Mr. William P. Stormer
DIRECTOR, Transformation PRIORITIES & REQUIREMENTS - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Mr. Will Stormer is the Director of Transformation Priorities and Requirements, Financial Management at the Defense Business Transformation Agency. Mr. Stormer has 33 years of experience in DoD financial management. Immediately prior to his current position, he served as a Program Manager for Perot Systems, Inc. where he oversaw a group of projects that provided web-based financial tools in support of programming, budgeting, accounting and manpower management for Army organizations at the Major Command level.
Mr. Stormer served for 26 years as an Army Finance Corps officer in positions of increasing responsibility through the rank of Colonel. His comptroller assignments included Comptroller of the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI), Comptroller of the U.S. Army National Guard (ARNG) and Deputy Comptroller of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). In these comptroller assignments, he was responsible for the Planning, Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) of a research and development laboratory (ARI), the ARNG and at DLA, five Defense Working Capital Fund business areas, six appropriations and the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund.
Mr. Stormer held a wide variety of supervisory finance and accounting assignments in military and civilian pay, accounts payable, travel, disbursing and accounting at installation, Major Command and Department of the Army levels. He was centrally selected by the Army to serve as the Installation Finance and Accounting Officer, Fort Campbell / Commander, 101st Finance Battalion and as the Commander of the 18th Finance Group, Fort Bragg, where he was responsible for all finance support to Forts Bragg, Campbell, Drum and Stewart. In 1981 he played a major role in an Army finance doctrine development effort which resulted in a complete restructuring of all Army finance units. In 1994, he developed and deployed a notebook-based finance battlefield system to OPERATION Uphold Democracy in Haiti. In 1996, he received the David Packard Award for excellence in acquisition redesign for his work on modernizing the small purchase payment system of the Army.
Mr. Stormer is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College and the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management with a concentration in Accounting. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. He is trained as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and has facilitated the development of numerous Activity Based Costing models.