Anthony Piccininno grew up in northern New Jersey, the older of two children. Since graduating from college, he has resided in New Hampshire, Virginia, Kansas, and California. He currently resides in Massachusetts.
An avid reader, Anthony has an intense interest in history and politics. He has researched and written on both Italian and Russian history. In his spare time, he enjoys writing and has been working on a book covering the history of Italy from the Roman Empire to present day.
Anthony is an amateur pilot and has flight time in both fixed and rotor wing aircraft. An automobile enthusiast for decades, he is a member of both the Mercedes-Benz Owners Club and the Rolls-Royce Owners Club. He has traveled extensively, including throughout Europe. Anthony enjoys watching baseball, soccer, and polo.
Anthony Piccininno is a certified financial coach and the founder of Crimson Money Concepts. He has also been trained and certified in tax preparation by the Internal Revenue Service and previously volunteered as an income tax return assistant. He has previously assisted in conducting several successful fundraising campaigns and is a graduate of the esteemed Dale Carnegie Course.
He holds an associate’s degree in business administration and earned a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in economics with a minor in psychology. He attended graduate school at Harvard University studying both business and government, and later attended the University of Oxford.
Working through his undergraduate and graduate education, he spent fourteen years in the automotive industry. His depth of knowledge and breadth of experience with Volvo and BMW covered positions held at the dealership and the corporate levels ranging from clerical to management in the areas of accounting, finance, marketing, sales, service, and technical materials analysis.
In 2001, Anthony joined the military, becoming a reservist in the United States Coast Guard. During that time, he served on several active duty assignments and earned numerous accolades. Those assignments included responsibilities related to the unprecedented security response in the wake of the horrific terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001 in New York City and Washington, DC. Following the tragic Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that occurred on April 20, 2010, that subsequently left a devastating environmental and wildlife disaster along the Gulf coast, Anthony was a member of the Finance Team at the Incident Command Center in New Orleans. While there, he conducted audits of state and federal contracts. More recently, he served as Command Security Officer in San Francisco.
From 2001 to 2005, Anthony also enjoyed a career as a Program Analyst with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at The White House in Washington, DC. While at OMB, he worked in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and later in the Public Health Branch as a budget analyst. Some of his responsibilities included processing all apportionment requests for both the Department of Health and Human Services and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, totaling over $580 billion; acting as lead budget analyst on administration priorities and budget authority tracking tables; authoring and editing the President’s Budget, which is submitted annually to Congress; serving as a member of the Program Evaluation Team, for which he was awarded the Cross-Cutting Group Award; and coordinating responses to White House Staffing Requests and other official correspondence. In addition, he was responsible for conducting regulatory review and cost-benefit analyses for numerous high-profile regulations promulgated by the Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard, and the Federal Aviation Administration. In 2001, he was recognized with the Distinguished Service Award for dedicated service to The White House and the Executive Office of the President.
From 2007 to 2017, Anthony was employed with the Department of California Highway Patrol (CHP), the largest and most renown state law enforcement agency in the United States. Over nearly a decade, he worked as a Budget Analyst, the Statewide Inventory Control Analyst, and as an Administrative Analyst for the CHP at the Headquarters office in Sacramento. As an Administrative Analyst, he provided analytical and administrative support to the Administrative Services Division and its subordinate sections and units, including Fleet Operations Section, Facilities Section, Fiscal Management Section, Business Services Section, Internal Review Unit, Recruitment Unit, and Cadet Hiring Unit. Responsibilities included reviewing and analyzing written correspondence, such as manual revisions, memorandums, letters, contract requests, legislative bill analyses, and various reports; tracking incoming assignments and ensuring deadlines for completion were met; providing policy interpretation to staff; preparing correspondence for the Division Chief; and completing special projects.
Anthony has extensive experience in the private sector as well as the public sector, and at both the state and federal levels of government. A result of that experience, he is a subject matter expert in budgeting, economic policy, asset management, as well as administrative and personnel issues.
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Updated on May 24, 2023 by Anthony Piccininno
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