What Happened?
Washington, DC-based US Office of Personnel Management has appointed Charles Simpson as Deputy Chief Information Officer.
About the Company
Office of Personnel Management`s history begins with the Civil Service Act, signed in 1883, ending the spoils system and establishing the Civil Service Commission. The Commission, led by the energetic Teddy Roosevelt, laid the foundations of an impartial, professional civil service based on the merit principle – that employees should be judged only on how well they can do the job. In 1978, the Civil Service Commission was reorganized into three new organizations: the Office of Personnel Management, the Merit Systems Protection Board, and the Federal Labor Relations Authority. Each of these new organizations took over a portion of the Civil Service Commission’s responsibilities, with OPM responsible for personnel management of the civil service of the Government.
About the Person
Mr. Simpson was selected as the Acting Chief Information Officer (CIO) for OPM in February 2013. He is responsible for the information technology and innovative solutions that support the OPM’s mission to recruit, retain, and honor a world class workforce. Before that, he served as Deputy CIO and was responsible for assisting the CIO in managing the information technology and innovative solutions that support OPM’s mission to recruit, retain, and honor a world-class workforce. Prior to joining OPM, he was the Assistant Commissioner for Information Resources and the Chief Information Officer, for the Financial Management Service (FMS), a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury. He held that position since October 2005 where he led a number of modernization and innovation efforts. He was also responsible for the effective daily use of information technology throughout FMS, which disburses and collects trillions annually while providing government wide accounting and debt collection services for the federal government. Mr. Simpson has been a Federal Government employee since 1992 serving in a number of different positions in FMS and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Prior to his Federal government service, he spent several years in private banking and engineering consulting firms. Mr. Simpson is a graduate of Saint Francis University in Loretto, PA and holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration which he received in 1979.
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