Mr. Bounds has more than 30 years experience in program and project management in addition to large-scale systems development. He is a retired U.S. Air Force officer, and has served as a sector director at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Robbins-Gioia, LLC and is currently a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton.

A PMI member since 1989 and PMP® (#977) credential holder since 1991, Mr. Bounds has been active in three U.S. PMI chapters: Mile-Hi Chapter (Denver, Colorado); Pittsburgh Chapter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); and with his current affiliation with the Washington, DC Chapter.

Additionally, Mr. Bounds was an active participant in the initial Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) working group. In 1995, Mr. Bounds received an award for being a founder of the PMI Information Systems Specific Interest Group (SIG). Mr. Bounds was elected to the PMI Board in 2007. In 2009 he was vice chair/chair of the Strategic Planning and Program Alignment Committee. He also served as chair of the Performance Oversight

Committee in 2008. Other honors and awards include:
• Elected to the board of directors for the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, Washington, D.C. Chapter, serving a three year term
• Recipient of the Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award—one of 100 executives having the greatest impact on the U.S. government information systems community.
• Recognized speaker and author in project management, IT management and risk management Mr. Bounds’ education and military service include:
• M.S. Information Systems, University of Southern California
• B.B.A., Information Systems, Texas Tech University
• U.S. Air Force, 1968 – 1989.