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SPEAKER BIOS James T. Eccleston James T. Eccleston is the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Logistics), Supply Chain Integration, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. He is responsible for the full-scale implementation of supply chain business practices across the Military Services and Defense Logistics Agency, as well as integration between the supply chain process and acquisition. Mr. Eccleston has dedicated his staff to increasing public value while moving the department forward through Supply Chain Integration. Mr. Eccleston began his civil service career in 1984 as a Presidential Management Intern with Headquarters, United States Air Force in the Directorate of Logistics, the Pentagon. He worked as an action officer in supply and maintenance policy divisions for one year and then spent six months working in Congress as a Congressional Intern for Senator Pete Wilson. He developed positions for the Senator on a number of defense issues and worked the balanced budget amendment. In 1986, Mr. Eccleston transferred to San Antonio Air Logistics Center, Texas as part of the management intern program and was assigned to the F-100 engine division. He performed there as the F-100 engine program manager for the European Participating Governments (EPG). He championed the effort to upgrade the EPG's engines through a modification program. In 1987, he transferred to Air Force Logistics Command headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio where he served as a logistics management specialist in the Directorate of Materiel Management. Mr. Eccleston then transferred to the Logistics Operation Center at Wright-Patterson and served as the branch chief of cargo aircraft engines. In 1989, he was promoted to the division chief where he managed the logistics support for all Logistics Command managed engines. A year later, he was promoted to Deputy Director of Propulsion, Air Force Materiel Command. In 1992, Mr. Eccleston was selected to help establish a joint DoD agency, the Joint Logistics Systems Center located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He served there for two years in the maintenance directorate developing and implementing a hazardous materiel management information system. In 1994, he transferred back to the Pentagon, to the Directorate of Logistics, Headquarters United States Air Force, and worked as an action officer in the supply policy division. He spent the next two years working logistics information systems modernization initiatives, total asset visibility, outsourcing and privatization, and inventory management policy. In 1996, Mr. Eccleston was promoted to Deputy Division Chief for Air Force Supply and Fuels Policy Division. He provided the vision and established the policy to ensure the supply community continued to support Air Force and DoD initiatives which led to greater combat readiness. In 1999, Mr. Eccleston was promoted into the Senior Executive Service and his present position, serving as the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Logistics), Supply Chain Integration. EDUCATION 1981 Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, UT 1984-1986, Action Officer, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon,
Washington, D.C. AWARDS AND HONORS Harvard Senior Executive Fellow PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND AFFILIATIONS Senior Executives Association |