Abdi H Wehelie, MPA

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Mobile: 301-***-****, personal

Summary of Qualifications:

Self-directed and driven public financial management officer with over 15 years of experience at the State and Federal levels of government. Demonstrated success developing and seamlessly formulating budget and executing spend plans in complex financial regulated structures. Recognized for maximizing performance by implementing appropriate strategies through analysis of details to gain understanding of the emerging issues, trends, and relationships.

Deep understanding and knowledge of the FAR and 2 Code of federal regulations (CFR) 200, as it relates to grants management and oversight (i.e., financial management, Cash Management and Payment Systems, Period of Availability and Carryover, Internal Controls, Audit Requirements, Records and Information Management and Equipment and Supplies Management).

Financial Management

Project Management

Grant Management

Continuity of Operations

Budget Formulation

Budget Execution

Grants Oversight

Third Party Monitoring

Internal Controls

Disaster Preparedness

Disaster Response

Monitoring & Evaluation

Work Experience

Sep 2021 – April 2023, Lead Grants Management Specialist, Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), Family Services Administration (FSA), DC Department of Human Services (DHS), Washington, DC (40 hours per week).

Responsible for the management and oversight of CARES Act grant to ensure compliance with the terms and achievement of the objectives set forth in the award document. This involved tracking and reporting for all phases of the grant cycle (pre-award to close out).

Kept abreast of grant decisions, policies and procedures, management principles and methods, and the latest administrative technologies.

Cognizant that the grant closeout is essential, I reviewed the closeout terms and conditions listed in the Notice of Grant Awar received at the time of funding.

As a Lead Grant Management Specialist, I participated in the reconciliation of federal financial report (FFR) expenditure report with the cash transactions reported in the Payment Management System (PMS). The grant closeout often attempts to ensure the recipient has been a good steward of federal funds. This involved submission of final programmatic reports, final administrative reports, final financial reports, and accounting for real and personal property.

Ensured to comply with OMB 2CFR Subpart 200.344 and specific federal funding agency requirements. This would help DC DHS achieve future grant success.

Monitored and provided guidance to grantees awarded grants and/or sub-grants through the DC DHS.

Responsible for the monitoring the implementation of projects involving human services issues and producing reports that include the tracking of trends/patterns, data analysis, and/or grantees financial performance.

Coordinating administrative functions supporting the Program.

Reviews and evaluates the adequacy of grants/assistance policies and procedures.

Serves as a liaison between the Department and awardee organization (UPO).

Research and resolve any problematic transactions.

Identifies and develops strategies to optimize the grants administration process.

Fosters and maintains supportive, effective, cooperative relationship with a diverse group of subgrantees and stakeholders.

Performs monitoring of grantees (including site visits as appropriate) and reports findings to the Deputy Administrator for FSA Operations and program personnel for appropriate action.

Tracks spending on grants and ensures deliverables are submitted according to the grant schedule.

Provides monthly reporting on expenditures and compliance to Deputy Administrator for Operations.

Prepares grant/sub-grant agreements and ensures grant documents are complete and accurate for review and signature/approval.

Devises special terms and conditions for unique or unusual circumstances for which standard terms will not suffice.

Provides program and grantee officials with information in grant administration matters concerning program monitoring which may subsequently require compliance and/or corrective actions.

Participates in compliance monitoring and problem resolution involving large and complex grants to develop recommended policy and corrective actions or grant modifications as needed.

Performing financial and compliance reviews (onsite and virtual) of DHS’s formula grants.

Resolving federal and non-federal audits of grantees and programs.

Performing risk assessments of current and/or prospective grantees to ensure their financial management systems are adequate to administer federal awards.

Leading and coordinating the agency’s own internal audit as required by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-123, Management’s Responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control

Preparing/coordinating required departmental reports, such as the agency’s quarterly and year-end financial statements, management assurances, etc.; and

Receiving/coordinating the processing of whistleblower complaints

Responsible for the programmatic and technical aspects of the grant. This involves working in partnership with grants management staff on post-award administration, including review of progress reports, participation in site visits, and other activities.

