Mark Creveling
Washington,DC
Summary
Results driven, Senior FP&A Leader with over 17 years of experience in delivering financial results, including 13 years in Federal Government Contracting. Proven track record of solving complex problems, leading cross-functional teams, managing large-scale business operations, delivering successful M&A integrations and partnering with senior leadership to drive growth. As CFO of Distribution and Federal Acquisitions, grew revenue double digits during tenure. Successfully led new implementation of Deltek Costpoint, achieving an on time go live while integrating acquisitions and consolidating legacy instances of Unanet and Costpoint into the new ERP. Seeking to leverage experience and skills to help grow government contractors.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Federal Business Systems and Transformation Leader
IBM Consulting - Federal
09.2025 - Current
- Leading team of 6 that is responsible for updating the tools, processes and policies for IBM Federal's business systems to streamline using the latest technology, while improving compliance and controls.
- Leading Costpoint cloud migration, tool and integration enhancements
- Driving the use of BI tools to streamline management decisions and streamline compliance
Federal Integration CFO
IBM Consulting - Federal
12.2022 - 09.2025
- Managed cross-functional integration team to integrate systems and processes for $1B consulting acquisition
- Reduced financial close and forecast process from 20 to 2 days to align with IBM reporting requirements
- Grew revenue at 10% CAGR over two year integration period, while over achieving business case profitability by 72%
Distribution Market CFO
IBM Consulting - Americas
08.2019 - 12.2022
- Delivered revenue growth YoY in 9 of 13 quarters, growing at a 10% CAGR over three years while growing margins 400 basis points
- Lead financial war room during pandemic to be responsive to clients’ needs and minimize long term financial impacts
- Developed long term financial models and plans that provided the roadmap to return market to revenue growth and build a more sustainable backlog – Grew revenue QoQ for 9 consecutive quarters post pandemic and delivered 20%+ YoY revenue growth for 6 consecutive quarters starting 2Q’21
- Took on Special Assignment to develop a delivery and financial model that could deliver application migration throughput to exceed client expectations, while meeting IBMs financial objectives on $400M cloud transformation deal
Public Service Consolidation Manager
IBM Global Business Services
10.2016 - 08.2019
- Managed team of 14 across Federal and State & Local Rates and Consolidation to deliver accurate and complete external reporting
- Drove Public budgeting & incentive process to align individual compensation with external objectives and led Federal financial strategy development and implementation in concert with Executive Team.
Federal Consolidation Planner
IBM Global Business Services
04.2013 - 10.2016
Federal Financial Analyst
IBM Global Business Services
06.2010 - 04.2013
Federal Financial Analyst Co-op
IBM Global Business Services
08.2008 - 06.2010
Education
Bachelor of Science - Finance
Iowa State University
Ames, IA05-2010
Skills
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- Budgeting/Forecasting
- Financial Modeling
- Business Process Improvement
- Team Leadership
- Federal Compliance & Business Systems
- Federal Indirect Rates
- Deltek Costpoint
- Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
Accomplishments
- 2025 Deltek MVP Award for Implementation of Costpoint and Integration of Octo
- Member of 2017 IBM Corporate Service Corps deployment to Fuzhou, China
- IBM WatsonX AI Foundations Badge
- IBM Generative AI Intermediate Badge
Timeline
Federal Business Systems and Transformation Leader
IBM Consulting - Federal
09.2025 - Current
Federal Integration CFO
IBM Consulting - Federal
12.2022 - 09.2025
Distribution Market CFO
IBM Consulting - Americas
08.2019 - 12.2022
Public Service Consolidation Manager
IBM Global Business Services
10.2016 - 08.2019
Federal Consolidation Planner
IBM Global Business Services
04.2013 - 10.2016
Federal Financial Analyst
IBM Global Business Services
06.2010 - 04.2013
Federal Financial Analyst Co-op
IBM Global Business Services
08.2008 - 06.2010
Bachelor of Science - Finance
Iowa State University