JEFFREY DAVID HEIM
100 East Blade Drive
Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania 16865
Phone (814) 692-5532
Mobile (814) 769-1983
email mail@jeffheim.com


EDUCATION  
May 1999 The Pennsylvania State University - Master of Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management, with an emphasis in accounting and finance. Professional Masters Paper: "Budget Variance Analysis of Beverage Cost at The Morrison House: A Case Study"
August 1996 The Pennsylvania State University - Bachelor of Arts in History, with additional coursework in accounting, mathematics, and biochemistry
   
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  
July 1998 to June 2005 Morrison House - Alexandria, Virginia
  Controller/Network and MIS Administrator/Webmaster/Purchasing Agent/Paymaster
In a Relais & Châteaux, Mobil Four-Star, AAA Four-Diamond hotel and dining room, duties include maintaining, enhancing and reporting company cash position and profitability, supervising accounting staff, preparing and analyzing monthly and annual financial statements and annual budget, creating, implementing and enforcing cost controls and hotel security policies, preparing bi-weekly payroll, negotiating and maintaining service and maintenance contracts and insurance policies, addressing all computer hardware and software issues, providing total computer support to staff, developing and maintaining company internet site, maintaining internal computer Local Area Network, as well as various other operations and administrative duties.
   
April 1994 to July 1998

Penn State Hospitality Services - University Park, Pennsylvania
The Nittany Lion Inn
Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel

  Special Projects Accountant
Duties included creating a process to reconcile the accrual-based financial statements of Penn State's two hotels with Penn State's cash-based accounting system, in addition to other related and unrelated short-term projects.
   
  Night Auditor
Duties included closing daily accounting activity, preparing daily revenue journals and reports, running facilities overnight, other front desk duties as required.
   
  Accounts Receivable and Credit Manager
Duties included establishing accounts receivable system, maintaining $1 million in receivables, reviewing and approving credit applications for prospective clients.
   
July 1993 to April 1994 The Autoport Motel and Restaurant - State College, Pennsylvania
  Night Auditor
Duties included closing daily accounting activity, preparing daily revenue journals and reports, running facility overnight, converting night audit process from paper to computerized system, other front desk duties as required
   
COMPUTER SKILLS

Mastery of many applications and systems, including the following:
- Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98 and XP, MS-DOS, and Apple Macintosh operating systems
- Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 Server environments, including LAN, dial-up, and DSL connections, Remote Access Administration, Virtual Private Networking and pcAnywhere
- Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access 97
- Visual One Systems InnStar front office and InnTrak back office hotel systems
- CSS Hotel Systems accounting software
- Hotel Information Systems for IBM AS/400 front and back office
- MICROS 2700 and 3700 dining point-of-sale systems
- Kronos TimeKeeper Central time and attendance software
- Ceridian DOS-based and SourceWeb asp model payroll software
- ADP PC Payroll for Windows payroll software and eTime time and attendance software
- Macromedia Dreamweaver MX web page design software
Installation, configuration, and maintenance of computer networks, software, hardware, and peripherals

   
ACTIVITIES/INTERESTS

Vice President, Heritage Court Condominium Board of Directors
Certified American Heart Association, CPR and Emergency Cardiac Care Provider
Volunteer, Pennsylvania Special Olympics
Teaching internship in the History Department at Penn State University, "History of Nazism and Fascism"
Workshop instructor, Microsoft Windows, Word, and Excel
Guest lecturer, Penn State School of Hotel Restaurant & Recreation Management
Violinist, State College Community Theater, 1988 to 1992
Successful summit climb of Mt. Rainier, July 2000
Avid hiker, backpacker, mountaineer, cyclist