and their related integration, migration and support services. Contribute to the preparation of sustainment planning and execution documents for logistics systems and provide program management and logistics related inputs to the sustainment process. • Review draft schedules and agendas for meetings, program briefings, and other special interests activities as required. Assess performance of assigned projects/programs, to include analysis of cost estimates, budgets, schedules, earned value measures, and risk management by applying known methods and procedures. Develop and coordinate reports, assessments, and briefings.

5/2005 - 9/2008

The Centech Group

Executive

• Primary point of contact for vendors, and contracting in the Air Force Program Management Office (AF PMO) in Montgomery, AL. As the Contracts point of contact for the AF PMO responsibilities include:  Create statements of work associated with services contracts.  Ensure that all contracts are in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and federal regulations dictated by Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Dept of the Treasury, and the Dept of Defense.  Create suspense files to monitor services contracts and delivery dates on product purchase orders  Set up and monitors subcontract agreements  Analyzing contract line item numbers (CLINs), comparing contract with submitted quote(s)  Tracking monthly contract deliverables  Creating purchase order for subcontractor s  Receive reports from task program managers, and proofread each file and submits the file to the respective contracting person by the stated delivery date.  Analyze requests for proposal (RFP) and request for quotes (RFQ) and creates proposals for new tasks at various Air Force sites  Complete and analyze budgets and proposals within the established time frames ensuring high accuracy and thoroughness

7/2002 - 5/2005

Auburn University

Executive

• As Accountant III in the Samuel Ginn Department of Engineering, National Center for Asphalt Technology. Ms. Meier regularly exercised independent judgment and discretion to make original decisions requiring knowledge of accounting principles and systems. Responsibilities included:  Completing and reviewing budgets and proposals within the established time frames ensuring high accuracy and thoroughness  Making management decisions based on established policy and insight developed from previous work experiences  Reviewed and audited proposals submitted by faculty to various national research organizations  Preparing proposals in accordance with federal and state regulations  Assisting faculty with initiation of proposals, contracts, and grants.  Advising and assisted faculty and administrators with financial management and analysis of contracts and grants  Reviewing expired accounts on a monthly basis to determine the status and took follow-up actions as needed to allow accounts to be closed and removed from the accounting system.

6/2000 - 7/2002

EDS

Executive

• As Business Manager for the TIPSS-2 (Treasury Information Processing Support Services – 2) contract responsibilities included:  Coordinating the management of cost, administrative, and contractual functions for the contract and negotiated and made binding decisions for EDS  Creating subcontract agreements and supervised subcontractors working on contract; received invoices from subcontractors monthly; audited invoices against time records submitted by subcontractors  Developing operating and capital budgets  Performing month-end close of the books including booking revenue and associated expenses. Coordinating the management of cost, administrative, and contractual functions for the contract and negotiated and made binding decisions for EDS  Creating subcontract agreements and supervised subcontractors working on contract; received invoices from subcontractors monthly; audited invoices against time records submitted by subcontractors  Creating the activity-based cost proposal each year for this work to ensure that all facets of the $9 million contract were satisfied  Assist in developing and maintaining software for the Internal Revenue Service.

12/1995 - 6/2000

EDS

Executive

• As a financial analyst, responsibilities included:  Collecting data and preparing basic financial schedules  Researching variances and trends in cost reports  Developing a budget for a $6 million a year contract  Creating annual activity-based cost proposals for this work to ensure all facets of the contract were satisfied.  Making management decisions based on analysis of each account and established policy and insight developed from previous work experiences.

1999

Master Degree

Auburn University

• Finance

1993

Bachelor Degree

Auburn University

• Accounting