Dale Gillam is a Program Manager and the Corporate Director of the Earned Value Management Center of Excellence (EVM COE) for Leidos.  Mr. Gillam currently leads a team of over six dozen functional experts working closely with Program Managers and Program Execution Leaders to elevate the planning and executions practices to deliver better results on contracts.

Mr. Gillam’s expertise is in program start-up, planning, scheduling, and EVM, with an emphasis on implementing Integrated Program Management (IPM) solutions.  Mr. Gillam is responsible for policy and practice definition, oversight and compliance, customer interface, and program implementation.  Mr. Gillam has overseen and led hundreds of IPM solutions for many U.S. Department of Defense and Civilian Agency customers.  The solutions have spanned the spectrum from million-dollar task orders, to several hundred-million-dollar services and staff augmentation contracts, to multi-billion-dollar developmental contracts across all contract types. 

Mr. Gillam serves as a recent past Chairman and on the Governing Board of the National Defense Industrial Association’s Integrated Program Management Division (NDIA IPMD).  Mr. Gillam previously served on the Governing Board of the College of Performance Management (CPM) and of the National Contract Management Association (NCMA) Tyson’s Chapter.  Mr. Gillam engages on these Boards to contribute to improving the depth in each discipline while also improving the integration across the disciplines to support better program outcomes.

Mr. Gillam’s formal education includes a B.B.A. and an M.B.A and several executive programs from the University of Virginia, Harvard University, Stanford University, George Washington University, San Diego State University, and Radford University.  Mr. Gillam also has thirteen current industry certifications in different functional areas related to integrated program management (CFM, SCPM, CMC, CCE/A, PMP, CMQ/OE, CMA, EVP, CSM, CSSGB, CPCM, PMI-SP, SAFe).