MITRE Advises Financial-Industry Regulatory and Oversight Agencies
Jasmine Faubert
March 2011
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Her work at MITRE's Center for Enterprise Modernization has Jasmine Faubert supporting IT and financial management projects for the U.S. Department of Treasury, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Office of Management and Budget. |
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MITRE's Jasmine Faubert has a blend of information technology and financial management expertise practiced over her career in both the public and private sectors. This combination has served her, her colleagues, and MITRE's sponsors and customers well since she joined MITRE in 2005.
Faubert, who is an information systems engineer, works in MITRE's Center for Enterprise Modernization (CEM) in McLean, Va. CEM is the federally funded research and development center operated by MITRE that is sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service and co-sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The center provides strategic, technical, and program management advice and facilitates the modernization of business processes and supporting systems and their operation.
As the nation has focused on challenges across the financial spectrum, Faubert has played a significant role in helping address them. She and her MITRE colleagues have helped make changes and develop new mission-critical capabilities for key initiatives across the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She has also provided research and advice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Business Architect Role
For the past couple of years, Faubert's primary role has been to provide business and IT architecture assistance to a major Treasury agency and the SEC. "I help them work together to envision, plan, define, and oversee development and implementation of new processes and systems. We're helping them enhance their ability to execute their business missions to respond to new policies and address new opportunities," she says.
Much of her work involves the collection and analysis of data; she also helps these agencies work together effectively. In addition, she spends a portion of her time on government financial management projects.
"At times I work on MITRE-funded and customer-funded projects geared toward helping agencies better manage their financial resources. These projects focus on assessing technology investments in financial and revenue systems, reducing improper payments, and integrating reporting of budget-financial-performance information," she says. "For this work, I have assisted the OMB, the Treasury Department's Financial Management Service, Bureau of the Public Debt, and IRS."
Consensus Building
When asked about the most challenging aspects of her work, Faubert acknowledges it can be hard to help different parties balance individual agency needs and priorities across a cross-agency initiative, but very rewarding when they start to come together.
"I would say that helping people with different views—business leaders, technology leaders, business operations staff, engineers, policy and rule makers, government staff, contractors, different agencies—to work together effectively to solve really complex business problems is difficult but ultimately satisfying."
She finds her broad business and technical experience to be particularly valuable in this regard. "I think my previous work experience helps me relate to all these different types of people and convey ideas among them," she says. "I try to help them see each others' point of view and integrate their ideas."
Fortunately, Faubert thrives on the challenges inherent in consensus building. "Our customers have extremely interesting missions, and I enjoy learning about them and helping them to find ways to improve their effectiveness.
"I also appreciate that there are many incredibly smart and experienced people at MITRE—I learn a lot from them. I particularly love working with them to pull together all of their great ideas into something the customer can implement successfully within the constraints they have to live with."
Family and Youth Sports
Outside of the office, Faubert has spent hours over the years supporting an array of her children's activities. "When I started at MITRE, I had two teenagers at home and, believe it or not, they needed just as much attention and supervision as little kids—but for different reasons," she says. "Coming to MITRE allowed me the flexibility to leave work early enough to take them to after-school sporting and social events and then complete the rest of my work at home in the evening."
It wasn't long before Faubert began volunteering her organizational and financial management skills to local youth sport programs. "Several years ago, I became involved as a volunteer and manager for the Herndon Optimist Club's Youth Sports programs. Now that my youngest child is getting ready to go to college, I continue to use MITRE's flexible work schedule and telecommuting options.
"I work with children and their families to help them get scholarships to participate in organized youth sports, and I am the treasurer for the parent organization overseeing all the sports programs."
—by Kay M. Upham
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