Organizational Change C-Suite

CHRISTOPHER PAUL FAILLA, CAPT (ret) CIG, CFE TS/SCI

**** * **** ****, **. Augustine, Florida 32095 904-***-****

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Architect of the Capitol Office of Inspector General 499 S. Capitol St. SW, Suite 518 Washington, DC 20515

Inspector General (Organizational Change Consultation)

04/2107- Present

Transformational C-suite advisor, Strategic Leader, Innovator, Communicator, Teacher, and efficiency expert providing organizational Change Consultation through value added audits, inspection, evaluations, and investigations.

1 of only 76 Federal Inspectors General and 1 of 4 in the Legislative Branch. The Longest serving most experienced Legislative Branch Inspector General.

Promotes organizational change, economy, efficiency, and effectiveness to deter and prevent fraud, waste and abuse in operations and programs through value-added, transparent, and independent audits, evaluations, and investigations. Strives to positively impact the Agency and the taxpayer while keeping Congress informed through unmatched communication in monthly briefings with Congressional Oversight.

Provides C-Suite leadership with recommendations and consultation, Management Advisories and Notice of Concern to address agency wide issues detrimental to productivity, personnel, and productivity.

Oversees $1 billion in yearly appropriated Congressional funds while managing an independent budget greater than $5 Million in payroll and $ 2 Million in operations.

Transformational

Transformed a failing office of 5 personnel, with 5 vacancies into an award-winning staff greater than 25. Sought after within the Inspector General community for help with transforming other offices. Utilizing 32 years of management and leadership experience and the 5 Ps of organization building (People, Process, Product, Pride, and Professionalism). Discarded the archaic in office practices utilized in the government allowing flexibility in working hours, telework and remote work that have led to increased production, hiring, retention and processing by scheduling work hours around the process of report production not around normal 9-5 working hours thus allowing staff to work at the hours that provided them the most engagement and coverage of duties.

Through a combination of soft and hard skill leadership has led to an impressive 100% retention of talent as well as recruitment and hiring in hard to fill government vacancies.

Strategic Leader

Utilizing master’s degree in strategic planning, was able to increase office productivity going from 1 Audit report in 4 years to more than 50 in 6 the last years, as well as producing greater than 300 investigations that Identified millions of dollars in agency funds put to the better use, exposing theft and fraud in agency programs while recommending economical and efficient solutions causing waste and loss of productivity in the agencies government programs.

Innovative

Stood up the first of its kind Follow-up division which ensures C-suite directives developed for the agency through value added audits/evaluations and management advisories are being implemented as intended and providing the economies and efficiencies and results intended.

Enacted an agency wide triannual risk assessment performed by an independent contractor to provide the top risk areas by severity and likelihood, allowing office to concentrate limited resources on those issues most impactful to the agency.

Ingenious use of Blanket Purchase Agreements as a force multiplier has been able to conduct work in areas requiring Subject Matter Expertise quickly, without the need for delayed hiring or staff increase. Saving hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, saving time to delivery of consultative advice, and multiplied organizational advice output without an increase in budget outside of inflationary needs.

Master Communicator

Comfortable briefing the most complex as well as controversial subjects to C-suite leaders and Congress. Testified in front of Congress 5 times on issues such as January 6th security lapses and improvements. Developed a monthly statistical briefing format to Congressional staff and C-suite leadership that condenses 1 month’ worth of data into 30 minutes of understandable uncomplicated useful information. Congressional staff made all Legislative Inspectors General adopt this briefing format based on my example.

Teacher / Mentor

Sought as panel member for quarterly emerging leaders’ seminars. Providing 32 years of military and civilian leadership knowledge and the merging of both styles that have led to responsible organizations to successful award winning, productive, and enjoyable work units.

Efficiency expert.

Through many years of evaluating programs, agencies and production has developed a keen eye for identifying common sense cost, schedule and time saving efficiencies that have resulted in hundreds of recommendations that improve upon the economies of organizations and programs evaluated.

Oversee the successful production of a yearly agency Financial Statements Audit

Oversees the production of an agency wide Risk Assessment

Oversees Peer reviews of Investigations, Audits and Inspections and Evaluations

Oversees the production of quarterly Status reports for the House Sub Committee for Appropriations as well as Semi-Annual Reports for Congress (SARC).

