David Tumblin

David Tumblin serves the 20,000 employees in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer (CHCO).  In his current role, Mr. Tumblin led agency efforts to reverse negative morale and engagement trends, and he oversaw the effort to align ICE’s law-enforcement positions to the President’s 2014 Executive Action on immigration enforcement.  David led the development of ICE’s refined mission statement, and his efforts have led to a narrowing of ICE’s law-enforcement focus to better equip employees to succeed.
Prior to accepting the position as the Deputy CHCO, Mr. Tumblin was the director of Human Capital Strategy and Technology, where he built on his previous experience with the Transportation Security Administration to transform human capital into a data-driven organization focused on weaving itself into employees’ careers.
David served two years with Booz Allen Hamilton as a budget and performance integration expert, and before that he was the director of the U.S. Commercial Service’s Office of Planning and Resource Management (the U.S. government’s global export-promotion arm).
He reorganized the delivery of mission support and administrative services for a nationwide network of export-promotion offices, reducing administrative overhead by 50 percent while achieving 98 percent approval ratings from clients.  In the process, he eliminated two layers of management and enabled the reduction of oversite management offices in the field.
Mr. Tumblin served two terms in a non-partisan elected position in the District of Columbia, where he led efforts to build a $12 million recreation center and a 65,000 square foot Safeway supermarket.
David is married and has two children in elementary school.  He lives in Washington, DC.  He has a Master’s Degree with an international business concentration from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and he graduated from the University of Tennessee as the top graduate in liberal arts.  He spent two years in undergraduate school studying in Germany.