KATHLEEN BOSTON MCCUNE DALLAS.FORT WORTH, TEXAS AREA

KATHLEENBOSTONMCCUNE@GMAIL.COM

817-709-4868

 

Proven results as TECHNICAL WRITER with a demonstrated track record of detailing data for RFPs, Proposals, User Manuals, Speeches and other written materials requested/required by management and governmental authorities and/or administrators.

Proficient in Financial Analysis & Forecasting; GAAP & Cash Management; SEC Regs; Cost Reductions; CAFR, FAR, Technology Integration/Upgrades; Regulatory Compliance and Efficiency Improvements.

Technical Writer for software upgrades for over 30 yrs. Contractual and on the job writer of User Manuals for 25 yrs. 

REALTOR, KANSAS AND MISSOURI, REECE & NICHOLS                                15 YEARS Listed and sold property, both commercial and residential successfully.

Chauncey Bogan, Entrepeneur for inspiring young people        Jan 2023 – Today

Cell: 614.787.6878

Wrote his lead letters and requests for coverage in the DFW area through CBS

CITY OF DALLAS                                                                                     NOV 2022 – DEC 2022

TECHNICAL WRITER

Assisted in setting up files for Administrative Directives for CityWide Program for DPD.

 

KBM MARKETING/AUDITING, KS; HURST, TX                      FEB 2004 – NOV 2022    

AUTHOR/PUBLISHER 

Wrote and published  24 books, most available on Amazon under books and my full name. Most recent ASSIGNMENT~TEXAS BORDER just published.

Also Auditor/Marketing For Tom the Taper over last 18 years: Also, kept records of expenditures and income for both Tom the Taper and EOY Tax Preparation for Time Saver Handyman. (Both firms doubled their volume of work and income with my advertisements for them on the web.) When staff  was on vacation: preparation of estimates and correspondence with government offices.

 

COUNTY GOVERNMENT                                                                    SEP 2004 – JAN 2005 RESEARCH/FINANCIAL ANALYST/RECONCILIATION ANALYST (CONTRACT)

Audited A/P desk for possible fraud, Reconciliation of A/P desk for Register of Deeds Office. Set up new desk user/training manual to include GAAP for future potential fraud. Trained new personnel and included new software Peoplesoft in both the manual and training thereof.

GE/ERC                                                                                            NOV 2003 – DEC 2004   RESEARCH ANALYST (CONTRACT) 

Determined any liability from recent purchase of four smaller reinsurance firms. Set up Spreadsheet configuration required to garner all possible information concisely for contract management of liabilities covered. Oversaw staff of two for assistance in finding all data available. Solely input the data into the SAS system for Administration to pull data by category. ROI = Cost =$54k, Potential Liabilities could have been millions.

 

EDS, FEDERAL  IT HEALTH SVCS, KS ACCOUNT                       JAN 1978 – JAN 1979                    MANAGER  (CONTRACT)

As part of the team for testing and designing potential fraud scenarios for new software necessary for implementation of that software (used until recently) in Kansas for the Medicaid and Medicare Crossover Claims. After testing and setting up the “front-end” this position as Manager meant assuring only “clean” claims crossed to the data input area and that all claims had the encoding necessary for timely processing and accurate tracking for potential fraud. Our team held the record for years for being the first on-line for finding fraud the first day with an accuracy ratio of 100%.

UMB, FINANCIAL DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN KCMO                          APR 2018– JUL2018 TECHNICAL WRITER  (CONTRACT)

After upgrade of security software, I was contracted to set up User Training Manuals within International Wire Investments Section for 6 associates to include embedded data and referenced materials, using Adobe Acrobat, Excel 2016, Tableau and Cloud for internal use.

RAFTELIS FINANCIAL CONSULTING, INC., ENGINEERS              JUN 2016–NOV2017   TECHNICAL WRITER (CONTRACT)

Wrote three sections of Proposal for San Antonio’s Water System. For St. Louis Mo. Sewer District: Set up and produced Proposal for wastewater and storm water increased need in additional financing. Provided ten variations of Proposal for each Reviewing team and political entity within the St. Louis MSD.

MACPROCESS INC./SCHENCK MANUFACTURING                       OCT 2012 – MAY 2013            SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST  (CONTRACT)   

By Contract for Richard Smith, Director for Accounts ReceivableAssisted Management by auditing A/R after new implementation between Oracle and SAP in the KCMO operation to capture all incoming monies.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, REGION VII,                                     FEB 2009 – FEB 2010      FISCAL OPERATIONS SPECIALIST (CONTRACT)   

Updated Fiscal Reporting for the Foster Care and Adoption Assistance for the four States: Iowa, Kansas, Mo and Nebraska.Created Reports for Quarterly expenditures from each State within Region VII.Verified Administration costs of third-party entities/auditing same.Externally Audit & Financial Lead for Federal IV-E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) monies-Bi-annually.Pilot Team Lead-Financial extrapolation of Administrative Cost Review in Iowa w/100% accuracy verified.(Only such results in America.)External audit of Peer Reviews Program in Iowa’s Transition program for youth services.