Manages teams of Criminal Investigators, Auditors and evaluators ensuring compliance with government standards. Has the final authority for substantiation and non-substantiation of charges.

Testifies to Congress as the face of the Office of Inspector General on all investigations, reports, and evaluations.

Oversees the auditing of Construction, Budget, and Schedule status of the Cannon House Office Building Renewal Project (>$825M)

Ensures Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations are conducted within industry standards in accordance with CIGIE standards for investigations and evaluations as well as the Generally Accepted Government Accounting Standards.

Oversees greater than $1B of construction contracts and over 2200 AOC employees in addition to 1000’s of contractors from food services and janitorial personnel to construction engineers.

Leads a group of 20+ professionals, growing to 24 by 2024 based on increased workload and requests from Congressional oversight as well as contractors.

Voting member of Counsel of Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE)

Member of the CIGIE Inspections and Evaluations Committee.

Member of the CIGIE Legislative Committee.

Graduate of the Certified Inspector General Course

Graduate of the Certified Fraud examiner course.

Subpoena authority

Supervisor: Chere Rexrot, Acting Architect of the Capitol 202-***-****)

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DoD Inspector General 4800 Mark Center Drive Alexandria, VA 22311 United States

Director, Technical Assessment Directorate (This is a federal job)

04/2014 – 04/2017

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Directed the project management activities of 15 government engineers and 3 government supervisors, conducting Quality Assurance and Technical Inspections and Evaluations on various Major Acquisition Programs within the DoD. Ensured inspections and evaluations are done within industry standards in accordance with the CIGIE Blue Book and provided reports to Congress, the Secretary of Defense and the public. Manages a ~$2M operating budget, and ~$.5M travel budget. Oversees all aspects of employee hiring, ratings, travel, training, and administration. Responsible for all project and program management, planning, and implementation principles. Makes decisions that significantly impact resource allocations, coordination of long-range planning, and performance measures. Presents significant unresolved problems to the Deputy Inspector General for Policy and Oversight for final determination with recommendations for corrective actions. Participates in special projects and initiatives and implements assigned projects that require senior management involvement.

Coordinates projects across components within the DoDIG. Identifies potentially conflicting priorities/requirements from other components within DoDIG and works with partners to resolve conflicts.

Increased TAD productivity 800% in the first year as Director through implementation of proven command philosophies and lean six process improvement procedures.

Occupying an Assistant Inspector General position while also fulfilling a military O-6 position.

A member of the DoDIG Senior Staff meetings provided C-suite input.

Regularly briefs the Acting Inspector General on component matters.

AS9100 Quality Assurance Lead Auditor qualification

Laud by Past Inspector General, PDIG and Acting Inspector General for leadership and management of this group.

Supervisor: Mr. Glenn Fine 703-***-****)

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DoD Inspector General 4800 Mark Center Drive Alexandria, VA 22311 United States

Senior Military Advisor

04/2014 – 04/2017

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Managed a group of 24 military personnel supporting the mission of the Inspector General. Provide council on all matters pertaining to the Military Detachment assigned. Ensured assigned officers’ talents were match within the organization and properly align with the needs of the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General. Mentored junior officers. Provide leadership and a military example for all personnel assigned. Routinely brief Inspector General on Military Department matters. Rated as the Department of Defense Inspector General’s Top 0-6 among all 0-6 assigned on every evaluation. Evaluations encourage the selection board to select to Admiral. Awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal.

Supervisor: Mr. Glenn Fine 703-***-****)

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US Navy Naval Station Mayport Mayport, FL 32224 United States

Naval Aviator

09/1993 – 04/2017

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

US. Naval Aviator. SH-60B Helicopter Aircraft Commander. Functional Check Pilot. Holds every qualification that can be obtained in the SH-60B. Over 3000

Mishap free flight hours and hundreds of small deck landings. A graduate of Aviation Safety School and Mishap investigations training. Squadron Aviation Safety officer and Ground Safety officer. A graduate of the Sea Hawk Weapons and Tactics instructor School(SWITI) known as HELO TOP GUN. Officer of the Year, Pilot of the Year, Maintenance Officer of the Year, and Wing Officer of the Year. Deployed to multiple locations worldwide. Held every major position of responsibility in naval aviation. Managed maintenance on 13 aircraft valued at over $21M each. Responsible for parts inventories and equipment valued over $100M. Quality Assurance Officer responsible for outstanding results on all inspection, Operations Officer responsible for the scheduling of all pilot and aircrew training, managing a fuel usage budget to zero and ensuring aircrews were combat ready. Selected for Major Command at Sea in 2013.

