William Benham, Mba, Cdfm Email & Phone Number

California, Md, Us

Patuxent River, Maryland, Us

• Leads the Common Spend Plan Tool (CSPT) Tiger Team to drive long term strategic financial initiatives by improving overall functionality and the user experience across the NAVAIR enterprise. Developed a comprehensive initiative to outline and codify business rules and provide in-depth analysis to improve system performance and functionality.• Facilitates a robust training program to develop, enhance and implement financial management knowledge across multiple lines of business operations. Trained over 20+ military officers and over 260+ civilians in all aspects of acquisition program financial management in both tactical and strategic analytical thought.• Directs the budgeting and requirements process integration between NAVAIR and the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) Resource Sponsor N98 to streamline and improve the financial process between organizations. This increased transparency, reduced workload, and standardized the outcomes allowing senior Navy leaders to make quick and strategically informed acquisition programmatic and budget execution decisions.• Facilitated a complex multi-Systems Command (SYSCOM) offsite to identify critical acquisition concerns from both internal and external stakeholders across the Department of the Navy and developed a discrete action plan to implement corrective actions in conjunction with the Chief of Naval Operations Resource Sponsor (N98).• Engages with senior Navy staff at the Flag and Senior Executive Service level to drive efficiencies in complex acquisition business processes across the Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE) to support warfighting requirements.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Served as the lead financial manager to advise Senior Executive Service personnel on strategic fiscal guidance set by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Office of the Secretary of the Navy.• Led the organization in the establishment and buildout of a complex budget process to support the development and balance of the organization’s portion of the Department of the Navy Science & Technology requirements and budget. Directly streamlined internal processes to improve cohesion between organizations by 30% reduction of effort.• Defended the organizational budget over $20.4B through the annual Department of Defense department program review process leading to the final Department of Defense (DoD) budget presented annually to Congress.• Developed a complex data driven financial management tool to digitally align strategic financial resources by transforming the organization’s ability to quickly identify budget programming, planning and execution trends to inform senior leaders with critical programmatic and financial management information to inform major acquisition decisions.• Has a mastery of the Program Budget Information System (PBIS), Web-Based Appeal Database (WeBAD), Issue Paper Generator, RDTEN Budget Justification Documents (RDOCS) and Procurement Budget Justification Documents (PDOCS).

• Supported the administrative management of 300 DON Acquisition Category I-IV programs across 14 Program Executive Offices and seven Systems Commands that execute over $1.059T across the Future Years Defense Plan.• Managed an $8M contractor support contract to include managing over 90,000 hours directly supporting four Senior Executive Service led organizations as the Contracting Officer’s Representative and worked the complex contract re-compete with the contracting officer to ensure all critical contracting timelines were met to support an on-time award.• Led a diverse team of 30 employees to execute a $18.8M annual budget supporting day-to-day business operations supporting over 140 personnel to include the execution of seven major contracts, travel requirements and improvements to information technology processes. • Spearheaded the command-wide audit process by working with the Government Accountability Office, Department of Defense Inspector General and the Naval Audit Service to manage, track and execute over 850+ incoming and outgoing audit transactions for major acquisition programs across several systems commands to improve efficiency and transparency of engagement with senior Department of the Navy leadership.• Developed a detailed and comprehensive tasker management tracker within the organization which allowed Senior Executive Service personnel and key stakeholders to quickly identify and prioritize mission essential tasks. This streamlined and reduced overdue taskings assigned to the Secretary of the Navy by 65%.

Patuxent River, Maryland, Us

• Planned, Programmed, Budgeted and Executed (PPBE) over $3.2B in Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Weapons Procurement, Aircraft Procurement, Procurement of Ammunition Navy and Marine Corps and Operation and Maintenance budgets. Understands all aspects of NAVAIR business processes across the Naval Aviation Enterprise.• Led a diverse and multi-talented team to implement a Common Spend Plan tool throughout the organization which pulled financial information data from five different appropriations and aligned with the program requirements. This directly led to improved acquisition programmatic decision making and financial forecasting at senior levels.• Drove innovation with a special project by creating a robust contracting tool which tracked over $481M and 78 complex contracting actions thereby streamlining the data into a single repository for improved decision making.• Spearheaded the effort to respond for Congressional budget marks and Financial Management Budget execution marks to defend critical weapon systems and preserve budget top lines in a fiscally resource constrained environment.• Developed and trained both government and contractor personnel in the Navy ERP financial software to grow their experience by fostering a collaborative and innovative culture to ensure daily obligation and expenditure of funds were properly documented, tracked, and reported to senior program managers.

• Became fluent in the Air Force’s Central Asset Management budgeting and financial management system for weapon system resourcing and sustainment and assembled a Joint multi-year view of trends in 15 United State Strategic Command weapon system budgets between the Air Force, Navy and Army totaling $46.2B providing critical guard against the hollowing out of strategic forces.• Prepared, reviewed, and implemented weapon system sustainment logistic plans that were critical to the success of the United States Strategic Command Operational Plans to support and deter peer-to-peer adversaries.• Facilitated multi-service maintenance repair process improvement to align limited parts availability to critical airborne and strategic assets to improve system degradation across the Air Force, Navy and Army.• Implemented a monthly and quarterly logistic sustainment review of 8 mission critical weapon sustainment platforms that were provided by a report to the 4 Star Combatant Commander to inform executive level decision making and in turn used to leverage Congress for additional funding to support critical warfighting requirements.• Served as the Senior Logistics Mission Area Expert watch-stander and the Joint Logistics Operations Center Chief in the Global Operations Center responsible for monitoring all logistics and maintenance functions for all assigned military forces world-wide ensuring maximum readiness to achieve 100% mission capability rates for strategic bomber assurance and deterrence missions.

