Independent consultant specializing in strategic proposal reviews, writing, editing, training, and management to successfully secure external funding. Responsible for comprehensive proposal development including win strategies, proposal management plans, research, and writing. Provide actionable advice to clients to improve proposals and maximize scoring potential.

Provide expertise in the development of large, complex proposals with extensive requirements, tight deadlines, and highly technical material. Deliver in-depth editing and strategic reviews to improve proposal organization, content, and messaging. Serve on review committee for a large state-run economic development program that provides funding for start-up companies.

Responsible for direct client management of Fortune 1000 accounts in Open Innovation, Technology Scouting, External Funding, Technology Roadmapping, and Growth Opportunity Assessments. Accountable for directing all client-related activities, including developing solutions and implementation plans for all accounts. Consistently maintain excellent client relationships while delivering products in a wide variety of industries in highly technical areas. Maintain a deep understanding of the product development process and how to best leverage external technologies, collaborators, and funding to achieve more efficient results. Responsible for creating scopes of work, project plans, resourcing plans, and deliverables that are customized to individual client needs. Key Accomplishments• Fortune 500 Consumer Goods company – Developed, piloted, and implemented small business partner strategy to identify and secure relationships with partners in areas of interest. Identified over 25 new potential partners and developed framework for engagement. Secured 5 new relationships to date after 6 months of implementation. • Privately-owned Chemical company – Developed technology roadmap and megatrend analysis to identify growth opportunities for a company that was faced with increasing regulatory pressure on existing products. Company enthusiastically accepted recommendations and is moving forward with evaluating each opportunity.• Fortune 500 Medical Device company – Provided key insight to help secure funding for the development of a medical device for pandemic flu events. Specific guidance was provided on how to transform a previously unsuccessful application into one that would be attractive to the agency. Guidance was provided on how to market the project to the agency, how to align with agency strategic missions, and how to develop a compelling proposal application. Client secured $11.4MM award from BARDA.

Responsible for overall operations management of proposal development and contract management product lines to clients. Managed over $1MM in revenue annually. Developed and formalized product lines through establishing standard processes, manuals, and templates. Recruited and managed all resources responsible for delivering on products. Responsible for maintaining and improving gross profit targets. Designed and implemented new product lines to complement existing services and provide value-add to clients. Key Accomplishments• Oversaw proposals totaling over $180MM in federal and state awards for healthcare, renewable energy, sustainability, and capital improvement projects.• Developed, implemented, and refined processes for executing on all aspects of product lines – including resource management, project management, budgeting, SOW development, and client engagement. • Increased gross profit on product lines by 7% over 1 year period. • Maintained extremely high Quality Assurance scores from clients for proposal product lines. Consistently ranked “Outstanding” or “Above Average” for strategy development, proposal development process, execution, communication, and skills.

Developed applications for R&D grants and contracts to agencies such as DOE, HHS, CMS, DOD and USDA. Responsible for establishing competitive propositions, designing and executing on a proposal management plan, and ensuring that technical information is written in a compelling and easy-to-understand manner. Key Accomplishments• Secured over $20MM in federal and state funding for healthcare, renewable energy, sustainability and capital improvement projects.• Successfully secured funding for single source and highly competitive programs including awards from ACA, NCI, BARDA, DOE, USDA, and Ohio Third Frontier.

Deliver proposal management, strategic reviews, and editing for University clients.

Environmental consultant responsible for providing guidance to clients on natural resource investigations, including Environmental Site Assessments, wetland delineations, and RCRA and CERCLA compliance.

Environmental consultant tasked with preparing NEPA reports. Performed wetland delineations, Phase I Environmental Site Assessments and compliance work for RCRA and CERCLA.