• Performed document review of Georgian, Russian and English documents with respect to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for Paul Hastings.

• Performed cost accounting, including contract and expenditure reviews and manual adjustments, for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Acuity Consulting, Inc

• Conducted existence, completeness and valuation testing of information technology (IT) equipment held by the Defense Information Systems Agency at Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise computing centers throughout the United States and abroad.

KPMG, LLP
Washington, DC
Associate
January 2008 to October 2009

• At the request of the Office of Secretary of Defense - Comptroller (OUSD-C) and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), developed the methodology used by the Department of Defense to estimate the value of non-munitions excess, obsolete, and unserviceable inventory, and assisted with the integration of this methodology into DoD’s Financial Management Regulations and DLA’s SAP-based enterprise resource planning (ERP).

• Developed an electronic data interchange (EDI) for the Defense Logistics Management Standards Office to enable the transmission of an inventory item’s moving average cost from losing inventory managers to gaining inventory managers in response to BRAC inventory realignments.

• Identified and submitted change requests for incorrect SAP code that did not conform with generally accepted accounting principles and performed data manipulations in SAS and Excel to reconstitute and/or clean transactional data that had been erroneously aggregated in EDIs feeding into DLA’s ERP from externally-held databases.

• Assisted with wall-to-wall inventory count at Defense Depot Hill Utah, including conducting quality control counts, to provide assurance to the Secretary of Defense that classified material was segregated from unclassified material flow.

• Performed examinations of Universal Service Fund IT equipment and services at educational entities throughout the South, including Katrina Zones, to provide assurance to the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that Universal Service Fund beneficiaries were in compliance with Federal Communication Commission regulations and USAC rules.

Fulbright Fellowship
Republic of Georgia
June 2006 to January 2008
Prior to June 2006, see EDUCATION, except for:

Government Accountability Office
Los Angeles, CA
Analyst
Summer 2004

• Assisted with a program evaluation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), including regulatory and statistical analyses, as well as drafting the final report to the US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation recommending changes to NCAP.

EDUCATION

The University of Iowa
College of Law
JD, June 2006

The University of Chicago
Harris School of Public Policy Studies
MPP with Honors, June 2001

The University of Chicago
The College
BA in Economics with Honors, June 2000

LICENSES

Member of the Bar (Inactive), District of Columbia, 2009
Member of the Bar (Inactive), State of Illinois, 2007

CPA, Commonwealth of Virginia (Inactive), 2010

LANGUAGES

Russian, Spanish, Georgian, Tajik/Persian, Azerbaijani, Uzbek