Candidates About

Anthony m. Chmiel, MBA, MSA(FA), CFE

 

Objective:  To secure a challenging position that utilizes my significant analytical and business management, leadership, financial management, resource management and technical skills together with strong oral and written communication competencies in assisting organizations achieve their organizational objectives.

 

Education

 

New England College, Master of Science in Accounting (Forensic Accounting) (4.0/4.0) 2013

Texas Woman’s University, MBA (2012)    (4.0/4.0) 2011

Texas Woman’s University, Bachelor of Science in Business and Computer Science (2011) (60 hrs. 4.0/4.0)

Purdue University, Nuclear Engineering (NROTC) (1976)

 

Certifications

 

Certified Fraud Examiner, 2015, ACFE

 

Employment Experience

 

September 2016 to       North Texas Specialty Physicians

May 2018                       Manager of Technical Operations; Fraud, Waste and Abuse

   Investigator

 

As the Manager of Technical Operations within our Claims Administration Unit, lead a 25 member team in supporting all facets of technology support in claims administration including serving as the primary interface with our third party system integrators Cognizant (Trizetto) and ChangeHealth (Electronic Provider Payments) and internal SQL administration including ad-hoc and compliance reporting.  In this role, I was responsible for identifying, hiring and on-boarding  technical resources for our internal (permanent) and support (consultant) teams.

 

As a certified fraud examiner, review approximately 5000 claim lines of United Healthcare and Care-n-Care Medicare claims to screen for Fraud, Waste and Abuse as well as CCI Edit compliance.   Prepare and report cases to the US Department of Justice and Medicare Fraud Governance Committees in the South Central Region. 

 

Assist Clinical Finance Director with the creation of Excel Spreadsheets to assess claims experience of certain providers who have demonstrated to abuse Medicare medical claims.  Look for outliers and billing patterns in order to assess potential Fraud complaints with the Medic.

 

 

Jan 2014 to         New England College

February 2018    Adjunct Professor – Forensic Accounting and MBA Programs

                          

As an adjunct professor in both the Master of Science in Accountancy (MSA) program (Forensic Accounting emphasis) and the Master of Business Administration program, I have successfully led and taught the following classes: International Accounting, Federal Taxation, Managerial Accounting, Finance, and Auditing for Financial Reporting Fraud, Facilities Management, Financial Reporting and Cost Accounting.    As a lead, I am responsible for my own section as well as supervising up to 5 other instructors assigned to facilitate my classes.   I am also responsible for developing all managerial economics, micro economics and macroeconomics classes (macro and micro were for 2 students in independent study).  Once developed, I served as the lead professor in teaching the various classes.

 

April 2007 to       Beacon Systems, Inc.

August 2016       Chief Operating Officer/Director of Recruiting

 

As the Chief Operating Officer of Beacon Systems, my primary responsibilities were to build a team of exceptional SAP consultants to respond to the technical and functional needs of our client base and to develop the internal systems to support corporate planning and operations.  I also actively assisted the President and CEO of Beacon Systems with internal staffing and to contribute to the overall management and strategic development of Beacon Systems.  Performing the duties of CFO, I was responsible for establishing and managing financial operations and reporting including all aspects of contracts administration and the maintenance of external banking relationships.   Additionally, all managerial consultants are screened and hired by me and upon employment report to me for client engagements and ongoing career development.

 

As the Director of Recruiting, I was responsible for the screening and on-boarding of 100+ technical resources in both a W2 and 1099 capacity to meet the diverse needs of our client base across the US.

 

 

June 2005 to       Select Associates, Inc.

April 2007            Senior Advisory Consultant

 

As a Senior Consultant to Syngenta Seeds, Inc., I served as a business and technical analyst and senior most IT function lead within the NK and Garst brands.  Additionally, my responsibilities included: interfacing with brand leadership in establishing well defined enhancements to existing software systems to support changing business needs brought about through the utilization of mergers and acquisitions (and the technical issues thereof) as a key growth strategy.  Assume total technical responsibility for insuring that any technical or operational issues related to Delivery Receipt Tickets (DRT’s) are rapidly assessed and addressed in order to facilitate the smooth integration of these critical records between local b-to-b systems (Oracle) and global SAP.  Serve as the primary contact for Business Analysis and Technical Analysis needs for b-to-b technical issues raised by the field; researching and resolving each in an efficient and timely manner. 

 

For all enhancement and project change requests, document business requirements driving the need for functional enhancements of the technology, draft detailed capital request and high level design documents, present to corporate leadership for funding approval, create lower level system change doc’s and detailed test plans and manage the development, testing and integration of the project / enhancement to completion to the satisfication of the sponsor. 

