Bruce F. Webster has become an internationally recognized authority on the Year 2000 crisis. He has testified about Y2K issues three separate times before Congress and has provided analysis and documents on the Y2K issue to Senate and House committees. He has given a private presentation on Y2K contingency planning to US intelligence agencies; he was the keynote speaker for a private Y2K conference held at the World Bank; and he has given private presentations before Congressional staff members. He has given private Y2K briefings to representatives of other nations at the invitation of the US government and has been an invited speaker at international Y2K conferences in Russia and the Middle East.

Webster has given a variety of public presentations and professional workshops on Year 2000 issues at various national and international conferences, including: the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Millennium Solutions Conference; the Center for Strategic and International StudiesYear 2000 Summit; the National Association of Securities Dealers Conference; the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Annual Management Conference; and the MBA National Technology in Mortgage Banking Conference.

Webster has been an invited guest on "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS), "Upfront Tonight with Geraldo Rivera" (CNBC), "The Edge with Paula Zahn" (FOX News), "Newsbreak", "Morning Blend", and "@ Issue" (MS-NBC), and "The 700 Club" (CBN); interviewed for a two-part Y2K special distributed to CBS affiliates ("Y2K: World in Crisis?") as well as for ABC, NBC and CBN News; televised on C-SPAN; written about in Newsweek; and cited in Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, National Journal, American Banker, and a wide range of radio, magazine, newspaper, and newswire stories.

Webster spent nearly three years involved in professional corporate Y2K work. He has directed the creation the Year 2000 contingency planning effort for a Fortune 50 corporation, with the goal of protecting nearly $1 trillion in assets and billions of dollars in daily transactions. He has reviewed corporate Y2K efforts, made recommendations, and then helped to implement them.

Webster is founder (under the direction of Fannie Mae) and Co-Chair of the Washington D.C. Year 2000 Group. The WDCY2K Group is the largest (over 2200 members) and most active Y2K organization in the world. It has been meeting monthly for nearly 2½ years, bringing together in each meeting two to three hundred leaders, manager, and technologists from industry, finance, government, and the military to discuss Y2K issues, share solutions, and coordinate efforts.

Webster is also author of The Y2K Survival Guide: Getting To, Getting Through, and Getting Past the Year 2000 Problem (Prentice Hall, 1999, ISBN 0-13-021496-5). It in, he discusses the myths and facts of Y2K, presents a wide range of possible outcomes, and applies the principles of Y2K contingency planning to personal and family life. His balanced, informed, and common sense approach has won praise from all corners of the Year 2000 community.

Webster has recently joined PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as a Director in their Y2K/Systems Failure Dispute Analysis Practice. In that role, Webster provides expert analysis for legal issues concerning information technology, including systems failure, project failure, intellectual property, and Y2K efforts. For several years prior to that, Webster’s focus was on software project assessment, risk management, and contingency planning, working with a variety of large corporate clients. In all, Webster has 25 years of software engineering experience on a wide range of systems and environments , ranging from mainframes to embedded systems, and has contributed to several commercial software products.

Webster graduated from Brigham Young University (BSCS, 1978), during which time he spent two years doing missionary work in Central America; he also did graduate studies in computer science at the University of Houston. He has authored over 150 articles and three other books. He and his wife Sandra live with three of their children in Washington D.C.

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