Carl Furman
123, Ellis Street
Boston, MA, 01234
(123) 456 789

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

January, 1989 to Present THE ATHENA GROUP, Seattle, WA
Manager of Finance
Manage a group of three associates responsible for producing financial reports, all aspects of budgeting a S52M office, A/R, A/P, petty cash, expense reports, revenue collection and monthly closing for office of 284 associates. Responsibility to produce systems that generate the necessary financial information to determine our profitability. Systems track accrual revenue, accrual profit, cash revenue, cash profit, expenses by sub-groups and a new cost accounting system.

• Upon hiring into this position in July of 1992, had written off $3M of unbillable or uncollectable business. The office posted a 0% profit. Currently, looking to make a 5% accrual profit for this fiscal year.
• Designed a billing tracking system to allow team managers to determine where they stood on a monthly basis for revenue collection. The system projects where the team is in accordance with where they need to be in order to meet the goal of 5%.

Systems Analyst, Finance & Administration
Systems analyst for WANG minicomputer with 10 users. Administered COBRA software application. Health Care/Dependent Care Reimbursement System.

• Assisted in implementing new health care system. Installed remote connection for off-site claims processing.
• User liaison for billing system in place in 40 offices throughout US and Canada. Designed training materials, performed on-site training, troubleshooting via telecommunications.

Sept. 1987 to January, 1989 FANFARE INTERNATIONAL, Tacoma, WA
Programmer/Analyst/Consultant

• Provided large utility client with database software to track political campaign contributions. System provided feedback on how campaign contributions were distributed versus the way "supported" legislators voted on key issues

EDUCATION

Longfellow University, Wordsworth, WA
Master's degree in MIS, anticipated December 1994

Barley College, Sioux City, Iowa
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, 1987
Minor in Computer Science

COMPUTERS

Languages: dBase, Clipper, RBase, BASIC, Pascal, DYNAMO
Applications: Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, Windows, Excel, Symphony, OnLan, Carbon Copy
Operating Systems: DOS, Novell, IBM MVS
Hardware Platforms: PC's, WANG minicomputer, DEC PDP 1170, IBM 9370