Aidan Aniciete

Aidan above the pit lane at Spa — Above the pit lane at Spa, 2024

Event Services Specialist at Maritz, supporting Google’s corporate event centers. Part-time accounting student at San Jose City College.

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Event operations, moving into accounting

I’m an Event Services Specialist at Maritz, working on site at Google’s corporate event centers in Mountain View. For four years my job has been taking large events from a plan to the day itself: the spaces, the vendors, catering and AV, and the problems that come up once people are in the room. On event days, it’s a lot like air traffic control.

Alongside the job, I’m studying accounting at San Jose City College, with a transfer to San José State planned for spring 2029. I explored a lot of fields before landing on accounting. I like that it’s systematic. The part of the field I keep reading about is forensic accounting and fraud examination.

Where I’m headed

What interests me most in accounting is the investigative side: tracing where money actually went, finding the entries that don’t line up, and understanding how fraud happens inside an organization and how it gets caught, or doesn’t. Forensic accounting and fraud examination are the fields I’m working toward.

Next to that, I’m interested in accounting information systems, internal controls and IT audit, because that is where most of the evidence lives and where the controls either hold or fail.

For now I’m partway through the degree, reading a lot, and building things to get closer to the material, like the AIS Audit Sandbox under Projects. My working experience so far is four years in event operations, and you’ll find it below.

Now: San Jose City College
A.S. Business Administration, since August 2021
Next: San José State University
Planned transfer, spring 2029
Coursework: Financial Accounting, in progress this fall
Done so far: Legal Environment of Business, Computer Information Systems and Python Programming. Managerial Accounting, Microeconomics and Statistics come next.
Also: Foundations of Project Management
Coursera, March 2023
Later: The CPA, once the degree is done
I’m also reading up on the Certified Fraud Examiner credential.

A tree-lined walkway at San José City College — San José City College. Photo: Cristiano Tomás, CC BY-SA 4.0

Tower Hall at San José State University among palm trees — Tower Hall, San José State University. Photo: Daderot, CC0

Projects

Things I’ve built to learn the material.

2026 · learning project

AIS Audit Sandbox

Fraud detection practice, internal controls, JavaScript

A practice tool for spotting purchasing problems. Each round makes up a company with its own procurement policy, staff and approval limits, approved vendor list, and a year of 18 to 22 payments. Four to eight of them break the rules: duplicate payments, purchases split to stay under an approval limit, unregistered vendors, invoices that don’t match the PO or the receiving report, and approvals from someone without the authority. You check each payment’s documents against the company files, flag what you find, and get scored on both what you miss and what you flag wrongly.

I built it with a lot of help from AI, as a way to practice spotting these schemes in a ledger. The first version double-counted duplicate payments in the at-risk total, and later the answer key turned out to mark things the evidence didn’t prove. The case study covers both fixes.

The AIS Audit Sandbox ledger: payments with vendor, amount, department and approver, and the problem types to flag on each

Try the sandbox · Read the case study

Experience

May 2025 – present

Event Services Specialist, Event Center

Maritz, on site at Google’s Bay View Event Center, Mountain View

Events supported: 44
Attendees: 14,000+
Events as Lead ESS: 8

Most of an event happens before anyone walks in. I join planning meetings three or four months out, and by event week that turns into a task list for each space and a briefing for the team working it. On the day, I check that catering, production, furniture and transportation are where the plan says they should be, and sort it out when they aren’t. Some problems I can fix myself. The rest go to whoever has the authority to decide, and knowing which is which is a big part of the job.

As Lead ESS on 8 events, I’ve run teams of up to five on programs from 175 to 1,000 people. One that stands out was one of the first large programs at a new venue.

Because the venue was new, there wasn’t an established setup to follow. The space is big, so I divided it into zones with one ESS assigned to each. That gave everyone a clear area to cover and made it easier to coordinate the team. Turnout came in well under what we’d planned for, so I dropped the zones partway through because we no longer needed them. The next large event there used zones too, and the team has discussed using the approach for future large events.

