Bill West
President
Option Six, Inc.
bill.west@iforces.org

Bill West, president of Option Six, has nearly twenty years experience in strategic planning, organization change management, information technology, and process reengineering. Professional experience includes management positions during the launch of change management and educational technology service lines at Andersen Consulting and Ernst & Young, providing services to over 24 companies in 12 different industries. He served as CIO for five years at the nation’s third-largest foundation and alumni association, and then was managing director of the online-education development center for UNext (Thomson Learning/NETg) where over 600 hours of top-rated, award winning online courses were produced. He directed, designed, and/or developed online courseware that won the Phoenix International Competition, LGuide Editors Choice, Training Media Review’s Top-Ten (twice awarded), and appeared on 60 Minutes. He is also chairman of the Bloomington Information Technology Sector, on the Board of Directors of the INITA (Indiana Information Technology Association), Alumni Board of Directors of the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Dean's Advisory Committee on Continuous Education at Indiana University. He has a B.A. in computer science from Indiana University.