Dave Mader
Management Consultant
Management and Governance, Data and Information Technology, Performance Management
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Dave Mader
Management Consultant
Management and Governance, Data and Information Technology, Performance Management
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Mr. Mader is the former Controller at OMB. He was nominated by President Obama on May 13, 2014 and confirmed by the United States Senate on July 17, 2014. He was designated by the President as Acting Deputy Director for Management (DDM) for the period June 2015 through November 2015. During the time as acting DDM he conducted oversight over The President’s Management Agenda (PMA) and the Cross Agency Priority Goals ( CAP) through periodic meeting and reviews with the accountable agency executives. He also developed the expanded OMB Strategic IT Performance reviews of all 24 CFO Act agencies to include all administrative function using in part the benchmark performance data. Mr. Mader drove the U.S. government wide initiative for the expansion of administrative shared services (CAP Goal) across the U.S. government over two plus years and initiated numerous policy actions that formalized the approach to expanding the use of shared services. During this time he served as the first Government Wide Shared Services Policy Officer. He also oversaw the implementation of the recommendations to strengthen the background investigation process arising from the Navy Yard shooting as well as the study of the organizational placement of the entire background investigative process and organization. He co led with the Treasury Department Fiscal Assistant Secretary the success design and planning for the implementation of the 2014 Data Act.
He previously served as Senior Vice President for Strategy and Organization at Booz Allen Hamilton and in that role led a team that created the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration. During that time, he also led a team that designed and implemented the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau well as leading teams that designed the reorganizations of administrative functions at the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority and a major reorganization of NYC Department of Environmental Protection operating components that deliver water and sewer services to all of NYC and a modernization of the rate structure.
He also served as the Managing Director of the Public Sector practice of Sirota Survey Intelligence where in conjunction with the Partnership for Public Service he developed the methodology for the first ever Best Places to Work product.
Mr. Mader held various senior executive positions at the Internal Revenue Service from 1971 to 2003, including Acting Deputy Commissioner, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Modernization and CIO, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, and Chief for Management and Finance. He was part of the executive team under former Commissioner Charles Rossotti that completely reorganized the IRS from a geographically organized structure to one that focuses on taxpayer segments.
He is the recipient of both the Distinguished and Meritorious Presidential Rank Awards, the Treasury Secretary’s Honor Award and is a Fellow and Board Member at the National Academy of Public Administration. He was also honored in 2016 as a FED 100 awardee and recognized by the Association of Government Accountants with the Distinguished Federal Leadership Award for spearheading key transformational work in shared services.