USDANEWS                                                           VOLUME 58 NO. 9 — DECEMBER 1999

Editor's Roundup
USDA people in the news

Patricia Healy was selected as the deputy Chief Financial Officer. She succeeded Ted David, who served in that position from 1993 until July 1998 when he became the Chief Financial Officer/Chief Administrative Officer at the National Weather Service within the U.S. Department of Commerce. Associate Chief Financial Officer Allan Johnson served as acting deputy Chief Financial Officer from July 1998 until he retired in September 1999, following 35 years of service with USDA.

From July 1998 until her selection in September 1999, Healy served as director of USDA’s Foundation Financial Information System (FFIS) Project Office. In that capacity she was responsible for the USDA-wide implementation of FFIS--the Department’s new integrated financial management system which is replacing the central accounting system of the National Finance Center. During FY99 she directed the successful implementation of FFIS into the Food Safety and Inspection Service and the Forest Service.

Healy was the national director of the Systems and Accounting Standards Division at the Internal Revenue Service from 1996-98. During that time she assumed responsibility for IRS’s initiative to improve and reform its administrative financial operations. In FY97 her work resulted in the first ever 'unqualified' (i.e., 'clean') audit opinion of IRS’s administrative financial statements. From 1991-96 she was chief of IRS’s Office of Financial Services and Support, where she developed the IRS-wide data communications architecture for its financial system. She served from 1989-92 on a management team that successfully implemented a new comprehensive financial management system for IRS, employing the same software package currently being used for FFIS at USDA.

Healy worked as a staff assistant to the director of the Systems Development Division of IRS’s Detroit Computing Center from 1987- 89. From 1977-86 she was a librarian working with the computer systems at the National Library of Medicine within the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. From 1975-77 she worked at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, based in Philadelphia, where she directed a project to assemble a directory of information sources and services for persons with disabilities, on behalf of the [then] U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

A native of Clifton, N.J., Healy holds a B.A. degree in German from Ohio State University, an M.A. degree in library and information science from the University of Michigan, and a master of business administration degree from the University of Maryland. 

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