Senior Grant Consultant & Quality Assurance Manager
Current• Provide strategic consulting services to high-tech & deep-tech companies seeking to obtain non-dilutive funding in the form of U.S. Federal R&D grants and contracts ranging from $50k to multi-million USD.• My team successfully secured over $11 million USD in funding in FY22 from agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and NASA. • Drafted and submitted 100+ project proposals (Whitepapers/Concept Papers, RFPs, full applications for Phase I, Phase II, and Direct-to-Phase-II projects, etc.).• Guide clients in the federal funding process including opportunity discovery, proposal preparation & submission, contract negotiation, and reporting. • Explain clearly and concisely the benefits of client technologies, the problems that R&D efforts will solve, and the alignment of technology solutions with the priorities and objectives of partners in government and industry.• Develop R&D roadmaps, work plans, commercialization plans, budgets, and grant proposals for next generation technology advancements on behalf of clients in various stages of their company life cycle (Seed → Early Stage → Series A, B, C, D+).• Serve as EPF’s primary liaison to US federal agencies and their representatives.• Perform outreach and build relationships with government stakeholders, end-users, and relevant points-of-contact to better inform EPF consultants and clients about winning strategies for proposal writing.• Connect client businesses with US government counterparts to foster industry partnerships including research agreements, Memorandums of Understanding, Letters of Support, cost-sharing, etc.