John C. Person

Mr. Person is a Partner with, Person & Craver LLP, a firm offering particular expertise in the litigation and resolution of disputes in connection with Federal and State government contracts, domestic and international construction contracts, environmental remediation contracts, bid protests and general litigation.

Mr. Person is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Court of Federal Claims. Mr. Person is a Registered Professional Engineer (Michigan, Virginia), and is a member of the National Panel of Construction Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He also is a member of the American Bar Association, including its Section of Public Contract Law and the Forum Committee on the Construction Industry. Mr. Person holds a top secret security clearance.

Mr. Person has lectured and presented many papers in a number of professional forums in his areas of expertise, and has written widely on construction law, regulation of power generation and hazardous waste cleanup contracting topics. With respect to Government contract and cost issues, Mr. Person regularly teaches a course (twice yearly) on pricing of claims that is taught mainly from a Government contracting perspective (Federal Publication Seminars, Inc.). Mr. Person has also taught courses that focused on Government contract compliance and multiple award task order contracting issues. Most recently, Mr. Person has led seminars before Government contracts professionals on "Incentives for Performance-Based Contracts;" "The Masters Institute in Government Contracts;" and "Cost and Price Analysis." In the fall of 2001, he authored the Government contract Briefing Paper entitled "Deductive Changes," published by the West Group.

John C. Person graduated from the University of Michigan in 1974, with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. He received his master's degree in Civil Engineering in 1980, and his law degree in 1983, from the University of Michigan.


Darrell J. Oyer

Darrell J. Oyer is the Principal of Darrell J. Oyer & Company, a CPA firm with offices located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, specializes in accounting services for commercial clients with federal government contracts and government agencies in the administration of federal contracts.

Prior to starting his firm, Mr. Oyer was a partner with Deloitte & Touche where he had approximately nine years of experience with Deloitte & Touche, Touche Ross and Peat Marwick. Before that Mr. Oyer served nearly 20 years in the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) in various capacities. As a field staff auditor, he was involved in the large contractors' price proposals and review of direct and indirect incurred costs. As a DCAA Headquarters program manager he specialized in quantitative auditing techniques, statistical sampling, computer auditing techniques, judicial and quasi-judicial cost accounting decisions and Cost Accounting Standards. Mr. Oyer was also Assistant Regional Director in the Atlanta Region, DCAA with responsibility for ten audit offices. Mr. Oyer served as Assistant Director, DCAA in all three functional areas: Operations and Professional Development, Resources, and Policy and Plans. He has represented the U.S. Government in dealings with foreign Governments in the audit of multinational procurements.
 
Mr. Oyer received the Bachelor of Science degree in accountancy from the University of Illinois and a Master of Business Administration degree from American University.

Mr. Oyer is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Virginia and is a member and Fellow of the National Contract Management Association (NCMA), a member of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), and a former member of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). He is past Chairman of the NDIA Procurement Division, is past chairman of the NDIA Contract Finance Committee, is past chairman of the NDIA Smaller Companies Subcommittee, has twice served as president of the Northern Virginia IMA chapter and is a former member of the National Research Committee of IMA and the IMA Management Accounting Practices Committee, and formerly the chairman of the Cost Accounting Standards Subcommittee of IMA.