Publicity Chairperson

Ray Lewis is currently a Contracting Officer with the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS). Ray is a Team Lead at FAS working with four Contract Specialists and multiple Project Managers. The customers his team currently services are Hill Air Force Base, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Air Force Academy, National Weather Service, U.S. Border Patrol, Department of Defense NORAD, Department of Defense Joint Base Navy, Department of Defense Point Mugu Naval Station, Defense Finance and Accounting Services, Veterans Administration, Center for Disease Control and various other military installations.

Ray has completed all the required college business hours and the CON 353 class. As a result, Ray now possesses a Level IV unlimited Contracting Officer’s Warrant at GSA.

Ray has over 23 years of experience in the contracting environment. Prior to GSA FAS, Ray worked for four years at Western Area Power Administration and 18 years at the Bureau of Reclamation. Ray started at Reclamation as a Contract Specialist in an upward mobility position, ultimately receiving his Journeyman level specialist position and an unlimited Contracting Officer’s Warrant. While at Reclamation, Ray also held the position of the Small Business Development Specialist and worked with the Small Business Administration and numerous small businesses to assist them with government requirements.

Ray is a Denver native and graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education in 1979 and a Master of Arts in Music Education in 1981 from the University of Denver. Ray enjoys playing his Steinway baby grand piano, playing piano for Inspire Creative (a local community theater group), Hawaii, traveling and stained glass.

As Publicity Chair, Ray is responsible for the arrangement of a historical log of events by arranging and preserving photographs for each NCMA function, submitting photographs to the National chapter for possible publication of Chapter member’s articles in the NCMA contract management magazine, sending letters and/or articles to local television stations, newspapers, universities and affiliated businesses regarding upcoming Denver Chapter events, and distributing educational NCMA fliers at outside association meetings.