Marjana D. Zupcsan, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is Director of Financial Management and Comptroller for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Ms. Zupcsan is responsible for training and equipping 1,650 financial personnel, as well as providing advice and oversight regarding funds management worth $304 billion across 77 locations. She assists in policy formulation, interpretation and implementation, providing executive supervision regarding budget execution and centralized cost-estimating management; influencing more than 3,000 programs and projects valued in excess of $1 trillion.
Ms. Zupcsan began her career with the Air Force in 1989 upon acceptance into the Acquisition Financial Management Trainee Program. She has served in a variety of financial management and acquisition assignments at Wright-Patterson AFB, to include multiple program offices, the Acquisition Cost Division, Acquisition Financial Analysis Division, and AFMC Financial Management. She held Chief Financial Officer positions in the Global Hawk, Propulsion, Simulators and KC-46 Divisions before serving as the Organizational Senior Functional for the Tanker Directorate and the Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Special Operation Forces Directorate.
EDUCATION
1989 Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Finance, The Ohio State University, Columbus
1993 Master of Business Administration, Financial Administration, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
1997 Professional Military Comptroller’s School
2008 Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., by correspondence
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
1. July 1989–July 2002, various assignments
2. July 2002–October 2004, Financial Analyst, Financial Management Branch, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
3. October 2004–January 2006, Deputy Chief, Financial Management, Global Hawk, 303rd Aeronautical Systems Group, 303rd Aeronautical Systems Wing, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
4. January 2006–November 2007, Chief, Financial Management, Global Hawk, 303rd Aeronautical Systems Group, 303rd Aeronautical Systems Wing, ASC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
5. November 2007–January 2009, Chief, Financial Management, Propulsion, 577th Aeronautical Systems Group, 77th Aeronautical Systems Wing, ASC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
6. January 2009–February 2012, Chief, Financial Management, Simulator Division, Agile Combat Support Directorate, ASC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
7. February 2012–June 2012, Chief, Program Control and Financial Management, KC-46 Directorate, ASC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
8. June 2012–August 2016, Chief, Financial Management, Tanker Directorate, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
9. August 2016–December 2021, Chief, Financial Management, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Special Operation Forces Directorate, AFLCMC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
10. December 2021–present, Director, Financial Management & Comptroller, AFLCMC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Acquisition Professional Development (APDP) Business Financial Management - Level III
APDP Cost Estimating - Level II
APDP in Program Management - Level I
AWARDS AND HONORS
1996 Exemplary Civilian Service Award
2009 Exemplary Civilian Service Award
2010 Aeronautical Systems Center Division Chief Deputy of the Year
2011 American Society of Military Comptrollers Comptroller/Deputy Comptroller of the Year
2016 Meritorious Civilian Service Award
2016 Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Financial Management Leadership Award
(Current as of February 2022)