Robert A. Butler

President of SEI Systems Exchange Inc., CA/USA and head of the TFD Group.

Mr. Bob Butler is the initiator of TFD Tools for Decision Software and the worldwide recognized authority in the field of Logistic Support, especially Life Cycle Cost and Level of Repair Analysis.

He is the driving force in the development of logistics software

Mr. Butler received his BS, MS and CPhil degrees in Economics from UCLA. He began his career at the RAND Corporation in 1965, where he worked in both the economics and logistics departments. In 1970 he began work at Technology Service Corporation, where he became Manager of the Systems Planning and Economics Division. He established Systems Exchange in 1976 as a defense consulting firm. Butler designed and wrote EDCAS and SDU, collaborated with Dr. Craig Sherbrooke on VMetric, designed and built the TFD Database and the first version of MAAP and has served as chief architect for the Tools for Decision software suite while leading the company to become a global enterprise of six companies with 120 people providing consulting and technical support services for over 5,000 software users at 600 licensed sites. Mr. Butler has published widely and has lecture associations with a number of Universities.

• EDCAS Equipment Designers Cost Analysis System
  
• MAAP Monterey Activity Based Analysis Platform

and he has promoted the VMetric spares algorithm of Prof. Craig Sherbrooke as international standard software in the logistics market.