William O. Blackwood, Ph.D.

President and owner of DWB & Associates, a small business located near Washington, D.C., which specializes in quality management implementation efforts, business process reengineering, organizational development, strategic planning, and leadership development. Dr. Blackwood has over 30 years of human resource planning and management experience. He has directed and managed organizational and managerial analyses, planned and successfully implemented large organizational change projects, designed and established quality programs, and established successful strategic planning processes.

He has significant experience in both the public and private sectors of the economy. In the private sector, he has consulted with the American Red Cross, Bell Atlantic (now Verizon), Crestar Bank, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Rockwell, General Dynamics, FMC, UtiliCorp, Lutron, and Collegiate Funding. His public sector experience ranges from county and state governments to Federal Government departments such as the Department of Defense (all services and components), CIA, Department of Transportation, Department of Treasury, and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Dr. Blackwood has been supporting the Florida Department of Health in their quality implementation efforts since 1997. In addition, he has supported the Florida Agency for Health Care Administion, the Department of Military Affairs, the Florida State University School of Nursing as well as county health department and Children’s Medical Service (CMS) program offices across the state. For the last two years, he has been providing leadership and coaching services to over 130 executives in the Florida Department of Health. Dr. Blackwood provides leadership training services to the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, VA and the Western Regional Management Development Center in Denver, CO.

Prior to forming DWB & Associates, Dr. Blackwood was a Vice President with Hay Systems Inc., and a Senior Consultant in the Hay Group. He provided human resource consulting services principally to federal, state, and local governments. He was the client and project manager for the Kansas Department of Revenue work supporting the Kansas Tax 2000 project. The work involved job design, workforce planning, job and individual competency assessments, employee satisfaction surveys, organizational culture assessments, performance management, compensation, and organizational design and development.

He was the client and project manager for the Arlington County high performance organization initiative. Work performed under the contract included: personnel selection, employee surveys, training in business process reengineering and compensation planning, and coaching in change management. Clients within the county included: the executive leadership team, Department of

Personnel, Police Department, Fire Department, Department of Human Services, and the Office of Technology and Information Services.

Prior to joining the Hay Group, Bill was the manager of the Human Systems Department (HSD) (1991 - 1993) of ATI which later merged with PRC and became now as PRC. As the Department manager, he directed over 45 people in 5 locations through out the United States. HSD provided human resource consulting services principally to the DOD and Civil

sectors of the Federal Government. The major areas of business were in Total Quality Management, strategic planning, training, and human resource studies and analyses.

He served as the Program Manager for the Army's Model Improvement and Study Management Agency for Human Resource Analysis. Tasks conducted under this contract include the Army civilian personnel downsizing analysis, cost reimbursable civilian training analysis, a feasibility analysis to determine the viability of building a National Workforce to support integrating human factors considerations into the federal acquisition workforce.

Prior to joining ATI, Dr. Blackwood served in the U.S. Army for over 20 years as an Infantry Officer and served his last six years of active duty on the Army and OSD Staffs. He has been awarded the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star as well as numerous other decorations.

He holds a Ph.D. degree in Education from the University of Florida and a B.S. in Psychology and Education from Norwich University. Dr. Blackwood has memberships in the American Management Association, the American Society for Quality, the International Coach Federation, and is currently serving as an Examiner for the Unites States Senate Productivity and Quality Award for Virginia. Among other things, he has been a University Trustee (5 years), a member of the National Research Council (5 years), and a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner (3 years).

He is married and has three married daughters and two grandsons.

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