Responsible for overseeing day-to-day business and other non-programmatic aspects of the grant. These activities include, but are not limited to, evaluating applications for administrative content and compliance with statutes, regulations, and guidelines; negotiating grants; providing consultation and technical assistance to grantees; and administering grants after award.

Responsible for the business management aspects of grants and cooperative agreements, including review, negotiation, award, and administration.

Responsible for the interpretation of grants administration policies and provisions.

Feb 2008 – Sep 2019, Supervisory/Senior Financial Analyst/Senior Program Analyst, Office of Financial Planning and Analysis (OFPA), Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), United States Department of health and Human Services (40 hours per week).

Most of my tenure at ASPR, I served as a Senior Program Analyst (Feb 2008 – Jan 2011) and Supervisory Financial Analyst (Jan 2011 – Sep 2019) with the Office of Financial Planning and Analysis’ Division of Acquisition Services.

Tasked to perform a variety of highly complex, demanding program analysis assignments and studies where I applied qualitative and quantitative methods for the analysis and evaluation of both internal, organizational program operations and line health care programs to determine their efficiency and effectiveness. This involved fiscal, procurement and internal controls.

My work as a Supervisory Financial and Senior Program Analyst involved extensive knowledge and expertise in the intricacies of the Stafford Act, the Incident Command System (ICS), the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the National Response Plan, the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), as it relates to inter-agency collaborations at the federal, state and local levels.

As a Senior Program Analyst, I closely worked and collaborated with ASPR’s BARDA, Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) Logistics program, and National Disaster Management System (NDMS). This involved reviewing and evaluating funding justifications, IGCE, SOWs and grants agreements for states and counties.

Acted as the contracting officer representative (COR)/SME for the development and maintenance of an integrated accounting and financial management system. This required me to ensure that the system was developed in compliance with all applicable Federal accounting principles, standards, laws, and internal controls.

Supervised the simplified acquisition team and oversaw the processing of all simplified acquisitions in ASPR (approx. 2,500,000 transactions per year). This required expertise in acquisition planning and documentation, evaluating quotes using various cost price analysis and cost and pricing analysis.

My work as a Supervisory Financial and Senior Program Analyst involved extensive knowledge and expertise in the intricacies of the Stafford Act, the Incident Command System (ICS), HHS Continuity of Operations (COOP), the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the National Response Plan, the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), as it relates to inter-agency collaborations at the federal, state and local levels.

As a Senior Program Analyst and Sup Financial Analyst, I was tasked to review, analyze, and evaluate Office of Emergency Management (OEM) fiscal and programmatic analysis for RECS and SOCs.

Monitored and analyzed all substantive changes ASPR and HHS financial management policies and regulations, and recommended changes to such policies where appropriate and warranted.

Reviewed, by section staff, the budget data submitted by field activities and recommended revision of the budget estimates considering prescribed goals, standards, past performance, and local conditions.

Performed the full complement of budgetary functions and duties associated with all phases of the federal budget process (e.g., formulation, justification, presentation, and execution) for specific assigned projects and/or programs, centers, and national offices within the agency.

Collaborated with ASPR’s Program offices to review and evaluate funding justifications, IGCE, SOWs and grants agreements for states and counties.

Monitored, reviewed, and reconciled system of record data with the commitments, obligations, and reimbursable orders tracked in the ASPR budget tool. This included tracking obligations, expenditures, and the flow of funds.

Facilitated discussions around roles and responsibilities at the program/organization levels for this process and determined scenario-based feedback loops.

Developed program requisition milestones - average processing time by $, average number of requests declined, percent of spend plan obligated by quarter.

Provided authoritative interpretation, expert advice and assistance to program managers and budget staff related to the budgetary processes, policies, and procedures.

Provided cost benefit analyses to evaluate program requisition proposals and projects.

Provided policy guidance and oversight of accounting personnel, activities, and operations.

Performed a variety of overly complex, demanding program analysis assignments and studies where I apply qualitative and quantitative methods for the analysis and evaluation of both internal, organizational program operations and line health care programs to determine their efficiency and effectiveness.

Leveraged my extensive knowledge and expertise in the intricacies of the Stafford Act, the Incident Command System (ICS), the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the National Response Plan, the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), as it relates to interagency collaborations at the federal, state and local levels.

