WILLIAM FORBES
Haymarket,USA
Summary
Results-driven leader with expertise in strategic planning, project management, and budget analysis. Proven ability to oversee complex projects and manage multi-million dollar budgets, delivering impactful outcomes in high-stakes environments.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Requirements Manager
KBR
06.2024 - Current
- Provide advice and support for planning, coordination, and management of engineering projects.
- Draft contract support documents such as Statements of Work, Independent Government Cost Estimates, Contract Data Requirement List, and Justification and Approval (J&A).
- Provide input for system capability requirements documents, key performance parameters, initial capability documents, and capability development documents.
- Recommend alternatives for effectiveness and performance, cost, schedule, compatibility of concept of operations with existing infrastructure, personnel, doctrine, and overall risk.
- Lead the systems engineering definition/executing activities within a project.
Senior Finance/Budget Analyst Consultant
KBR
01.2024 - 05.2025
- Led executive level financial management and budget formulation for a government program in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Analyzed annual spend plans using PowerBI and Tableau to highlight critical budget risks.
- Drafted acquisition documents and processed funding documents using government financial tools, such as BASIS, AML, PRISM, GEOF, etc.
Functional Manager
S2 Analytical Solutions
11.2020 - 12.2023
- Led a team of 45 employees providing SETA support to the US Government, ensuring accurate contract deliverables and timely submissions.
- Provided Executive level financial management and budget formulation advice for a government program in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Analyzed annual spend plans using PowerBI and Tableau to highlight critical budget risks.
- Conducted personnel management, job interviews, and hiring to manage contract vacancies and revenue.
- Coordinated the work of defense industry contractors, consultants, in-house engineers and logisticians, contracting officers, and others, whether assigned directly to the program office or supporting it through some form of an integrated product team or matrix support arrangement.
- Advised, developed, scheduled and tracked major program acquisition milestones.
- Reviewed, edited and drafted acquisition documents such as Statements of Work, Performance Work Statements, Independent Government Cost Estimates and Market Research.
Program Manager
US Army
02.1989 - 10.2020
- Provided oversight and supported the execution of a $185M annual program budget supporting the logistics and training support of the 54 States and Territories in preparedness of manmade and natural disaster relief efforts, such as Weapons of Mass Destruction, hurricanes and wildfires; working with Senior Leaders in the impacted areas to ensure they received crucial equipment, training and supplies for both responding units and impacted victims.
- Played a key role in enterprise-level strategy development, governance and implementation.
- Provided research, development and coordination of written products, such as executive summaries, white papers and briefing slides for meetings and decision forums for General Officers/Executive Leadership (up to the 4-Star level).
- Provided valuable insights and recommendations to General Officers/Senior Leadership throughout the three milestones of the Defense Acquisition System.
- The Senior Project Officer for the development and validation of the National Guard Bureau (NGB) Senior Executive Natural Hazards Playbook presenting current standard operating procedures for supporting states in relief efforts during natural hazards and is the basis for establishing continuity of effort through future events and personnel changeovers.
- Successfully completed project within allocated budget and set deadlines.
- Strategically directed the deployment and redeployment of 500+ personnel in support of Hurricane relieve efforts to multiple regions during hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in 2017.
- Program Manager for a multi-million-dollar training, exercise, and logistics program supporting the 54 States and Territories.
Operations Manager
US Army
02.1989 - 10.2020
- Managed the planning and execution of a full-scale deployment to Poland and the Baltics in support of Exercise Anakonda 2016, providing logistics, transportation and life support for 30,000+ personnel and equipment from the United States and Europe in support of 70-day multi-national exercise of European, US and NATO forces.
- Strategically planned and developed the 230th Sustainment Brigade’s fielding plan for the Army Battle Command System (ABCS) and validated the system during a culminating training event.
- Developed, planned, and executed the 230th Sustainment Brigade’s warfighter, an advanced combat simulation that tests the communications networks, warfighting capability and readiness to validate the brigade for mission availability.
- Planned and managed the execution of the 230th Sustainment Brigade’s participation in Exercise Anakonda 2016 force projection training exercise.
- Developed the plan for the 230th Sustainment Brigade’s participation in Exercise Saber Guardian 2017 force projection exercise.
Project Manager/HR Manager
US Army
02.1989 - 10.2020
- Directed staff responses to congressional inquiries, audits and Inspector General Reports.
- Initiated contracts for building rentals, identified maintenance and repair requirements and programmed capital expenditures for building maintenance and repairs.
- Successfully managed a 35-person full-time support staff responsible for day-to-day administrative operations of a 1000+ person battalion geographically dispersed across eight locations in Tennessee.
- Served as Chief of Staff for a 1500-2000 person Combat Sustainment Support Battalion providing logistics and sustainment support to 45,000+ personnel in Northern Iraq in 2008-2009.
- Served as an Embedded Combat Advisor to an Afghan National Army (ANA) Light Infantry Battalion with the mission to conduct short-notice combat, stability and support operations within the northern region in 2005-2006.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Applied Computer Science Concentration
North central University
Bachelor of Science - Major in Aerospace Administration
Middle Tennessee State University
Skills
- Leadership
- Acquisitions
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Program Management
- Functional Management
Certification
- Certified Project Management Professional, 10/20
- Certified Government Financial Manager, 01/25
Accomplishments
- Led executive level financial management and budget formulation for government programs in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Led a team of 45 employees providing SETA support to the US Government.
- Successfully managed a logistics distribution center for all Northern Iraq.
Training
- Acquisitions 101
- Fundamentals of System Engineering
- Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Management
- Lean Six Sigma
Security Clearance
Active TS-SCI w/ Poly
Timeline
Senior Requirements Manager
KBR
06.2024 - Current
Senior Finance/Budget Analyst Consultant
KBR
01.2024 - 05.2025
Functional Manager
S2 Analytical Solutions
11.2020 - 12.2023
Program Manager
US Army
02.1989 - 10.2020
Operations Manager
US Army
02.1989 - 10.2020
Project Manager/HR Manager
US Army
02.1989 - 10.2020
Master of Business Administration - Applied Computer Science Concentration
North central University
Bachelor of Science - Major in Aerospace Administration
Middle Tennessee State University
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