Michael has over 30 year of Federal Contracting expertise and has held positions of increasing responsibility at Peter Witts CPA, United Technologies Corporation, Kaman Aerospace, FARaero, and Bartlett Services, Inc. He has lectured locally on Federal Acquisition matters at the annual Boston NCMA conference at Bentley College and nationally at the DoD National SBIR Conference in Washington DC.Mr. Gitlen holds the following degrees: BS Engineering (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), MBA Finance (University of Connecticut), MS Accounting (University of Hartford) and is a licensed CPA in Massachusetts.Specialties: Mr. Gitlen has designed and implemented government contract accounting systems, developed forward pricing rates and has prepared Government proposals both on a FAR Part 15 Cost basis and a FAR Part 12 Commercial Item basis. Additionally Mr. Gitlen prepared a DFAR External Restructuring proposal, resulting from a merger, for a “Fortune 100 Company”, exceeding $500M.