Warren Wool was one of the co-founders of GRS in 2000. It was initially the consulting arm of Bruce Harrell & Company, CPAs, where Warren had served as Director of Technology Services since November 1994. Prior to his association with Bruce Harrell & Company, Mr. Wool spent twenty years in the practice of public accountancy with the Baton Rouge CPA firm of L. A. Champagne & Co. and five years as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The CMI Group, a computer systems integration company engaged in nationwide computer networking sales and consulting services for businesses and governments.
Warren earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1969. With the exception of a three-year tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam conflict, he has practiced and been active in public accounting since that time. During his tenure with L. A. Champagne & Co., he served in various capacities in the audit department, including Municipal and Governmental Audit Partner. He also served seven years as Tax Services Partner and six years as Computer Services Partner.
Warren is a member of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the Louisiana Society of CPAs (LCPA). During his career, he has served on and/or chaired numerous professional committees including the Governmental Accounting and Auditing Committee, the Municipal Practice Review Committee, the Taxation Committee, the Auditing and Accounting Conference Committee, the Professional Development Committee, the Continuing Professional Education Committee, the Computer Education Committee, the Microcomputer Conference Committee, the Management of an Accounting Practice Committee, and the Business & Industry Committee. He most recently served as a member of the LCPA Technology Task Force. Warren is also a member of the Microsoft Professional Accountants Network (MPAN).
During his service on the LCPA Governmental Accounting and Auditing Committee, he participated in the authoring of the first Louisiana Municipal Audit Guide. During the Reagan presidency, Warren served a four-year term on the Fifth U.S. Congressional District Tax Advisory Committee. During his five years on the LCPA Computer Education Committee, he organized and chaired the first Louisiana Microcomputer Conference in 1988 and has participated in several of the annual conferences since then. In 1991, Warren was the Technology Advisor to the AICPA Task Force on Electronic Publishing.
Warren has lectured extensively on various areas of taxation, auditing, computer technology, and business office automation. He has spoken before LSU Law Center conferences, civic and business groups, and professional accounting seminars and conferences in Louisiana and across the United States. He developed the course Introduction to Computer Accounting for Louisiana State University and was the author of and instructor for the LCPA's courses Putting Computer $$$ to Work in the CPA Firm and Living on the LAN. More recently, Warren was the "architect" and project coordinator of IDEAS2000 - a landmark information access system developed for the Tangipahoa Parish Clerk of Court and the ClerkSearch e-Commerce system developed for the Livingston Parish Clerk of Court.
Warren is a past advisory board member of the CPA Computer Report and the Accountants Microcomputer News. He has been a contributing editor to the Quantum PC Report for CPAs and the AICPA Information Technology Newsletter. He is a past member of the Business Technology Association, the Networth, Inc. Reseller Advisory Council, and the Novell Platinum Advisory Council.
Warren has also served on numerous boards and committees of community organizations and associations including the YMCA and the Greater Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce. He has also served as an appointee to the Louisiana Technology Policy Focus Group and the Baton Rouge Mayor-President's Task Force on Computer Integration for Legal Agencies.
Warren currently serves as Managing Member of GRS. Since 2000, he has consulted on and trained personnel in numerous aspects of computer-related topics including LAN/WAN/Intranet server and client configuration and deployment; server and desktop operating system migrations; and office automation and workflow analyses. For over twenty years, he conducted Information Technology projects in the development and management of Clerk of Court public records document and case management systems including web-based eCommerce document retrieval systems.
For over fifty years, Warren advised Louisiana towns and cities and municipal police and fire departments in business and technology management, purchasing, specialty software such as Crimestar and HUD FRS, database management systems, and Standard Operating Procedures.
He and GRS continue to assist small and medium-sized government agencies and businesses in achieving the watch phrase of GRS ... "We bring order out of chaos."
Effective January 1, 2024, Warren retired from the active practice of Public Accounting after 50 years. He is now a CPA-Retired.
