As the Director of People and Culture i play a role in shaping and nurturing our workplace environment. My mission is to foster a positive, inclusive, and high-performing culture where employees can thrive. You will be responsible for leading our HR strategies, talent management, employee engagement, and organizational development initiatives. - Develop and execute comprehensive people and culture strategies that align with business goals.- Partner with executive leadership to shape and support organizational vision and goals. - Foster a culture of engagement, inclusivity, and continuous improvement.- Develop and implement initiatives to enhance employee satisfaction and productivity.- Lead performance management processes, including appraisals, feedback, and development plans.- Implement strategies to recognize and reward high performance.- Ensure our compensation and benefits programs are competitive and aligned with our culture and values.- Regularly review and optimize benefits offerings to meet employee needs.- Develop, implement, and maintain HR policies and procedures that comply with legal requirements and best practices.- Ensure the organization is compliant with all relevant employment laws and regulations.- Drive organizational development initiatives that support business growth and employee satisfaction.- Lead diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to create a welcoming and equitable workplace.

Columbia Technology Partners (CTP) is a leader in management IT consulting services with an emphasis on security, cloud and mobile.Project Management | System Engineering | Information AssuranceBusiness Development and relationship building go hand in hand. Without confidence in your potential partner, there is no relationship. My job is simple; Provide confidence in our ability to deliver services acheiveving the goals set forth by the customer on time and within budget, over and over again. Position requries skill at communicating, negotiating and follow-through. If you're interested in learing more about how CTP and your organization can win businesses together, we should talk.

If you’ve ever worked for a large company that provides services to a customer, at some point in your career you probably said, “I could do this better on my own”. This show is for those people who actually take the step off the ledge and fend for themselves in the cut-throat world that is government contracting. It will provide news and information relevant to the intelligence community along with actionable content that will be helpful to help grow your business. At the end of each episode large contractors may have that “remember when” moment, while smalls will have a sense that they CAN do this. Part information, part inspiration but all small business. Ready to Prime is a co-production of Columbia Technology Partners and Federal News Radio 1500AM.

Morning Show Idea slinger and facilitator of cool things.

- Subject Matter Expert for all things user related on BGOV.com. This included government contracting/business development, and the legislative and regulatory process. - Act as a liaison between sales and R&D with regard to all bugs and enhancement requests.- Engage with Sales Operations on a continuing basis with regard to continuing education- Develop and execute training for internals on new and existing processes.- Conduct training for both internal and external users on site usage. - Provide solutions to customers to increase satisfaction. Customers are both internal and external to the company.- Responsible for all discrepancies across multiple functions. Maintained consistent records across multiple Terminal Functions keeping data in sync. - Wrote, produced and hosted a 30 min radio program focusing on the Business Impact of Government Actions. "Capital Impact" was heard locally on Federal News Radio 1500AM-Wrote and hosted a daily web series called $ettleUp. The program ran on the marketing page of BGOV every day at noon and addressed the topic of the day. Past episodes included “Hagel Resigns”, “F35 Over Budget”, “Government Contracting 2014”.

- Primary POC for Customer Onboarding- Served as subject matter expert for salesforce.com customer relationship management system and Avaya automated call distribution system.- Detect, troubleshoot, and resolve data or system anomalies in a time-critical environment.- Serve as subject matter expert in representing Customer Service department in new initiatives and product evaluations.- Acted as a liaison between sales and finance to develop key policies and procedures. Additionally ensure that these policies and procedures are efficiently “operationalized” within the organization- Provided solutions to customers to increase satisfaction. Customers are both internal and external to the company.- Provide direction and leadership to the Sales Support Staff (Sales Assistants and Customer Support Representatives) - Acted as mediator between sales support and contracts support. Worked with both sides to deploy a resolution amenable to all parties involved.- Trained sales support staff on basic applications used by customers. - Examined and eventually improved cycle time efficiency for contract submission and eventual completion- Develop and present a wide variety of multi-media training and assessment programs, manuals, and job aids to staff.- Ensured adherence to departmental procedures, as well as consistency in execution and communication among multiple employee locations.- Develop ongoing needs assessment and progress measurement; provide ongoing performance-related feedback and coaching in individual and group settings.- Develop methods working with a variety of staff to positively impact call quality and adherence to established procedures.- Plan and deliver training courses personally where necessary to augment training provided externally or internally by others.

Provided up to the minute traffic information as a part of the Instant Traffic & Weather Team

- Morning Show Co-Host- News Director- Host "The Sunday Papers" public affairs program

- Morning Show Host- Production Director- Marketing Assistant

- Member of the Air staff- Commercial Production