Professional Background
Mr. Young is a Senior
Consultant for BearingPoint
(formerly known as KPMG Consulting). At
present (December 2002), he currently manages BearingPoint’s team supporting
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) Public and Indian
Housing-Real Estate Assessment Center’s (PIH-REAC) Resident
Assessment Sub-System (RASS). In
this capacity, Mr. Young manages a team of consultants that provide business
process improvement and re-engineering services to the organization’s survey group. Specifically, Mr. Young defines business
requirements for an internet-based system that PIH-REAC uses to administer the
survey and interact with public and assisted housing owners, agents and field
office representatives; defines and develops MS Excel, Access, and Active
Server Page (ASP)-based reporting and performance measurement tools, including
tools by which PIH-REAC communicates survey results to its stakeholders; and
conducts quantitative and qualitative analysis of survey data and reports this
to HUD and PIH-REAC constituencies.
Mr. Young has particular
knowledge and experience in public policy and federal governance analysis,
survey methodology and database development, project and program management,
economic analysis, system requirements definition and systems testing, business
development, marketing, and verbal and written communications. Mr. Young has been a member of BearingPoint’s
Federal Services Consulting Practice since July 2000.
Prior to joining KPMG
Consulting in July 2000, Mr. Young worked for three years as a consultant and
project manager for The EOP Group, Inc., a business and political consulting
firm located in Washington, D.C., where he advised Fortune 500 clients on State
and Federal Executive Branch regulatory actions across numerous and diverse
issue areas.
In this capacity, he
examined and analyzed high-profile public policy issues, and developed and
implemented advocacy strategies based on these analyses. Past project areas include: (1) Food &
Drug Administration (FDA) rulemakings; (2) Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) comparative risk analyses and EPA regulatory process compliance; (3)
Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)/ Small Business Regulatory Enforcement
Fairness Act (SBREFA); (4) White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
regulatory policies; and (5) the Federal budgetary process.
Prior to his consulting
experience, Mr. Young conducted research and performed policy analysis at The Heritage Foundation in its foreign
policy department and the U.S. House of Representatives for U.S. Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA).
Mr. Young received a B.A. in
Political Science with a minor in International Relations from Georgia Southern University in 1996 and is
currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the Kogod School of
Business at The American University
in Washington, D.C. with dual concentrations in the Management of Global
Information Technology (MOGIT) and finance. Mr. Young is expected to receive his M.B.A. in May 2003 and take
a long, relaxing and overdue vacation . . .
Mr. Young selected to
analyze Ireland’s national information and communications technology (ICT)
sector due to his family’s lineage in Ireland’s County Cork (Egan, McAuliffe),
County Mayo (Raegan), and County Limerick (Garrett).