DAVID (DAVE) SPIERS
Managing Director, Security and Intelligent Documents
David (Dave) Spiers leads Security & Intelligent Documents (SID), the GPO business unit that designs, prints, personalizes and delivers Secure Federal Credentials for many Government Agencies, which includes the U.S. passport for the State Department. Other credentials designed and produced in Spiers’s operation include the Trusted Traveler Cards for Customs and Border Protection, the Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC) for Transportation Security Administration, the Border Crossing Card (BCC) for the State Department’s Consular Affairs, and other secure credentials for the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, and for various Federal law enforcement agencies.
Biography
Spiers joined GPO in 2008 as the first manager of GPO’s Secure Production Facility located at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. This was the first time a U.S. passport had been made outside GPO’s Secure Production Facility in Washington, DC. Just a few years after opening Stennis, Spiers led the beginning of GPO smart card production at the facility and increased Stennis’s scope of work for passports. As Site Manager at Stennis, Spiers created the first employee-led safety committee in GPO history and implemented the SID Key Performance Indicator (KPI) process to measure performance at the facility. In its second year of operation, the Stennis Secure Production Facility was awarded ISO-9001 Certification, which certifies GPO’s passport operations for meeting a high standard of excellence. Spiers was integral in GPO’s transition from the production of the ePassport to the production of the Next Generation Passport in 2015. Prior to being named Managing Director SID, Spiers served as Operations Manager SID.
He spent 14 years leading operations at manufacturing plants before entering the public sector.
Spiers holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering Technology/Industrial Management from the University of Southern Mississippi and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park Campus. He is a native of McNeill, Mississippi.