Dale Blanchard

7412 Granada Willows St. Las Vegas, NV 89139

702-553-7576
db73f8f4@westpost.net
Objective:
To obtain an Marketing/Sales/Accounting/IT position that utilizes the business r
elated skills acquired through experience
Highlights:
Earn three degrees within four years
Corporate Internal Auditor with MGM Mirage in Las Vegas NV for over two years
Excelled academically as demonstrated through GPA and Scholarships achieved
Contributed six to seven hours per week to student organizations and activities
Education:
Bowling Green State University - Bowling Green, OH - Graduation May 2006
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Cumulative GPA 3.0
Triple Major: Accounting, Management Information System, and Information Systems
Auditing and Control
Relevant Experience:
Coldwell Banker Wardley Real Estate - Sales Associate/Realtor - May 2010 - Curre
nt Las Vegas, NV
- Assist buyers and sellers with real estate transaction for purchases or proper
ty sales.
- Provided clients with knowledgeable information in the real estate market and
exercise reasonable skill, care, disclosure, and due diligence to their needs.
MGM Mirage - Corporate Internal Auditor - Jul 2007 - Jan 2010 Las Vegas, NV
- Performing Financial, Operational, Sarbanes Oxley, and compliance audits to en
sure compliance with governmental guidelines, laws, policies and procedures
- Reviewing financial statements, daily operating revenue documentation, and dai
ly audits for improper accounting treatment or trends that may be attributed to
fraudulent behavior
- Conducting interviews with various hotel, casino and accounting personnel to o
btain an understanding of standard processes
- Assessing risks and controls throughout all aspects of the casino and hotel op
erations
- Communicating weakness in controls and inefficiencies to management
American Casino Entertainment Properties (ACEP) - GL accountant - Mar 2007-Jul 2
007 Las Vegas, NV
- Prepared general ledger entries and uploaded journal entries, helped prepare m
onth-end financial statements
- Reconciled bank accounts, and balance sheet accounts
Ernst & Young - Intern for Finance Department, supported Partners and FMA - Sept
2006 - Dec 2006 Toledo, OH
- Opened and closed client engagements and processed final adjustments using Peo
ple Software
- Used communication skills to verify information for creating and processing in
voices to clients
- Demonstrated consulting skills by generating detailed spreadsheets and communi
cating with Partners to clarify and gain information
Leadership and Organization Experience:
Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Northwestern Ohio Chap
ter Member - 2006-2007
Student Information Technology Association (SITA) - Head Recruitment Officer - 2
005-2006
- Used communication skills to recruit students to attend meetings and events
- Performed classroom presentations
Beta Alpha Psi (Accounting Organization) - 2003-2005
Volunteer Income Tax Assistant (VITA) - 2005
- Passed certification test and assisted customers with individual tax filing
- Demonstrated consulting skills by generating questions of clients to verify an
d gain information
Latino Student Union (LSU) - Political Committee - 2004-2005
- Proposed strategies that our committee used to expand our organization's prest
ige within the University
Awards and Achievements:
- Dean's List (Business School)
- AMIS Crowe Chizek Scholarship
- Minority Academic Scholarship
- Awarded the Black Male Image Award
Computer Skills:
Cold Fusion
- Developed a comic book website for glass using HTML coding to performance func
tions for a working website
Microsoft Visio
- Created diagrams and behavioral structure models to demonstrate how the Ohio L
ink Library processes functionally
Additional Computer Skills
- People Soft, Oracle, Lotus Notes, Business Objects, VBA, C++, Cobol programmin
g, Teammate, Office, Access, Outlook, and Turbo Tax Pro Series