 

Serve as the on-site engagement manager to the consulting team from Select Associates, Inc. to ensure consistent communications from company to staff regarding home office items (employee benefits, time sheet management etc…) as well as to assist on-site resources leverage the company network to secure advice for technical and business challenges.

 

 

April 2004 to       Aussiewood America, Inc. 

April 2007            Principal

 

Responsible for establishing the corporate offices, including negotiating for the purchase of commercial real estate, interfacing with US Customs on the importing of Australian Hardwoods, developing a employee benefits and compensation plan, corporate budgeting and periodic financial reporting methodology, including the selection of software, and coordinating both the customization of the software to adapt to current business requirements as well as consulting in the modification of business processes to adapt to features within the software that indirectly enhanced a business process or overall business operation. 

 

As a consultant to local cabinet shops and component fabricators, assist in the selection, installation and configuration of accounting software, payroll management systems, government reporting software and highly technical Computer Assisted Design and Drafting software to drive Thermwood CNC Routers within their fabrication operation. 

 

July 1996 to        Nims Associates, Inc. (Decatur/Bloomington, IL.)

March 2004         Vice President of Branch Operations/Director of National Recruiting

 

Serve as a Senior Business Advisor/Consultant to the President and Chief Executive Officer of mid-tier information systems consulting organization.  Responsible for managing remote operations (Cincinnati, Peoria, Bloomington, Decatur, Madison) and for providing leadership and operational assistance to managers in established offices (Dallas, Chicago, Minneapolis) in terms of developing, reviewing and presenting financial and business models in planning and executing their respective strategic and business plans.  Assisted in interviewing local support team members (account executives, technical recruiters, administration) to provide an added layer of service to the local management. 

 

Responsible for providing leadership, day to day management and teambuilding of the finance, information systems, human resources and employee development teams at the corporate level.  Served as the primary Human Resources director following the vacancy of that position.  Assisted in the development of the company intranet for day to day servicing of approximately 600 consultants located across the Midwest.   Develop the company’s annual business plan, working with branch managers in each location, the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Executive Officer.  Served as the primary contact for I.R.S. related financial reviews together with a KPMG tax consultant.   Developed comprehensive compensation planning models and reporting systems for all employees, technical through executive. Negotiated subleases of office space in geographic territories where business operations were terminated.  Directed and led office closure procedures in markets where business activity dictated business consolidation.  Created financial reporting tools which enabled branch offices to update monthly financial forecasts on a weekly basis, rolling all updates to a pro forma forecasted p&l which was used by the CFO, CEO and Vice President of Marketing to guide business operations across the branches. 

 

 

 

July 1996 to July 1998 - Central Illinois Branch Manager

 

Manage a team of 200 technical and management consultants who provide services to Caterpillar, Inc. (Peoria), State Farm Insurance (Bloomington) and Illinois Power (Decatur).  Responsible for the operation of the largest branch in the corporation with over $20 million in Revenue, securing a Return on Sales (Pre Tax) in excess of 25%.  Day to day responsibilities include recruiting, strategic planning, complex financial forecasting and budgeting, marketing and staff development.

 

July 1996 to       Nims Associates, Inc.

Mar 2004            Director of Recruiting / Chief People Officer

 

Within an 8 year period, established and directed the criteria for Nims Associates to attract, onboard and retain 500 consultants to a management consulting firm responsible for technical development of solutions to major Fortune 500 clients such as State Farm, Frito Lay and Mobil.

This included the development and exercise of on campus recruiting, as well as an intense screening program to identify candidates who were best suited for consulting roles.

 

 

March 1995 to    Grossman and Associates, Inc.

June 1996          Director of Software Development

 

Lead a team of 15 systems analysts, software development engineers, quality assurance engineers, database administrators, programmers and technical support personnel in the design and implementation of a computer software system to assist the Agribusiness industry specifically in the areas of grain accounting, general accounting and grain merchandising.  Worked with several large clients, including ConAgra, in developing functional specifications of proposed enhancement of the grain accounting software packages to present to our developers for technical assessment.  Managed the integration of required enhancements to periodic major and update releases of the software. 

 

 

March 1993 to    Canyon Interactive, LLC.

March 1995        Co-Founder/Vice President of Operations

 

Represented multimedia (computer CD ROM) development company (a start-up) to professional and technical associations, conference management firms and exhibition managers in an attempt to secure digital publishing projects.  Co-conceived and developed "The Virtual Conference" and "The Virtual Trade Show" as primary products of the company.  Secured several long term exclusive digital publishing contracts with leading conference managers. 

