Jeffrey E. Cole was appointed Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Audits and to the Senior Executive Service in June 2006. Mr. Cole is part of the management team responsible for overseeing the Office of Audits, which conducts audits and special reviews of programs administered by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Specifically, he is responsible for the audits of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, as well as information security audits of internal and all external employee benefit programs. In addition, he is responsible for managing the Office of Audits quality assurance program.
Mr. Cole began his Federal career in November 1979, as an auditor within the agency’s Audits Division, the predecessor to the Office of the Inspector General. Over his 31 years at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, he has worked in and provided leadership to three of the Office of the Inspector General’s five operational audit groups. This includes the establishment of the information security audit function in January 1997. In mid-1987, he resigned to serve as the Assistant Finance Director for a small health maintenance organization in Ohio, but returned to continue his Federal career in mid-1998.
He attended Otterbein College, in Westerville, Ohio, graduating in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting and a minor in Economics. He is a member of the Information Security and Control Association.
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