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Responsibilities: Carla Burzyk is the Director, Office of Budget and Performance in the Office of the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). She is responsible for developing the Bureau's annual budget submissions, reviewing budget execution activities and overseeing USGS performance management activities. She is a member of the Director's Executive Leadership Team.

Career History and Highlights: Ms. Burzyk was named as the Chief of the USGS Office of Budget by the Director in August, 2001. In this capacity, she serves as the chief adviser to the Director and Bureau leadership team on all matters related to the budget, accountability, performance management and planning. She leads a staff of 24 who are comprised of the Budget Officer, senior budget analysts and scientists.

She was selected to be the Budget Officer for USGS in May 1999. She was responsible for the initial development and execution of the annual budget, serving as an advisor to the Director on budgetary issues for the Nation's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency.

Ms. Burzyk has spent her professional career in the Department of the Interior. Prior to joining the USGS, she served as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, advising the Assistant Secretary on the program issues related to the Bureau of Reclamation and USGS.

From 1988 to 1998, she was a budget analyst in the Department of the Interior. In this capacity, she advised the Secretary of the Interior on issues and programs related to Departmental science programs. She authored several executive summaries of the Department's "Budget in Brief" (highlights of Interior's $10.0 billion budget) and served as a member of the Secretary of the Interior's Science Board.

During her tenure in the Office of the Secretary, she was selected to serve on an assignment to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies.

From 1984 to 1988, Ms. Burzyk was a budget analyst in the Office of Surface Mining. Prior to this, she was an historian for the National Park Service.

Education: Ms. Burzyk received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in History and Art History from Trinity College where she was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow nominee. She has completed graduate work in American Studies at the George Washington University. She is a native of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and resides in the Commonwealth of Virginia.