Supervisor: CAPT (ret) Steve Bagby 904-***-****)

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, J8 1400 Defense Pentagon Arlington, VA 20301-1400 United States

Branch Head, Capabilities and Acquisitions Division (CAD)

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Managed 6 military officers from various branches of the military services, overseeing all Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) requirements to ensure alignment with acquisition documents and the Chairman’s priorities. Personally responsible for a portfolio which included all Rotary Wing acquisition requirements, Biometrics, C4ISR, ERPs, Presidential helicopter, and Air force One replacement along with Major Acquisition Information System (MAIS) programs. DAU ACQ101, SYS 101 and RMQ310 qualified.

US Navy Naval Station Mayport Jacksonville, FL 32224 United States

Squadron Commanding Officer/Executive Officer (C-Suite CEO/COO)

04/2008 - 08/2010

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

As a C-suite leader and CEO, led and motivated a diverse group of 400+ officers and enlisted personnel to accomplish a common goal. Oversaw all aspects of the planning and execution of squadron operations, maintenance, training, and safety. Entrusted with the up-keep and policies for the safe operation and flight of 13 aircraft valued each over $21M. Due to a proven track record of success, the squadron was selected by the Chief of Naval Aviation (CNO) as the first helicopter squadron to employ Unmanned Air Vehicles. * Laud for having best retention in the US Navy for command size. *Awarded Battle ‘E’s as the most battle ready East Coast Helicopter squadron, *Safety ‘S’ as the Safest East Coast Helicopter Squadron. Selected as the #1 Squadron Commanding Officer in the Air Wing. The squadron had unparalleled operations and safety success. While executive officer Squadron received the Secretary of the Navy's Safety award as safest unit within the Navy.

Supervisor: CAPT (ret) Glenn Doyle 904-***-****)

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US Navy 1400 Defense Pentagon Arlington, VA 20301-1400 United States

OPNAV N80 Aviation Programmer (Financial Acumen)

01/2005 - 01/2008

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Budget and Program Analyst for all Naval Aviation ($21B). Financial Management sub-specialty earned. PPBE process expert. Congressional Liaison Officer for N8 affairs with excellent communication skills. Instrumental in the creation of the Resources, Requirements and Review board (R3B) used by the Naval Enterprise to make informed decisions by balancing priorities, requirements with resource allocation choices. Experienced PBIS user.

EDUCATION AND OTHERS

National Defense University Fort McNair, D.C United States 05/2011

Master's Degree

Major: National Strategic Planning

Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:

Country Study and National Strategic Plan completed on Cambodia and Thailand. Was awarded "best in class" for paper written on strategic placement of East Coast Aircraft Carriers.

The Military College of South Carolina, The CITADEL Charleston, SC United States- GPA: 3.5 of a maximum 4.0 05/1991

Bachelor's Degree

Major: Business Administration

Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:

Dean's list (3.0 better) 8 Semesters

Job Related Training:

Federal Human Resources Management for Supervisors and Managers Course, the Graduate School. Oct 2014

JPME I & II, National Defense University. May 20117

ACQ101, Fundamentals of Systems Acquisitions, DAU. April 2012

SYS 101, Fundamentals of Systems Acquisitions Management, DAU, April 2012

RQM 310, Advanced Concepts & Skills for RQMTS MGMT, DAU, April 2013

AS9100, Lead Auditor Certification, Bsi, April 2015

Joint Staff AT-FP Level 1, JCS, June 2011

Appropriations Law, Management Concepts, April 2022

Contracting Officer Representative, Management Concepts, Nov 2017

Certified Inspectors General Course – March 2018

Top secret clearance maintained for over 32 years

Certified Fraud Examiner – October 2023

Affiliations:

National Helicopter Association – Member - MOAA – Member – Certified Inspectors General – Counsel of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Veteran Preference

> 100% Disabled Veteran Preference

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