Biographies

James (Jay) Tyler

Title: Director, Financial Management Office (FMO)

James (Jay) Tyler has rejoined CDC as director of the Financial Management Office (FMO). Jay brings 23 years of federal financial management experience to CDC. Previously, he was the budget director for the U.S. Census Bureau. Jay spent a year at CDC (2004 -2005) as the deputy director for Budget and Management within FMO before returning to the U.S. Census Bureau in late 2005.

Prior to the U.S. Census Bureau and CDC, Jay was the deputy budget director for the U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. During his career, Jay has held senior financial analyst positions at the U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Treasury Department. Jay is a graduate of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's Federal Executive Institute. Jay has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Morgan State University and is a certified government financial manager.

Robert C. Curlee

Title: Deputy Director, Budget Officer, Senior Travel Officer

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.

Belinda Corley

Title: Acting Deputy Director for Finance/Acting Deputy Chief Financial Officer

Responsibilities: Plans, directs, and evaluates the financial and accounting operations in the CDC Financial Management Office (FMO) to include oversight of the: (a) Financial Services Branch which processes the agency's international, interagency, commercial, and travel payments and oversees the related quality controls, (b) Accounting Branch which manages the agency's general ledger, assets, grants, Chief Financial Officer Act reporting, and OMB Circular A-123 internal control reviews, (c) Debt Management Branch which monitors the timely collection of receivables and recording and reconciliation of reimbursable interagency agreements, and (d) Financial Systems Branch which manages current financial systems and coordinates the implementation and development of future financial system initiatives.