 

Created company business plan and comprehensive marketing plan to assist in the execution of the company’s strategic business objectives as well as to communicate growth and execution plans to venture capitalists and investment bankers. 

 

 

March 1990 to    AIQ Systems Inc.

March 1993        President/Chief Executive Officer

 

Developed and implemented company strategic operating plan.  Developed domestic and worldwide marketing and technical support organization to a staff of 33.  Utilized financial skills to develop software development plan consistent within corporate financial limitations.  Developed organization from $500,000 to $5.0M in annual sales. Delivered 5 new products during tenure.  Made presentations to investment bankers regarding the capitalization of AIQ Systems Inc.

 

 

October 1990 to  AIQ Capital Management, Inc.

March 1993         Co-Founder/Chief Executive Officer

 

Developed Commodity Futures Trading Commission Disclosure and Registration Documents, SEC Investment Advisor Registration and Marketing Documents as well as other regulatory documentation as required.  Received NASD Series 3, 7, 63 and 65 licenses.  As a Registered Commodity Trading Advisor, recommended complex hedge strategies to AIQ clients holding mortgage portfolios to protect against widely fluctuating interest markets. 

 

 

January 1983 to  Tandem Computers Inc.

June 1989           Advisory Staff Analyst

 

As Director of the Customer Benchmark Center, I was responsible for developing high performance benchmarks for the end-user or Alliance (third-party marketing) organizations to assist with both closing sales as well as addressing system performance issues.  Managed staff of 7 in delivering superior service.  Responsible for over 64 CPU’s, including original Rosewood (TNS II), Crystal (TXP), and VLX performance tests.

 

Personally worked on over 100 benchmarks including JC Penney, Alcoa and the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles.  This involved coding customer applications in a variety of languages, COBOL 74, COBOL 85, FORTRAN 77 and TAL, per customer application specifications.  Fluent in all phases of performance analysis, capacity planning and systems operations.   Developed Tandem Terminal Simulator and Performance Reporting System for use in Pathway style benchmarks.  Simulator is still in use as of 1992 in many field offices as well as the Benchmark Center.  Fluent in TMF design specifications.

 

Consulted to the software development organization on the performance characteristics of various Guardian releases, hardware releases and software designs including, but not limited to, PATHTCP2 and NonStop SQL.  Responsible for the development and execution of the system configuration instructions for the V8 and other complex DASD units.

 

As a Tandem field analyst, managed a staff of 5 at the Bank of America account and helped conceive and close a $20MM project.  Was transferred to the Sacramento office where my efforts concentrated on responding to the State of California DMV RFP as well as working on several performance and operational issues within the state government (Teale Data Center, Department of Education and Franchise Tax Board).  During my field assignment, I also served as the Western Region Designated Specialist for Performance and Capacity Planning as well as System Operations where I assisted several critical Tandem projects such as the San Jose School District, McKesson and Kaiser Permanente.

 

Served on the design and roll-out team for Non-Stop SQL, Tandem’s full function relational database offering referential integrity and distributed processing.  As a designated specialist in high performance systems design, worked with many clients as they migrated to a relational DBMS strategy from existing indexed sequential strategies.

 

January 1981 to  JMB Realty Inc.

January 1983     Senior Business Analyst

 

Designed and developed state of the art financial management applications on the Tandem System for the world's largest developer of commercial real estate limited partnerships.  Developed specifications with senior JMB partners and industry experts prior to writing investment and management software sensitive to economic and financial conditions.  Served as the System Manager for a 16 cpu Non Stop I and 12 cpu Non Stop II installation with all software development efforts executed in FORTRAN 77.  Was responsible for the day to day operations of the computer system as well as the on-going system maintenance (software) and performance. 

 

 

March 1979 to   Florists Transworld Delivery

January 1981    Senior Systems Analyst

 

Designed and developed a state of the art communications system for floral order distribution and accounting between a Univac 1100 System and a Tandem Non Stop II system (the first Rosewood system delivered to Central Region).  All work was performed in TAL. 

 

June 1977 to    Chicago Title and Trust Corp.

March 1979      Programmer/Analyst

 

Maintained existing payroll/personnel system (PL/1) and designed a migration to a new payroll/personnel system under CICS/IMS on an IBM mainframe.

 

 

June 1976 to    Argonne National Laboratories

June 1977       Student Appointment - Programmer/Analyst

 

Worked with several Ph.D. candidates as their research assistant, developing software for mathematical modeling of various tasks associated with Nuclear Reactor Safety and Operations.