Christopher M. Gray

Alexandria, Virginia

aczb1l@r.postjobfree.com

703-***-****

Professional Summary:

Senior Federal Financial Manager in a Team Environment.

Apply OMB Circular A-11 and its dependent circulars on Federal Financial Policies.

Write OMB Agency level and Division level Five-year Strategic Plan Federal Financial Policy documents according to OMB Circular A-11 and the policy Circulars within it such as Circular A-4 on Regulatory Cost-Benefit Analysis and Annual Budget Requests.

Write OMB Exhibits 53 & 300 IT investment Federal Financial Policy documents within Federal Agency IT Strategic Plans.

Do Capital Planning Investment Control (CPIC) analysis on Federal IT projects.

Do retrospective Federal Agency Performance Accounting Reports (PAR) Federal Financial Policy documents for annual Federal budgets.

Analyze, investigate, and write Federal contract IT budget Federal Financial Policy documented procedures.

Apply OMB Circular A-21 Federal Financial Policies on Federal Cost Accounting Standards to Federal agency budgets.

Analyze Federal chargeback costs using OMB Circular A-25 to price Federal Financial Services for both internal and external Federal customers.

1 year of experience executing HUD Organizational Cost Account grants documents.

3 years of experience creating Federal Identity Management/Cybersecurity Federal Financial Policies and Procedures.

4 years of experience editing Active Directory Personnel Databases.

Design Performance Accounting Systems tailored to Federal Financial Policies and Procedures and particular Agency and Division requirements.

Set Up and bill Federal contract projects using Deltek, Costpoint and Deltek GCS Premier.

Map out Federal Procurement and Financial Policy Workflow systems on Visio.

20 years of experience doing payroll and benefits (11 years doing Federal payroll and benefits) either on Excel or PeopleSoft.

20 years of experience doing account reconciliations and conversions.

19 years of experience working with Information Technology finances & governance.

12 years of experience working with Federal Financial, Budget, Accounting, and Procurement Policy and Procedures regulations, especially OMB Circular A-11 and its component Circulars A-122, A-123 Internal Control, A-130 and A-133 Compliance Audits, CFO Act, Financial Management Acts, and Government Performance Results Act (GPRA).

20 years of experience doing Technical Editing & Writing.

6 years of experience doing Federal IT Financial Policy Investment Governance management.

13 years of experience using USSGL in Federal Budgetary and Accounting work.

4 years of experience working with both Federal and private sector loan transactions.

Public Trust Clearance on file with US DOL; Treasury; NARA; and FAA.

Interim Secret Clearance on file with DoD DEERS JPAS and US Department of Energy.

Licensed Virginia Health Insurance Agent.

Technical Summary:

ORACLE R12 FEDERAL FINANCIALS PLATFORM CONFIGURATION

ACCESS

POWERPOINT

FAR REGULATIONS

VISIO

eCPIC

PEOPLESOFT

EXCEL

DELTEK ONE

DELTEK COSTPOINT

DELTEK GCS PREMIER

MS PROJECT

EVMS

IBEAMS TRICARE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

SHAREPOINT

WORD

Education:

MBA, George Mason Univ. Business School, Fairfax, VA (Graduated)

Master's Degree, Modern History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (Graduated)

Bachelor's Degree, BA in Social And Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (Graduated)

Detailed Experience:

Employer: MICROSYSTEMS AUTOMATION GROUP, May 2016-Now, Falls Church, VA

Senior Capital Planning Analyst at US Department of Labor, EBSA

Converted EBSA’s EFAST2 IT System into MS Project.

Assisted Senior Consultant Roger Wilbrandt with data calls and FY 18 EFAST2 OMB Exhibit 300 preparations.

Converted EBSA’s MSA Project into MS Project.

Analyzed and summarized the FY16-FY18 IT Security Costs for DOL EBSA’s EFAST2 and MSA IT Projects.

Helped prepare eCPIC Business Case for EBSA’s Technical Services Support (formerly MSA) project.

