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William E. Russell 301-***-****) aduq9m@r.postjobfree.com

QUALIFICATIONS: Mr. Russell has lead teams that provide acquisition support, consulting services, cost estimating, and program management services to government agencies 40+ years. His experience includes supporting acquisitions, life cycle cost estimating, sustainment costing, cost benefit analysis for various government agencies including JSF JPO, DISA, DoD, Navy, Marine, Air Force, FAA and USDA. Specific project areas include radar, aircraft, simulators, communications, surveillance, IT, software, cloud, and interfaces of various and complex systems. Major modeling tools include ACE-IT, Excel, Microsoft Project and various risk and software estimating tools. Supported ACAT 1 and 2 projects for DoD, FAA and USDA.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

IFAS-LLC 8/2018 to 6/17/2022 Job Title: Senior Cost Estimator

Provided cost estimating consulting to DISA for acquisition of hardware, software, cloud, and IT projects. Provides slide sets, briefings, cost estimates, benefits analysis, market research, and business case analysis to support major projects for DISA. Projects were inclusive of software systems, cloud-based issues, use-of office-products across multiple services, and projects that span all military services.

ACT I 11/2017 to 7/2018 Job Title: Sustainment Cost Estimator

Provides cost estimates and briefings to meet various reporting requirements for sustainment inclusive of software for the F-35 aircraft. Supports the F-35 Lightning Joint Program Office (JPO) in Crystal City, VA. F-35 is in all states of procurement from development, procurement, and sustainment for multiple buys and upgrades.

OST Global, Inc. 4/2017 to 10/2017 Job Title: Cost Estimation Specialist

Lead the development of cost estimates for FAA information technology projects both procurement and life cycle. One of the major assignments is to document the processes and cost framework to develop a complete cost estimate for all aspects of IT project phases inclusive of acquisition and life cycle. An in-depth understanding of information technology cost estimation and a basic understanding of project management activities were required to ensure that the developed cost framework is appropriately tied to the FAA Project Management Life Cycle.

Quantech Services, Inc. 5/2016 to 1/2017 Job Title: Senior Cost Estimator

Provided cost estimating consulting to Navy/Marine projects on hardware, software, surveillance and radar projects. Provides slide sets, briefings, cost estimates, and business case analysis for tradeoff of procurements to support a major radar project for Navy/Marines. Used ACE-IT, excel and risk software. Provided temporary assistance at Hanscom Air Force Base for acquisition estimating.

LS3, Inc. 12/2014 to 4/2016 Job Title: Senior Cost Estimator

Provided cost estimating consulting to DISA onsite for acquisition of hardware, software, cloud, and IT projects. Provides slide sets, briefings, cost estimates, benefits analysis, market research, and business case analysis to support major projects for DISA. Projects were inclusive of software systems, cloud-based issues, use-of office-products across multiple services, and projects that span all military services.

1st Choice Government 11/2012 to 6/2013 Job Title: Cost Estimating Consultant

Evaluated cost estimating processes supporting procurement procedures with emphasis of cost estimating and made recommendations for improvements. Performed a detailed assessment and evaluation for the Chief Financial Office, Budget Division, Capital Planning and Cost Analysis Branch of FSIS, USDA.

TASC, Inc. 11/2010 to 10/2012 Job Title: Manager & Senior Cost Estimator FAA Programs

Responsible for leading teams using planning tools (Microsoft Project), provided engineering analysis, trade-off studies, life cycle estimates, risk analysis, cost-risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, cost estimating, business case analysis and investment analysis, and reports and briefings. Evaluated and transformed estimate from ACE-IT to Excel for earlier SWIM project estimate. . SWIM project was a federation of many software and IT systems within the FAA in an effort to promote governance and reuse of code and resources across the entire FAA software and IT portfolios. Used COCOMO as a software estimating tool. Provided estimates for an improved communications switching system for the FAA

BAE Systems, Inc. 2/2001 to 9/2010 Job Title: Senior Systems Analyst V, Lead CBA FAA Programs

Responsible for leading teams that provide engineering analysis, trade-off studies, life cycle cost estimates, risk analysis, risk-cost analysis, cost-benefit analysis, business case analysis reports and investment analysis, and supporting reports and writing for mostly air traffic controls systems and automation projects for FAA. Estimated FAA ATCBI-6 and other support on surface-based radar for airports monitoring. Reviewed and used ACE-IT estimating tools for some projects. Provided some models in both ACE-IT and Excel for verification and validation of models.

