WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.310 --> 00:00:02.800 My name is Linda Graham and I'm an accountant. 2 00:00:02.800 --> 00:00:05.430 What we do at my organization is 3 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:09.350 line:15% pretty much everything, we are the... 4 00:00:09.350 --> 00:00:10.970 line:15% I work for DFAS, 5 00:00:10.970 --> 00:00:13.110 line:15% which is defense, finance, and accounting 6 00:00:13.110 --> 00:00:15.050 line:15% organization or services. 7 00:00:15.050 --> 00:00:16.510 line:15% And we are the largest finance 8 00:00:16.510 --> 00:00:18.300 and accounting organization in the world. 9 00:00:18.300 --> 00:00:20.530 line:15% So anything that falls on 10 00:00:20.530 --> 00:00:22.720 line:15% the Department of Defense, we pretty much handle, 11 00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:25.210 line:15% whether it's paying our war fighters, 12 00:00:25.210 --> 00:00:26.340 line:15% paying civilians, 13 00:00:26.340 --> 00:00:30.360 line:15% and I produce financial statements 14 00:00:30.360 --> 00:00:31.193 for the government, 15 00:00:31.193 --> 00:00:34.520 so that's my direct job title. 16 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:36.680 A lot of what I'm working on now is 17 00:00:36.680 --> 00:00:38.490 to just pretty much go through 18 00:00:39.630 --> 00:00:42.530 making our work more efficient. 19 00:00:42.530 --> 00:00:44.260 So a lot of things we do in a process 20 00:00:44.260 --> 00:00:47.200 line:15% improvement project, so somebody who could be in 21 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:48.720 line:15% project management would be 22 00:00:48.720 --> 00:00:50.080 line:15% a great success at our company 23 00:00:50.080 --> 00:00:51.320 line:15% because we're trying to make 24 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:53.010 line:15% programs more efficiently, 25 00:00:53.010 --> 00:00:56.370 line:15% have systems that are more audible-friendly 26 00:00:56.370 --> 00:00:58.370 and more user-friendly. 27 00:00:58.370 --> 00:01:00.630 So that's probably the biggest thing, 28 00:01:00.630 --> 00:01:03.680 is to make our department run more efficiently. 29 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:05.730 We collect a lot of data. 30 00:01:05.730 --> 00:01:08.290 Clocked a lot of data, then we take that data 31 00:01:08.290 --> 00:01:09.880 and there's usually a team of us, 32 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:12.070 and we go through pretty much steps 33 00:01:12.070 --> 00:01:14.120 where we measure the data. 34 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:15.880 We try to predict 35 00:01:15.880 --> 00:01:18.870 where's the problem at, where's the issue, 36 00:01:18.870 --> 00:01:19.760 because a lot of times, 37 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:21.720 you may think it's one thing when it's something 38 00:01:21.720 --> 00:01:23.120 completely different. 39 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:24.660 line:15% And we take that information 40 00:01:24.660 --> 00:01:27.690 line:15% and we may create a micro app 41 00:01:27.690 --> 00:01:30.450 line:15% which is usually access database 42 00:01:30.450 --> 00:01:32.460 line:15% that's able to compile data, 43 00:01:32.460 --> 00:01:35.060 line:15% spit it out faster to make sure it's more audible 44 00:01:35.060 --> 00:01:36.720 and things like that. 45 00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:39.520 For instance, working with, 46 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:41.550 we work with other defense organizations, 47 00:01:41.550 --> 00:01:44.220 so that's anybody that falls under Department of Defense, 48 00:01:44.220 --> 00:01:47.110 and they submit their monthly data 49 00:01:47.110 --> 00:01:48.350 where it could've been, 50 00:01:48.350 --> 00:01:50.653 they working on building this building. 51 00:01:52.180 --> 00:01:54.670 All money is already appropriated and allocated 52 00:01:54.670 --> 00:01:55.710 for certain things. 53 00:01:55.710 --> 00:01:58.170 So once they send it in, 54 00:01:58.170 --> 00:02:01.820 depending on when you send it in, it may hit 2013, 55 00:02:01.820 --> 00:02:04.180 line:15% but it was really completed in 2014, 56 00:02:04.180 --> 00:02:05.690 line:15% just how things work out. 57 00:02:05.690 --> 00:02:07.410 line:15% So all that information will be on a file. 58 00:02:07.410 --> 00:02:08.923 line:15% How much money they spent, 59 00:02:09.770 --> 00:02:10.723 line:15% where, 60 00:02:11.700 --> 00:02:12.700 line:15% what they're building. 61 00:02:12.700 --> 00:02:14.180 Everything has a place. 62 00:02:14.180 --> 00:02:16.500 Like we could read a specific line of accounting 63 00:02:16.500 --> 00:02:17.923 and know exactly what it is. 64 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:21.540 So those are the files that are coming in, 65 00:02:21.540 --> 00:02:25.523 and they can have thousands of lines of data on it.