Entered in updates to eCPIC’s EFAST2 OMB Exhibit 300 Recompete business case.

Remote Monitored Customer Service calls to EBSA’s EFAST2 Call Center.

Employer: Self-employed as courier for Flash Delivery, courier service for leading DC law firms and medical testing labs, February 2016 to May 2016. I worked this courier job and my Foreign Policy Research Institute consulting position together.

Employer: AQUIWO, June 2014 – August 2014 (3 month consulting assignment)

Vienna, VA, Senior Consultant at US Department of Labor CIO

Was remotely supervised by a GS-14 Labor Department official in Indiana.

Edited and tabulated the Excel Active Directory database of 1,500 Federal employees and contractors who had or had not received Labor training updates. Was remotely supervised by a GS-14 Labor Department official.

Acted Entered data breach investigative reports for CIO Incident Report teams according to Labor Department regulations.

Revised and updated Federal Financial Management Excel spreadsheet tracking reports of Labor Federal Financial Management IT investment projects.

Employer: Integrated Finance and Accounting Solutions (IFAS), October 2013 – March 2014 (6 month consulting assignment)

Woodbridge, VA, Senior Manager Consultant

Worked with US Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service Senior Executive Service (SES) and GS-15 and GS-14 officials to create an Integrated Cost Accounting System for its formerly separate Bureau of Public Debt and Bureau of Financial Management Systems Cost Accounting Systems using USSGL.

Co-authored Recommendations report with my partner Floyd Jones, a retired GS-15 DoD official, to create a proposed Cost Accounting System based on OMB Circular A-11 Federal Financial Policies and Procedures.

Acted as the Managerial Cost Accountant for our IFAS Cost Accounting team.

Did Federal IT investment management reporting on Treasury IT investments.

Acted as Cost Accounting Team’s Institutional Memory by maintaining Sharepoint Bureau of the Fiscal Service Project server containing all Federal Financial Policy and Procedure documents; all confidential BFS documents; and all confidential recorded interviews with Treasury SES and GS-15 officials who headed the various bureaus and divisions.

Arranged all Meeting Setups and Appointments.

Wrote up all Meeting Minutes.

Employer: Foreign Policy Research Institute, (FTE), June 2012 – Present, (Flexible)

Philadelphia, PA, Senior Consultant

Do research on Federal computer networks’ Cybersecurity policies.

Produce memos on Federal national security budget issues such as effects of Sequestration on procurement.

Employer: SAIC, March 2010 – April 2012, (Laid off due to FY 2012 10% budget cut by OMB.)

Client: National Archives & Records Administration (NARA II), (Contract),

College Park, MD, Capital Planning Investment Control (CPIC) Contractor Manager

Managed 3-person Federal Financial Management Policy Capital Planning Team of myself, a Senior Economist, and a Senior Cost Analyst working under NARA’s Federal SES CIO Michael Wash, CPIC Manager GS-14 Christopher Carlin, and SAIC Program Manager Harold Daugherty.

Selected, Controlled, and Evaluated using Federal Financial Management regulations NARA’s small, medium and large (Exhibit 300) IT investment Excel Quad Charts comprising 80 active IT investments, or Federal IT investment management reporting of NARA’s $246 million IT budget investments using USSGL.

https://www.itdashboard.gov/data_feeds/public?extype=exhibit53&columns[]=agencyName&agency_id=393&inv=&pager=1000%2C0&RSS=ATOM

http://www.archives.gov/about/plans-reports/performance-budget/2011/2012-performance-budget.pdf

Helped prepare IT Governance Proposed Investment Business Cases and Federal Budget Requests for FY2011, FY2012 & FY2013 Fiscal Years. These Business Cases evaluated all proposed NARA IT investments according to Federal Financial Management and Section 508 Disability regulations.

Analyzed National Archives IT Review Board Approved investments for problems and issues such as: Planning; Costing; Risk Management; Re-Baselining; Re-Planning; and Compliance with Federal Financial Management & Procurement regulations and Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) requirements.

