Angie Tymofichuk was promoted to Senior Executive Service rank and assumed leadership of the Engineering Directorate here at a ceremony Jan. 7 held at the Hill Aerospace Museum Fighter Gallery.
Tymofichuk recently served as chief of the 309th Maintenance Wing Engineering and Technical Management office at the base and, prior to that, director of engineering for the 84th Combat Sustainment Wing.
Ogden Air Logistics Center Executive Director Mark Johnson presided over last week's ceremony and noted this promotion was the third of its kind for Hill AFB. The previous SES promotions at Hill AFB involved Ross Marshall and Nathan Bell, the latter being whom Tymofichuk officially replaced in the Jan. 7 promotion ceremony.
The SES was established by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 and became effective in July 1979, envisioning a senior executive corps whose members have solid executive expertise, public service values and a broad perspective of government. Members would be held accountable for their performance. A key goal of the program's implementation was to improve the executive management of the government.
Johnson said application for these rare positions is comparable to completing a master's degree thesis. Thankfully, Tymofichuk is practiced in this art, as she holds two Master of Science degrees, her most recent from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces specializing in national resource strategy.
Once an application is submitted to Air Force Materiel Command Headquarters in Dayton, Ohio, applicants are scrutinized and screened through a progressive chain of command that ultimately ends with the Secretary of the Air Force passing along recommendations to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Tymofichuk was ultimately selected among five other qualified candidates.
After accepting the SES appointment certificate and oath of office, Tymofichuk told those in attendance that she was honored to have her promotion ceremony take place at Hill AFB. After arriving here more than two years ago, Tymofichuk said she received excellent guidance from all units under the 309th MXW and "has friends sprinkled throughout the base." She also credited the supportive communities that surround Hill AFB with many quality-of-life organizations that help to "make Hill feel like home."
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