CITY GOVERNMENT: KANSAS CITY, KANSAS,                                 SEP 1989 – SEP 1997              SR FINANCIAL ANALYST 

Updating and Organizing Bond/Note Department. Audited A/P, A/R, calculating potential arbitrage to determine whether the City was earning more than it was paying to hold notes for roads and other infrastructure. Balanced bank accounts for the Board of Public Utilities and set up the files for all notes and bonds held by the City. Audited the files of the Health Care Benefits Manager in realigning changes and implementing new data into the updated system to accommodate ERISA.

STATE OF LOUISIANA, HEALTH SRVS, BATON ROUGE              JUN 1981 – JUN 1989             SENIOR FISCAL ANALYST 

Served at the pleasure of the 105 Representatives w/direct responsibility for a $3 billion budget that included all Health and Hospital Services for the State. Internal auditing of all offices statewide required annually. Regular appearances before the media were part of this positions’ requirement with explanations for lineitem expenditures by program.  Drafting new law for Legislators, sitting on Appropriations and Health Committees for all hearings, explaining potential changes in law and how to effect changes requested by elected officials (with whom I had recommended how to reduce the budgets without affecting the truly needy public) was accomplished with a 24% unemployment ratio during the 80’s.

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,                     DEC 1979 – JUN 1981     FINANCIAL ANALYST AND ACTING ECONOMIST

Successfully forecasted the expenditures and thus the budget for all road projects.This office was still using the “card” system of computerization and with the nod of the Deputy of Transportation, I upgraded the whole office onto PCs, testing the software before going online.My accuracy ratio for forecasts was 98% for the next 2 years and included four climate zones and allowance for strikes, as Arizona has Labor Unions.

IBM, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, BY CONTRACT                JAN 1979-JUN 1979     INTERNAL AUDITOR  (CONTRACT)

Cleaned up a three-year-old federal audit situation in 6 months, requested a Desk Audit and received an A+ for the work. Included organizing all accounts on the A/R side and reallocating their payments appropriately. When finished, I met with the CEOs of mega firms such as: Illinois Power, Illinois Bell, Illinois Dept. of Labor, Illinois Dept. of Transportation and other large business entities, explaining cogently how their accounts were now in balance. Asked to become a Manager for IBM in California, and declined due to new husband’s career taking us in another direction. Boss: Patricia Barrios. 

STATE OF KANSAS TREASURER’S OFFICE,                                 JAN 1975 – JAN 1978           DEPUTY TREASURER 

Using a formula based upon the State Chartered Kansas Banks’ investment in small businesses and farmers, I invested all Federal Revenue Sharing monies and distributed them throughout Kansas. Invested the Judges, Clerks and Court Reporters Retirement monies. Balanced the 15 bank accounts monthly and assisted in the weekly investment of excess monies offered to local banks on TDOAs (Time Deposit Open Accounts), able to back the $20k to $200m available, utilizing wire transfers.

Education:

Ø BBA, Majors: Accounting/Business Administration with 3.88 GPA, Washburn University, Topeka, KS Prescreened in English to Sr classes Freshman year Ø Cost Principals & Grants Management Certificates - Federal Training

Ø   University of Nebraska, Omaha, One Semester, History, Journalism, Trig. 3.5

Ø   Cost Principals & Grants Management Certificates - Federal Training

Computer Software Familiarity:

AGI, MTS, Excel Power Point and Vista, also: ACCESS, AGILE, ERP, FASTRACK, PDF (ADOBE Acrobat), PeopleSoft (JDE), VISIO, SQL, SAP, SAS, QuickBooks thru 2016, Great Plains, Peachtree, EPerfect, ECommerce, ADP, Oracle, Paychex, Paycor, Tableau and Cloud.

ANNE now available @ Amazon & Barnes & Noble

Sarah Ann Campbell is the feisty red-haired, spoiled yet fun filled daughter of Perry and Serena Campbell born in 1869 Ellsworth, Kansas.        

Her life will be filled with Cowboys, Indians, Barn Dances and the rough weather Kansas is famous for of arid summers and frigid winters with up to six feet of snow drifting in western Kansas to twice that height.

