At the Redemptorists: PHASE I
At the Redemptorists: PHASE I |
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WORK HISTORY |
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POSITION
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Comptroller and Director of Information Technologies
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LEFT BECAUSE
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Expelled on 03-13-2001 for publishing “The Enneagram and Catholic Personalism” in the April, 2001 issue of Homiletic and Pastoral Review (Ignatius Press). You may now read this article at http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Homiletic/2001-04/TOC.html . Your applicant continued work with the staff of Fort Lupton Tri-Parish Administration / St. William Catholic Church long enough to complete the last projects on which he had been working: financial control systems and supporting Information Technology systems for the management of the construction of a new parish church and the related pledge and budget campaigns.
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SUPERVISORS |
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06-11-1996 to 09-16-2001 |
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06-09-1994 to 06-10-1996 |
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01-09-1984 to 06-08-1994 |
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12-28-1978 to 01-08-1984 |
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This position represents a single controller and reporting entity responsible for the compliance and reporting requirements of three other entities (St. William Catholic Church, St. Nicholas Church and Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church), with a total employment of seventeen persons. Each entity, in turn, manifested its own peculiar fiscal reporting requirements, possessing as each did its own particular set of multiple funds, organizations and charts of accounts. An additional level of complexity is introduced by multiple FEIN’s, SEIN’s, unemployment, workers’ compensation, Medicare and FICA, PUC, pension, deferred compensation, EIC and benefits contractors and carriers (e. g., consider merely the daunting task of health insurance issues alone). Your applicant exercised sole comptroller and Information Technology responsibilities with minimal (and often no) administrative direction and supervision. Information Technology responsibilities were not restricted merely to the Department of Finance. Indeed, systems were developed covering the full range of parochial services including, but not exclusively limited to: religious education, the annual parish bazaar, administration, Time-Talent-Treasure programs, ecumenical activities, and many, many others. This position entailed the supervision, initiation and instigation, planning, performance and evaluation of the widest possible variety of highly responsible and complex administrative and analytical studies involving the operations of the full gamut of non-profit classes. Auditing duties included thorough analysis and evaluation of missions, goals and objectives; program efficiency and effectiveness; conformance with best management practices and evaluation of parochial departments, and recommending improvements in their internal control systems and procedures. Your applicant also exercised primary and executive level responsibility for managing, controlling, budgeting, supervising and planning for every parochial functional area. This position often exercised your applicant’s ability to successfully navigate and resolve conflicts arising from competing interests that were both internal to the parochial administration (such as budgeting scarce resources among the more than 29 parochial agencies) and external to it (the Archdiocese of Denver, the Redemptorist Provincial Office, various state legislative and executive agencies, and federal agencies exercising prerogatives directly related to the financial affairs of the Fort Lupton Tri-Parish Central Administration). As recent events on the national scene amply demonstrate, the day-to-day expert application of GAAP is voided of meaning if there is not also someone who has a clear-cut and ultimate responsibility for assuring that an agency is in compliance with laws and regulations related to the management of the agency. Your applicant was that person. Your applicant exercised special expertise in the application of the maze of laws and regulations relating to the financial responsibilities of the Fort Lupton Tri-Parish Central Administration. Your applicant did not restrict his activities to merely the administration of the financial and Information Technologies concerns of the three parishes. He also served as a scoutmaster, youth leader, youth counselor, Olympics and Odyssey of the Mind (both as moderator and local director), religious educator, cantor, lector, organist, sacristan, Bible instructor, hospital chaplain, retreat director, extraördinary minister of the Holy Eucharist, catechist, planner, and minister to senior citizens, mentally ill, mentally impaired, sick and hospitalized, homebound and shut-ins, lapsed Christians, and young or recently married couples. Your applicant founded the adult education ministry. At various times, he served as the director of each of these ministries. |
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