When two groups on site were working from different information, I drove out to sort it out with them in person rather than trying to fix it from inside the venue.

Nov 2022 – May 2025

Event Services Specialist, Core Team

Maritz, on site at Google, Mountain View

Before the Event Center, I worked Google’s meetings, executive events and tech talks, usually 50 to 200 people. After each one I wrote a debrief email with what happened and anything that still needed follow-up. Three times a week I walked every room and reported what needed fixing before the next booking. A few Google hosts sent commendations, which got mentioned in regional team meetings.

Aug 2022 – Dec 2024

Stylist

Club Monaco, Santa Clara

I kept this job for two years after starting at Maritz. Mostly regular clients, plus keeping inventory counts accurate and the floor up to standard.

Jun 2021 – Aug 2022

Supervisor

Uniqlo, Valley Fair, Santa Clara

I ran shifts for a team of 15+ associates and performed routine cash audits during cashier handoffs and end-of-day reconciliations, comparing physical cash counts against system-recorded balances and documenting discrepancies for management review.

My area manager put me forward for Uniqlo’s Manager Candidate program, a nine-month track to store management. The degree requirement was the one thing in the way.

A folded floor set at Uniqlo Valley Fair, Santa Clara — Folding to spec: a floor set at Valley Fair

Receiving and staging new inventory on the stock floor — Stock floor: receiving and staging new inventory

Summer 2020

Intern

NAF internship program, Santa Clara

My team pitched a portable library for students experiencing homelessness to senior management.

Beyond work

The parts that don’t fit on a résumé: a race weekend at Spa, Muay Thai, a few countries, a spreadsheet, and two things I stuck with as a kid.

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Formula 1

Belgian Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps, 2024. The forest, the elevation, Eau Rouge in person. I follow Max Verstappen and, still, Sebastian Vettel. Le Mans in 2029 or 2030 is on the list, ideally with the two of them on the same grid one last time.

Muay Thai and the outdoors

Muay Thai for about a year and a half, which is the most demanding thing I do on a regular basis. Skydiving over New Zealand, Switzerland and the Bay Area. Snowboarding when the season comes, karting when I can. The current goal is rebuilding running endurance before pushing hard again.

Runs on Strava

Travel

Eight countries so far: the Netherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand, Belgium, Canada, the Philippines, Mexico and Vietnam. Amsterdam at golden hour, the Alps above Interlaken, Milford Sound, Spa, a Canadian blizzard, a Mexican sunset, cà phê sữa đá in Vietnam. Armenia and Georgia are next.

Investing

I opened a Roth IRA at 19 and have kept contributing since. Every position has a written thesis, and I track the account in a spreadsheet I built for it: live prices, cost basis, sector weights and an annual return. My first version calculated that return with RRI, which treats every deposit as if it went in on day one, so it understated the result. Switching to XIRR, which dates each deposit, fixed it.

Before the résumé

San Jose Junior Taiko from fourth grade through high school: a full year of practice for one performance, every year.

Boy Scouts of America, Troop 611: hikes, heavy packs and a lot of map reading.

The Archives

Not everything makes it to production.

2023 · archived, unfinished

Clohive

Product exploration, UX design and user research planning

When I started my first professional job, I didn’t know how to dress for it. I learned by watching YouTube videos, looking up which colors go together, browsing outfit ideas and asking my family what worked. Clohive was an idea for an app that would bring that search into one place for young men working out their style.

At the time I thought I wanted to work in product management, so I wrote a research plan and designed the main screens. A paid survey came back with responses I couldn’t trust, so I didn’t use them, and the project stopped before the idea was ever tested with users.

Read the Clohive story

Get in touch

If we met at an event, or you work in accounting and have a few minutes, I’d like to hear from you.

aidan.aniciete@gmail.com

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San Jose, California.

Pictures of San José City College by Cristiano Tomás (CC BY-SA 4.0) and of Tower Hall by Daderot (CC0), via Wikimedia Commons. The photos in the Clohive mockups were placeholders from the web and are blurred. Everything else is mine.