Member Spotlight: Bill D’Camp

Mark Crawford, CUNA Councils
March 21, 2006

Bill D’Camp has been the IT manager for Honda Federal Credit Union in Torrance, California, for the last six years. He previously spent more than 20 years working on defense-oriented projects and as an IT consultant to a variety of businesses.

Bill started his career as a software developer working mostly in assembly language and working on both applications and system programming, including device drivers for RSX-11, IAS, VMS, and various flavors of UNIX. While working as a consultant in Japan, he was part of a team that established the first disaster-recovery site for a foreign financial services company in Japan. He has spent 18 years in Asia and lived in Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Guam. He also speaks Japanese and Chinese Mandarin.

Biggest challenge for 2006  

Completing our business continuity plan.

Best piece of HFCU advice  

Take responsibility for your actions.

Greatest benefit from being a member of CTC?  

The networking has enabled me to get some terrific assistance from other council members.

Best part of my job  

Working with a terrific group of people.

Hardest part of my job  

Keeping up with all of the new projects we take on.

Best HFCU success story  

Implementing ACH payroll origination for Honda Sponsor companies.

Hobbies/interests  

Long distance power walking (marathon/half-marathon distances).

People would be surprised to learn that I . . .

Once worked as a standup comic!

Most recent book

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni.

Life goal not yet accomplished

Visiting Europe—no particular place, just looking for a change from Asia

Something that makes me laugh

How others react when they find out I’ve competed in a number of marathons and half-marathons!

If you had an extra hour . . .

I’d spend more time at the gym.