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Currently Serving as Director of Estimating for Amentum with a primary focus on Business Development.-Participated in Pre-Solicitation Strategy Sessions with Senior Management and Teaming Partners to identify bid strategies, win themes, customer hot buttons, data gaps, competitive landscape and developed initial solutions for Solicitation before release.-Developed technical approaches and strategies as well as win themes to incorporate into both technical and pricing volumes for winning contracts.-Developed Estimating models and approaches for new business lines such as Visa processing for U.S. Department of State requests for proposals.-Performed post award contract analyses on projects to identify grounds for contract modifications as well as operations issues in order to increase revenue.-Developed large scale, international Nuclear Environmental Estimates such as the Ontario Power Generation Nuclear Reactor waste treatment and disposal project as well as the Fukushima U3FDR Project.-Provided technical direction and writing of the Oak Ridge Reservation Cleanup Contract Basis of Estimate, which was a $8.3 Billion dollar contract win.-Developed new potential revenue streams, which would enable contracts for life with strategic teaming partners.-Identified and presented pricing levers to utilize for increasing competitiveness on bids.-Developed interactive Power BI dashboards for estimate presentation and analysis.-Developed OCONUS Estimates and Basis of Estimates (BOE) for various Department of Defense and Department of State requests for proposals (RFPs).-Developed Price to Win estimates for potential business development targets.-Trained/Mentored Estimators for various types of business lines to include: Base Operations and Maintenance, Janitorial/Custodial and Nuclear/Environmental Remediation.-Lead and directed Request for Proposal teams for various bids, providing leadership and direction to ensure troubled projects were directed back on track.

Served as the Primary Estimator for various government contracts for agencies such as GSA, MEDCOM, US ARMY, FAA, Ability One, Veterans Affairs, US National Parks for BOS, Janitorial, Hospital Housekeeping, and Grounds contracts.-Worked in conjunction with various businesses to include 8a, Hubzone, Disabled Veterans, and large businesses to produce competitive bottoms up estimates for their businesses while functioning as a representative of the Portco Bid Shop.-Provided legal and procedural analysis for the basis of protests for bids when incorrect methodologies were applied.-Developed a Buildup model for Hospital Housekeeping for US Army MEDCOM, which allowed estimates to be developed in as little as 3 days as opposed as to a month to a month and a half that those estimates usually take.-Developed a Step Ladder pricing tool, to analyze MEDCOM step ladder pricing, which allowed for % adjustments to alter pricing for steps, in seconds instead of performing manual adjustments.-Participated in Pre-Solicitation Strategy Sessions with Senior Management and Teaming Partners to identify bid strategies, win themes, customer hot buttons, data gaps, competitive landscape and developed initial solutions for Solicitation before release.-Assisted in the decision making of the Capture Pipeline to include discussion of upcoming proposals, potential teaming partners, customer hot buttons, incumbent contractor SOW comparisons.-Helped develop proposal strategies and strategic partnerships with top management of teaming partners (Major Subcontracting arrangements and SBA All Small Mentor Protégé partnerships).-Provided critical analytics for proposal PWIN decisions-Reviewed and discussed potential opportunities and best teaming partners for proposals.-Helped identify and refine go-no-go opportunity selections.-Performed post award transition and operations planning.-Researched potential proposal opportunities to support capture planning.

Served as one of the primary estimator/cost volume leads for Chugach Government Solutions proposals to include Chugach Alaska Subsidiaries. Functions included development of labor staffing from a bottoms up perspective; pricing labor, equipment, ODCs; as well as development of cost volume narratives as required by the proposal for Base Operations and Maintenance Contracts.-Developed winning bottoms up cost estimates for Base Operations and Maintenance (BOS) contracts for various services to include HVAC, Electrical, Service Orders, Water Treatment services, Grounds, Janitorial, and more.-Worked with Technical Writers, Proposal Managers, Pricing Personnel, and Capture Managers to develop comprehensive and compliant proposals in a competitive manner.-Performed price analyses on equipment and vehicles to identify most cost effective methodologies for acquisition of vehicles.-Develop rate bids for IT and logistics contracts for entities such as SPAWAR and US Army Logistics.-Developed fleet pricing pipeline for vehicle and equipment savings.-Developed innovations and technical approaches for projects and received early buy in from stake holders such as Subsidiary Presidents and Operations Managers.-Developed sample DOE Pipeline for opportunities for expansion into the DOE market.-Gathered Business Intelligence on prospective contracts and performed extensive analysis on certain bids to ascertain incumbent performance.

Provided project risk management services for the Department of Energy Hanford Site Richland Operations Office (DOE-RL) and acts as the Business Development Manager for Synergistics, Inc.Risk Management Experience:Supported multiple DOE-RL Project Baseline Summaries as a Senior Risk Analyst. This function requires the analyst to support all project risk management functions. Also, provides training of risk management to Federal Employees and junior risk analysts. Each Project Baseline Summary supported possess a life cycle total project cost in excess of $3 Billion. Responsibilities include: Elicitation of risks, risk modeling, maintenance of project risk register, creation of Project Risk Management Plans, monitoring of risk mitigation/handling actions, review of contractor management reserve usage and risk analysis, risk modeling, qualitative risk assessment, risk monitoring and reporting, contingency budget formulation, and quantitative risk analysis (utilizing Monte Carlo simulations through Pertmaster software).Business Development:Served as the Business Development Manager for Synergstics, Inc., which is a minority-owned small business that is a SBA certified Small Disadvantaged Business 8(a) and a Washington and California certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE).Developed and/or refined the majority of marketing materials on behalf of the business. Led the development of multiple proposals to include Synergistics' successful Navy Seaport E proposal. Also responsible for Synergistics' largest contract, which exceeds $1 Million.

Served as a Non-Commissioned Officer in the United States Marine Corps. Responsibilities included the day to day supervision of 5-10 Marines while executing their responsibilities as Combat Photographers. Additionally, would occasionally supervise as many as 50 Marines while executing certain projects.As a Combat Photographer, was responsible for capturing of relevant events as deemed essential by various Marine Corps Commands. Created hundreds of photographic projects to provide documentation of events.