July 2024 — Present Current role
Assurance Manager
Lead external financial reporting audits and develop onshore and offshore teams, with ownership of workpaper quality, coaching, engagement economics, and delivery under tight reporting deadlines.
Professional record Updated September 2026
I’m a California CPA and PwC Assurance Manager with 8+ years of Big 4 experience serving technology, semiconductor, SaaS, and fintech clients. My work spans external financial reporting, US GAAP technical accounting, quarter- and year-end close, and SOX 404 / ICFR for pre-IPO and newly public companies. I pair an auditor’s rigor with a builder’s instinct: human-in-the-loop AI workflows at work, and rules-governed AI systems on my own time.
01 / Experience
One firm. Three chapters.
Associate to Manager at PwC since 2018, built on five years of tutoring and internships.
July 2021 — July 2024
Senior Assurance Associate
Coordinated quarterly reviews and year-end audits across significant accounts, estimates, controls, and disclosures while guiding teams through increasingly complex engagements.
September 2018 — July 2021
Assurance Associate
Built the foundation in public-company assurance, financial-statement auditing, controls testing, and audit-ready documentation.
Earlier experience
- 2017 — 2018Accounting TutorUniversity of Notre Dame
- Summer 2017Core Assurance InternPwC · San Jose
- 2016 — 2017Accounting InternJ.R. Simplot Company
- 2013 — 2016Math TutorBoise State University
02 / Selected scope & impact
The work behind the titles.
What the three chapters add up to, from technical accounting to the economics of running an engagement.
01
Reporting & technical accounting
From filing support to unusual transactions.
Lead audits for technology, SaaS, and fintech clients, including PayPal, eBay, and Astera Labs, covering quarterly and annual financial statements, 10-Q / 10-K disclosures, and supporting schedules in Workiva.
- Stock-based compensation under ASC 718, with private-company valuation and secondary-transaction considerations
- Business combinations (ASC 805), leases (ASC 842), and debt issuances
- Accounting treatment and the related disclosures
02
AI & automation
Human review stays in the loop.
Build Microsoft Copilot agent and enterprise GPT workflows for journal-entry classification, walkthrough and control documentation, tie-outs, and technical research, with source-level verification before any output is relied on. I also coach the team on prompt design and when AI output needs human verification.
10–15 hoursof manual journal-entry classification saved on an annual workstream (estimate)
03
SOX 404 / ICFR
Controls that stand up to scrutiny.
Evaluate first-year SOX programs for pre-IPO and newly public companies, from walkthroughs and risk and control mapping to design and implementation testing. I test controls over ASC 606 revenue, management review, journal entries, reconciliations, and period-end reporting.
04
IPO readiness
Find the gap. Trace the response.
Assess control-environment gaps for pre-IPO clients, including segregation-of-duties issues in IT-dependent processes and management’s remediation of an identified material weakness.
05
Close & systems
Inside the close and the ledger.
Work with client accounting teams through quarter- and year-end close on accruals, tax provision, reconciliations, flux analyses, and footnote support. Auditing NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics BC, and Workiva environments gave me a working knowledge of general-ledger data flows.
06
Engagement economics
Budgets owned from first hour to final invoice.
Build the pre-engagement budget: total audit hours, a staffing plan, proposed fees, and target margin. I track budget against actual through fieldwork, investigate overruns, and secure additional billing or resources when scope moves.
- Hours & staffing
- Fees & margin
- Budget to actual
- Invoiced & collected
07
Leadership
Quality through clear ownership.
Manage and develop teams of 2–5 onshore and offshore staff, balancing coaching, workpaper quality, and on-time delivery. I also turn one-off AI wins into reusable workflows the whole team can run.
03 / Built independently
AI systems, run like a control environment.
Outside of work, I design and operate systems with the same controls I would expect in an audit.
Operating
Rules-governed agentic system
A scheduled multi-agent system that runs unattended between decision points, governed by version-controlled rules.
- Version-controlled rules
- Segregation of duties across agents
- Documented halt switch
- Exception escalation
- Configuration-drift checks
Operating
Personal finance system
A semi-automated system for recurring financial health checks, with human review before any decision.
- Recurring health checks
- Multi-year scenario modeling
- Goal tracking
- Exception alerts
04 / Foundation
Education & credentials.
Issued Oct 2021
Certified Public Accountant
California Board of Accountancy · License #148501 · Active
Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants2017 — 2018
Master of Science in Accountancy
University of Notre Dame · Mendoza College of Business
Concentration: Assurance & Advisory Services2013 — 2017
B.B.A., Accounting & Finance
Boise State University
GPA 3.505 / Working knowledge
A technical core. A systems mindset.
Reporting
- 10-Q / 10-K
- US GAAP
- Technical accounting research
- Workiva
- External audit coordination
Accounting topics
- ASC 606
- ASC 718
- ASC 805
- ASC 842
- Debt
- 409A valuation considerations
Controls
- SOX 404
- ICFR design & implementation
- Pre-IPO / IPO readiness
- Accounting policy documentation
Finance operations
- Budgeting & forecasting
- Variance analysis
- Margin & fee realization
- Quarter- & year-end close
AI & automation
- AI workflow design
- Copilot agents
- Enterprise GPT
- Human-in-the-loop review controls
Systems
- NetSuite
- SAP
- Microsoft Dynamics BC
- Advanced Excel
Collaboration
- Team leadership
- Tax, Treasury & Legal partners
- Onshore & offshore teams
Languages
- English, fluent
- Vietnamese, native
End of record / September 2026