Justin
Marsico

Lead the newly-created Fraud Prevention and Financial Integrity office, responsible for stopping fraud and improper payments across the executive branch. Revitalizing the Do Not Pay program to ensure technology is used effectively across government and accessible for individuals to take action. Implementing payment verification under EO 14249 to screen 100% of Treasury-disbursed payments, identifying and stopping fraud and improper payments before money leaves the government.

Led the newly-created Fraud Prevention and Financial Integrity office while continuing to serve as Acting Chief Data Officer. Dual-hatted role establishing fraud prevention capabilities while maintaining oversight of data strategy, USAspending.gov, and Fiscal Data operations.

Led a high-performing team of 25 direct employees and 75 contractor staff with an annual budget of $25 million. Published and maintained USAspending.gov (the federal government's official source of spending data) and Fiscal Data (Treasury's source of data on financial operations). Managed diverse teams of data scientists, engineers, security professionals, UX designers, and developers using Agile/Scrum methodology. Chaired the Fiscal Service's Data Governance Council and served on Treasury's Data Governance Board and Enterprise Architecture Board.

Led team of 15-20 contractor staff and 4 employees with budget of $4 million annually. Conceived, designed, and launched Treasury's Data Lab — generating over 10,000 visitors per month. Won Achievement of the Year (2018, AGA chapter) and White House Gears of Government Award (2019). Re-designed the Citizen's Guide to the Financial Report as Your Guide to America's Finances, resulting in 1,000x growth in public usage.

Advised senior leadership on data science and analytics, executed analytics use cases using R and Tableau. Conceived and built an organizational performance health dashboard providing leading indicators for internal staff issues and consumer financial market trends. Created a new team of data scientists by drafting position descriptions, interviewing candidates, and mentoring new hires — automating hundreds of person-hours of formerly manual work.

Advised senior Commerce Department officials on white collar investigations, incorporating data analytics into investigative and audit work, fraud detection, strategic planning, and public affairs. Led high-profile white collar investigations into criminal activity and administrative misconduct, resulting in public reports, congressional hearings, and press coverage. Advised leadership on creating a new office dedicated to high-profile investigations by recruiting attorney investigators, creating policies, and editing public reports.

Recipient of competitive fellowship from University of Michigan to manage implementation of microeconomic research into village savings groups in rural Malawi. Traveled throughout Malawi and supervised data collection by 50 survey enumerators in small villages.