Ensign named Internal Audit director at PNNL
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Category: ResearchType: News
Source: PNNL
Date: Thursday, February 14th, 2013
February 14, 2013 
RICHLAND, Wash. - Kevin Ensign, a 26-year audit and finance veteran in both the public and private sectors, has been named director of Internal Audit at the D.O.E.'s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
As director, Ensign will oversee a comprehensive lab-wide auditing plan that provides independent and objective analysis of PNNL's financial and operating activities.
Ensign joined PNNL in 2007 as the laboratory's prime contract manager. He later was PNNL's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act lead, and most recently served as manager of the laboratory's Business Development and Analysis department.
Prior to PNNL, Ensign worked at DOE's Office of River Protection in Richland, where he managed all Chief Financial Officer and contracting activities. He also worked in excess of 8 years at DOE's Richland Operations Office as an auditor and as director of the office's Financial Management Division, and worked 5 years as an auditor and supervisor with the Defense Contract Audit Agency in California.
During his career, Ensign has performed hundreds of government audits, overseen the financial and internal audit functions of numerous D.O.E. contractors and has provided extensive public briefings on D.O.E. costs, including briefings to members of Congress.
Ensign is a native of Olympia, Wash., and earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Western Washington University in Bellingham. He received a Plan Management Professional certification in 2007.
Tags: Operations, Staff Appointments
Interdisciplinary teams at Pacific Northwest National Lab address many of America's most pressing issues in energy, the environment and national security through advances in basic and applied science. PNNL employs 4,500 staff, has an yearly budget of nearly $1 billion, and has been managed for the D.O.E. by Ohio-based Battelle since the laboratory's inception in 1965. For more information, visit the PNNL News Center, or follow PNNL on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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