Patuxent River, Maryland, Us

• Developed, forecasted, budgeted, and executed the complex fiscal management of $2.2B over the FYDP across 3 appropriations to include Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Other Procurement and Operation and Maintenance funding to ensure all fiscal benchmarks were met.• Developed and coordinated the execution strategy for financial management mid-year reviews which identified over $2M in assets that were quickly redistributed to fund other higher priority efforts within the organization.• Directed a diverse and exceptionally talented team for a Lean Six Sigma KAIZEN event that significantly improved the reporting of acquisition dashboard reports to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy which reduced the labor hours from 500 to 60 which was an 88% reduction in touch time saving of $49.5K in labor costs per year.• Led the development, implementation and execution of a robust obligation tracking database used to track over 300 unique fiscal actions which significantly improved the Program Manager’s visibility of programmatic fiscal execution and allowed senior leadership to make data-driven informed financial decisions.• Oversaw the training, management of highly skilled employees in funding document creation to support critical acquisition milestones for the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) supporting the first USS Ford class aircraft carrier.

• Managed a global and regional supply chain of ship and aviation repair parts in direct support of a United States Navy warship and aircraft deployed to the Middle East and South America. Directed a robust team to expedite over 40 critical repair parts working with global supply chain distribution organizations like FedEx, DHL, and UPS.• Oversaw the fiscal execution of a $22M ship and $1.9M aircraft repair part inventory with 100% accountability during sustained ship operations in direct support of forward deployed units in the Middle East and South America.• Developed a simple but comprehensive Plan of Action and Milestone checklist for the annual readiness assessment and led a diverse and talented team to easily pass the assessment and improve the overall score from the previous assessment by 25% well exceeding the Navy’s established benchmarks.• Spearheaded the complex and challenging $126K renovation of both officer and enlisted living and eating spaces. The renovation brought in new food service equipment and significantly raised the standard of living for crewmembers.• Led a diverse and talented culinary staff to provide over 900+ meals daily to crewmember while maintaining the highest food sanitation credentials using state-of-the-art food service equipment and management oversight. Maintained a 97% inventory accuracy during monthly and quarterly wall-to-wall inventories of over $500K and over 750 food service line items.

• Directed the rapid sustainment effort in support of Helicopter Squadron 773 during their initial deployment to Afghanistan in direct support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Moved 234 aviation repair parts and 531 consumable parts valued at $7.9M which ensured a 100% mission sortie rate and increased the Full Mission Capable rate by 25%. • Established a round-the-clock sustainment support system for the forward deployed helicopter squadron and led the effort to train reservists to augment active-duty support staff while restructuring the organization to maximize operational readiness. Streamlined and updated all supply procedures which increased staff productivity by 50% with no decrease in customer satisfaction. Trained all staff to ensure compliance with logistical requirements.• Managed over 842 critical aviation depot level repairable parts worth over $118M in direct supply sustainment for 4 Navy and Marine Corps aircraft squadrons and a financial budget $24.8M. Sought out unique and innovative solutions during logistical challenges to maximize operational readiness in direct support of counter narcotic deployment to South America. This led to successful narcotic interdiction efforts with federal law enforcement.• Trend setter with logistic metrics. Outperformed other organizations in repair part effectiveness which provided immediate logistical supply support to host aviation squadrons and minimizing aircraft mission down time.• Led monthly supply support and maintenance meetings with squadron and wing maintenance officers to address repair and consumable supply parts concerns. Worked to implement sound supply support solutions to support aircraft readiness and operational capabilities.• Trained, supported, and directed over 30 enlisted Navy and Marine Corps personnel to manage supply inventory repair part turn-ins to minimize repair costs, expedite repair and ensure parts availability to deployable aircraft squadrons.

• Established the very first financial management and retail management operations on a newly constructed United States Navy warship. Led the complex effort to stand up both organizations on time with minimal resources and employees. These efforts won the ship “Best in Class” for retail excellence and scored a 97.1% overall rating during the financial management audit.• Oversaw the management and execution of personnel payroll for 350 employees and maintained over $500K in direct payroll cash for the ATM onboard with no loss of accountability. Led multi-talented and diverse team.• Managed the procurement, inventory, and sale of over $420K retail stock on an annual basis. Correctly analyzed the right trends with customers which ensured the stock turnover of items generated over $12K in profits per quarter which went directly to the employees for morale activities and discounts. • Led the extraordinarily complex effort to outfit the ship with all retail stock and financial management funds to support the first ever deployment to the western pacific in direct support of Operation Enduring Freedom.• Instrumental leader in the development of the Supply Department which earned the USS LASSEN its first ever BLUE “E” for operational readiness excellence against the entire Pacific Fleet.

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Institute For Defense And Business (Logtech Advanced), Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Military Operational Art And Science/Studies

Mba, Financial Management

Education record

Ba, Business Administration

High School Diploma