EDUCATION

Walden University, Master of Information Systems Management

University of South Carolina, Bachelor of Arts, Journalism

 

EXPERIENCE

Pivotal Point, LLC, Falls Church, VA

Proposal Manager/Technical Writer                                                                                                                  August 2014 – June 2016

·               Providing proposal development support to win contracts and to help the company meet its growth goals and supported a prime contractor in support of administration of government-used mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

·               Researches government databases for possible contracting opportunities. Reviews and responds to Requests for Proposals (RFP), Requests for Quotes (RFQ), and Requests for Information (RFI).

·               Writes and edits technical, management, and past performance content for RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs. Also participated in proposal color reviews.

·               Performs desktop publishing/formatting of proposal documents.

·               Provided support to the Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Mobile Devices Management-Mobile Application Store.

·               Wrote, formatted and edited program technical documentation for system administrators and end users of the Defense Department’s smartphones and tablets, which used Android, iOS and Windows Phone platforms.

·               Used Adobe Captivate to produce virtual training modules on mobile device usage by administrators and end users in DISA's Learning Management System.

 

Federal Leadership Institute, Vienna, VA

Proposal Coordinator                                                                                                                                              March 2014 – July 2014

·               Proposal Coordinator for company providing enhanced organizational effectiveness, program management, and community transformation.

·               Wrote and managed proposal responses to solicitations primarily for high-level training and coaching services.

 

SCI Consulting, McLean, VA

Business Intelligence Analyst                                                                                                                              June 2013 - January 2014

Coordinated proposals prior to transitioning to a business development role.

·               Used online and other tools to research future business/contract opportunities for IT consulting firm with clients in the Department of Energy and Department of Homeland Security spaces.

·               Gathered data on companies who are potential competitors or potential teaming partners.

·               Provided editing, writing and desktop publishing support. 

·               Analyzed requests for proposals and quotes, creating compliance matrices, preparing for and participating in color team reviews.

·               Led teams that include teaming partners on various proposal efforts.

·               Responded to data calls.

 

CO-Author, Living With Sickle Cell Disease: The Struggle to Survive, Alexandria, VA

Release Date: May 2012

Co-wrote book about the life of Judy Gray Johnson of Alexandria, Virginia and how she coped with having sickle cell disease, a hereditary and debilitating blood-borne illness.

·               Ms. Johnson learned at 16 that she had the disease while growing up poor in rural southwestern Virginia.

·               The former educator’s self-published memoir is generating a growing and loyal following.

 

 

CNSI, Gaithersburg, MD

Legal Writer/Program Analyst                                                                                                                          August 2010 - March 2013

Provided assistance and support to a Special Assistant to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Associate Director for Demographic Programs in developing, implementing and managing training programs for survey statisticians and others in the Demographic Directorate. Assisted and supported development of courses.

·               Gathered metrics and produced reports on course attendance and evaluations. Developed and maintaining course attendance and participant evaluation databases.

·               Provided reports for, and interfaced with, senior managers.

·               Supported course development by editing course material, providing feedback on such material and by performing research on course offerings by outside vendors. Implemented free-of-charge series of courses on the lifecycle of a typical survey.

·               Worked with the Bureau’s Human Resources Department to schedule training rooms, listed the courses in the Bureau’s course catalog, and in securing commitments from experienced Census personnel to teach the courses that fit their areas of expertise.

·               Ensured that on training days, the rooms were available and properly equipped with computers, projectors, and other audio visual equipment such as DVD players and television monitors.

·               Prepared folders of the appropriate handouts to help attendees follow along with the presenters.

·               Maintained metrics such as course attendance and feedback from the attendees on how well the presenters performed in terms of their knowledge of the course material and how well they presented the material.

·               Attendees also graded the overall course experience. From these metrics, produces reports for Directorate management.

·               Looked for trends in the evaluation responses that warranted changes in the course material or how it was delivered.

·               Created an MS Access database into which to enter evaluation feedback data.

 

Served as legal writer and program analyst on CNSI's contract with the U.S. Census Bureau.

 

·               For the Census Bureau’s Office of Analysis and Executive Support, coordinated and supported the acquisition by Census of administrative record data files from other federal agencies such as the Department of Defense, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, United States Postal Service, and Social Security Administration.

·               Obtained unemployment data from state agencies.

·               Wrote and reviewed concurrence letters, inter-agency agreements and memoranda of understanding governing how Census used and secured other agencies’ data.

·               Developed cost estimates for administrative records file acquisition

 

CNSI, Gaithersburg, MD

Proposal Coordinator                                                                                                                                              July 2008 - August 2010

Served as proposal coordinator for privately-owned consulting company with revenues of more than $100 million delivering a broad portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing solutions to a diverse base of federal, state and local government agencies and commercial enterprises.

·               From August 2009 to June 2010, managed the entire proposal development lifecycle and the operation of state and county task orders responses that would have generated more than $13.3 million had they all yielded contracts.

·               Created compliant responses to state and federal RFPs.

·               Analyzed RFPs and other solicitation documents.

·               Prepared for and moderated proposal kickoff and milestone review meetings. Gathered relevant past performance information.

·               Edited and formatted documents including personnel resumes’.

·               Identified proposal production resource requirements.

·               Managed proposal document production (printing, binding, CD-ROM creation, and shipping).

 

Maximus, Reston, VA

Proposal Specialist                                                                                                                                           November 2007 - June 2008

Contract Proposal Specialist for MAXIMUS, Inc., a publicly-traded $626 million Reston, Virginia-based firm providing consulting and program operations services to federal, state, municipal and judicial clients.

·               Supported proposals for enforcement of child support orders, management of state-administered children’s health insurance programs (CHIPs) and the supervision of governments’ workforce development initiatives. 

·               Analyzed clients’ Requests for Proposals (RFPs).

·               Drafted Proposal Management Plans (Outlines) based on RFP requirements, evaluation criteria and win themes.

·               Prepared for and participated in kickoff meetings and color team reviews.

·               Created compliance matrices to assist reviewers in locating proposal responses and matching them with the corresponding RFP requirements.

·               Formatted and edited personnel resumes’.

·               Wrote proposal sections as necessary.

 

Shaw Environmental, Trenton, NJ

Proposal Specialist                                                                                                                                              August 2000 - March 2007

Proposal Specialist for environmental division of The Shaw Group Inc., a publicly-traded $5.7 billion firm.

·               Helped the division win millions of dollars’ worth of contracts in the state, municipal and private sectors. Such contracts involve design, construction and operation of projects to remove contaminants from soil, air and water.

·               Coordinated proposal process from kickoff meeting to client delivery.

·               Edited proposals, qualification documents and marketing materials to support business development and project managers.

·               Coordinated proposal to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection that secured the firm a $14 million contract to remove contaminated soil.

·               Performed research of several proposals to the Miami-Dade (Florida) Department of Environmental Resources Management, leading to wins of several multi-million-dollar canal dredging contracts.

·               Edited and assembled proposal to the Long Island Rail Road in New York that won an on-call construction management contract.

·               Completed proposals using both the SF254/255 and its successor, the SF330, for various projects including submissions to various New York City agencies for various engineering and environmental projects.

·               Collected and developed re-useable material for individual authors.

·               Edited project reports, proposals, qualification documents, presentations, correspondence, and other marketing materials for both technical and non-technical audiences, researched databases for past experience and proposals for use in developing new work.

·               Used soft skills to convince busy project managers and technical services personnel – for whom business development was not an immediate priority – to carve out time to provide information such as project descriptions and resume’ updates.

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