Biography: Mimi K. Cuddy-Mierzwa was appointed as operations executive for the Air and Missile Defense Sector of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on November 8, 2008. She oversees all elements of the infrastructure operations organization responsible for business management, financial reporting, space planning and administration, security, centralized classified IT services, and logistics for more than 1,300 staff. As a member of the Air and Missile Defense Sector Executive Leadership Team, she enthusiastically supports the organization in providing leadership and strategy development, setting direction and overseeing execution in support of advancing the programmatic and technical capabilities of the sector to ensure mission effectiveness, and developing and resourcing critical technical facilities and sustainable classified IT operations to support the sector’s strategic focus areas and execution priorities. Ms. Cuddy-Mierzwa is committed to creating and promoting a creative and inclusive environment that supports the next generation of defining innovations and advances our continued commitment to making critical contributions to critical challenges.

Ms. Cuddy-Mierzwa joined APL in 2004, having spent the previous twenty years in finance and business operations supporting small nonprofits, large for-profit corporations, and national Department of Defense (DoD) government contractors. With an excellent working knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and DoD contracting regulations (Defense Contract Audit Agency, Defense Contract Management Agency, Federal Acquisition Regulations, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement), she is experienced in finance, administration and operations management, budget development and execution, multi-division profit and loss responsibility, proposal development, contract negotiations and administration, human resources, business development, target marketing, and customer retention.

Ms. Cuddy-Mierzwa earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance from Daemen College in Buffalo, New York.

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