Helped revise and re-populate NARA CPIC Investment Analysis Report Excel spreadsheet of all NARA IT investments to incorporate the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to facilitate IT Governance of these investments by OMB Circular A-11 and Clinger-Cohen Act Federal Financial Management regulations.

Wrote Agendas & Meeting Summaries of Weekly Meetings between NARA Federal CPIC Manager Chris Carlin & our SAIC CPIC Team.

Helped revise and create Federal Financial Management Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs) for IT Governance, CPIC Policy, and Project Manager Accreditation at the National Archives.

Researched and co-authored the eCPIC Tool Business Case so NARA could procure this Capital Planning tool to use for Exhibit 300, Exhibit 53, and other IT investments.

Employer: Enterprise Engineering Systems was my subcontractor; CNSI was the Prime.), March 2009 - February 2010, (Laid off due to de-scoping of project; all of us were laid off by Dec. 2010.)

Client: Federal Aviation Administration, (Contract), Washington, DC, Senior Federal Budget Subject Matter Expert

Worked on Federal Financial Management Policy and Budgetary matters for the Federal Aviation Administration’s Logical Access and Authorization Control System (LAACS) Team comprising SES and GS-15 and GS-14 FAA officials such as the SES FAA Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Michael Brown, his Deputy GS-15 John Benson to secure FAA’s Identity Management Personal Identification Information.

Planned, formulated and executed LAACS’ Federal Budgets according to OMB Circular A-11 Directives Circulars A-29, A-123, A-127, A-130, and A-133 Federal Financial & Procurement statutes and regulations such as: Federal Financial Managers’ Integrity Act (FMFIA); the CFO Act; the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA); the Clinger -Cohen Act; Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA); Federal Service Oriented Architecture (SOA); and the USSGL. All these regulations involve Federal IT investment management reporting.

Incorporated Federal e-Gov, Homeland Security Policy Directive-12 (HSPD-12) and Disaster Continuity of Operations (COOP) Policy Requirements within the LAACS Project Federal Annual Budgets.

Worked with LAACS Federal Budget Team Lead Anderson Caldwell on all Federal Financial Management; Costing; Budgetary; and Procurement regulations applying to the LAACS Project.

Co-edited with Anderson Caldwell the FY2010 FAA Exhibit 300 IT investments on eCPIC that applied to the LAACS Project.

Edited all documents produced by the LAACS team of 2 dozen Federal officials and our contractors who ranged from Federal SES to GS-14 and contractor Senior Program Managers.

Worked with LAACS budget lead Anderson Caldwell to create and revise the Federal Financial Management and Policy Standard Operational Procedures needed to install and execute FAA’s Logical Access Policy.

Prepared and supervised the LAACS Risk Management Repository to score the risks of LAACS Project Task Orders according to Federal Financial Management regulations.

Re-wrote and updated both the LAACS Risk Management Plan & the LAACS Risk Management Questionnaire according to Federal Financial Management regulations.

Employer: DST Systems., April 2008 - July 2008, (Laid off due to de-scoping of project.)

Client: Us Department of Defense Center For Psychological Health (DCPH), (Contract), Senior Federal Financial Manager Contractor

Managed all Federal Financial Management Policy matters to stand up this new fifty-person DoD agency. There were NO Federal civil servants supervising us. Brigadier General Loree Sutton and her Army Colonels and Navy Captains and Commanders supervised us.

Executed, recorded and tracked all Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Center of Excellence DCPH Purchase Requests and Funds Disbursement Federal Financial Policy transactions using Excel and TRICARE IBEAMS softwares according to USSGL.

Prepared DCPH’s Incurred Cost submissions for a Defense Contract Auditing Agency (DCAA) External Audit.

Supervised a three-person Program Objective Memorandum (POM) team that assisted DCPH’s eight directorates and six centers to compose and edit their various Budget Requests and Performance Accounting criteria fact sheets, memos, Procurement Requests, and Excel budget spreadsheets according to Federal Financial Management regulations. Since DCPH is a new organization, these fact sheets, memos and spreadsheets constitute DCPH’s founding documents.