           This book begins when Serena is in labor with the child who will usurp Ann's hold on her mother's attention.  She soon learns to follow her Pa and the male family members to find the mental challenges her mind demands.  Though her Ma reads, most of the time she is physically involved in insuring the house, kitchen garden and children are cared for, while the men plan, direct and brew whiskey to make the money which holds them to the land.  To Ann, the men have the commanding roles and she finds them more compelling than her female counterparts...that is until she sees Lon Boston the first time.  At her thirteenth birthday celebration Lon makes an appearance with her favorite Uncle and wins her admiration and affection.  Indeed,Falling in love with the Cowboy Lon Boston gives Ann the impetus to continue in the rough and tumble Kansas where just surviving can pull the beauty from a rose in less than a day.  His quiet gentleness, impeccable demeanor and respect from his peers won him to her heart even before she noticed how handsome he was.  Lon, 6’4”, with black wavy hair, pale blue eyes and sweeping handlebar moustache rode a horse as though born on one.  His quiet commanding voice was the antithesis to her too quick fits of temper. He found the sprightly Ann, at 5’ 6" tall, fiery green eyes, a tangle of bright curly crimson hair and the challenge he was eager to tangle up with….for the rest of his life.

 https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Baby-Boomer-Life-50s/dp/1549913255/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1649605018&sr=1-2

Today I have added to my published books with an Autobiography of memories of the 1950's. They are found at  Amazon, books, under my full name.  The memories are so poignant, in reflection they feel as though I am back there and reexperiencing each situation, probably because there was not much of what distracts us today, such as: TV, Telephones (except for emergencies),Cell Phones,Computers,or more than one car per family.  I have to say, that though we were limited to only three or four clothes changes and that truthfully it is easier to write on a computer than the old typewriters, the times were more comfortable, mentally and emotionally satisfying and relaxing overall.  I do hope that you will take a peak and ultimately decide to purchase my latest, and yes....all of my published works.  Thank you.

SUSANNA FULLER WHITE WINSLOW

MY 10TH GREAT GRANDMOTHER 

Find on Amazon under books, Kathleen Boston McCune

Woman in Leyden, Norway in Pilgrim clothing.

Left: Pilgrim woman making minced pie 

This is a true story of a strong woman related by DNA, who has never enjoyed the notoriety which surely should belong to her and all the women who were on this fate-filled journey across the Atlantic Ocean during the winter months.  I wrote it for this reason and the following as well:  https://www.amazon.com/Susanna-Fuller-White-Winslow-Grandmother/dp/1690184515/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_pdt_img_top?ie=UTF8

Also found on Amazon under books and Kathleen Boston McCune

"    FORWARD

As a history buff and unofficial family analyst of ancestry, I decided when I found that we are directly related to two families who boarded the Mayflower and made it as far as Plymouth Rock, to record most everything anyone might want to learn about this crossing in 1620.

My 10^th Great Grandfather, William White[i] died several days upon landing, but his son, who is also my 9^th Great Grandfather Peregrine White, was born on the 19^th of December, 1620 while he and his mother, Susanna Fuller White, my 10^th Great Grandmother, were still aboard the Mayflower.  The weather was typical for that era for the northeastern coastline of America, and considerably colder and snowier than the weather from which these Puritans were familiar.  For this reason and the fact that illness was quickly claiming the lives of too many, most of the women and children were left aboard the vessel until cabins could be built by the ship’s crew and the men not already too ill to help.  The cabins would not be ready for over three months, at which time those still alive were brought ashore.

Since I found more than one reference to Susanna (Peregrine’s mother) being born at Redenhall, Norfolk, England (the known Mansion of the Fuller family), I had to make the logical leap that her maiden name must surely be Fuller; though several other historians disagree with this assumption.

The question of why only four of the 27 women survived the first year once landed, while the others did not, persisted in the back of my mind throughout the writing of this treatise. I decided to further study the profiles of these women, namely: Susanna Fuller White, Eleanor Billington, Mary Brewster and Elizabeth Hopkins.  They all came from totally different households, from wealthy to middle class and from innocently pure to obnoxiously loud and pushy to pursue the raising of their children in this foreign clime. What they shared was that they all had at least two children onboard with them less than 16 years old and all but one had children who were still nursing. Also, two had new-born babes, either born on the trip over or as soon as the Mayflower landed. My personal deduction was that the hormone Oxytocin, a hormone present in nursing mothers, relaxes the mother, thus reducing levels of stress. This may have helped these women deal with what otherwise may have caused increased levels of adrenaline, which weakens the body after reason for stress is removed, and would have left adrenaline available when needed to fend off disease exposure, saving themselves and their young.

