1. Drefus Tarpkin
8445 Rivertown Rd.,Fairburn, GA, 30213
Hm: 770-306-0688, Cell: 201-563-6418
dtarpkin@yahoo.com
SUMMARY:
Internal Audit/Business Analyst professional, with over fifteen years of Financial and IT Audit (GAAS, GAAP, PCAOB,
COSO, SAS-70, and SOX-404 compliance), System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)–Project Management, IT Security,
Library Management, Business Continuity and Contingency Planning, Governance, and Risk Management experience.
Significant technical accomplishments managing and performing over 100 audits in investment banking (front and back office
operations and systems), commercial real estate, telecommunications, transportation, retail, and health insurance. This includes
audits of IT (application and general controls), accounting, financial reporting, human resources, purchasing, and accounts
payable. Advanced expertise building and maintaining proactive business partnerships as a compliance liaison, coach, change
facilitator, and problem solver.
My major strengths include my always-positive attitude, desire to learn, enthusiasm, passion for audit, ability to blend with
team members, adapt quickly, perform at a high level in fast paced changing environments, comfort-level multitasking,
identifying vulnerabilities and opportunities to strengthen processes and controls, reduce costs and minimize risks.
EXPERIENCE:
:
Education, Research, and Statistics Consultant March 2006 - Present
Clients: Orange Public Schools, Orange, NJ
Excellent Education for Everyone (E3), Newark, NJ
•Responsible for monitoring and reporting non-compliant classroom activities and student behavior, performing teacher
coaching, administrative duties, remediation, and the execution of lesson plans (science, business and math) in teacher
absence.
•Partner with education advocates, providing analysis, statistics and remedial consultation regarding New Jersey education
achievement. Compile and report state, school, and district academic performance, and longitudinal, cohort, payroll, spending,
and funding analysis. Research and monitor statewide education reform activity, and provide statistics for lawsuits, legislation,
speeches, publications, and press releases. Responsible for creating meaningful and accurate reports, and timely delivery of
project requirements.
CBIZ, SOX Audit Consultant, Columbus, OH September 2005 – December 2005
•Documented, evaluated, and identified opportunities to strengthen banking-client control processes pertaining to accounts
payable, purchasing, human resources, payroll, employee benefits, and loan processing
GR Consulting, SOX Audit Consultant, Jenkintown, PA September 2004-August 2005
•Provide REIT and Financial Services clients with audit and advisory services, and turn-key solutions for
implementing and managing SOX-404 compliance. These solutions include documenting business, financial, and IT
processes and controls, conducting process evaluations and control assessments, creating test scripts, testing,
certification roll-ups, corporate governance analysis, GAP identification and remediation, business systems and IT
integration, and external audit support.

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Accounting, Audit, and Business Analysis Consultant: July 1997 – August 2004
Clients: East Orange Board of Education; East Orange Water Commission; New Jersey Manufacturers;
Prudential Securities; NJ Transit; GEICO; The CIT Group and AT&T
•District Liaison and Accountant for the Child Nutrition Program (CNP). Responsible for CNP administrative and reporting
functions, conducting financial, operational, and compliance audits, regulatory reporting, and monitoring daily activity of 22
schools/13,000 students.
•As Team Leader on an Internal Audit re-engineering project, defined, developed, documented, and implemented
methodologies and processes to comply with federal banking requirements and generally accepted auditing standards. The
scope of the project included bank operations, risk management, process improvement, regulatory compliance and reporting,
cash management, consumer affairs, safety and soundness, operational/process improvement, information technology,
financial auditing, fixed assets, and security.
•Developed and implemented MIS tools to track and monitor water utility account balance history. This contributed to the
accuracy and success of a widely publicized special billing and collection project, increasing revenues over $5mil in three
months.
Rite Aid Corp., Senior Information Systems Auditor, Harrisburg, PA June 1996 - July 1997
•Performed audits of new system development (EDI-Sterling and Gentran) financial and inventory applications, retail-store
operations, pharmacy inventory, quality and dispensation controls, store-cash controls, payroll, stock monitoring and
replenishment, and physical security. 50% travel.
•Performed audits of data centers, library management, system performance, data integrity, data-security, business continuity
and contingency planning, and disaster recovery.
Management Consultant May 1992 - June 1996
Clients: Coler Memorial Hospital, The Marketing Exchange, EPC International, Value Rite Pharmacy and
Managed Care Facilities
•Performed business-process evaluations, financial analysis, and assisted clients with the implementation of accounting, IT,
and administrative improvements. Provided training as necessary. Researched and recommended alternative automated
solutions to manually intensive processes.
Bankers Trust Co., Assistant VP-Information Systems Auditor, New York, NY November 1986 - April 1992
•Performed and/or supervised all phases of planning, testing, documenting and reporting of new system development,
application, and integrated audits for Global Markets. Responsible for Bank Operations, Front and Back Office Systems,
Payroll, HRIS, Fixed Assets, Accounts Payable, Money Transfer (EFT), Broker/Dealer Operations, Foreign Exchange, and
Fixed Income Securities systems. Managed the design and implementation of the banks first corporate, self assessment audit
program. International Travel 25%.
•Performed IT general control evaluations of the data center facility, library management, system performance, data integrity,
data-security, business continuity, and disaster recovery. Managed the planning and execution of the bank's first business
continuity test for Global Markets.
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Sr. Financial Auditor, New York, NY May 1980 - November 1986
•Performed and supervised audits of medical claims processing, payroll, accounts payable and fixed assets account balances.
This included reviews of local group, and national contract enrollment, compliance, hospital administration, certification,
third-party billing, revenue-cycle management analysis, and provider reimbursement.

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EDUCATION:
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, Atlanta, GA
Bachelor of Science: Accounting - 1978
NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, New York, NY
Certificate: Systems Analysis and Design - 1985
COMPUTER SKILLS:
HARDWARE:
Personal Computers: IBM, TOSHIBA, COMPAQ, and DIGITAL
Mainframe: IBM-MVS, HP, and DEC
SOFTWARE:
Personal Computers: MS WORD, MS PROJECT, EXCEL, LOTUS, and NOVELL-NETWARE
MAINFRAME:
OS/390, TSO/ISPF, SQL, VAX/VMS, ACF2, TOP SECRET, RACF, CICS, CA-7, ENDEVOR, NETMAN,
DATATRIEVE, PARADOX-UTILITY SYSTEM, ASI (Financial Accounting System Software), ADP, ORACLE,
JD Edwards, Ceridian, and Jack Henry
ARCHITECTURE:
AS/400, UNIX CLIENT-SERVER, WINDOWS NT, LOTUS NOTES, INTERNET/INTRANET