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U.S. Treasury's Bureau of Fiscal Service Experience
Deputy Commissioner, Financial Services and Operations:
After 36 + years of dedicated service, Wanda retired in March 2017. During her tenure she provided executive leadership to an organization of over 3,500 employees in 7 locations across the country.
Responsible for:
Wanda was responsible for a federal appropriation budget of over $300 million and a permanent and indefinite appropriation budget of over $1 billion.
Career Highlights Include:
- Member of a leadership team responsible for consolidating 2 Treasury Bureaus, the Financial Management Service and the Bureau of the Public Debt.
- Reduced 5 Information Technology Data Centers from 5 down to 2.
- Repurposed a Regional Payment Center to a federal Debt Collection Center.
- Closed a Regional Payment Center as a result of operational improvements.
- Completed a large organizational transfer of work function.
- Used human resource tools such as buy-outs to allow for success organizational downsizing. Consolidated 2 major operational areas.
- Served as the Department of Treasury's "American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" lead to the Executive Office of the President in 2009 and implemented two federal grant programs.
Fiscal Service Financial Services and Operations Responsibilities:
- Lead the operation of Treasury and Federal Reserve systems that support Treasury bills, notes, bonds, floating rate notes, and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities held by institutional investors and their customers. Awarded $8.6 trillion in Treasury Marketable securities. Also responsible for the systems which serve individual investors who own savings bonds. Issued $5.5 billion in Treasury Securities and $3.3 trillion in managed trust funds.
- Served as the U.S. Chief Disbursing Officer for the federal government being the primary disburser of payments paid by the Social Security Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, and federal income tax refund payments. Disbursed $3.4 trillion in federal payments.
- Managed the collection of federal revenue such tax deposits, custom duties, loan repayments, fine, and national park service fees. Managed a daily collections cash flow of $103 billion.
- Central Debt collection, managing the government's delinquent debt portfolio. Collected $7.6 billion in delinquent debt.
(Note: these are Bureau of the Fiscal Service 2017 annual statistics.)
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Notable Awards and Recognition
- Service Award - Delta Foundation, Inc.
- U.S. Treasury Albert Gallatin Award for Distinguished Service.
- Acknowledged as a "Little Known Black History Fact" on the Tom Joyner Morning Show", a nationally syndicated morning drive radio show, as the first African American appointed to the position of Deputy Commissioner at Treasury's Financial Management Service.
- Recipient of the Rider University Harold Conover Alumni Award for Leadership in government and non-profit organizations.
- Recipient of the "Living Hope" Award presented by the Greater Mount Nebo AME Church, Bowie, MD.
- Recipient of the Senior Executive Service Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service. Nominated by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and approved by President Barack Obama.
