Bryan J. Hook Email & Phone Number

Bloomington, Indiana Area

Proposal section writer, manager, coordinator, and more for oil/gas, heavy industrial, and federal construction proposals.

North Vernon, Indiana

Manufacturing automation documentation writer and project scheduler for commercial and industrial clients. Business development lead for federal contracting and subcontracting opportunities. Use client specifications, if any, to create machine user manuals to include mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic drawings, safety and maintenance instructions, parts lists/bill of materials, and operating and troubleshooting instructions. Ensure user manual materials are stocked adequately and files are available electronically. Communication with Shop Manager and Project Engineers is vital. Use the knowledge gained from ten years of experience in federal contracting to seek opportunities to pursue as a company. This includes registering to do business in new states/municipalities and registering in various federal databases to be considered as an up-to-date, responsible bidder. Seeking out these opportunities includes registering on client websites to receive bid opportunity data, usually with a username and password. Continual education on how best to work with new clients is also part of the position, which includes going to professional development events and attending informational webinars when offered. Routine communication with the company owner and stakeholders is mandatory.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

The Proposal Manager leads their assigned proposal team, to include Proposal Writers/Specialists- Leads assigned technical staff according to company policies and BD department procedures.- Manages all phases of the proposal development process, starting with proposal assignment to contract award.- Exercises judgment regarding proposal development, handling of classified or confidential information, and working with team members outside of BD.- Analyzes and interprets RFPs and provides guidance to proposal team members, including technical, capture, cost, subject matter experts, and subcontractors.- Determines the appearance, format, style, and standards of the proposal and manages production of proposal binders.- Develops and manages proposal outlines through coordination with the Capture Manager and Cost Estimator or Cost Team Manager, and proposal milestones/deadlines regarding writing, editing, cost, review, production/ and submission via the proposal schedule/ proposal worksheets, templates, and boilerplate during the proposal planning phase for writers, editors, and SMEs.- Coordinates with BD and other corporate staff to identify SMEs.- Assigns writing and editing tasks to appropriate staff and communicates proposal development strategies, plans, and expectations to all proposal team members.- Tracks all proposal team writing, editing, cost development, and graphics development.- Leads regular strategy and status meetings to develop concepts for proposal content and track action items.- Performs comparison analysis between RFP/Amendments and detailed, comprehensive compliance analysis between RFP requirements and proposal deliverables.- Writes technical narrative based on interviews with SMEs, project administrators, and previously created documents.- Performs appropriate post-proposal submission duties to close-out the proposal, including archiving of boilerplate and past performance information.- Travels to off-site locations

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Support Proposal Managers in planning and developing large strategic proposals, and independently coordinate, contribute to, and manage development and preparation of small- to medium-sized proposals, when assigned. When supporting Proposal Managers:- Develop proposal outlines and templates needed to facilitate the proposal development process.- Perform comparison analysis between RFP and Amendments.- Write technical narrative based on interviews with SMEs, project administrators, and boilerplate narrative.- Perform detailed, comprehensive compliance analysis between RFP requirements and proposal narrative.- Perform technical analysis of proposal narrative for company and proposal strategy.- Format documents in MS Word, Excel, PPt, and Publisher, and Adobe InDesign and Acrobat- Proofread for grammar, spelling, factual accuracy, and clarity.- Act as Proposal Manager in manager’s absence.- Facilitate proposal production and delivery;When acting as Lead on small/medium-sized proposals:- Manage all phases of the proposal development starting with proposal assignment to contract award.- Exercise appropriate judgment and decision-making regarding proposal development, handling of classified or confidential information, and working with team members outside of BD.- Analyze and interpret RFPs and provide guidance to proposal team, including cost, SMEs, and subcontractors.- Determine the appearance, format, style, and standards of the proposal.- Develop and manage proposal outline and schedule throughout the entire proposal development process based on coordination with the Capture Manager and cost team members.- Perform appropriate post-proposal submission duties to close-out the proposal, including archiving of boilerplate and past performance information.- Facilitate communication between team members via online meeting tools such as Skype and Outlook and interact with client POCs via email/telephone/video conferencing.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Tasked with writing portions of proposals for DoD IT staffing and construction solicitation responses. Responsible for developing a range of proposal content that meets proposal compliance and quality standards. Developed proposal content in coordination with the Proposal Manager and the proposal team.- Review and interpret Requests for Proposal (RFP) requirements to develop comprehensive, compliant proposal outlines and writing templates.- Track RFP and amendment releases, and route all RFP documents to appropriate filing locations and proposal team members.- Perform a comparison analysis between RFP and amendments and updates proposal documentation with revised requirements and strategy as necessary.- Develop templates and other proposal management documentation as appropriate to complete assigned tasks.- Write and edit original text, tailor boilerplate, and rewrite third-party contributions to fulfill RFP requirements, with attention to crafting narrative that is compliant with requirements, inclusive of strategy, compelling to the reader, and meets Chugach standards.- Perform detailed compliance analysis between RFP requirements and proposal narratives written by other authors and provide feedback to ensure a compliant final product.- Copy edit for grammar, spelling, factual accuracy, clarity, and Chugach standards;- Format documents in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher, and Adobe InDesign and Acrobat according to RFP requirements and Chugach standards and provide Proposal Manager with print-ready final documents.- Direct the production and packaging of proposal documents for formal reviews, when assigned.- Assist the Proposal Manager in developing the review team evaluation package and in analyzing suggested review changes and leads all review team changes in assigned proposal sections.- Act as a Volume Lead and as Proposal Manager in manager’s absence.

