•Develop pricing models for revenue-generating shop visits and military aircraft engine sales for multi-year contracts (including FFP, CPFF); conduct basis of estimate analyses and incorporate into financial models, ensuring compliance with FAR/DFARS; perform labor pricing on federal government proposals for military engine purchases, maintenance, management, and technical support; regularly use pricing tools including ProPricer, Excel, and SAP•Participate in pricing negotiations with customers, modify proposal pricing data to support negotiations, and liaise between the program team (Operations/Manufacturing, Sales, Procurement, Management, Finance, and Legal) and DCMA/DCAA throughout contract negotiations•Support digital projects intended to streamline the pricing workflow and develop best practices; interact with high-level management as well as the pricing user base to incorporate top-down requirements from leadership as well as bottoms-up pain points and turnbacks identified by users

•Worked as the business unit Project Manager within the Commercial Engines Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support organization on a large-scale digital project to re-platform a legacy IT tool, increase tool efficiencies, and improve business processes and data quality for internal and external reporting and metrics; brief senior management and leadership up to the Executive Vice President level on project status and risks•Drafted and finalized a Request for Proposals to solicit vendor proposals; worked throughout the bid solicitation process to ensure that vendors understood the RFP, employed the appropriate personnel, and had the capabilities to develop an improved tool to minimize or eliminate existing pain points, reduce overhead costs, and increase profitability; performed cost analyses of vendor bids•Worked to centralize and optimize fleet management data to maximize revenue potential across the commercial engines organization to meet the goal of ensuring that the Fleet Management Tool serves as a repository for scheduling shop visits based on engine maintenance agreements with customers•Employed agile methodology to perform project planning and scheduling and ensure on-time delivery; held multiple business process mapping kaizen events for project planning and to ensure that end-user needs were met

•Worked as part of the global commercial customer support team to develop IT solutions to minimize technical and IT issues across the enterprise, improve supply chain performance, and better meet commercial airline customers’ needs•Oversaw contractors reporting to the group, ensuring the accuracy of deliverables and making new assignments as necessary; worked to identify issues and develop solutions to meet the end goal of supplying customers with aircraft engines and maintenance support

•Client: White House Office of Management and Budget, Office of E-Government and Information Technology•Examined policies across government agencies to determine methods of reducing cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities; conducted quarterly assessments of the 24 largest federal agencies designed to improve overall cybersecurity practices and identify areas in need of improvement or re-structuring•Supported the E-Government policy team to oversee implementation of the Federal Information Technology Management and Reform Act of 2014 (FITARA), which significantly impacts federal rules and regulations for the government IT contracting industry

•Worked as a member of the business development team to perform strategic planning and develop proposal responses to federal government contract solicitations for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Military Health System, and Defense Health Agency contracts and task orders•Additional proposal work includes Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Center for Medicare Services IT proposals•Contract bids ranged from $1M to $300+M for contracts lasting from six months to five years, primarily focusing on IT contracting opportunities in areas such as enterprise systems, technical support, and IT help desk services•Proposal sections managed include project management, understanding, and execution, organizational experience, small business subcontracting, and past performance and staffing segments; performed contract pricing support and managed compliance matrices•Performed business and market intelligence research and analysis of VA legislation and appropriations in addition to VA and White House budget requests

•Client: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Headquarters, Homeland Security Investigations, Worksite Enforcement Unit•Researched and prepared statistical and financial reports, spreadsheets, and charts on national worksite enforcement investigations of companies potentially employing illegal aliens for former Secretary Janet Napolitano, former Director John Morton, and ICE program managers; prepared materials for Congressional and OIG hearings, briefings, and investigations•During the 2012 election season, assisted in preparing comprehensive briefings of the worksite enforcement program to use in the event that a new Secretary and directors were appointed under a new Presidential AdministrationAdditional Contract Positions: Analyst - DHS Employer Compliance Inspection Center (ECIC), Analyst - TSA

•Managed constituent correspondence for a member of the House of Representatives Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Veterans Affairs Committees; wrote and edited official legislative correspondence diplomatically explaining the Congressman’s positions on federal government fiscal, political, and legislative issues; developed comprehensive reports and analyzed statistical data about constituent opinions and trends•Regularly met with the Congressman and senior colleagues about legislative issues and constituent feedback; communicated and met with constituents and government relations representatives both with and on behalf of the Congressman•Researched and composed analytical briefings regarding complex legislation; responsible for natural resources, energy, and environment legislative work as well as House of Representatives Rules, Oversight and Government Reform, and Ethics Committee work•Managed all correspondence, systems administration, and security functions for Windows and Intranet Quorum correspondence software in the Washington, DC and Florida offices; functioned as technical support liaison between offices•Oversaw migration of office data in Washington, DC and two district offices to a virtual cloud server; eliminated expenses used for server back-up and maintenance

•Responsible for ensuring federal government proposals were clear, concise, and accurate; ensured adherence to company guidelines and protocol(Temporary assignment via Advantage Human Resourcing; EDS was acquired by HP)