Government Statistics
Mentoring Award Winners:
Kevin Cecco and Lillian Lin
stephanie shipp and Beth Kilss, Jeanne e. Griffith Award selection Committee
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n the afternoon of June 17, Kevin Cecco of the
Internal Revenue Service and Lillian Lin of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were
presented with the Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award in the
conference center of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This year
marked the first time in the award’s seven-year history that
two winners were chosen, as well as the first time the ASA’s
Government Statistics Section oversaw the award selection ©
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prised colleagues, family, and friends of Jeanne Griffith and
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Kevin Cecco is chief of the Corporation Statistics Branch of
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the Statistics of Income Division (SOI) of the Internal Revenue
Service. He has been a supervisory statistician/mathematical
Kevin Cecco, a winner of the Griffith Award, with his wife, stacey,
statistician at SOI for more than 10 years. Cecco earned his BS
and daughters, madison and Delaney
in mathematics from Bloomsburg University and has complet-
ed several graduate courses in statistics from the Joint Program
in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. Prior
to working at SOI, he was a mathematical statistician at the
U.S. Census Bureau from 1990–1995 and General Motors
Acceptance Corporation from 1988–1990.
As chief of SOI’s Corporation Statistics Branch, Cecco
manages staff who sample, edit, and produce critical tax sta-
tistics associated with active domestic corporations. These data
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are then analyzed and disseminated on SOI’s web site, known
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as Tax Stats, and through SOI’s Corporation Complete Report
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and Corporation Source Book. In his previous position, Cecco
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supervised a group of mathematical statisticians who provided
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general statistical consulting services for more than 90 projects
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throughout the IRS. His areas of expertise include statistical
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consulting, sample estimation, quantifying sampling variabil-
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ity, and producing performance measurement indicators.
Cecco regularly asks staff members about their career goals Griffith mentoring Award winner Lillian Lin and her husband,
and works with them to develop strategies to attain them.
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He revisits these periodically, assessing progress and refocus-
ing as needed. Staff recognition is also important to Cecco,
and he often goes above and beyond to acknowledge his staff
members’ important contributions. As a result, employees
“enthusiasm and love of statistics” and said he was “creative
have frequently responded with extra effort. Outside the
and willing to share his expertise.”
office, Cecco has volunteered his time for school science fairs
Tom Petska, who recently retired as director of SOI
and career days. A guidance counselor at an elementary
and who nominated Cecco for the award, spoke briefly during
school wrote that Cecco “demonstrates a passion for mentoring
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students and instilling in them a desire to reach higher goals.”
Kevin’s outstanding abilities and accomplishments
A principal of another school acknowledged Cecco’s
as a mentor include devoting quality time to each
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