Melvin Lentz

Melvin (Ken) Lentz

USMC Program Manager, LSS, Certified Agile Scrum Master

Mr. Lentz received a commission from Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, in September 1979. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Since his graduation from Navy Supply Corps School in April 1980, he has been assigned as Assistant Supply Officer and Disbursing Officer to the USS Berkeley (DDG-15), Assistant Supply Officer at NAS New Orleans, Supply Department Head onboard USS Anchorage (LSD-36), Communications Systems Support Officer at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and Fiscal Officer Navy International Programs Office. In August 1990 earned an MBA from Marymount University in Arlington, VA. After discharge from the Navy in 1991 Mr. Lentz accepted a commission in the Naval Reserve and had tours of duty at NAVSUP, DLA, NAVICP and Personnel Mobilization Team 906. From 1991 to 1996 Mr. Lentz worked as part of consulting teams to design and support logistics for various cryptologic systems and track logistics documentation for MSC shipbuilding programs for SPAWAR and NAVSEA.

From 1996 to 1999 Mr. Lentz returned to active duty as the Deputy Director of the Competitive Sourcing Support Office working out of NAVFAC. During this period he was the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for all A-76 support contracts supporting all Navy competitions. In October 1999 through November 2000 Mr. Lentz transferred to OPNAV N-465 to continue as the COR for the Navy A-76 consultant support. Upon leaving the Navy in 2000 through April 2007, Mr. Lentz went to work for Unity Consulting. The one interruption in this assignment was a recall to active duty from January to June of 2002 to serve as the Navy and Marine Corps Liaison to the Joint Personnel Effects Depot created to handle the personal effects and work with the families and survivors of the Pentagon attack of 9-11. In 2007, he was selected as the A-76 Project Manager at Headquarters Marine Corps A-76 which conducted 35 competitions totaling over 4,000 positions achieving savings greater than $110 M per year which ended at the completion of the last competition in 2009.

During the period from 2007 to 2013, Mr. Lentz was the Strategic Sourcing Program Manager for the Marine Corps. Under this role he was the primary liaison between DON and DOD Strategic Sourcing efforts. He led numerous commodity team studies based on internal opportunity Analysis of Marine Corps contract spending. The results of those analysis and teams were elimination of redundant contracts, reduction of like item procurements within the same regional authority and coordination and improvement of the use of DON, DOD, VA and GSA strategically sourced vehicles. Consolidation of Marine Corps wide office supplies was the result of a Third Party Logistics (3PL) consolidation managed by GSA with Marine Corps oversight. During the period Mr. Lentz served on several personnel related board to analyze the method and use of insourcing as directed by OSD and DON and to conduct an analysis job personnel resources used at all installations in order to better enable the standup of the Marine Corps Installations Command.

In 2012, Mr. Lentz became trained in Lean Six Sigma (LSS) as a Green Belt, Black belt in 2014, PMP in 2016 and Scrum Master in 2017. Since 2013 till today Mr. Lentz has been dedicated to conducting LSS projects and other improvement events through the Strategic Prioritization Process. Evolutionary projects that span the Marine Corps are identified through a board of Senior Executives and Generals are identified and completed. Numerous initiatives include items such as procurement improvements for HQ organizations, Hazardous Materials management, Ready Data Environment development, Risk Management, IT Organization data center location analysis and Internal Control Management to name a few.