Consolidated and distilled DCPH’s eight directorates’ and six centers’ planning and performance budgetary documents into DCPH’s total FY 2009 and FY Year 2010 Budget Requests and future FY 2008 Performance Accounting Report for OMB according to OMB Circular A-11 and its dependent-circulars; FMFIA; CFO Act; and the Clinger-Cohen Act.

Served as liaison to TRICARE financial manager Walt Ruggles to perform joint Budgetary, Financial, & Procurement Federal Financial Management transactions reconciled to the USSGL. These transactions included Purchase Request Worksheets (PRWs); Funding Allocation Documents (FADs); Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs); Procurement Requests; and Letters of Agreement. TRICARE IBEAMS was used to record these transactions.

Created and refined the Standard Operational Procedure Federal Financial Policy documents for the DCPH.

Served as the Capital Planning Investment Control (CPIC) analyst for all DCPH OMB Exhibit 53 and 300 IT hardware and software investments. Created and maintained their Federal Financial Policy documents according to the relevant OMB Circulars and the Clinger-Cohen Act. This all involves Federal IT investment management reporting.

Environment: SOPs

Employer: Ntelicor November 2007 - January 2008, (Temporary consulting contract.)

Client: US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), (Contract), Washington, DC, Senior Federal Budget Contractor Consultant

My partner Chris Brison and I worked as a liaison between SES PBGC Federal officials and an EDS Senior Program Manager.

Performed Federal Budget, Financial & Procurement analysis of PBGC's new IT Enterprise Architecture for its future IT systems Federal IT investment management reporting.

Created and organized the Federal Financial Policy documents needed for this project.

Employer: January 2007 - May 2007

Client: US Department of The Treasury (Contract), Washington, DC, Senior Federal Budget Contractor Consultant

Our consulting team worked with the Treasury CIO and GS-15 officials.

Analyzed and wrote Treasury CIO OMB Exhibit 53 and Exhibit 300 CPIC business cases according to the relevant OMB Circulars and the Clinger-Cohen Act. These business cases are the basis of Federal IT investment management reporting.

Mapped out Treasury CIO Procurement Processes for the client.

Employer: ParkerTide Corporation, July 2006 - December 2006

Client: US Federal Election Commission (FEC) (Contract), Washington, DC, Senior Budget Analyst Contractor

I worked as a Contractor under the SES Federal Executive Director, the SES Acting Chief Financial Officer, the SES Chief Accountant, and the GS-14 Acting Budget Director.

Acted as Lead Federal Budget Analyst for this Federal Agency of 360 FTEs.

Researched, formulated, and edited the FY2008 FEC Budget Request to OMB according to the OMB Circulars; the CFO Act; and the Clinger-Cohen Act while working with FEC Budget Director.

Researched, formulated, and edited the FY2006 FEC Performance and Accountability Report for OMB. This involved analyzing Federal IT investment management reporting for FY2006.

Helped Budget Director execute the FY2006 and FY2007 Budget transactions on both PeopleSoft payroll and Excel expenditures according to USSGL.

Researched, wrote, and edited, under supervision of the FEC Acting Senior Budget Director Sam Wright and FEC Acting Chief Financial Officer John Gibson, the FEC FY06-FY10 Strategic Plan and Federal Financial Statements using OMB Circulars A-11, A-123, A-136 and the President's Management Agenda.

http://www.fec.gov/pages/budget/fy2008/fy2008cbj_final.pdf

http://www.fec.gov/pages/budget/fy2006/par_2006.pdf

Assisted the FEC Acting Chief Financial Officer, the Acting Budget Director, and the Chief Accounting Officer in the FY06 Outside Financial Audit of the FEC by Clifton Gunderson CPA firm using USSGL.

Researched Federal statute & procurement precedents and SOPs for use by the FEC Acting Chief Financial Officer John Gibson.