Odon, Indiana

Manager of single and multiple award task order contract proposal efforts ranging from $5M to $500M ceiling. Involved in capture plans, business development, Teaming Agreement arrangements, and Joint Venture possibilities. Composed project descriptions, management plans, resumes, and other material in order to demonstrate best value/lowest risk. Team leader in design/build and/or environmental proposal efforts for 99% Department of Defense clients. Work in InDesign and Illustrator, along with MS Word.Led and supported numerous proposals over 5.5 years with TolTest. Attended site visits in Indiana and Illinois, and visited and worked in partners’ offices. Took over as Proposal Dept Lead for six to ten months in 2009 due to employee turnover. First day at TolTest lasted 30 hours in preparing an ID/IQ MATOC proposal for the Directorate of Contracting at Ft. Campbell, KY. Since then, continued to propose for and win work throughout a hard economic downturn and a corporate shareholding exchange in 2010 when TolTest became a subsidiary to Lakeshore TolTest Corporation (LTC).Released from this position due to corporate bankruptcy process in October 2013, with the entire company falling into bankruptcy in May 2014. Worked from home in this position for two and a half years (the satellite office closed in 2012), and corporate offices in in Odon, Indianapolis, or Maumee, OH. Work included finding opportunities to pursue, getting them vetted, and leading the approved proposal effort from making team assignments and drafting/review cycles to producing the physical hard copies and delivering. Once in the hands of the client, was in charge of correspondence with the client via BAFOs or letters of debrief or requests for clarifications in conjunction with the company signatory.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

I worked Pre-load hours (2am - 9am) splitting parcels on the larger belt at the Bloomington facility during Holiday peak (mid-November to late December). Assisted truck loaders with their assignments, kept the belt uptime maximized, ran back parcels which were missed by the loaders in order to minimize mis-loads, and was trained in safety and awareness at the hub. Perfect attendance through peak while working my day job.During peak 2013 (mid-November to MLK day 2014), I loaded the trucks instead of splitting the belt. I took items off the belt and put them into the truck in sequential order for the driver to deliver later in the day. I also delivered with the driver in the afternoon due to high volume. This involved using the DIAD to complete deliveries in the UPS delivery software system. Average stops per hour during non-peak is 12 to 15 - I averaged over 18 stops an hour during peak, sometimes getting 100 or more stops completed in under 5 hours.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

I was in charge of assisting the Center Lead – Katy Börner – with her day to day assignments, arranging meetings, setting up room space, assisting with copyright permissions, references, and other aspects of her in-progress book (which has since been published, Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know), updating blogs/wikis/websites, writing software how-to instructions for our in-house software development (Network Workbench), and managing the traveling Science Map Exhibit which consisted of 30 large posters and various tv screens/computer systems. I also performed work for another professor at IU in 2008 as editor/proofreader for an IU Informatics professor Alessandro Vespignani’s book, Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks. I proofread the entire manuscript and helped with language interpretations, as Alex’s native language was not English. I am a co-author of the Conference Proceeding, Teaching Children the Structure of Science, with Katy Börner, Fileve Palmer, Julie M. Davis, Elisha F. Hardy, and Stephen M. Uzzo, Visualization and Data Analysis, VDA 2009, San Jose, CA, USA, 19 January 2009.

Serving customers and tracking inventory for the Foundation.

Data entry into ProfitMaker program which records customer, order, and sales information. Proofed product catalogs, shipped products, many MS Excel projects completed as well.

B. A., English

Activities and Societies: Physics Club, Intramural SoftballAttended Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science's.

Continuing Studies, Technical Writing

Received an A in the offered Technical Writing course.