Biographies

William P. Nichols

Title: Director, Financial Management Office (FMO), October 2006; previously Director, Procurement and Grants Office (PGO)

Responsibilities: Provides leadership and guidance in all areas of financial management, including budgeting, Congressional relations regarding appropriations, accounting systems and processes, and the annual financial statements.

First Job at CDC: Disease Intervention Specialist, Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Cleveland (1983)

Path to Public Health: "I received my Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest University, and a Master of Public Administration degree from Georgia State University. I have worked at CDC for 24 years, the last 12 of which have been as a senior management official within various Centers and OD offices. For my first seven years at CDC, I was involved with more grassroots public health, where I was assigned to state and local health departments implementing STD (Cleveland) and immunization (Santa Ana, California, and Raleigh, North Carolina) programs.

"From 1995-2001, I served as the Associate Director for Management and Operations (ADMO) for the National Immunization Program where I was responsible for all human, financial, and information technology resources. A highlight for me was implementing the Vaccines for Children program. During my tenure as ADMO, the United States achieved the highest immunization coverage levels and lowest vaccine-preventable disease incidence recorded up to that point. In 2001, I was detailed to CDC's Financial Management Office (FMO) as the Acting Branch Chief of the Congressional Legislative Branch, which interfaces with Congressional appropriators and helped orchestrate the myriad of Congressional visits to CDC following the World Trade Center catastrophe and the anthrax incidents. Before becoming Director of the Procurement and Grants Office (PGO) in March 2004, I served as ADMO for NCHSTP for 2 years, where I focused on internal management improvement activities and implementing the Advancing HIV Prevention initiative."

Robert C. Curlee

Title: Deputy Director, Financial Management Office (FMO)

Responsibilities: Mr. Curlee serves as the Deputy Director and CDC Budget Officer in the Financial Management Office (FMO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Serving in this capacity he reports directly to the FMO Director and also provides budgetary action plans to the CDC Chief Operating Officer. As a Deputy Director, he provides planning, directing, organizing, and exercising control over subordinate organizations assigned to the Budget Execution and the Budget Formulation and Public Health Policy Branches.

At CDC: Mr. Curlee has been assigned to FMO since 1998 while appointed to several progressive roles as the Branch Chief, Financial Systems Branch Chief and Deputy, and as a Systems Accountant. He also served on detail as the Deputy Director for the Department of Health and Human Services Unified Financial Management System.

Other Federal service has been with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Postal Service. He served active duty in the U.S. Army.
Mr. Curlee received his B.G.S. from Samford University and his M.A.E. from the University of Alabama- Birmingham.