Jun 2003 – Feb 2008, Public Health Advisor, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) /HHS, Rockville, MD, USA (40 hours per week)

Led the development of local, state, and national program operations and initiatives for assigned operating public mental health programs.

Monitored, reviewed, and evaluated the fiscal and programmatic compliances of the Federal Block Grant Program (BG) to 50 States and Territories

Served as a Project Officer for the States and Territories receiving Mental Health Program Grant. This involved fiscal and programmatic oversight/management (tracking and reporting) regarding compliances with the regulations and statutes governing these grants. This required extensive knowledge and understanding of the FAR and 2 Code of federal regulations (CFR) 200.

Formulated local, state, and national program and project goals, objectives, operating policies, strategic program plans, guidelines, standards, and priorities.

Served as the technical contracting officer's representative (COR)-Prepared, reviews, negotiates, and/or monitors collaborative agreements, contracts, and/or memorandum of agreements.

Oversee the development of work plans for implementation of activities and ensures submission and review of all required progress reports.

Reviewed congressional and legislative actions to assess the impact on public health programs.

Examined overall program efforts to assess the need for expanding/curtailing projects or to identify operational objectives that better serve the program intent.

July 1999 – Apr 2002, Grant Proposal Reviewer (Peer Review Panel), United States Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD, USA (4-6 weeks/) year)

Monitored, reviewed, and evaluated the fiscal and programmatic compliances of the Federal Block Grant Program (BG) to 50 States and Territories.

Served as the subject matter expert (SME) in the fiscal and programmatic aspect of the TPM activities.

Reviewed all grant proposal applications thoroughly prior to attending the panel meeting. This included technical and price proposals.

Made objective assessments based on funding policies, grant guidelines, and application evaluation criteria. This involved ensuring grant proposals adequately responded to the guidance for application (GFA)

Made recommendations that are not self-serving and free of bias. This involved ensuring feedback on the strengths, as well as the weaknesses, of the proposals. Examples and explanations of those were integral parts of the review process.

ensuring selection of applications that best meets the needs of the program consistent with established criteria and providing assurance to the public that the evaluation and selection process is impartial and fair.

Ensured cost price proposals were reasonable, adequate, and appropriate.

Apr 1998 – May 2003, Fiscal Consultant (Third-Party Monitoring), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration/HHS, Rockville, Maryland, USA, 320 hours/year.

Monitored, reviewed, and evaluated the fiscal and programmatic compliances of the Federal Block Grant Program (BG) to 50 States and Territories.

Served as the subject matter expert (SME) in the fiscal and programmatic aspect of the TPM activities.

Developed guidelines, SOPs, and schedules to guide third-party monitoring undertaken by the TPM team and/or state/county/local agencies.

Developed instruments and templates to guide TPM data collection.

Reviewed data collection and management policies for contracted TPM agencies to ensure compliance with HHS standards.

Responsible for the detailed planning of all key TPM work processes from pre-deployment, through data collection and field work to post-deployment and reporting.

Provided management oversight and guidance to field monitors.

Provided routine monitoring of the TPM master work plan and workflow processes.

Established and enacted capacity building materials and approaches by which to strengthen local agencies engaged and utilized these materials and approaches to build grantee capacities.

Supported local agencies receiving block grant as they prepare for and/or undertake during the TPM visits.

Managed short-term technical assignments relevant to TPM deliverables.

Developed and contributed to presentations, reports, and other scheduled or ad hoc inputs focused on TPM requested by SAMHSA/HHS.

Approved all TPM Team deliverables prior to submission to the Project Officer

Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Senior Policy and Budget Analyst, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Responsible for monitoring projects and financial management for the Division of Health related to Medicaid, Social Security, and Federal Mental Block Grant programs, and other State and Federal laws related to community mental health funding.

Education:

University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, United States

Master of Arts Degree, Major: Public Policy and Administration

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States

Bachelor of Arts Degree, Major: Government and Politics

Courses/Certifications:

Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)/USAID, Washington, DC, United States-

Area: International Humanitarian Coordination Field Simulations- May 2019

Area: Interagency Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Response for Senior Managers-April 2019

Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI), Washington, DC, United States

Area: Federal Acquisition Certification for FAC-COTR- September 2016

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