Paul Bosco started serving as the Director of the Office of Engineering and Construction Management (OECM) on November 13, 2006.  The Office of Engineering and Construction Management is the Department of Energy's central management organization providing leadership in such mission critical areas as project and real property management. OECM also provides direction and policy guidance in support of efforts to reform the Department's management through implementation of the President's Management Agenda. In addition, OECM validates the performance baselines, to include cost and schedule, of all of the Department’s largest construction projects prior to Budget Request to Congress; projects totaling approximately $60 billion.

Previously, Mr. Bosco served in the United States Navy nearly 28 years, as a member of the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps (CEC) and Seabee Community.  In that capacity, he held a dozen different assignments in a dozen different locations, predominately involved in real property and project management, executing construction programs and projects worldwide.  His last assignment was as the Deputy Commander of Operations at the Headquarters of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) in Washington D.C.  He also served as the Strategic Business Officer.  He retired as a United States Navy Captain, Civil Engineer Corps, on November 1, 2006. 

 Prior to his assignment at NAVFAC, Captain Bosco served as the Commanding Officer of the Engineering Field Activity, Mediterranean in Naples, Italy.  In that capacity he was the senior acquisition executive responsible for design and construction of projects, valued over $600 million, at 14 different Department of Defense installations throughout Europe and the Middle East, to include bases in Italy, Spain, England, Portugal, Greece and Bahrain.  Prior to that, he was the Facilities Director and Officer in Charge of Construction at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland where he completed the $250 million renovation of Bancroft Hall, the largest single ‘dormitory’ in the world. 

Other highlights of his career included:  Commanding Officer of a 600 person Naval Mobile Construction (Seabee) Battalion home-ported in Gulfport, Mississippi; deployed 50% of the time to Guam; Rota, Spain; and, Bosnia executing construction in support of military missions; Program Officer assigned to the Southern Division of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Charleston, South Carolina overseeing construction programs across the southeast region of the United States, to include the $140 million program to relocate the Navy’s Nuclear Power Training Command from Orlando, Florida to Charleston; and, served as the Facilities Director and Officer in Charge of Construction at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and as the Facilities Director at the Ship Repair Facility (Shipyard) at Subic Bay, Philippines. 

Mr. Bosco graduated from The Citadel in 1979 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.  He obtained his masters degree in Financial Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1992.  He also completed the Duke University Fuqua School of Business Executive Education program in 2001.  He is a registered professional (civil) engineer (PE) from the state of Minnesota and is a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society.  While in the Navy, he was selected as a member of the acquisition professional community, he held an unlimited contracting warrant for design and construction contracting and he also held a Level III real estate warrant.