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Steve
Newlen
Messages: (714)
668-3717 • Residence: (909) 429-9131 • Cell: (949)
338-2118
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Information Technology Management
Project Management
~ CIO Team ~ IT Audits ~ IT Systems
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Extensive
Information Technology (IT) related experience in all IT functions, procedures
and many hardware configurations, on both mainframe and PC environments as well
as nine years in internal IT auditing.
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Industry
experience includes: academic research, county government, agriculture, durable
goods manufacturing, food service, aerospace, automotive import and distribution,
retail, legal, consulting and mortgage lending.
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Strong,
detailed, power-user IT experience with a broad number of vendors, environments
and applications.
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Skills include: general controls and compliance, analysis,
programming, systems programming, DBA, project management, planning,
configuration, user support, IT audit,.
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Assignments spanned numerous organizational departments,
e.g., finance, payroll, executive, operations, marketing/sales, manufacturing
and shipping.
ADDITIONAL KEY SKILLS
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MS
SQL Servers & Programming |
Reports
& Small
Applications Devl. |
Audit
Report Writing |
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Staff
Training and Development |
Audit
Standards and Procedures |
Multi-tasking
and Prioritization |
GCAP Services –
Contract Management Consulting
Sr. Auditor
Performed contract performance
field work for seven (7) financial and IT contracts. Reviewed
contract language, client management of contract, and vendor management of
contract. Assisted in preparation of report of
findings and recommendations.
SECURED FUNDING CORPORATION -
Real estate mortgage broker with approx. 1,100 employees and revenue
of $1.1B.
Supervisor Secondary Marketing (2005
- 2006)
Performed secondary assignments. Supervised and trained secondary
analysts in all phases of Secondary Marketing in a fast growth environment processing
$250M funded loans per month. Department staff grew from one to five.
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Enhanced
lock desk procedures and created automated tools to provide quality control
feedback, reduce errors, enforce compliance and improve investor relations.
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Established,
monitored and published in-house rate sheets and underwriting guidelines (U/W).
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Used,
monitored and generated rules for in-house automated U/W engine.
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Monitored
post-funding activity including adjustments, early-payoffs and investor
remittances.
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Monitored
and managed in-house pipeline.
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Reviewed,
contested and approved purchase advices.
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Monitored
internal and investor accounts and payables.
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Developed and maintained tools, databases and reports
for compliance, loan quality, internal departments and/or investor review.
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Created
templates, forms and dashboards for process automation and efficiencies using MS
Office software.
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Performed internal and external analysis of loan
programs, loan characteristics and comparisons, research, and special reports.
KIMCO -
Temporary and contract employer.
Contract Programmer
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Created
database of product SKUs, descriptions and attributes for website channel
content fulfillment.
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Created
and populated database with approved and certified resellers and sellers from
various sources.
PC Application
Developer
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Developed automated maintenance tools and maintenance of
production line equipment for a medical products company.
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Wrote
maintenance manual for maintenance staff and a purchase order tracking system.
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EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND / TRANSFERABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS (Continued)
BASIX BUSINESS SOLUTIONS -
PC accounting systems implementer for medium sized businesses.
Systems Programmer
Conducted PC, O/S and applications support
administration, network monitoring and maintenance. Administered
Merlin telephone system as system key operator. Performed SQL database
management, executed SYSPROCs, Transact - SQL, and
extract reporting. Extensive knowledge of legacy flat file, ISAM and DB accounting
systems.
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Converted
legacy accounting data into Great Plains Dynamics and SysPro
Encore accounting/manufacturing systems.
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Used
Crystal Reports to enhance and extend product reporting.
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Supported
membership management application.
TORRANCE MANAGEMENT, INC. -
Legal case
management company formed to manage a large $350M case.
Systems Programmer
Administered PC system, provided desktop support,
application support and prepared legal documents.
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Relocated
data center from
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Upgraded
software and data center reconfigurations to lower data center fixed costs.
PRIOR CAREER
HISTORY
NEWLEN ENTERPRISES -
PC consulting specializing in small business automation and
accounting systems implementation.
PC Consultant
DPMS/MAZDA, INC. -
Contract auditor to Mazda, Inc., automobile importer and distributor
to American dealers.
Project Auditor /
Internal EDP Auditing
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Reviewed
application development for controls and compliance.
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Performed
audits including SDLC, data center, data security and accounts payable.
MCDONNELL-DOUGLAS, INC. -
Aerospace company.
Auditor Specialist
Performed IT general controls and
application audits.
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Enabled
significant cost reduction of remote site audits and improved audit testing process.
