Biography - William Speer

Currently Bill Speer is a project manager and historian for The Angelo Group, Inc. where he is producing three historical documentaries for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Branch. Previously, Bill was a Senior Training Simulation Developer and Serious Game Designer for JANUS Research Group, Inc. designing simulations for the U.S. Army. Bill also was the Global War on Terror military historian for JANUS and supported the United States Army, Signal Corps historian, where he was conducting research and analysis of historical records; identifying, collecting, and preserving historical documents, data, and information as well as maintaining the historical research collection. Bill also conducted video and audio interviews of soldiers, contractors, and civilians about their role in signal operations in the Global War on Terror. Bill is a prodigious speaker speaking to numerous schools, civic organizations, alumni groups, and institutions each year.

He was responsible for preserving documents, both digitally and in hard copy, according to accepted archival procedures and developed a complete inventory and finding aid for each unit/command including a searchable database of Personal Experience Papers, Personal Video Interviews, and historical documents. Bill also conducted hundreds of personal interviews of soldiers and civilians in support of the Global war on Terror. He also assisted in conducting staff rides to various Civil War and Revolutionary sites.

Bill is also an adjunct professor at the American Military University and Georgia Military College having previously taught at the community college level and various public schools for over 35 years. He is currently working on groundbreaking research of a border state military academy that attracted the attention of distinguished military historians around the county.

He previously served as historian for the Defenders of American Naval Museum and as the Online Educational Coordinator for the United States Civil War Center at LSU. Mr. Speer was a member of the Advisory Board for the Texas State Historical Society and on the Educational Advisory Board for the Fort Bend County, TX Museum. He also served as a textbook reviewer for Prentice Hall.

Mr. Speer has worked with the National History Day foundation for two decades, teaching essential historical literacy motivating students in order to secure the future of democracy. Bill has an intensive background in Holocaust studies and was a participant in the Holocaust Survivors Study Program in Poland and Israel. He has over thirty-five years of military simulation development and implementation. Bill was President and CEO of The EDGE Group, Inc. (a curriculum provider for homeschool/gifted programs). In conjunction with the Defenders of American Naval Museum, he worked on the restoration of PT 309 which now resides at the Pacific War Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas and PT 305 now is under restoration at the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. He also developed websites and programs for the Institute of Texas Cultures in San Antonio. TX.

Upon retirement from public education, Bill was a professional tournament bass fisherman and a fishing guide until assuming his current positions at JANUS. He currently resides in Harlem, Georgia near Fort Gordon and the United States Army Signal Center. He is an avid wargamer and has assisted in the development numerous simulations relating to World War II and the American Civil War.
Current as of: November 2011

 
 

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