From January of 2002 until September of 2007 Bill served as Chief of Staff to Governors Warner and Kaine of Virginia.

As Chief of Staff, Bill essentially served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Commonwealth. In 2005 and again in 2007, Governing Magazine named Virginia the “Best Managed State in the Nation” and in 2007, Governing Magazine named Bill one of the nine “Public Officials of the Year” nationally. For seven years, Bill was the Director of the Virginia Retirement System, where led the agency to three consecutive US Senate Productivity Awards.

Upon retirement Bill joined DecideSmart LLC consulting. In April of 2008, he served as Senior Advisor to the Scottish Executive advising the government on how to design and implement Scotland Performs, a national performance management system. In July of 2008 Bill conducted a performance review of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, a $52 billion pension system.

In 2011, at the request of the National Governors Association, Bill led a 5-person delegation to Nigeria to conduct a “new governors” seminar for the newly elected governors of Nigeria. In 2014 Bill completed a manual for the National Governors Association on how to transition into power. In 2016 Bill was asked to Co-chair the transition committee for the newly elected mayor of the City of Richmond.

Currently Bill serves as a senior strategic advisor to the Dean at the L Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Over the years Bill has served on numerous nonprofit boards including the Central Virginia Foodbank (now Feed More), The National Museum of the Marine Corps, The American Bird Conservancy (ABCbirds.org), and the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP.org). Bill is an avid birder and has travelled the world in search of “good” birds.

Bill joined state government after serving in the United States Marine Corps. Bill graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Mary Washington College in 1978 and holds an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University.