Kevin Kelly
Associate Director for Financial and Business Operations
Mr. Kevin Kelly joins DoDEA from the Department of Energy where he was the Director of Resource Management and Planning in the Office of Management and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Administration in the Office of Environment, Safety and Health. While serving at the Department of Energy, Mr. Kelly was involved in budget preparation, human resource management and information technology.
As the Associate Director for Financial and Business Operations, Mr. Kelly will serve as the principal advisor to the Director, DoDEA, in the areas of programming, budgeting, accounting, reimbursable program management, procurement, information management and technology, safety and security, and logistics. Mr Kelly will have the authority and responsibility for developing, coordinating, integrating and executing financial management policies, programs, and processes for the effective and efficient control and utilization of over $1.7 billion annually. Additionally, he will provide management oversight necessary for directing the activities of the Resource Management, Safety and Security, Procurement, Logistics, and Information Management and Technology Divisions.
With 34 years' experience in the military, private and government sectors, Mr. Kelly has extensive experience in programming, planning and budgeting for globally dispersed organizations; developing financial management policies and processes to effectively and efficiently control billion-dollar organizational budgets; coordinating with numerous federal agencies to include the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Defense (DoD). He is also well-versed in the areas of logistics, procurement, safety and security, information management and financial management.
A native of Long Island, N.Y., Mr. Kelly is a twenty-year veteran of the U.S. Army. Mr. Kelly graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., with a commission as an infantry officer. He later went on to receive his Master's Degree in Business Administration, with an emphasis in the comptroller field from Syracuse University. His tours of duty include the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.; Kaiserslautern, Germany, Ft. Benning, Ga.; Ft. Lewis, Wash.; and Department of the Army Headquarters in the Pentagon. He is extremely familiar with the home and school transition issues facing military families as they move, having had two of his three children attend DoDEA schools in Germany.
Mr. Kelly and his wife, Cary Ann, have three grown children and reside in Alexandria, Va.
