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Mr. Joseph O. Quinn is the Director for Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). He is responsible for directing the Department’s efforts to achieve full financial statement audits, and leads the Departments’ financial improvement strategy and internal control risk management programs. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in September 2010.

Prior to his selection as the Director, Mr. Quinn served as the Deputy Director for FIAR. In this position, Mr. Quinn was instrumental in developing several achievements to include: the Department’s first FIAR guidance focused on a new strategy of improving the information most often used to manage in the DoD, a new governance structure over the FIAR activities, a change management and communications plan for FIAR, and a risk management approach based on validation of internal controls.

Mr. Quinn joined the Department of Defense in 2005 as a Highly Qualified Expert employing his expertise from the commercial sector as a Certified Public Accountant, forensic auditor, management consultant, and program manager for several business system implementations. In addition, Mr. Quinn was a Managing Consultant for over 7 years with IBM Business Consulting Services and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Mr. Quinn, a long-time resident of D.C. and Maryland, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics/Accounting from the College of the Holy Cross, and a Masters of Business Administration from Babson College. He is a Certified Public Accountant.