Career Highlights

Director, Jacksonville Procurement Technical Assistance Center
Jacksonville, FL
- Provided procurement technical assistance regarding bid/proposal preparation, doing business with federal, state and local governments, marketing to federal, state and local governments and contract administration.
- Counseled more than 880 small businesses; developed and conducted 32 seminars and workshops.

Director, Small Business Programs, Defense Contract Management
Agency Headquarters Alexandria, VA
- Led small business subcontracting for Office of Secretary of Defense, Army, Navy and Air Force — $129 billion enterprise, 16,000 contracts, and managed small business compliance with 68 direct report professionals.
- Advocated and redefined DoD small business subcontracting compliance with defense contractors. 

- Achieved 100% perfect score for transforming, leading and directing small business operations in a performance based management environment.

- Achieved an “A” Small Business Subcontracting rating from the Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition and Technology for effectiveness of overseeing prime contractors subcontracting goal accomplishment.

 

Deputy Commander, Defense Contract Management Agency
Pacific – Atsugi, Japan

- Directed contract management of $2 billion DoD depot level maintenance contracts in 7 different countries, 134 professionals.

- Honored as Best DCMA Performance Based Management Organization–processes benchmarked across DCMA.

 

Special Assistant to Director, Defense Contract Management Agency Headquarters, Alexandria, Virginia
- Handpicked as Principal Procurement Advisor to 2-Star General on procurement issues. 

- Developed and executed acquisition strategies for major DCMA procurements.

- Served as program manager for Office of Secretary of Defense procurement management reviews of defense agencies, $12 billion annual purchases.

 

Senior Procurement Analyst, Office of Secretary of Defense – Pentagon, VA
- Managed the most complex and controversial Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFARS) on behalf of Office of Secretary of Defense. 

- Managed rewrite of 14 pre-award DFARS sections as part of DoD’s acquisition reform initiatives.

- Published 110 final contracting regulations in the DFARS.

 

Director of Contracts, Defense Contract Management Agency -
Greensboro, NC
- Led four contract management organizations engaged in contract operations, pricing, production and engineering on Navy electronic warfare system defense contracts — $1.2 billion annually. 

 

Director of Contract Operations, Defense Contract Management Agency- Baltimore, MD
- Led the contract management activities of six contracting officer teams, 52 military and civilian professionals and 2,000 contracts valued at $4 billion