Lori Ford began her career in the information technology field with Signet Bank. Ms. Ford was later recruited to serve on the leadership team at Electronic Data Systems Corporation, which consisted of 14 years within Government, Medicaid and Corporate Marketing and Communications. During her tenure with EDS, she held a number of positions within operations, management, project management, marketing, technology and business development. She founded Ford Resource Group, Inc. in April 2005 in Richmond, Virginia. Ms. Ford has over 30 years of experience as a leader in the technology field focusing on industries within banking, manufacturing, health care, and the public sector; city, state & local and federal government. Her career and experience in the technical field has provided extensive training to hire and recruit IT professionals serving entities in Health and Human Services, Government, and Commercial Sector. In 2001, Ms. Ford became a consultant were she specialized in corporate communications and strategic marketing for companies across the Commonwealth of Virginia. She assisted small businesses in marketing strategies, marketing processes and collateral, identifying core competencies, packaging services and solutions, while aligning the services in the marketplace and business community. She assisted companies in the certification process on the State and Federal levels as a small business enterprise. While aligning her clients with organizations and large IT entities to generate and grow revenue outside of the day to day sales modelFrom April 2005 until May 2017, FRG and partners had over 30 years of experience matching quality professionals with challenging IT projects and business positions within the following: Project Managers IT Security and Risk MgmeBusiness and Systems Analysts Software Developers/Programmers Database AdministratorsArchitects Qualiaty Assurance/Testing Network Engineers BPMMMIS Professionals