William Hastings, Senior Consultant

With over thirty years of contingency planning and disaster recovery experience for Raytheon and the United States Navy, William “Bill” Hastings brings to Elliot Consulting a wealth of knowledge including severe weather planning, risk analysis, incident response planning, operational logistics, vital records identification and protection, and human resources management.

Mr. Hastings retired from prominent defense contracting company, Raytheon (and legacy E-Systems), where he was the Manager of Administrative Services for the company’s St. Petersburg and Largo, Florida facilities.

Raytheon is an industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business aviation and special mission aircraft. While at Raytheon, Mr. Hastings was responsible for converting Raytheon / E-Systems disaster recovery plan into their first Business Continuity Plan in 1991. Since its inception, Mr. Hastings served on Raytheon’s corporate business continuity planning team.

Prior to his 20-year career at Raytheon, Bill Hastings served in the U.S. Navy. His naval career included assignments ranging from ships at sea to the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Tours of duty at the United States European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and the United States Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, highlighted his distinguished 20-year naval career.

Bill Hastings is a past President of the Greater Tampa Bay Chapter of the Association of Contingency Planners, and under his leadership the membership of the Chapter shared learning experiences from a wide variety of business interruption scenarios plus continual education on the many facets of business continuity planning.