Experience

The Ravens Group, Inc.

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder/President/CEO

  • Aug 2003 - Present

  LTG Ballard is the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Ravens Group, Inc., an exceptionally successful business services corporation with an impressive array of both Federal Government and private sector clients. The Ravens Group is a private, mature, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) with its corporate headquarters located in Lanham, Maryland. Through his long-term vision and commitment to quality, LTG Ballard continues to lead The Ravens Group to experience consistent growth by providing its nationwide clients support in: program integration and project management; financial resource management; healthcare and hospitality services; administrative and professional staffing support; human resources and training support; and logistics and facilities management.



US Army Corps of Engineers

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• 49th Chief of Engineers

  • Sep 1996 - Oct 2000

  LTG Ballard’s last military assignment was as the 49th Chief of Engineers and Commander, United States Army Corps of Engineers. He was appointed to this prestigious position in 1996 by William Clinton, the President of the United States. In that capacity, LTG Ballard managed all missions for the Corps of Engineers including the nation’s vast civil works program, environmental restoration and construction on military installations with a budget totaling more than $16 Billion. His strong leadership guided the Corps in assisting recovery from natural disasters, regulating work in the nation’s waterways and wetlands, conducting research and development, serving as the Army and Air Force real estate agent, and providing engineering services to 60 other federal agencies and more than 80 other nations



US Army Training And Doctrine Command (TRADOC)

• Fort Monroe, VA

• Chief of Staff (COO)

  • Jul 1995 - Aug 1996

  Prior to his appointment as Chief of Engineers, LTG Ballard was the Chief of Staff for the United States Army Training and Doctrine and as such was responsible for headquarters and installation operations, training and budget management for over twenty major training and operational bases throughout the United States. Immediately before being selected as Chief of Staff, he served as the Commander of the United States Army Engineer Center in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. In that role, he was the Army’s engineer proponent for combat and combat support systems, training and doctrinal matters