Mr. Lantz, Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer for J6, brings a wealth of experience into this role as he has served in several key leadership positions at DLA throughout his career. Most recently he served as the Program Manager for DLA's Enterprise Business System (EBS), a SAP Enterprise Resource Planning system that powers DLA’s $40B supply chain business. It enables the processing of an average of 97,095 orders per day, awarding an average of 10,311 contract actions per day, managing nearly 13M items through nine supply chains and supporting more than 2,432 Weapon Systems.
Prior to his role as EBS Program Manger, Mr. Lantz was the Director of DLA Enterprise Infrastructure Services (J64), which covered Enterprise Help Desk (EHD), Desktop Support, Contingency IT Operations, Network and Telecommunication Services, and Technology Foundation Services. Reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), span of control covered 17 Data Centers, 50,000 IT assets, $300M budget and 810 IT professionals geographically dispersed supporting 38,000 end users/desktops worldwide. Major initiatives include data center consolidation, cloud and mobile computing, and modern desktop.
During 2008 through 2015, Mr. Lantz was the Director of DLA Transaction Services located at WPAFB, OH. He was responsible for the processing of 10 Billion transactions annually supporting over 265,000 DoD and Private Sector Customers and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers.
A native of Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Lantz earned a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Technology from the University of Dayton and Master’s Degree in Management Science from Central Michigan University. He attended Executive Leadership training at Harvard, JFK School of Government and completed the Leadership for a Democratic Society program at the Federal Executive Institute (FEI) in Charlottesville, VA. He currently holds a professional certification in Global Information Assurance.