Profile

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

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Bill Samples is the Director for the Office of Strategy, Performance and Results (OSPR) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). He leads CMS’ implementation of enterprise strategic planning, enterprise risk management, executive level data analytics, and various large-scale initiatives and continuous improvements. He has spent over 25 years in federal service and has significant experience in leading large government programs, while driving operational changes inclusive of strategic planning, enterprise risks, project management, data analytics, cost estimation, and process improvement. One of the highlights of his career was working in the Executive Office of the President in the Office of the Chief Statistician of the United States, leading statistical policy implementation and coordination across all the Federal statistical agencies. He previously served as the Assistant Survey Director of the Economic Census for the United States and its territories, which collects extensive statistics about businesses that are essential to understanding the American economy and provides key data inputs to the United States Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and other key economic indicators. Bill received his B.S. in business from the University of Maryland, College Park and M.S. in Project Management from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Bill is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).