Auditor of Public Accounts
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Division of Examination and Information Technology
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BJ Bellamy
Veronica Bradley Amy Fisher Tony Hutchins |
Gary Jones
Jenny Luscher Stephanie Mattingly Robert Poynter |
Thomas Sparkman
Mark Sutton Karen Tucker Tiffany Welch |
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Email: Karen Tucker: Karen performs administrative work for the division's director. She has been with the APA since October 1997; in state government since June 1989. She establishes time budgets and maintains tables on the mainframe, which are used to produce reports. She produces audit project status time reports for the agency and time reports for local government audits. She also produces personnel reports for staff, using P-1 and personnel master files, and ad hoc reports from Mainframe utility programs, JCL, and other data extraction reporting packages. One of her most important jobs is maintaining the APA's hotline database. She sorts and logs the incoming mail, handles verification of time sheets and travel vouchers, maintains a tickler file, and screens the director's phone calls. She maintains the division's files, schedules meetings, and takes notes/minutes, as needed. |
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Information Technology, Security Consultation and Training Branch
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Email: Tony Hutchins: Manager - IT Audit Branch APA Audit Experience: With the APA from 1986 through 1989, and again from 1994 to present Tony graduated from the University of Kentucky, with a degree in Accounting. Prior to joining the APA, he worked for Humana, as an internal auditor, and as an auditor for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and Kentucky Housing Corporation. In total, he has 27 years of audit experience. He has a vast amount of experience in IT auditing. Email: BJ Bellamy: APA Experience: With the APA since July 1999; in state government since November 1986 BJ holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Kentucky State University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, with departmental honors. His present duties with the APA include, but are not limited to, information security and training, project management, and numerous studies of network security within the Commonwealth. He was named Chief Information Officer in July of 2001. BJ has been a member of the SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security (SANS) GSEC Advisory Board since December 2001 and has been published numerous times in information technology industry publications. Prior to working at the APA, BJ performed similar duties at the Department of Financial Institutions, Legislative Research Commission, and the Department of Information Systems. Email: Veronica Bradley: PAA IV - IT Veronica graduated from the University of Kentucky, with a degree in Accounting. While at the APA, she has concentrated on IT audit procedures and has specialized in the areas of SAS and ACCESS program code review for newly developed investment programs. She is proficient in Seagate/Crystal Reporting, ACCESS and Excel. Experience also includes data extraction using mainframe utilities. Email: Amy Fisher: PAA III - IT Amy graduated from Eastern Kentucky University, with a degree in Finance. She also has 20 hours of Accounting from Sullivan University. She performs IT-related audit work. Experience outside APA includes 2 years with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Amy is proficient in data extraction using mainframe utilities, Seagate/Crystal Reporting, Access, and Excel. Email: Jenny Luscher: Jenny Luscher Jenny graduated from Georgetown College, with a degree in Accounting. Her APA experience has been in IT auditing, with "specialties" identified as being data extraction using Mainframe utilities, Seagate/Crystal Reporting, Excel, and Access. Email: Stephanie Mattingly: Email: Robert Poynter: APA Audit Experience: With the APA since December 2004Robert graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berea College, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting and a minor in Spanish. He had two years of general accounting experience after graduation at a transportation company in South-Central Kentucky. |
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Examinations Branch
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Email: Tiffany Welch: |
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Technology and Audit Support Branch
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Email: Mark Sutton: Technology Branch Manager Mark graduated from Eastern Kentucky University, with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting. Prior to becoming part of this division, he was an auditor in the Division of Financial Audit for eight (8) years in positions ranging from Auditor to Auditor-in-Charge, where he audited state agencies. He has been in network administration for eight (8) years. Mark manages the network for the Auditor of Public Accounts, as well as, managing the workload of the technology branch staff. He develops short and long-range technology plans to address the future technology needs of the APA. Mark functions as the information technology liaison for the APA and works with applicable state agencies and vendors. He is responsible for reviewing/evaluating and purchasing appropriate goods/services. Mark helps to identify staff training needs and provides training as needed. In addition, Mark provides support to APA computer users, both locally and those that dial in. He maintains, monitors, and troubleshoots servers, printers, workstations, backups, and dial-ins. He installs, "ghosts," replaces, configures, and/or troubleshoots hardware and software. He helps administer and maintain network security, users' rights, and the building's security system. He performs security tests and reports incidents, as necessary. Email: Gary Jones: Technology Branch Supervisor While in the Marines, Gary attended Computer Science School in Quantico, Virginia. He received a degree in Computer Science, with the option in Computer Programming. He received his Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer for Windows 2000 from Sullivan University. He has approximately five (5) years experience in computer programming in ADA, Cobol, HTML, and Visual Basic. He has approximately four (4) years of experience in LAN administration. He worked with the Military Police while in Camp LeJeune, performing database entries. Gary investigates any suspect event of intrusion into the APA's network, which includes gathering information about the intrusion and related events, forwarding this information to the GOT Security Services ISS and our CIO. Additionally, he gives advice to the IT Auditors on different methods and tools to use to evaluate the security of the Auditee's network. Gary evaluates, researches, and tests new products related to Security of the network. He also sends all recommendations of software and training to management for approval. His overall responsibilities include providing support to APA computer users, both locally and those that dial in. He maintains, monitors, and troubleshoots servers, printers, workstations, backups, and dial-ins. He installs, "ghosts," replaces, configures, and/or troubleshoots hardware and software. He helps administer and maintain network security, users' rights, and the building's security system. He performs security tests and reports incidents, as necessary. Email: Thomas Sparkman: APA Experience: With the APA since April 1998 Tom received his Microsoft Network Engineer diploma from Sullivan University and graduated with Suma Cum Laude honors and a President's Cup Award. Subsequently, he earned a degree in Computer Science, with emphasis in Information Technology, again graduating Suma Cum Laude and a President's Cup Award. Tom has taught networking classes at Sullivan University. Tom creates, designs, and maintains the APA's Public website and internal Portal applications, data, and content. He also evaluates, researches, and tests new products related to the APA's websites. Tom formats and publishes audit reports and press releases to the Public website, as well as handling all web site related issues. His overall responsibilities also include providing support to APA computer users, both locally and those that dial in. He maintains, monitors, and troubleshoots servers, printers, workstations, backups, and dial-ins. He installs, "ghosts," replaces, configures, and/or troubleshoots hardware and software. He helps administer and maintain network security, users' rights, and the building's security system. He performs security tests and reports incidents, as necessary. |
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