Provided estimates for critical systems for the National Airspace System inclusive of support systems, communications systems both critical and non-critical, voice switches, use of software on shared basis across all safety related database and data-intensive systems inclusive of shared resources, 6 degrees of motion simulation systems for major aircraft, and aircraft used for both training and navigation testing. Evaluated major systems that shared data across many FAA systems. Worked a major system looking at the Gulf of Mexico and extending all FAA services inclusive of surveillance, weather, communications, and air traffic control to the level of CONUS capability. Used various software tools for estimating software.

Arthur D. Little 8/1996 - 2/2001 Job Title: Operations Research Analyst

Estimating lifecycle and O&M projects for the FAA included aviation, automation, surveillance, displays, weather, IT projects, software projects, radar, communications, and other hardware development maintenance costing. Primarily supported the O&M budget and costing functions for the FAA NAS plan. Reviewed and used ACE-IT estimating tools for some projects. Provided some estimates in both ACE-IT and Excel for verification and validation of models for most programs while working this task. Used software estimating tools where appropriate.

SAIC 10/1995 - 8/1996 Job Title: Operations Research Analyst

Estimated and evaluated procurement of FAA systems primarily landing and navigation-landing systems, and communications, software, surveillance, hardware and air traffic control systems for FAA. Projects included all lighting systems, NAV Landing aids inclusive of processing systems, and weather detection systems. Used ACE-IT, Excel, and risk analysis as estimating tools.

Lockheed Martin subsidiaries 2/1985 - 8/1995 Job Title: Cost Estimator, Systems Engineer, Planner

Estimated, evaluated and provided early planning for procurement of navigation, communications, software, surveillance, hardware and air traffic control systems for FAA and other civil aviation authorities. Briefed and provided analysis to major review boards at the FAA. IT projects included governance and sharing of data across all FAA platforms and improvement of those processes.

Provided planning and program management support for development for an air traffic center for UK for approximately 1 billion dollar program where Lockheed Martin, my employer, was part of the bidding consortium in response to the UK acquisition request.

Planned and estimated the early-stages of the IWS LAN and other major paper-to-automation systems for Social Security Administration. Lead project to automate a 4GL language accounts payable system for SSA. Estimated acquisition costs, benefits, and cost and technical risks for ACAS (aka TCAS) for Transport Canada.

DAI Inc. 6/1975 - 2/1985 Job Title: Senior Analyst

Provided procurement and life cycle estimates for 3D military radar system, Navy, and Air Force. Performed cost estimating hardware and software, programming tasks, operations research and task reporting. Researched and supporting software cost estimating modeling for Rome Air Development Center.

EDUCATION:

MS Systems Engineering, Clemson University (12/1974)

BA Mathematics-Physics, Rollins College (05/1973)

SECURITY CLEARANCE:

Secret (Active)

CERTIFICATIONS:

Project Management Professional through PMI #1338588 (6 June 2010 to 6 June 2025)

Cost Estimating Certification thru ICEAA #4170 (2/8/2019 to 2/8/2024)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

ICEAA, ACM, PMI

COMPUTER SOFTWARE/HARDWARE:

Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, Open Plan, Price System Suite for estimating, Various Software Estimating tools (SEER-SEM, also a Lockheed Martin Product, SLIM (a QSM product), COCOMO, developed a software costing model for ROME Air Development Center in late 70’s), ACEIT, EXCEL, and Crystal Ball and @ Risk for risk analysis. Also, Fortran, Basic, and Progress.

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