OUR STAFF

Brief descriptions about the individuals comprising HIE staff can be found below.

Willie Heath, President

Willie Heath is co-founder and President of HIE. Mr. Heath has more than 20 years of experience in the business consulting and contract management arena. An accomplished speaker, he serves as HIE’s spokesperson and leads informational seminars throughout the United States on topics such as GSA Schedules and government contracting.

Willie has been an invited speaker for many organizations, including the Small Business Administration, the Small Business Development Center, National Contract Management Association’s, American Airlines, NAFA Fleet Management Association, just to identify a few.

Willie earned his BS from Texas Wesleyans University of Business Administration. He has served on the board of the Associates of Black Account in Dallas, Texas. Willie also served on the board of the Arlington Black Chamber of Commerce in Arlington, Texas.

EXPERIENCE

General Services Administration-- This organization is a branch of the Federal Government. GSA is the largest purchaser of Goods and Services for the Civilian Agencies and procures products and services for its U. S. Government “clients.” These clients include most agencies of the executive branch, the judicial and legislative branches, and Government facilities worldwide. Major responsibilities are to provide support to all regional contracting personnel, receive and safeguard all subcontracting plans. Responsibilities included making the public aware of Government contracting opportunities. Also, he was responsible for increasing competition and assisting small, minority, & women-owned, HUBZone, veteran-owned, and service disable veteran-owned businesses. This includes procurement/contracting opportunities in various areas such as commodity and services, design and construction and space planning of buildings, telecommunications systems, and commercially available computers of all sizes and types, and computer maintenance, repair, and software.

As a regional director he had the following responsibilities-- Managing Director; Small Business Utilization Office

• Oversaw all compliance, legal, regulatory, and operational issues.
• As a senior manager, started, organized, and managed a high profile organization within the Federal Government.
• In keeping with government philosophy that the business community should be actively involved in government procurement, started, organized, and managed the first and only nontraditional 8 hour training program at GSA on “How to Do Business with the Federal Government.
• Participated in short and long term procurement activity. Reviewing ongoing procurement actions to determine appropriateness for set-asides, utilizing resources maintained in the Business Community.

Training

• Developed new programs for the Small Business Liaison Officer (SBLO).
• Personally taught GSA contracting officers Nationwide on aspects of the Small Business Program.

National Small Business Training for GSA Nationwide Small Business Program

• Responsibilities included training the entire 11 regional offices nationwide as it pertains to the Small Business Program, ensured that all the Directors over each of the regional offices were training as it pertained to the small business program.
• Responsible for development of training materials nationwide.

Compliance Officer, Nationwide

• Provided in-depth assistance (including training) to GSA Contracting Officers Nationwide and contractors in the preparation of subcontracting plans; serves as the principal office for assuring Standard Forms formally known as the 294 and 295 were received as required and on-site compliance review of the performance under the approved subcontracting plan.

Heath International Enterprises, Inc.  •   835 E. Lamar Blvd., Suite 204 Arlington, TX 76011  •   Voice: (817) 860-2607  •  Fax (817) 860-2608   •  Email: team@hieinc.net