Shawn Lennon, a former Defense Logistics Agency official, has been appointed as assistant deputy chief financial officer at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller.
Department-Wide Experience
In a LinkedIn announcement last week, OUSDC said the previous experience that Lennon brings to his new role includes the Department of Defense-wide development and implementation of financial policies for compliance with federal accounting rules. He served in the DLA as deputy CFO and director of financial improvement and audit remediation for over three years, according to Lennon’s LinkedIn profile.
During his DLA tenure, Lennon led in the adoption of innovative approaches to solve the complexities of financial management, OUSDC noted. The office expects that his executive leadership will be vital as its comptroller team pursues the accomplishment of a clean audit opinion by 2028.
Before his DLA stint, Lennon had served for 10 months as deputy director for revolving funds at the OUSDC/CFO, with a prior 10-month work also as senior budget analyst at the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
US Army Civilian Work
Lennon began his career in government service in 2006 as a budget analyst and later as financial management analyst in the U.S. Army, where he served for over nine years. After a subsequent nine-month work as an accountant at the Defense Secretary’s Office, the Army again took him in as director of working capital fund audit readiness, a role he held for more than four years.
He holds an executive master’s degree in public administration from the Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, as well as a master’s of business administration from the university’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management. He graduated with a bachelor of science degree in entrepreneurship/entrepreneurial studies from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
