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Charles R. Christopherson, Jr.
Chief Financial Officer
Charles Christopherson was
confirmed as Chief Financial Officer of the United States Department
of Agriculture (USDA) by the Senate on November 10, 2005. Under
the Chief Financial Officer Act of 1990, he is responsible to “oversee
all financial management activities relating to the programs and
operations of the agency.” The Chief Financial Officer has
direct management of approximately 1,500 of employees located at
the Washington D.C headquarters and National Finance Center in New
Orleans, LA.
The USDA is one of the largest civilian agencies
in the federal government with over 100,000 employees and over one-third
of the non-taxable debt. The financial organization of the agency
accounts for over $120 billion in program level funds and over $90
billion in loans. These programs support the areas of forest maintenance
and fire fighting, farm commodity support, food safety, agriculture
development, foreign agriculture trade, domestic and foreign nutrition
services, rural development, and agriculture research. With the
myriad of programs, the USDA’s financial organization relies
on a vast amount of complex financial software to support production
and reporting requirements.
In addition to the financial management of
the programs of the USDA, the Chief Financial Officer is responsibility
for the National Finance Center. National Finance Center (NFC) is
a Payroll Services Center of Excellence and a Human Resources Center
of Excellence for the Federal Government. Through its high quality,
low cost approach, NFC annually processes payroll for 132 federal
organizations totaling $61.5 billion in salaries for 567,000 civilian
federal employees. The NFC reconciles 4 million healthcare benefit
records and services $.3 billion in receivables. In 2005, as New
Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the NFC successfully
exercised an emergency deployment plan to relocate computer systems
and personnel to five alternative worksites with no visible disruption
to its federal payroll customers.
Prior to his confirmation, Mr. Christopherson
was co-founder and President of CB Solutions LLC, a consulting firm
that specializes in company turnarounds and cash management. Mr.
Christopherson has extensive experience as a restructuring executive
in the area of finance and operations. This experience includes
executive management in operations and finance for the construction,
technology, and communications industries. He has been responsible
for the functional areas of marketing, sales, operations, finance,
accounting, information systems, and human resources.
As a Business Group Vice President of Operations
and Finance at Encompass Service Corporation, Mr. Christopherson
was a member of the senior executive team that streamlined marketing,
sales, operations, finance, and information technology in a new
roll-up of large local construction companies which created the
largest electrical, HVAC, network, and facility services company
in the United States. The national company was well known for such
it projects such as Reliant Stadium in Houston, American Airlines
Center and Arlington Stadium in Dallas, and Coors Field in Denver.
As the recession impacted the construction industry, Mr. Christopherson
was a member of the final management team designed to generate company
cashflow and sell operations.
As the Chief Financial Officer on the
restructuring team of ICG Fiber Optic Technology, the company gained
financial profitability within six months. While still in the position
of Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Christopherson became the Acting
Chief Operating Officer. During this twelve month period, the company
became the second largest network infrastructure installer and the
second largest value added reseller of Lucent/Avaya network infrastructure
in the nation. With its record profitability, stellar reputation,
and increased market value, the company was sold to an industry
consolidator. Prior to ICG Fiber Optic Technology, Mr. Christopherson
was a consultant to Fortune 500 companies; responsible for consolidations,
internal reporting, external reporting, and diversified operations
for Pacific Telecom, Inc.; and an Assistant Area Controller for
Red Lion Hotels.
Mr. Christopherson was born in the farming community of Twin Falls,
Idaho. He has a Masters in Business Administration from the Oregon
Executive MBA program; a Bachelors in Science from the nationally
ranked accounting program at Brigham Young University; and a Certified
Public Accountant license in the State of Washington. He has been
a Member of the Board of Directors with business and charitable
organizations; and a conference speaker on financial management,
financial organizations, corporate measurements, and corporate reporting.
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