I am currently helping SoCha deliver the Zambia Z-MELP and Kenya MSP J2SR projects, and supporting select business development opportunities in Africa. I have worked with SoCha on select engagements since September 2017, including helping USAID/Kenya select communications firms and launch a COVID risk communications campaign that reached 20 million Kenyans.

• Offering management consulting, knowledge management, performance improvement, and business development services to clients working in international development• Have helped four clients—a UK-based NGO, a large US business, a small US business, and a small overseas firm—strategize for bids, develop proposals, and win $108 million in new business• Advised a Washington, DC-based small business on a successful procurement from capture through BAFO that resulted in a $30+ million… Show more • Offering management consulting, knowledge management, performance improvement, and business development services to clients working in international development• Have helped four clients—a UK-based NGO, a large US business, a small US business, and a small overseas firm—strategize for bids, develop proposals, and win $108 million in new business• Advised a Washington, DC-based small business on a successful procurement from capture through BAFO that resulted in a $30+ million, five-year contract• Helped an international small business with a bid that resulted in a successful IDIQ contract in Africa for M&E services• Advised the UK-based NGO on its cost and technical response on its way to winning its first USG grant• Assessed KM systems for IBTCI’s Ebola Pillar II MEL Activity and helped produce an Annual KM Report that took stock of wide-ranging implementing partner knowledge of the recovery• Helped facilitate an African Mission's first ever three-day co-creation that led to the issuance of a $10 M contractMy STTA country experience includes business development and technical work in Ethiopia, Guinea, Haiti, Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia. Show less

• Helped USAID's Bureau for Africa synthesize the lessons that the agency and its implementing partners learned from mitigating the second-order impacts of Ebola on the economies and health systems in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone• Planned and delivered USAID-hosted learning conferences in Freetown, Conakry, Monrovia, and Washington, DC that brought Ministries of Health, donors, implementing partners, NGOs, and civil society together to discuss how to sustain gains made during the Ebola… Show more • Helped USAID's Bureau for Africa synthesize the lessons that the agency and its implementing partners learned from mitigating the second-order impacts of Ebola on the economies and health systems in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone• Planned and delivered USAID-hosted learning conferences in Freetown, Conakry, Monrovia, and Washington, DC that brought Ministries of Health, donors, implementing partners, NGOs, and civil society together to discuss how to sustain gains made during the Ebola recovery • Captured experiences across West Africa that furthered sustainable, resilient development and contributed to the global health security agenda• Oversaw the production of new videos that address how USAID’s Ebola recovery funds helped West Africa strengthen its ability to detect and respond to pandemic threats, strengthen global health security, and advance along their "journeys to self-reliance"• Advised the Bureau for Africa as it developed an Ebola recovery knowledge repositoryEvents: "Building Back Better: Sierra Leone’s Path to Sustainable Development" conference in November 2017, "A Resilient Guinea: National Learning Forum for Sustainable Development" in May 2018, "Recovering from Crisis: Achievements and Lessons Learned" conference in Liberia in September 2018, and "Moving from Ebola Recovery to Self-Reliance: USAID's Impact in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone" in September 2019. Show less

• Helped QED achieve 13 percent annual growth from 2004 through 2016 and transform QED from a small, 8(a) business into a mid-sized government contractor by selling $60 million in new business and managing $45 million in projects • Managed QED’s Strategic Management Services practice from 2015-2017, a start-up unit designed to diversify the firm’s business by capitalizing on opportunities in performance improvement consulting and impact investing • Helped QED respond to USAID’s… Show more • Helped QED achieve 13 percent annual growth from 2004 through 2016 and transform QED from a small, 8(a) business into a mid-sized government contractor by selling $60 million in new business and managing $45 million in projects • Managed QED’s Strategic Management Services practice from 2015-2017, a start-up unit designed to diversify the firm’s business by capitalizing on opportunities in performance improvement consulting and impact investing • Helped QED respond to USAID’s innovative finance broad agency announcement, participate in the subsequent co-creation, and become part of DAI’s Invest consortium• Won and served as program director for the USAID/Uganda’s $15 million, five-year Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Program (“The Learning Contract”)• Oversaw QED’s KM practice for a decade, including the launch and peak success of Agrilinks and Microlinks—two KM platforms that reach a quarter of a million development practitioners annually• Doubled the value of the $17 million Knowledge-Driven Microenterprise Development (KDMD) program to a $34 million contract by attracting buy-ins from 12 USAID bureaus and offices • Served as the Senior KM Advisor on USAID’s Stamping Out Pandemic and Avian Influenza program, a $36 million project with training activities in 49 countries that taught 15,000 public and private vets about surveillance, preparedness, and outbreak response• Managed two knowledge management and communications task orders under USAID’s Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Program (AMAP) that culminated in Microlinks winning Federal Computer Week’s 2007 e-Government KM Award• Managed a suite of knowledge products and services, including communities of practice, project workspaces, digital learning networks, e-conferences, webcasts, and Web 2.0 applications Show less

Knowledge Management - Web-Based Collaboration Program • Worked on a four-year project to implement, deploy, and upgrade an extranet that allows 9,700 KPMG professionals in 60 countries to use the Web to collaborate with 1,800 clients on audit and tax projects• Matured the collaboration program from a small pilot with five internal websites in 2000 to a global initiative with more than 2,400 project sites in 2004• Helped plan, communicate, and deploy two $1 million upgrades that… Show more Knowledge Management - Web-Based Collaboration Program • Worked on a four-year project to implement, deploy, and upgrade an extranet that allows 9,700 KPMG professionals in 60 countries to use the Web to collaborate with 1,800 clients on audit and tax projects• Matured the collaboration program from a small pilot with five internal websites in 2000 to a global initiative with more than 2,400 project sites in 2004• Helped plan, communicate, and deploy two $1 million upgrades that improved the extranet’s software applications, architecture, and security• Helped evaluate and select the collaboration applications implemented in the extranet, including eRoom, Groove, Stellent, and SharePointFinancial Management System and Data Warehouse Implementation • Worked on a three-year, $30 million project to implement a financial management system, budgeting module, and data warehouse for the District of Columbia government that 60 agencies• Evaluated and re-engineered key financial processes (including accounts receivable, accounts payable, financial reporting, and year-end closing) that reduced data entry time by 25 percent • Helped the Chief Technology Office leverage new project accounting capabilities to enhance controls on a $100 million multi-year capital project and $80 million Federal grant• Developed a data warehouse training course attended by more than 300 CFOs and financial analysts Other Projects• Worked on three separate business process reengineering projects to redesign: software change control, telecommunications acquisitions, and procurement• Conducted a market assessment and competitive pricing study for an entrant to the web hosting business to assess the potential profitability of a $100 million joint venture• Conducted three GAO “yellow book” performance audits that identified millions of dollars in cost savings• Helped KPMG develop the budget and cost tracking system for a $100 million systems implementation Show less

Office of Performance Improvement

Budget Issues Group