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A Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
SBA Certified SDB and 8(a)
Company
Management Team
Will Bell, President & CEO
As a computer scientist, BASIS President Will Bell has over 25 years of
industry experience in developing and deploying major, pervasive, highly-complex systems—running
on a wide variety of platforms. He began his career at the 
NIH NICHD Institute
where he worked
as a scientific programmer. He was responsible for writing special programs and using proprietary
software SAS and SPSS to perform statistical and scientific analyses of data. He has held many
technology-related positions in the US Government, including Chief of the Systems Development
Section at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Inspection and Enforcement (I & E),
Systems Analyst and Database Designer and spent most of his tenure in the US Government fulfilling
various management/Project Manager positions until his official departure from government service.
At the NRC he introduced database management technology to I & E and designed the 766 System, using
the first DBMS (System 2000) at the NRC. Appointed head of the Distributed Technologies Group (DTG),
Mr. Bell pioneered client/server technology at the NRC and devised a strategic plan for the training
of the DTG staff in this new technology (Sybase DBMS and PowerBuilder as client/user interface).
Currently, Mr. Bell is setting the strategic direction for BASIS, a company he started in 1996. He
has established strategic business relationships with established
firms and has obtained several
contract vehicles for the company. BASIS, as a subcontractor, has responsibility for the database
design effort related to the re-engineering of or making enhancements 
to pre-existing client/server
financial systems currently in use by the US Department of the Treasury at the Financial Management
Service (FMS). More specifically, the BASIS team of database administrators has the responsibility
of delivering to the FMS the pertinent software engineering and database design work to successfully
re-engineer and redeploy financial systems as J2EE web-based applications. Mr. Bell
is a
technology pioneer and introduced the database transactions server model where the business transactions
(business logic) are stored in the database at the FMS within the Department of the Treasury.
Brian Bell, Director of Information Technology
Brian Bell, an Economics and Computer Information Systems graduate, began working at PriceWaterhouse as a consultant specializing in the CRM application called Siebel. He was quickly recognized as a subject matter expert within this software program, and was subsequently staffed as a project lead, on both domestic and international engagements. Within a couple of years, Mr. Bell was promoted to a manager at PriceWaterhouse as the company was in the process of merging with Coopers and Lybrand to form PriceWaterhouseCoopers. As a manager, he was in charge of ensuring the projects with which he was affiliated were completed in accordance to the project plan milestone dates—while continuing to manage between 5 and 13 employees. Mr. Bell gained both domestic and international experience and has worked with clients in the following countries: US (California, Colorado, New York, New Jersey), South America (Argentina, Mexico), Europe (England, Italy) and Australia. After working at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Mr. Bell then joined Arthur Andersen’s consulting practice as a manager on Siebel engagements. At Andersen, Mr. Bell continued to work domestically while the company began to undergo a merger with KPMG Consulting—forming BearingPoint.
In total, Mr. Bell brings over 8 years of managerial experience incorporating best-practices principles learned while working with the aforementioned Big Five companies. His strengths include: extremely strong project management experience with all cycles of project implementations (i.e., analysis, design, construction, testing, implementation, deployment, post-production support), a strong commitment to development and maintenance of client relationships, and excellent oral and written communication skills in both English and Spanish.