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Reduced
cost of DASD storage and improved DASD budgeting process. Saved an excess of
$1M.
DENNY'S, INC. -
Retail food service
operator of company and franchised units (Denny’s, El Pollo
Loco and Winchell's Donuts). Revenue
of $1.2B.
Senior EDP Auditor
Performed IT general control and
application audits.
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Performed
a fraud detection/prediction statistical analysis application that saved the
company $1.2M annually in lost (or stolen) revenue. The application could be
used to detect both fraud and excellent performance and was used to establish
and implement best practices system-wide.
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Presented
to management an alternative to an IT Department proposed 401K accounting
development which was implemented and saved the company $780K.
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Reduced
the external auditor's billings in excess of $150K annually, by improved audit
preparation and in-house audit documents preparation.
THE VENDO COMPANY -
Manufacturer/assembler of vending machines and IBM ATM safes.
Systems Programmer
Maintained, upgraded and reconfigured mainframe computer.
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Eliminated
production problems and developed better support solutions. Improved
applications development and operations departments’ ability to self-recover
from errors/problems; protected data, enforced compliance, data security and
enabled additional growth in workload and processing.
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Facilitated
mainframe data center move and reconfiguration thereby avoiding several days of
computer operation outage that would have cost $500K a day in lost orders and
plant shutdowns.
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PRIOR CAREER HISTORY (Continued)
PRODUCER'S COTTON OIL COMPANY -
Agriculture; cotton ginner, cotton bale exporter and crop lender.
Systems Programmer
Maintained, upgraded and reconfigured mainframe computer.
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Rescued
failing application. Recognized symptoms of poor design and improper hardware
usage. Resolved production processing fiasco thereby avoiding a financial and
customer disaster.
Programmer / Analyst
III, Programmer / Analyst II, Programmer I
EDUCATION
MBA, Finance,
BS, Business Administration
specializing in Quantitative Methods with emphasis in Automaton Procedures,
Completed Computer Science
curriculum in Operating Systems and Compilers at
Software: Microsoft Windows Office, MSDN
Library, Peachtree, Intuit, DAC Easy, Great Plains Dynamics; SPSS, Backup,
Diagnostics, Firewalls, (Norton, McAfee, PestPatrol, hackthis, RootRevealer)
Hardware: Intel CPU and IBM PowerPC.
Workstations, Servers, SCSI, RAID. M/F:
IBM360, 370, 4300
Operating Systems: PC: Microsoft DOS, Windows (3.1,
98, NT 2.0, 4.0, Win 2000, Win XP Pro, Win XP 2003
Server)
Networks: LAN (Artisoft, Microsoft), WAN,
Dial Up, Leased Lines, Cat5 RJ11, BNC
Protocols: SDLC, TCP/IP, IPX
Databases: IRIS(RDB),
MS SQL(7, 2000, 2005). Class in Oracle 8i; class in elementary warehousing
Programming Languages: PC: Access (VBA), FoxPro, Excel
(limited macros, VBA)
Continuing Education, Certifications and Professional Affiliations
Available on Request
KEY WORDS FOR OPTICAL SCANNING
Production, MRP, ERP, Inventory Control, Business Development,
Financial Analysis, Financial Planning, Cash Management, Taxes, Accounting,
Reports, EDP Systems, Audits, Cost Control, Budgets, Analysis, Planning, Mgt.
Information Systems, Accounting Systems, Systems Analysis, Design, &
Development, Project Management, Info. Systems Upgrade, Computer Operations,
Data Security, ERP (
Steve
Newlen
Messages: (714)
668-3717 • Residence: (909) 429-9131 • Cell: (949)
338-2118
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ADDENDUM
TO THE RESUME
CONTINUING EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Saddleback Community College,
Spring 2007 Classes: Business
Intelligence using Transact-SQL, VB.Net Programming, MS Project, MS PowerPoint
Secondary Marketing,
Electronics Engineering,
IBM AS400 Systems Key Operator,
Computers,
Computers,
Computers,
Certified Information Systems
Auditor (CISA), Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)
Certified Data Processor (CDP),
Institute for Certifying Computing Professionals ( ICCP)
(predecessor
to the Certified Computing Professional (CCP) of today)
Microsoft Certified Professional,
(MCP) Microsoft
Professional Tax Preparer Course,
H&R Block, Issued IRS Personal Tax Preparer Number
Quarterly MSDN Seminars
Quarterly TechNet Seminars
Small Business Channel Seminars
Time Management, Supervisor
Training,
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, SoCal
IT Professional Association, (SoCALITPro)
Formerly the Orange County NT
Users Group (OCNTUG) 2000 - 2006