I will be covering the Mayflower Compact, the vessel Mayflower and as many of the personalities as are written of throughout this history book.  There are millions of Americans alive today whose forefathers and/or foremothers were on this ship so important to the founding of our country.

It is my hope that all who read will be spurred on to find their own background and how it may relate to being a part of this wonderful land we call America.

Author, Kathleen Boston McCune"

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[i] See MF 1:96-97 @ Mayflower Hall Museum, Plymouth, MA and Ancestry.com

MAYFLOWER VOYAGE~AN HISTORICAL TREATISE

For everyone who wondered if they are related to someone who came to America aboard the Mayflower, and for history buffs world-wide, my new book, MAYFLOWER VOYAGE, An Historical Treatise should satisfy each and everyone.

Also, a terrific choice for all school aged youngsters, whether home schooled, public or parochial  schooled. Included are two letters from teenager Lizzy (Elizabeth Tilley-see her statue at the Mayflower Museum @ Plymouth), who wrote from aboard ship and once landed to her Aunt still in England.

For you ancestry/genealogy buffs, every passenger is profiled with as much information as is available for the telling and maiden names are listed as well for the wives. Also, for those who need DNA profiles, they too are available from the men listed who it is known have lineage alive today.

All information is referenced for checking and further exploring more details for those so inclined.

This was an enlightening experience and one I know you too will enjoy. Available now on Amazon under Kathleen Boston McCune, author.

Renown British Author Reviews: PIONEERS WITH PURPOSE ~

A Review of PIONEERS WITH PURPOSE :  

PIONEERS WITH PURPOSE is an epic story, based on an actual family history, which has been skilfully brought to life by the talented author Kathleen Boston McCune. The chief protagonists, Serena and Perry Campbell have been aiding escaped slaves flee from the oppression of the South at the advent of the Civil War. Now fearing retribution from southern, pro slavery, sympathizers, they set out to make a new life in Kansas.

                    

R.L. Bartram

 This book is written with such exquisite detail, deftly creating a “spirit of place”, that I was instantly transported back in time to the world of the pioneer. The descriptions of what they ate, how they dressed, what they thought and the hardships they endured are so realistically   portrayed that I felt I was making the journey with them. I was particularly taken with Serena Campbell, whose stoic outlook and cheerful nature, even after the tragic loss of three children, bound the story together. Her devotion to her husband, family neighbours and friends, despite the many hardships of the trail is both heart warming and inspirational.  As seen through the eyes of the pioneer families this book covers one of the most significant periods of American history, in essence, the birth of a nation, from the gradual dispossession of the native people, the destruction of the buffalo herds, to the coming of the railway and the building of frontier towns to great cities.

PIONEERS WITH PURPOSE is an engrossing read, whilst being both educational and entertaining. As an author of historical fiction based on fact, I can truly appreciate the fine detail that makes this book stand out from the crowd. I am normally a fast reader, but I took my time with this one because there was so much to absorb and it was well worth it. 

I can thoroughly   recommend PIONEERS WITH PURPOSE, not only to devotees of history, but to anyone who enjoys a well written family saga. If this isn’t already on your “Must Read” list, then add it now.

R.L.Bartram. Author.    

Found also on Amazon under Kathleen Boston McCune, author.

THE COWBOY & ELLSWORTH

Last Thursday I met The Cowboy, AKA Jim Gray.  We met in Ellsworth which was a trip I would recommend to anyone who would like to see the Flint Hills in their autumn glory.  The grasses are all in shades of rust and deep violet, interspersed with carved rocks revealing their layers of Kaibab Limestone, Hermit Shale, Bright Angel Shale and ending with Tapeats Sandstone.  The kaleidoscope of shades competes with the grasses now growing naturally in these flint hills which are trying to come back to their original beauty.  When we finally reached the little town remaining in Ellsworth we found the Government Buildings to be in generally good shape but every other store front downtown seemed empty and screaming for recognition earned by the forefathers and foremothers known in the 1860s as America’s Pioneers.  As the railroads and other landholders have had their way with many towns not garnering what they consider to be enough “Bottom Line”, the few families related to the original Pioneers and others testing living in a small town are clinging to a rope that seems greased and guarantying eventual death of not only ideals but a frontier washed in the history and frontier morals now mostly ignored by those who could insure these monuments to our past are honored with the survival such as the windmills pushing up to the heavens by GE and VESTA are attempting.

            Jim and I exchanged books, signing our names and wishes to one another as my husband and mother gathered up information provided for the few tourists and we all enjoyed a delicious lunch at Padens where we couldn’t talk quickly enough to share our historical finds which lace both our books. 

            We definitely will return to spend more time checking the gravesites and family Homesteads and hope that our next trip finds the area more populated and growing rather than in such decline.