Nine Dots LLC provides "outside-the-Nine-Dots" strategies, tactics, and leadership in assisting clients capture Federal business by leveraging our employees’:• DECADES OF EXPERIENCE OF SUCCESSFUL CAPTURES of IT opportunities…based on best practices and unconventional strategies that the competition overlooks. • CONTEXT OF ACTIVE DUTY, GOVERNMENT, AND INDUSTRY from the requiring activity to contracting offices to industry’s capture and fulfillment sides.• KNOWLEDGE OF PROPOSAL EVALUATION METHODS AND CONTRACTING CENTER PROCESSES…and their preferences and drivers in awarding contracts.• LONGSTANDING PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH KEY PERSONNEL…time-tested and meaningful, that yield fruit because they are built on mutual trust and respect.• KNOWLEDGE OF AND REACH INTO IT COMPANIES…to facilitate partnerships enhancing the Pwin.• IN-DEPTH EXPEREINCE IN FOREIGN MILITARY SALES…a seemingly esoteric but vastly under-served market with quality and lucrative IT opportunities.

As Director of Operations for the HQ in the Army's Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS), pioneered a first-ever “HQ Operations Directorate works for the PMs” initiative to reorganize and redirect directorate resources to proactively reach more than 35 PM organizations and other PEO staff elements. Executed day-to-day business operations sustaining a 2500+ person organization that executed nearly 30% of the Army’s IT budget. Specific accomplishments included:• Spearheaded contracting oversight for more than $3B in value in annual awards including liaising between program offices and contracting centers.• Cultivated an outreach program to contracting offices to better understand center drivers and motivators as well as to facilitate discussion between PMs and contracting centers during formative stages of Acquisition Requirements Package development. • Led multiple source selection proceedings on Source Selection Advisory Committees for major IT acquisitions. • Capitalizing on industry experience, delivered insight and assistance to PMs in preparation of Acquisition Requirements Packages, including RFP requirements, evaluation criterion and strategies derived from war-gaming prospective industry responses to requirements and criteria.• Proactively charted new course and reorganization for Foreign Military Sales unit in anticipation of need stemming from substantial increase of FMS and security cooperation IT support from NATO and other allied partners.• Engineered a “customer-first” ethic in directorate’s delivery of support for human resources, physical and personnel security, logistics, and in-theater liaison of program delivery operations. • Orchestrated redirection and repurposing of personnel to better drive real property, facilities, and office lease management in response to DOD initiative to reduce leased commercial office space while increasing utilization of on-post offices.

Provided implementation and fielding support to the PEO program managers and PEO customers with the objective of efficiently and effectively delivering IT capabilities in support of the warfighter.

• Successfully led the capture strategy and development of plans for the pursuit of SLA-based managed IT services opportunities• Developed and briefed alternative courses of action to C-level Army military/civilian/corporate executives for solutions to enterprise IT and network challenges

• Led the original identification and capture of key Army/DoD IT programs in the areas of identity management and biometrics, Program Management Support, and Enterprise IT Support for Army posts.• Led strategy development workshop to identify strengths, weaknesses, key themes, alternative COAs and risk mitigation actions for pursuit of multi-million-dollar Army IT targets• Managed a multi-discipline team in the requirements and concept development for the automated combat vehicle health maintenance system in close coordination with other corporate operating group • Pioneered a new, innovative business model to leverage a virtual team of over 20 companies in the pursuit of complex IT projects supporting the Army and DoD. Developed detailed, resourced plans and “rules of engagement” for all team members

• Successfully led the capture of Army’s PMSS2 IDIQ; Technical proposal solution ranked top 2 overall• Led project teams of 2 to 15 people from a matrixed organization in the development and execution of capture plans for Federal civil and DoD agencies for the acquisition support, program management, information assurance and IV&V services• As a board member/committee head for the Federation of Identity of Cross-Credentialing Systems (FiXs), developed key organization vetting processes for Federation membership supporting HSPD-12

• Led the unprecedented increase of business expansion including 36 new discrete projects, 16 new public sector accounts for the delivery of back office custom software development with a prospective value exceeding $70M (Agriculture, Veterans Affairs, Arlington County, AKO, Commerce, FTC, Homeland Security, HUD, Labor, Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp, SBA, Transportation, Treasury, US AID, US Capitol Police, US Postal Service) and 9 new commercial accounts with a value of over $3M.• Developed and managed execution of capture strategy resulting in company’s first ID/IQ prime contract vehicle (10-year, $8B ceiling). • Pioneered first corporate-wide bid/no bid and capture criteria and formal meeting process to assess risks and rewards for opportunities.

• Developed new strategic services offering to migrate from the current COBOL-based Financial and Human Resources products to the web-based next generation product.• Subsequent to executive decision not to pursue higher education business, developed and executed an end-game strategy for the shutdown of the business unit and projects.

• Led a 90+ employee IT services organization providing in excess of $17M of services annually. Directed the delivery of UNIX/Informix-based software development services for F1000 corporations nation-wide.• Led capture resulting in business expansion efforts that achieved over $10M in new business; Achieved an annualized growth rate of over 60%; Implemented the company’s first successful pipeline report which tracked position vacancies; Maintained consultant billability rate at over 97%.

• Led the soup-to-nuts operational, financial, and business capture management for an 80-person MIS support and network integration Federal IT services company; Inherited mainstay network integration and software development support contract (DARPA MIS) with adversarial corporate-customer relations and single-handedly turned relationship into an exceptionally good one positioning company for successful re-compete.• Closed a critical $45M recompete contract supporting DARPA and accounting for over 90% of corporate revenue. Opportunity was crucial to company’s survival and subsequent successful sale of the company; Devised “Golden Handcuffs” incentives for key contract people to ensure their retention throughout recompete.