Environment: SOPs

Employer RS Information Systems; no longer exists.: July 2005 - July 2006

Client: US Department Of Energy (Contract), Germantown, MD, Senior Federal Budget Analyst Contractor/ Senior Information Engineer

Acted as Lead Budget Analyst for the SES DOE Associate Chief Information Officer for Operations Harry Hixon’s division of 80 Federal officials and contractors using USSGL.

Did Federal IT investment management reporting for OCIO Operations IT investments.

Helped analyze and organize twenty plus OCIO-Operations Contract Task Orders in order to transition them from their RSIS management organization to EES’s new A-76 MEO Financial Management organization. Personally created and then presented Contract Task Obligation Request Forms that triggered the transition. Also followed up on this action by revising and correcting Obligation Request Forms when problems developed and performed further analysis and research on problem tasks.

Acted as liaison between DOE Associate CIO for Operations Harry Hixon and EES Financial Program Manager Firmadge Crutchfield.

Designed a Visio Work Flow-chart, DOLLAR DANCE, mapping the complex DOE-CIO Procurement Process work flow for use as an analytical and instructional tool by all DOE-CIO Federal officials and contractors. Tool is still in use by the agency.

C:\Users\pclib-3.NVC.000\Documents\Dollar Dance 3.vsd

Wrote and edited OMB 300 Federal Financial Management Budget Narratives and Control Tables for OCIO-Operations sections of the OCIO Congressional Budget Requests from FY07-FY12.

Designed and maintained Excel spreadsheets tracking expenditures by OCIO-Operations’ Federal IT investments. These spreadsheets enabled OCIO-Operations to accurately estimate funds available on a monthly basis. They also enabled Operations to estimate Task Order burn rates and to flag future problem areas.

Administered Spending Request Forms in a Journal to track spending on items that were not tracked by RSIS or EES contractor Cost Tracking teams. Used Spending Request Forms journal as an archive/reference aid for all interested parties in DOE-CIO.

Acted as liaison between IM40-OCIO-Operations personnel and IM10-OCIO-Business & Information Management personnel. Drafted budget documents, did research on financial & procurement matters and helped to resolve disputes over transactions and related matters.

Employer: First Consulting Group., August 2004 - March 2005

Client: First Consulting Group, (Contract), Falls Church, VA, Senior Cost Benefit Analysis Consultant

Acted as Lead Cost Benefit Analyst for First Consulting Group’s 15-person MyHealtheVet contract with Department of Veterans’ Affairs SES and GS-15 Federal officals of the Veterans’ Health Administration.

Co-authored with Supervisor Colonel Dan Blum USA (Ret.) (now a Grant Thornton Consultant) and performed all research and editing of the Federal Financial Management Budget Request Report, Personal Health Portal Benchmark Study, and OMB 300 Performance & Accountability Report/Justification for MyHealtheVet, the online Personal Health Portal IT investment managed by the Department of Veterans' Affairs.

https://www.myhealth.va.gov/index.html

Created with GS-14 VA Cost Analyst Joe Parker the MyHealtheVet Excel pivot table Forecasting Tool that used USSGL estimated MyHealtheVet Project Costs to 1% accuracy of actual costs of the MyHealtheVet Federal IT investment project. The Project budget was then $26 million dollars during the startup phase.

Researched all relevant Federal Financial Management & Procurement regulations relative to MyHealtheVet contract with Department of Veterans’ Affairs. These regulations include: all OMB Circulars within Circular A-11; FMFIA; the CFO Act; the Clinger-Cohen Act; and HSPD-12.

Employer: Centuria Corporation, June 2004 - August 2004

Client: US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), (Short Term Contract), Arlington, VA, OMB Circular A-11 Budget Manager Consultant Contractor

Completely edited and rewrote TSA-CTO'S FY05 OMB Budget Request and FY04 Performance & Accountability Report while on a Summer Contract.

The $11 Billion Budget Request of Federal IT investments passed OMB's scoring (after previously failing) after my rewrite and editing of its procurement items request.

