Tim Kirkpatrick graduated from Univeristy of Houston in 1997 with a Bachelors of Business Administration: Accounting. Since then he has worked in internal audit and with compliance initiatives. Constantly learning and expanding his expertise; he is more than just your average auditor. Working on audit teams in large companies around the world, Tim made it a practice to be an expert in auditing. He was among the first to learn and implement SOX auditing.