Corporate Tax Director with more than 23 years of tax experience. Worked for KPMG for 5 and one half years and another 2 years for local CPA firm. Public accounting provided well rounded tax skills. Has spent the last 14 years as the Corporate Tax Director in the pharmaceutical and oil & gas industries. Very experiences with managing / coordinating IRS and state tax authority examinations / negotiations. Have gotten last two companies of employment into the new IRS Compliance Assurance Process progam via invitation from the IRS due to great professional respect earned. Experienced with multistate compliance and multistate tax strategies including credits & incentives, apportionment & entity planning, and transfer pricing between entities for state tax purposes. Started current job at PDC Energy, Inc. 6 years ago and was able to get company fully compliant, remove "material weakness with tax function" and build a solid department in a short period of time. Also has multiple years experience in S-Corp taxation, Partnership Taxation, and Individual Taxation and is a very thorough tax researcher and solutions provider. Interested in gaining more experience in Estate & Trust taxation as well as obtaining AICPA PFS designation.