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Paul Marshall honored with AFERM Volunteer of the Year

Paul Marshall, Corporate Business Development Vice President, was awarded the Volunteer of the Year award by the Association for
Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM). The honor was given at the association’s 5th Annual Enterprise Risk Management
(ERM) Awards during the 2019 Annual AFERM ERM Summit on Oct. 29, 2019.
The AFERM ERM Volunteer of the Year honors financial management professionals operating in the federal landscape who exhibit
exceptional commitment to the field of ERM through their service to AFERM, which operates as a 100% volunteer-run organization.
ERM Awardees are given for four categories: Leader of the Year, Professional of the Year, Volunteer of the Year, and ERM Hall of
Fame. Aside from the Hall of Fame Award, which evaluates the winner’s entire career, the other categories are evaluated based on the
recipient’s accomplishments over the course of the year.
Paul received the award recognizing his role creating and hosting AFERM’s Risk Chats podcast. The podcast is published on AFERM’s
website and highlights interviews with ERM leaders throughout the government, industry, and academia. The podcast has published
over 20 episodes in just under two years and continues to receive enthusiastic and positive feedback from the federal ERM community.
“I am happy that the podcast has taken off and that so many people find the interviews to be interesting, insightful, and informative.
I truly appreciate AFERM awarding me this honor and I’m excited to continue to interview ERM leaders, share best practices,
and inspire others to build successful ERM
programs.”
With over 20 years of experience in the federal
financial community, Paul—a CPA, CIA,
CICA, CGFM and PMP, works to expand MIL’s
financial services into new agencies, including
ERM, financial systems services, and robotic
process automation, while maintaining stability
of key federal clients. In addition to hosting
AFERM’s “Risk Chats,” Paul is also the host of
AGA’s “Accountability Talks” podcast. Check
them out here: https://www.aferm.org/aferm-
risk-chats/.
Congrats, Paul, MIL is proud of your
accomplishment!

employees of the month

October 2019: Julie Starkweather October 2019: Andrew Hibbeln

Julie Starkweather’s depth of knowledge about Over the past year, Andrew has been a key
Department of State financial operations adds contributor to the success of the Department
value in all that she does, from reviewing of State (DoS) bureau of the Comptroller and
accounting system test scopes, to sharing Global Financial Services (CGFS) Robotic
her subject matter expertise, to analyzing Process Automation (RPA) initiative. His
test results and release and update designs. ability to quickly learn the technology has
She always takes full ownership of any allowed for the MIL SCI team to establish
task assigned to her and ensures she does in-depth research to itself as the Robotic Operations Center (ROC) for CGFS. Andrew
successfully complete the task. She excels at problem solving and has successfully developed six bots and single handedly exceeded
works tenaciously to ensure a resolution that is best for the client the entire 2019 bot development goals for CGFS. In addition,
is achieved. She builds critical relationships with the client to not Andrew has proven an excellent analyst, communicator, and
only enhance MIL’s reputation and promote collaboration but also consultant that continues to impress everyone he works with.
to assist with resolving important Global Financial Operations’ Andrew’s efforts represent another example of why MIL continues
issues. She demonstrates initiative, commitment, professionalism to be the contractor of choice for CGFS.
and teamwork every day.

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