providing audit, training and consulting services. Main focus is on implementing and assessing quality management, information security management systems, risk management and environmental management systems. Consulting consists of helping companies to implement fully integrated management systems and to become ready for ISO certification for first certifications. Auditor training is offered to auditor teams; leadership training provided in the areas of stress management, strategic planning and organizational self assessment.

Third party audit log includes:

• Siemens’ global distribution centers in Karlsruhe and Nuernberg, renew certification, August, 2007
  
• Kreissparkasse Aue-Schwarzenberg (28 savings bank branches) first certification, June, 2007

Planned and led the British Standards Institution (Management Systems) EMEA training programme implementation in Germany

• Planned and implemented rollout out to 33 countries; Courses include over 50 auditor courses on ISO standards;
  
• Wrote the Quality Manual for the global BSI training organization
  
• Assessed training partners and negotiated partnerships and licensing agreements with several in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
  
• Planned the German market entry campaign.

BSI Lead Auditor qualification audits:

• Augenklinik Aschaffenber (eye surgery center) March, 2007
  
• Paul Erlich Klinik (rehabilitation hospital) Bad Homberg, January 2007

Key responsibilities included managing intellectual capital and knowledge assets; supporting sales of Financial Services consulting and outsourcing work. Tasks included financial planning and controlling / substantial budget responsibility. Banking, insurance and capital markets industry knowledge derived from over 20 years of working experience in these industries.

Provided senior leadership with counsel on operational, commercial and strategic decision making initiatives. Process improvements to group-wide management reporting, including the assimilation of key financial and business data and presentation to executive leadership via operational dashboards, rolling forecasts and monthly business reviews including compliance improvement statistics.

Regular Accenture Project Quality Managment audits conducted at 50 of the top European Financial Services companies. Audit log available on upon request

Built and managed the Help Desk of this capital markets software company; supported 15 banks’ senior derivatives traders who were using the “Devon 2.34” derivatives trading software; ensured functional enhancements and software repairs were described and fully implemented which led to improvements in the software product and client satisfaction.

Moved from New York to Germany in 1990 and attended German language school while working as a translator and data controller for this German real estate mutual fund.

Designed and implemented the internal audit department and then worked in the Strategic Planning department; drafted the 1990 salary budget for all US-based, drafted user requirements and wrote the functional specifications for the new technical platform for the bank’s future Human Resources compensation planning and budgeting system (still in use at UBS today).

Supported this “small capitalisation” Mutual Fund and operations, attended broker meetings for “buy-side” views of IPO’s, prepared prospectus and placed some market moving trades as necessary

Worked in each department (front, middle and back office) and established process improvements in both operations and in customer service; transferred to New York and worked as a sales assistant.

“C” programming language for client/servers, Technical Architecture School, Business Analysis and Design, Team Leadership Through Supervision, Motivating Employees, Results Based Leadership, Project Planning and Estimating, Franklin Covey’s Time Management and Principle Centered Leadership, Successful Facilitation of Workshops, Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (Sarbanes Oxley and US GAAP basics)

Financial Accounting at New York Institute of Finance; Micro Economics and Price/Cost Theory at New York University; Finance at Columbia; Cost Accounting, and Management Accounting at Pace University.