I followed all relevant Federal Financial Management regulations editing this Budget Request.

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/FY_2005_BIB_4.pdf

See pp. 1-2 & 28-30 above. This represents unclassified distillation of classified budget request documents I worked on.

Environment: (Environment: MS Suite( Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Deltek one.)

Employer: YRCI, October 2003 - March 2004

Client: US Occupational Safety Health Review Commission (OSHRC), (Six Month Contract), Washington, DC, Senior Financial Manager Of Agency Contractor

Researched and wrote OSHRC’s FY2003 Performance Accounting Report for OMB.

Annual Performance Report, Fiscal Year (FY 2003)

Researched, wrote, and edited by myself OSHRC’s FY2005 Budget Request to OMB. Worked with the Agency SES Chairman and the SES Executive Director to create this Budget Request.

http://www.oshrc.gov/budget/fy05_budget.html

Did all Planning, Budgeting, Procurement, and Financial Management of OSHRC's capital assets including Federal IT investment management for Exhibit 300 and Exhibit 53 investments reporting using USSGL.

Researched and wrote Passback Appeal that increased agency's OMB's authorized OSHRC's budget authorization from an initial 2% increase to a 4% increase.

Rewrote and edited OSHRC's entire FY05 Budget Request and FY03 Performance Report.

Synthesized FY03 OSHRC Administrative Case processing data to present to OMB and Congress.

Composed three Congressional Continuing Resolution Apportionments until FY04 Budget was formally enacted by Congress.

Introduced new Federal Cost Accounting methods to OSHRC.

Drafted all Budget and Financial memos and letters for review by OSHRC's SES Chairman W. Scott Railton.

Produced plan to reduce number of OSHRC financial transactions to save $60,000 yearly.

Executed all Federal Budget, Accounting, Payroll, and Procurement agency transactions on Excel.

Employer: RHI Management Resources, October 2002 - December 2002

Client: SAIC (Contract), Vienna, VA, Senior Contractor Accounting Consultant

Assisted SAIC VP's Maria Lalas and Kathie Powers investigating 300 task orders for a November-December 2002 DCAA audit of SAIC.

Used Deltek Costpoint, Excel, and Access softwares to investigate, and where necessary, reclassify, reconcile, or convert Department of Defense Federal Financial Management and Federal Procurement Task Orders by SAIC for the DCAA Audit of SAIC using USSGL.

Employer: Citizens United, September 1999 - August 2002

Sterling, VA, Senior Policy Analyst

Performed research, analysis and writing about Federal Financial Management & procurement policy for this seven-person watchdog organization.

Edited and wrote technical memos posted online explicating Federal government policies.

Employer: AOC Consulting, July 1998 – September 1999

Vienna, VA, Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant, Project Analyst, and Budget Analyst for City of Alexandria Office of Housing; Gilat-Spacenet Satellite Communications; and Signal Corporation Accounts Payable Department.

Used Excel to manage three hundred US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Federal Organizational Cost Account grants for the City of Alexandria Housing Department using USSGL. Some of these grants were Federal IT investment projects.

Reclassified payroll items using Deltek Costpoint at Signal Corporation on an Oracle platform.

Employer: Robert Half International Accountemps, October 1997 – July 1998

McLean, VA, Senior Accounting Reporter for Nextel Communications

Managerial Cost Accountant for Nextel Communications' Department of Fixed Assets, McLean VA Did financial analysis of Nextel financial statements and cost reports.

Created and updated Oracle management cost accounting files for 400 Oracle digital phone transmission sites across the USA.

Reported, edited, and updated 700 Oracle database uploads for transmission sites in Nextel's seventeen regional markets in the U.S.

Downloaded various Oracle accounting information request reports for material distribution details, Federal telecom taxes, local property taxes, capital improvements, and expenses for Nextel's transmission sites.

Researched large files of bill invoices to find needed capitalization and expense bills.

Did Account Reconciliation of problem accounts.

Edited and wrote technical memos posted online explicating Federal Financial Management policies.

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