Vita

Resume for Dennis S. Ortiz, Ph.D., C.P.A.

Personal:

1729 Palm Blvd. #302

Brownsville TX 78520

(956)550-1116

Business:

University of Texas at Brownsville

Department of Accounting, School of Business

80 Ft. Brown

Brownsville TX 78520

(956)882-7208

dennis.ortiz@utb.edu

http://ntmain.utb.edu/dortiz

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EDUCATION

Year/ Degree & Major/ Institution

2000/ Ph.D. Accounting/ University of North Texas

1989/ Master Accountancy/ University of Arizona

1978/ B.S. Accounting/ University of Arizona

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

Arizona State Board of Accountancy. CPA Certificate No. 7601-E

TEACHING

Assistant Professor, and Visiting Assistant Professor, Accounting Department, School of Business, University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB). August 1998 to present. As Assistant Professor at UTB I teach Principles of Financial Accounting, Principles of Managerial Accounting, Management Information Systems, Accounting Information Systems, and Tax I at the undergraduate level as well as Accounting for Managers at the Masters (MBA) level. I have taught the MBA course in both English and in Spanish. Teaching evaluations and summaries are available on request.

Lecturer, Teaching Fellow, Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant, Department of Accounting, University of North Texas (UNT), September 1991 to August 1995, and June 1996 to July 1998. As Lecturer (from August 1996 to December 1997) and Teaching Fellow (all other times), I have taught either, and sometimes both, of the accounting principles courses using both (1) the traditional debits and credits, or preparer approach with financial preceding managerial in the normal sequence of principles courses, and (2) a more conceptual or decision maker approach without debits and credits and with managerial as the first in the sequence.

Lecturer, Breech School of Business, Drury College, September 1995 to May 1996. During the 1995-1996 academic year I taught Principles of Financial Accounting as well as a two semester Federal Income Tax undergraduate sequence (beginning with individual taxation/concepts, followed by corporate). In the Spring of 1996, with the generous support of the School of Business, I started an IRS Voluntary Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program at Drury, as a project for my Corporate Taxation students.

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Public Accounting: Deloitte and Touche, Arizona (Phoenix and Tucson), Tax Consultant, May 1989 to September 1990; Clifton Gunderson, Tucson, Tax Consultant, September 1990 to July 1991. Although I worked primarily in the Tax Departments at both firms performing a combination of individual and business, income and other tax, compliance as well as research and planning functions. I also crossed over into Audit and Management Consulting as demand dictated.

Data Processing Sales: IBM Data Processing Division, December 1978 to June 1981; Nixdorf Computer June 1981 to June 1982. As a Marketing Representative at IBM I was responsible for mainframe system sales. As part of my training for the position of Marketing Representative, I completed an eighteen month intensive Systems Design and Marketing (SYSDM) training program. Note: first shipments of PCs were not until mid-1982, so the product and the business has changed dramatically since my last first hand experience.

Gymnastics Coach: San Diego State University Aztecs, Gymnastics Center of San Diego and Gymnastics World (formerly Gymnastics Center of Tucson), December 1981 to May 1989. As a coach at Gymnastics World, I had the honor or coaching under Youichi Temida, 1988 Assistant Coach of U.S.A. Men’s Gymnastics Team.

SERVICE

As Assistant Professor of Accounting in the School of Business at University of Texas at Brownsville, I have served as a leader and participant on various School of Business committees including the current Dean Search Committee, as well as various AACSB committees including Mission and Assurances of Learning Teams. I also serve as a participant on the Accounting Department Library, Personnel, and Curriculum Committees. I enjoy being involved with the Scorpion Investor Group (as founding sponsor), Accounting Society, and am presently involved with a group of UTB students to form the UTB Gymnastics Club.

Off campus, I enjoy being involved with East Brownsville Little League (where I have coached and served as Treasurer), Brownsville Southmost Lions, Brownsville Literacy Center, and Master Minds. I have also served on the Brownsville Parks and Recreation Advisory Board as Community Liaison for Lincoln Park.

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

1999. The Home Mortgage Interest Deduction for Federal Income Taxes: A Federalist Perspective. 1999 Southwest Federation of Applied Disciplines (SWFAD) Conference Proceedings.

2000. The Home Mortgage Interest Deduction for Federal Income Taxes: A Federalist Perspective. Doctoral dissertation at University of North Texas, Denton.

2000. A Cross-State Comparison of the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction for Federal Income Tax. With Douglass Cagwin. Published in the 2000 International Applied Business Research Conference Proceedings.

2003. The Association of Separate and Concurrent Use of Activity-Based Costing, Supply Chain Management and Technology Integration with Improvement in Financial Performance. With Douglass Cagwin. Presented at the 2003 Southeast American Accounting Association (AAA) Regional Conference in March.

2004. The Impact on Preservice Teachers as They Tutor-Mentor Children Learning English Language Skills. With Maria Asplund. Workingpaper at Mankato State University.

2004. Attributes of Corporate Governance and the Extent of Fraudulent Financial Reporting: A Study of SEC Accounting & Auditing Enforcement Releases. With Kamal Said. A work in process accepted for presentation at the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD) 2005 Business and Public Administration Conference.

2005. The Association of Separate and Concurrent Use of Activity-Based Costing, Supply Chain Management and Technology Integration with Improvement in Financial Performance. With Douglass Cagwin. Forthcoming in the Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal.