JASON FILZ

 

150 Langford Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 2X3

Phone 204-794-3013  jfilz@email.com

www.jasonfilz.com/resume

 

Employment Objectives:

Seeking a rewarding full-time or part-time position that would utilize and expand my experience.

 

EDUCATION:

University of Winnipeg, Spring 2006 - Current

¨       Currently attending part time to complete my B.Sc. with a dual major in Computer Science and Business Administration.  Planning to get Certified Management Accountant designation.

 

Red River College, 1991 - 1993

¨       Taken various courses: Spreadsheet, Database, Desktop Publishing, C++ Programming.

 

University of Manitoba, 1989 - 1991

¨       Attended for 2 years - Faculty of Engineering. Was active in the IEEE Membership.

 

 

Experience:

Contract Accounting (casual), Doug’s Plastic and Acrylic Repair Inc.                                Feb. 2007 to Current

¨       Full Cycle accounting:

o        AR, AP and GL.

o        Bank and credit card reconciliation.

o        Tax remittance PST and GST.

 

Market Research Interviewer (part-time), NRG Research Group                                         Sept. 2006 to Present

¨       Conduct telephone interviews for research purposes only - no selling is involved.

¨       Establish contact for interviews by telephone.

¨       Check information gathered for completeness and accuracy.

 

Accounting (temp), Accountemps (Div. of Robert Half Canada)                                      Jan. 2007 to Apr. 2007

¨       Hornby Management/Mogo Financial

o        Balancing inter-company accounts.  Research transaction. Enter corrective entries.

¨       Fast Air Ltd.

o        Job costing coding and entering payables. U.S. and Canadian payments issued.

o        AR Credit checks.

o        Tracking and reporting plane flight miles and on various fees and charges.

 

Contract Accounting (casual), Jerry Perfanick Transport Inc.                                         Oct. 2006 to Mar. 2007

¨       Full Cycle accounting:

o        AR, AP and GL.

o        Bank deposits and reconciliation.

o        Payroll – internally processed. Issues T4 and ROE.

o        Tracking and reporting on fuel usage and maintenance logs.

 

Various Temporary Positions, People Bank / Design Group Staffing Inc.                                      2004 to 2006

¨       2004-2005 – Job costing, coding and entering payables for a multi-division corporation – Loblaws Inc.

¨       2006 – Phoning on behalf of PC Party of Manitoba.

¨       2006 – Data Entry & Macro automation of transfer of data from 2 different systems – Norman G. Jensen.

 

Bookkeeper & Information Manager, Goldberg & Associates (Also DBA CdnVISA Consultants) Aug 2006 to Oct 2006

¨       Reporting directly to owner Frank Goldberg, CA (One of the founders of The Winnipeg Sun).

¨       Full cycle Accounting. AR, AP, GL, internally processed Payroll, reconcile bank and credit card accounts.

¨       Setting up of accounting computer system for a new division. Form design and reporting.

¨       Reconcile 2+ years of accounting records for 3 divisions.

 

Support Analyst, IBM Canada Inc./Kelly Service Ltd.                                                     Oct 2005 to Aug 2006

¨       Coordinate the installation, upgrade, moving of commercial clients IT and telephony assets.

¨       Ensuring accuracy and compliance to standards and procedures including: Sarbane-Oxley Act, ISO, and to company and client SLA-Service Level Agreement standards for whole department.

¨       Verification and updating of clients asset into the financial database.

¨       Developed, implement and document procedures.  Coordinate and training on procedures (Canada, USA, and UK).

¨       Simplify computer processes though developing and using macro technology.

 

Part-Owner & Production Manager, Tasty Tidbits Gourmet Foods (Part-time)                               1997 to Jan 2006

¨       All aspects of the business including: Full cycle accounting, inventory, purchasing, scheduling/production.

¨       Designed, developed and produced customized & computerized packaging machinery. Recipe design and implementation into current processes & equipment.

¨       Marketing, promotion and packaging design. Trade shows setup and direct sales.

¨       Website management.

 

Data Entry & IT/Computer Support, Danzy Distributors Inc.                                                  Oct 2002 – Sept 2004

¨       Responsible for computerization full-cycle accounting including: purchasing, inventory, receiving, costing, payables, receivables, general ledger journals and financial statements. Report creation using a variety of tools including Crystal Report & Enterprise, and MS-Excel and MS-Access.

 

Main Accomplishments

Ø       Accomplished 6-month goals under 2 months.

Ø       Migrated multi-company organization using separate sets of data sets with manual data transfer, to a single corporation using a single enterprise level multi-location accounting system.

Ø       Adapt & enhance company processes and perform training for all employees including remote offices.

Ø       Setup, managed, maintained corporate eCommerce website. Alpha and Beta testing customized software.

 

Accounting and Data Entry, Pal Distributors Inc. (Pal Group of Companies-8 companies)          Oct 1997- Oct 2002

¨       Inventory control, job costing, invoicing, customer service, accounts receivables and credit collection.

¨       Maintained G/L accounts monthly, including inter-company, petty cash, bank reconciliation, clearing and contra accounts.

 

Main Accomplishments

Ø       Cleaned up and streamlined the accounting procedures.

Ø       Reduced the time to run daily, monthly & yearly processing and reporting.

Ø       Reduced average days clients take to pay outstanding receivables while over all sales increased.

Ø       Grew with the corporation working starting with 5 companies with only a single location, to assisting in adding 2 new incorporated companies with divisions in: Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver.

 

Management, Kelsey Sportswear Ltd.                                                                                      1985 – Aug 1997

¨       Exposed to all levels of apparel manufacturing management. Part owner of one division.

¨       Extensive customer support and sales experience: Retail, wholesale, setting up and attending tradeshows, and traveling sales representative.

¨       Ensuring accuracy of all data, creating and running reports.

¨       Payroll administrator, setting up employees, entering pay information, T4, ROE, utilizing an outside processor.

 

Technical Proficiency

¨       Over 19 years of computer related experience.

¨       Hands on experience with installation, configuration, upgrade and repairing of both workstation and server computers, printers, and other peripherals.

¨       Proficiency in solving difficult software and hardware conflicts.

¨       Security and maintenance of LAN and WAN, using VNC, routers, and hardware & software firewalls.

¨       Custom and specialized computer cabling: printer, barcode scanners, USB, network and telephony.

 


Accounting Software

Simply Accounting by Sage

Sage Accpac ERP

    (Accpac Advantage)

Sage BusinessVision

QuickBooks Premier

Microsoft Dynamics

Adagio & Accpac Plus

Jonas Software

Silk System & Sagro

Blue Link Elite Accounting

Crystal Reports & Enterprise

 

Operation Systems

Windows 2.0 though to Vista

Mac OSX

Linux


Software

MS-Office Professional

OpenOffice 2.+

CorelDraw

Lotus 1-2-3

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe PageMaker

Power Point

Personal Tax Filing Software

Anti-virus & mal-ware

Spam filtering


Web

Internet, Email

Web page design with

- HTML & CSS

- Apache, MySQL & PHP

VPN, routers, Firewall

Terminal Services

eCommerce Software

VNC Remote Access

 

Other

Computer Administration

Database Maintenance

Programming:

-          PHP

-          Java

-          C++


 

 

Hobbies

Camping, cycling, Winnipeg Fringe Festival volunteer, PHP Programming, online Peer to Peer user support & forum moderator (Accpac/Adagio support forum and a php based eCommerce solutions).