Mae DeVincentis
Ms. Mae E. DeVincentis has extensive experience as a C-level executive with deep expertise in all aspects of supply chain; strong skills in forming strategic direction from concept development through execution in all facets of the business; extensive experience leading major transformational efforts.
Since departing the Senior Executive Service in March 2012, Ms. DeVincentis has offered her services as an independent consultant through her firm Maxwell Associates, LLC. In this role she assists executives with strategic decision-making, team building, transformation and growth. She is a recognized expert on government acquisition, information technology, logistics, change management, distribution and disposition services, drawing on over 37 years of experience in the DOD.
Ms. DeVincentis served as vice director for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) from August 2010 until her retirement from federal service in 2012. DLA is the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)’s combat logistics support agency, providing worldwide logistics support for the materiel and personnel readiness and sustainment of the Military Departments and the Unified Combatant Commands under conditions of peace and war. It also provides logistics support to other DOD Components and certain Federal agencies, foreign governments, international organizations, and others as authorized. As DLA’s first civilian vice director, Ms. DeVincentis was the Agency’s second in command, assisting the director in all aspects of leading the global DLA enterprise. She sat on a number of Department level boards and committees in addition to those she chaired at DLA.
Before becoming vice director, Ms. DeVincentis was director of logistics operations (J3). She led all aspects of DLA’s worldwide warfighter support mission, which provides most consumable spare and repair parts and virtually all clothing, food, medical supply and fuel items used by military forces worldwide, involving over $40 billion in annual sales of logistics materiel and services. Prior to the J3, she was director, information operations (J6) and chief information officer (CIO) for DLA from 2001-2009. Ms. DeVincentis was responsible for all Agency information technology (IT) activities across 11 sites involving a staff of over 3,000, including modernization of the agency’s principal business systems, sustainment of contemporary business systems, program management for acquiring and implementing major automated information systems (MAIS), information assurance, and overall IT policy guidance and operational performance. During her tenure as CIO, she led the Agency implementation of an enterprise resource planning system, arguably the most successful of its kind in government. She was also responsible for DOD-wide logistics information operations that included cataloging, electronic routing of logistics transactions, a logistics customer interaction center; logistics process guidance and DOD’s document services.
Her prior assignment included the program executive officer (PEO) and vice director of information operations (J6). Prior to joining the Headquarters in 1998, Ms. DeVincentis held a variety of leadership positions in contracting, logistics and information technology at the then-Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP).
Ms. DeVincentis attended Temple University where she received both her Bachelor of Arts and master’s degree in Business Administration. She was a member of the Senior Executive Service and the Defense Acquisition Corps, and served on a variety of DOD and public/private sector councils. She received numerous honors, including the DOD Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Presidential Rank Award (twice), CIO Top 100, the DLA Exceptional Civilian Service Award, the DLA Meritorious Civilian Service Award, and the DLA Employee of the Year Award. Ms. DeVincentis is currently serving as the chair of the DLA Foundation, a charity aimed at providing scholarships to family members of DLA employees.