PRESIDENT
Daniel Sullivan has been with DAS Services since February 2017. Before joining DAS Services, CAPT Sullivan, USN Retired, was the Commanding Officer for both the United States Fleet Forces Staff (Norfolk, VA) and Strike Fighter Squadron ELEVEN (Oceana, VA). A TOPGUN Graduate and Weapon School Instructor, he spent close to 25 years in the Naval Service leading men and women while flying Navy fighter aircraft, amassing over 3500 hours in the F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Super Hornet with over 950 arrested landings on multiple aircraft carriers.
Defense Acquisition Support Services (DAS) is a Woman Owned Small Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance business providing expert acquisition support to programmatic/contracting organizations around the world. We provide impact technical and acquisition experts, people who can enter an organization and lead them to contracting success in weeks and months, not years. At DAS, we know that it is all about the quality of the people. We recruit and retain the very best in our profession, the kind of people who have a long reputation of accomplishment and excellence. We are very proud to say that we have satisfied customers and employees.
In the DoD SETA services industry, everybody competes to recruit available experts. At DAS our business model allows us to recruit and retain the very best. Our model allows us to bill our customers less and pay our employees more. We offer the lion’s share of the bill rate to our employees who are willing to work in a completely accountable consulting relationship.
These unique people who are willing to work on an hourly basis are the self-starting confident class of our DoD workplace community. High performing employees favor this model, and this relationship also provides the best results for our customers. Our customers quickly recognize that our employees are industry experts, motivated to provide impact level support to them, our customer. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in joining our team or to discuss how DAS can help provide solutions to you. I am confident we can pay you more as an employee and charge you less as a customer!
HUMAN RESOURCES
Ms. Schindler is responsible for implementing Human Resource management strategies that enable DAS to recruit, train, and retain a high performing and motivated workforce. Ms. Schindler specializes in ethics and compliance, staffing, employee benefits, learning and development.
Ms. Schindler’s career includes Manager for Downtown and Red Restaurants. In these capacities, Ms. Schindler was responsible for daily operations and conditions to include the quality of food and customer service while developing leadership, management and decision-making skills.
Ms. Schindler attended Brookdale Community College and Wesley College, DE where she studied Liberal Arts. Ms. Schindler joined DAS in December 2016.
Director of Operations
Jeffrey Bickler has been a member of the DAS Services team since May 2016 providing operations support and management of the DAS Services Training Division. His specialties include business process optimization/automation, IT integration, workforce development, and data analytics. Jeff is a veteran of the United States Army where he served as a communications specialist and paratrooper with a total of 24 months deployed to Afghanistan. His past assignments include Forward Signal Support NCO with the 1-40 Cav out of JBER, AK, and Team Leader for the XVIII Airborne Corps Commanding General’s Communications Team at Ft. Bragg, NC.
DIRECTOR OF CONTRACT
Contracting Professional with over 37 years DoD Acquisition experience with a strong leadership, management, supervisory, contracting & negotiations background. As a former Contracting Officer and Branch Chief at the CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ, considered a Subject Matter Expert in all phases of the acquisition process, including requirements definition, acquisition planning, documentation preparation, proposal evaluation, contract negotiation, contract awards and contract administration. Ms. Anderson’s has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a MBA from Monmouth University; an Honor Graduate of Army Management Staff College and Certified in Contracting LEVEL III. Ms. Anderson joined DAS in March 2016.
DIRECTORS OF OPERATIONS
Frank Cuiffo served as a Department of the Army Civilian for 30 years with assignments at Letterkenny Army Depot, and within the US Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Deputy Chief of Staff for operations and Plans (DCSOPS/G3/5), Software Engineering Center (SEC) and ending with his retirement as the CECOM Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for resource Management (DCSRM/G8) in 2011. He is a 1997 graduate of the US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA. His Government assignments include operational, business, resource and leadership positions at multiple levels of Army Commands. He is skilled in the management of innovative change within an organization and conversant as a business analyst in the development of automated solutions to business-related challenges. Mr. Cuiffo is proficient in the management of complex management projects such as: strategic planning at the four-star and two-star levels, outsourcing studies (A-76 Studies) and, Base Realignment and Closure planning and implementation. He has extensive resource management experience, to include manpower management experience with organizational streamlining, realignments, reorganizations. Since his retirement from Government service, Mr. Cuiffo has served in a variety of private sector roles, to include project management, operations and proposal management. Mr. Cuiffo joined DAS Services, LLC in December 2014.
Chief Operations Officer and co-founder.
Over 35 years as an Information Technology manager for the Insurance Industry, Debbie supported the Executive Management team of Continental Insurance with their management reporting needs and use of new technologies. After retiring from Continental Insurance, she began supporting the US Army as a government contractor.
As the Chief Operating Officer of Defense Acquisition Support Services, she works with government customers to identify their mission support requirements, and provides all aspects of corporate support from Employee recruitment, HR, Security and overall corporate management.
She continues to embrace the government contractor role, and has become a Facility Security Officer and Insider Threat Officer to further understand and support the government customer’s needs.