We are pleased to announce that Jonathan Martens, an accomplished federal financial manager with over 12 years of experience, most recently with the Army, will be joining The Avery Group LLC as Manager. Jonathan brings a wealth of expertise from his time at Ernst and Young and a proven track record in financial management and government contracting. We look forward to the innovation and leadership he will bring to our team at The Avery Group LLC.

Working at the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) under the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) our mission is to transform the budget, finance, and accounting operations of the Defense Agencies to achieve accurate and reliable financial information in support of financial accountability and effective and efficient decision making throughout the Defense Agencies in support of the missions of the Warfighter. Common business processes that we implement are: procure to pay; order to cash; acquire to retire; budget to report; cost accounting; time and labor. Full deployment capability includes budget formulation; grants financial management; and re-sale accounting.Our team works hard documenting, analyzing, and translating client/business requirements into technical requirements. We identify and recommend the Business Intelligence solution by defining current and future operational scenarios (processes, models, use cases, plans and solutions). We continually work with client to ensure proper translation of business requirements to I/T solution requirements.People First. Mission Always.

Supporting the Army National Guard with congressional requirement to perform an unqualified audit opinion from an Independent Public Accountant for Statement of Budgetary Resources (SBR)/Statement of Budgetary Activity. Proven ability to adapt to changing environments rapidly by filling a critical, high-priority position to provide database support to the 54 States, Territories, the District of Columbia, Forward Operating Agencies, Army National Guard Arlington Hall Station, and the National Guard Bureau Joint Staff. Collaboration with Audit Readiness Team creating and maintaining a toolset for all audit readiness testing and training results. Developer of a nationwide SharePoint site in the Guard Knowledge Online Portal to access MILPAY data for auditing. Critical analysis of data trends to produce up-to-date presentations with graphs for all users. Enhanced the central database using Access where all army audit readiness results are stored including SBR general fund, MILPAY, SBR, General equipment, operation maintenance and supplies, and real property. Creation and maintenance of a database that is easily manipulated to ensure the ease of running reports creating graphs, presentations and scorecards. Helped develop a standard of how results are to be presented for all testing types. Working closely with the Corps of Engineers with quality control and consistency in the EITM digital library along with GSI to update historical research into the library and allow fast archival searching via metadata tags. Enhancing the data through standardization and optical character recognition. Our Success Follows Yours.

Provide a broad range of administrative and project support to RAND research staff in our Health, Labor and Population, National Security and Research, and Project AIR FORCE divisions. Responsibilities include but not limited to the preparation of correspondence; assistance in the preparation of reports and deliverables; grant proposal and manuscript preparation; library and internet searches. Scheduling and maintaining calendars, travel arrangements and preparation of expense reimbursements; planning and coordination of both on- and off-site meetings and conferences. Organizing, managing, coordinating, and monitoring tasks to meet fast approaching deadlines. *Active Security Clearance (Secret)*508 Compliance Training*Human Subjects Protection Committee (HSPC) Trained

Describes wines, wine making techniques, and the history of wine making in Virginia. Helps customers gain a deeper understanding of the wine making process from grape to glass while providing excellent customer service. Effectively communicates with diverse client group at all levels of wine education. Serves private parties, corporate clients, weddings, and special events.

Support the daily operations in the corporate legal department by documenting, filing, and maintaining UCC Financing Statements. Responsible for creating, distributing, and maintaining legal invoices for over 50 clients.Manage and organize corporate Minute Books, Stock Certificates, Confidentiality Agreements, and handle SEC required documents including (8K, 10Q, 10K). Supervise temporary assistants, in administrative functions and legal affairs including but not limited to the handling of sensitive and confidential information, creating, producing, and distributing business communications, and maintaining filing systems for customers and corporate affairs. Coordinate with legal staff, outside counsel, customers, and internal departments on loan transactions, due diligence requests, and document management on a daily basis. Maintain company investment transaction files for over 50 clients and aid in compliance with due diligence requests for auditors when requested. Process all incoming invoices and payables for the firm using Microsoft Dynamics SL and maintain firms Accounting Document Library on SharePoint where all invoices are archived. Field inquiries for accounts payables and request and file W-9’s for all active vendors.

Provided legal and administrative support for senior attorneys at litigation firm and implemented an online billing system for clients to ease in payment collections. Drafted legal memoranda and client correspondence for junior partners and conducted research employing online resources such as Westlaw, LexisNexis, and Pacer. Assisted attorneys with document production and trial preparation while maintaining client files for the entirety of the clients’ cases. Prepared legal documents for court filing such as Motions, Orders, Declarations, and Subpoenas. Contacted judges, attorneys, and clerks of the court for case information and delivery of subpoenas.

Opened first satellite tasting room in Northern Virginia for the Prince Michel Vineyard & Winery with responsibilities that ranged from handling promotional activities and attending social, charitable, networking, and corporate events to managing the tasting room operations and retail store on a daily basis.Managed inventory and control for wines and retail store supplies while acting as liaison between owner, CFO, and vintner for Alexandria tasting room. Trained and supervised all tasting room sales associates in sales techniques and wine education.Responsible for social media (i.e. Facebook and Twitter) and promotions at local events for the grand opening, charity events/donations, and private events

Acted as liaison between clients and law firm partners and composed and maintained correspondence -- via offline and online techniquesPrepared legal documents for court filing (Motions, Orders, Declarations) upon request of the attorneys. Prepared FCC filings, maintained and created pleadings files, correspondence, memos, and reports and was responsible for general office maintenance such as ordering supplies and coordinated off-site storage of client files (Iron Mountain).Prepared and billed out firm invoices, tracked client accounts, and receivables. Sent notices of past due payments. Scheduled appointments and travel plans for attorneysContacted court clerk on status of cases and researched legal databases using online tools such as LexisNexis and PACER.