Kurt is a Manager in Brown Smith Wallace’s Risk Services practice, where he has responsibility for providing risk management and internal audit services to the firm’s clients.

Kurt recently joined Brown Smith Wallace after spending four years as a Corporate Manager, Technology and Information Technology Audit for SBC Communications.

Prior to SBC, Kurt spent more than eight years in an internal audit capacity for a financial services organization and a governmental entity. Kurt’s background includes:

• Assessed and documented the IT application controls surrounding the sales order and revenue recognition applications as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley project for a Fortune 500 technology services company. Revenue and associated applications included SAP, BOSS, Pegasus, ECMS, IDA, COM, EDM and GPSM.
  
• Assisted the overall coordination and planning for the IT assessments performed as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley project for the European operations of a Fortune 500 manufacturing company.
  
• Conducted assessments and documented the IT general controls (i.e. change management, access management, physical security/asset protection, backup & recovery, job scheduling and issues/incident management) as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley project for the European operations of a Fortune 500 manufacturing company.
  
• Planned and performed technical and analytical reviews, developed audit approach strategies, drafted audit plans, performed audit tests, evaluated and interpreted management’s system of controls and the risk of audit results for a Fortune 100 telecommunications company. Specific duties included:
  
  • Supported the Sarbanes-Oxley efforts designed to evaluate and strengthen business and IT controls and the development of analysis tools and guidelines for continual monitoring of the controls
    
  • Evaluation of physical and logical security controls
    
  • Verification of the existence and periodic testing of disaster recovery plans
    
  • Evaluation of change/configuration management procedures
    
  • Review and evaluation of system backup scheduling
• Created, developed and managed an internal audit group for one of the largest suburbs of Dallas, Texas. General duties included the management of the department, establishment of annual audit plans, report preparation and presentation of findings to the City leaders.
  
• Conducted routine examinations and examinations of above-average difficulty and persistent problem credit unions including the analysis of capital adequacy, assessment of asset quality, appraising earnings performance, evaluating budget practices and reviewing asset/liability management practices.