Vice President, Business Analytics
Summary:
As Vice President of Business Analytics (K2) and the Northeast Region (X1), William is responsible for providing the framework to ensure Quantech remains an industry leader in delivering world-class consulting products and services across the full spread of A&AS functional disciplines. He oversees a total of 100 Quantech employees spread over 8 contracts for our USAF and USSF customers. In his new capacity as Vice President, he will continue to provide senior oversight and mentorship to his 2 Directors (Business Analytics, Northeast Region) and the expanded management team of 15 task leads and business managers within the portfolio – doing the critical work of growing the future leaders of our company. His Business Analytics (K2) portfolio is chartered with expanding our recognized industry expertise in the cost estimating and analysis, financial management, earned value management and project scheduling domains. He directly manages the execution of business analytics themed contracts and enables delivery of functional expertise to cost, EVM and schedule analysts working within larger contracts that also include program management and engineering activity. In his role overseeing the Northeast Region (X1), he manages a large workforce spanning functional disciplines such as program management, cybersecurity, systems engineering, logistics, business intelligence and administrative support. He manages numerous relationships with our industry partners and clients in AFLCMC and AFNWC. As Vice President of both Divisions, William conducts market research strategizes, and develops plans to grow these core functional areas and business domains along with the CEO, Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Quantech Business Development team.
William has 20+ years of experience in DoD cost analysis and associated technical management – and is a recognized technical expert and leader in the AFLCMC, AFNWC and SSC communities. During his career as an analyst, he supported over 100 programs (ACAT I/II/III, JUON, MTA, SWP) spanning multiple services and agencies (Air Force, Space Force, Navy, Army, Missile Defense Agency and NASA). He has architected over 200 life cycle cost estimate (LCCE) models, establishing critical dynamic decision analysis tools in a number of arenas – software factories/DevSecOps, aircraft platform integration, ground based radar development, complex IT infrastructure systems, and space systems. He has developed CERs, metrics and databases that are widely used throughout AFLCMC and SSC today. Prior to joining Quantech, he served as a certified ACEIT trainer for 10 years. He was named ACEIT Trainer of the Year in 2010 and ICEAA New England Chapter Estimator of the Year (for Technical Achievement) in 2011.
Over the last 14 years, he has led progressively larger cost analysis teams, including the AF C2ISR Division (Robins AFB), AF PEO Digital (Hanscom AFB, Peterson AFB, Robins AFB and Hill AFB), AF PEO C3I&N (Hanscom AFB, Lackland AFB), and SSC BMC3 (LA AFB, Peterson AFB). He is currently the lead subject matter expert leading a large team of analysts supporting a portfolio of complex enterprise ground systems utilizing agile DevSecOps development methods in the SSC BMC3 PEO. In his subject matter expert role, he advises cost analysts supporting a number of critical research and analysis efforts, developing innovative cost analysis methods for agile programs which are highly regarded as best practices across DoD. He is also the lead architect of our junior, intermediate and advanced cost analysis training programs, ensuring they keep pace with changes to policy, analysis techniques and technology. During his tenure with the company, 100+ junior employees have participated in the training program, with many now supporting our clients as senior analysts today.
Education: William has Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University. He is also a Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner & SAFe Agilist.
Professional Organizations: William has been a board member of the New England Chapter of the International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association (ICEAA) since 2017, serving as president for 4 years, and treasurer for 2 years. He is also a member of the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association (AFCEA).