Thomas M. Leech

E X P E R I E N C E     S U M M A R Y Mr. Leech has over 35 years experience in Information Technology and financial management, including 25 years of management, direction and administration of large operations, support and development organizations as well as key project management roles for at the General Accounting Office and the House of Representatives. He has held key management positions and directed major projects at the State and Federal Agency level. As a Senior Manager at several consulting services firms, Mr. Leech has successfully directed agency level support projects of over 300 staff and contractors including all system development life cycle phases on mainframe, LAN and desktop applications. Mr. Leech holds a BA degree from the University of Maryland and an MA in Management and Supervision from Central Michigan University.  Director, Financial Systems U S House of Representatives - 1997 to Present As the Financial Systems Director, Mr. Leech is currently responsible for management of the Federal Financial System (FFS) for the House of Representatives. As the Program Manager for a long-range project to replace all legacy systems with a JFMIP certified financial system, he was given approval of the House Committee on Administration and the House Appropriations Committee to establish the replacement project, perform a business process analysis, functional and technical requirements analysis and market survey of JFMIP certified financial systems for which he has already received $6.7 million in partial funding. Major accomplishments include completion and stabilization of the FFS after a minimal implementation prior to his employment, He was also responsible for implementing Electronic Funds Transfer with email notifications to all vendors and employees, electronic access to key House reports to Member Offices, standardization of interfaces with 7 subsidiary financial systems, automated consolidated billing for large vendors, and implementation of accrual accounting and commitment accounting. As a result of these measures, the House has had an unqualified opinion for 3 straight years. Marketing Director Advanced Technology Systems (ATS) Inc. -  1994 - 1997 As the National Accounts Representative for ATS, Mr. Leech was the senior marketing director developing new business with Federal, State, and Local Governments while managing technical projects for several Federal Government clients on a GSA services contract. Mr. Leech was responsible for executive level client interface, project oversight, budget development and project tracking, and all facets of task management for multiple tasks.                                       Senior Area Manager Computer Data Systems, Inc (CDSI) - 1988 - 1994                      During his tenure at CDSI, Mr. Leech held several management positions. He was the Senior Area Manager for Systems Engineering Services on the Department of Energy (DOE) support services contract responsible for managing over 230 ADP professionals on 70 tasks in support of system development and support. As the Program Manager on the GSA Eastern Zone Business Systems contract for the Federal Information Systems Support Program, Mr. Leech was responsible for the CDSI management interface between GSA management and CDSI's 6 geographically dispersed Group Managers and over 340 staff in the performance of 65 geographically disbursed work request and fixed price tasks. Earlier, Mr. Leech was the Project Director for an INS Services Contract, responsible for directing the activities of over 190 CDSI and 120 subcontractor staff on 40 task orders involving the development and support of national systems.                                    Assistant Director for Information Systems U.S. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE - 1985 - 1988 As the Assistant Director for Information Systems, Mr. Leech was responsible for directing the efforts of 5 Systems Groups and 26 professional staff involved in the development and maintenance of GAO administrative systems, overall direction of activities to transfer and start up administrative systems to the Dept. of Agriculture National Finance Center.  This included establishing base level operating budgets for system support and outside contractual services, oversight and technical guidance to project leaders and the realignment of contractor staff to reduce costs and coordination with agency management.  He also established a Financial systems operations support group, successfully re-procured a $5 million contract at a 20% reduction in cost, established a contractor staffed micro maintenance service, and initiated the nationwide technical support team.                                                 Manager, Software Support SPECTRUM LEASING CORP. - 1984 - 1985    As the Manager of Software Support, Mr. Leech directed the installation, leasing, and maintenance support for a $4.5 million microcomputer contract, building configurations, and providing maintenance services for 800 microcomputers including a national hardware/software hotline service with 50 technicians in 40 cities around the U.S.                         Principal Consultant CALCULON CORPORATION - 1975 - 1984    As a Principal Consultant and project manager, Mr. Leech directed a facilities management contract with the Office of Chief, Army Reserve installation located in the Pentagon. He managed a FERC contract in the design and implementation of a major on-line case management information system. Prior to that, Mr. Leech was the financial systems development/support manager at the Department of Energy headquarters here he was responsible for a department of 35 professional staff. He directed the development of project plans, staffing, budgeting, and technical review for all DOE headquarters financial systems on mainframe and mini-computers.                                    Assistant Director for data processing MD. DEPT OF HEALTH & MENTAL HYGIENE - 1969 - 1975 As the Assistant Director for data processing, Mr. Leech was responsible for development and operational activities for a division consisting of 85 data processing professionals and support staff. He guided the development projects that produced agency-wide systems for budget formulation and funds accounting, Medicaid, and mental health outpatient records management, and redesigned the Medical Assistance Bill Paying System reducing system processing time by 75%.  His staff also developed and installed a CICS based Medicaid Eligibility Status system that maintained records on 500,000 recipients and issued plastic service cards quarterly. Senior Member of Technical Staff COMPUTER SCIENCE CORPORATION - 1967 -1969    As a Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Mr. Leech was responsible for design of financial and juvenile offender reporting systems for the Department of Public Safety in Maryland.  He helped to install a more efficient state wide incident and case tracking system which was ultimately used to help substantiate the need for additional state and federal funding as well as defining rates of recidivism for juvenile crime.  In an earlier assignment, he was involved as a task leader in the design and development of an Army Personnel System that tracked manpower and assignments of officer personnel.  His responsibilities included supervising programmer analysts in the design and programming phases on an IBM 360/165 under DOS and presentation of briefing material to Army Managers. E D U C A T I O N     &    C E R T I F I C A T I O N S B.A. Business Administration University of Maryland, 1973    M.A., Management and Supervision Central Michigan University, 1985