Bill Parker-Combes

Systems Engineering Division Chief, Enterprise Business Systems – Convergence

Bill Parker-Combes has served as the Enterprise Business Systems – Convergence (EBS-C) systems engineering division chief since October 2021. In this role, he oversees the interdisciplinary approach to develop and deploy a converged Army defense business system that will modernize and transform Army business operations. He manages the product management office’s functional and technical efforts to bring this program to life and implement the Army's ERP modernization effort by 2030.

Prior to this role, he represented the Logistics Modernization Program (LMP) to support the Business Enterprise Information Technology Leaders group charged with the early stages of EBS-C systems engineering and infrastructure. He also went on special assignment to the EBS-C Multi-Functional Capabilities Team as the lead systems engineer for the Transforming Technology line of effort.

Parker-Combes began his career with the Army in 2000 after eight years in the private sector as a computer programmer with Prudential and IBM Global Services. His first assignment was working at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, in the Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Logistics Readiness Center’s Technical Publication branch, where he was responsible for implementing CECOM’s Interactive Electronic Technical Manual solution. In 2006, he was accepted into CECOM’s Executive Development Program (EDP) with only nine other applicants, which consisted of two years of rotational assignments, numerous leadership training courses, and professional coaching. In 2007, Parker-Combes took a promotion to CECOM’s Software Engineering Center (SEC) working in the Business Systems Directorate, which managed SEC resources supporting the LMP and Joint Computer Aided Logistics Support system.

In January 2010, he was assigned to the LMP Product Management Office (PMO), where he has served in several roles, including lead for a variety of special projects and various programmatic support and management roles for both Increments 1 and 2. Most recently, he successfully led the effort to receive Increment 2 Full Deployment decision in 2016. Increment 2 expanded the LMP production baseline to approximately 14,000 users across the AMC and addresses shop floor automation, automatic identification technology (AIT), expanded ammunition (AMMO) requirements, strategic Army business transformation goals, and specific Department of Defense (DoD) directives, such as item unique identification (IUID).

Parker-Combes graduated Magna Cum Laude from Monmouth University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. In September 2008, he completed CECOM’s rigorous two-year Executive Development Program. He graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School in June 2016 with a Master’s Degree in Engineering Systems. He is Defense Acquisition University (DAU) certified Level III in Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering (SPRDE) and Level III in Program Management, and a member of the Acquisition Corps. He also has earned several awards, including the Commander’s Award for Civilian Service (2007) and Achievement Medal for Civilian Service (2007), and was named Logistician of the Year by the Greater Washington Area Chapter (GWAC) of SOLE - The International Society of Logistics (2016).