Amir Deylami

Amir Deylami serves as the Acting Chief Financial Officer for Ames Research Center since May 2020. In this capacity, he leads a civil service and contractor workforce of 150 people in the management of the Center’s portfolio totaling approximately $900 million. He provides leadership, guidance, and direction to the Center’s financial and resources management workforce in the development and execution of the Center’s financial processes, systems, and initiatives.

Most recently, Amir Deylami served as Deputy Chief Financial Officer for Resources for Marshall Space Flight Center, overseeing an operating budget of $4 billion and combined civil service and contractor workforce of 6,400 people. Prior to this role, Amir served as the Agency's Baseline Performance Review Executive within the NASA HQ Office of the Administrator, Office of Agency Council Staff, where he supported critical performance management of NASA missions, programs, projects, and mission support areas.

From 2013 to 2017, Amir held roles in the HQ Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) of increasing resource management responsibilities across flight and technology programs. As Lead Resource Management Officer (RMO) for HQ STMD Technology Demonstration Missions program, he led day-to-day resources integration and operations of flight and ground demonstration projects across all NASA Centers. Prior to this role, Amir served as the Lead RMO for other STMD programs to include Game Changing Development, Small Spacecraft Technologies, and Flight Opportunities programs, as well as performed STMD integrated assessments and analysis for the mission directorate. In addition to these responsibilities, Amir led process improvement initiatives such as STMD business systems implementation and, in 2015, he also served as a key contributor to the Agency’s Business Services Assessment (BSA) Program Planning & Control (PP&C) Deep Dive team.

Amir joined NASA in 2009, serving in various budget integration, program analysis, mission support, and accounting operations roles within the OCFO at MSFC. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.