T.S. is an Events Manager with prior asset management experience. For the past 7 years, she has been an independent contractor and sole Conference and Group Services Manager for a boutique firm that runs ski trips for corporate, government agency, association, and high-wealth individual clients. She performs soup-to-nut management of 50+ trips annually ranging in size from 20-150 people. In addition, she manages two large conferences annually, including negotiating transportation contracts, securing hotel accommodations, and handling ground transfers, tickets, and on-site logistics.  From 2002-2006, T.S. was the Special Events Planner for a town located in Fairfax County. Prior to this, she spent 15+ years in the real estate industry serving in progressively responsible asset management roles at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Gemini Asset Managers, and J.E. Robert Companies.

M.L. is an accounting professional with 25 years of experience who was most recently placed with a FlexProfessionals client. She was hired on a project basis to assist with the implementation of a new client accounting software platform. She continued on for over a year managing cash receipts, AR, AP, and multi-location (international) GL account reconciliations. She has experience in both performing and overseeing accounting and operations for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. From 2014-2017, she was Senior Financial Analyst at a nonprofit, responsible for bank reconciliations, credit card receipt analysis, expense allocations, fixed assets, and GL journal entries. She also played a key role in planning for and implementing an accounting system software conversion. She started her career with Acorn Media Group, where she quickly advanced through several positions to become VP of Financial Planning & Analysis. While at Acorn, she managed all aspects of corporate accounting and financial reporting, including Treasury, AR, AP, fixed assets, inventory, revenue recognition, budgeting, shareholder communication, audit support, and corporate tax filing. She was also responsible for office management, HR, and payroll. She is proficient with several accounting platforms, including Sage, Dynamics GP, and Quickbooks, and Excel. She has an MBA from George Mason University and a BS from Rochester Institute of Technology.

N.M. has 15+ years of product marketing and management experience with small and large companies, including Cisco Systems and Deltek.  She has experience across a broad range of industries, including IT, telecommunications, data analytics, construction management, and energy/sustainability.  She is currently an independent consultant providing product management and marketing services to software companies. Earlier in her career at Cisco Systems, Nikki was a Sales Engineer, where she has awarded SE of the Year for consecutive years in a row.  Then she moved into a product management/marketing position, focusing on requirements gathering, business case development, and product launch. Within a year at Deltek, she was promoted from Product Marketing Manager to Director of Product Marketing. She has built and marketed SaaS and Mobile applications resulting in multi-million dollar revenues. She has a Masters in Global Sustainability from Virginia Tech and Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park.  She is proficient in Windows and Mac applications.

A.D. has almost 20 years of experience building and operating customer-facing services, business development, and sales teams for enterprise software companies and systems integrators. She has a proven track record of meeting $MM revenue targets. In her most recent role at Oracle, she led the M&A integration of 3 companies, resulting in $200M of increased revenue. Prior to this role, she grew and managed a 130-employee professional services business unit for Oracle, which generated $35M in revenue. Prior to Oracle, she was an early employee at startup-turned-public Portal Software where she held various roles within the company in development, sales, consulting, and training while helping to grow the company to 800 employees and $122M in revenue. She started her career with Deloitte Consulting as a technology consultant doing hands on design, development, and implementation of software for clients. She has a BS in Engineering from George Mason and a Masters in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford.

M.M. has recent experience as a Data Analyst, which is bolstered by 10+ years of software engineering experience in fast-paced software development and live application environments.  She is currently working at a national nonprofit benefit services financial group using her data analysis skills. Prior to taking a career break, she worked as a Business Analyst and Software Engineer from 1996-2001. She worked on a variety of development applications for Sprint, Citigroup, and Titan Systems Corporation. In these roles, she interacted with customers and IT teams to derive functional requirements for design and development of user interfaces. She is currently taking a Python programming class (data analytics track). She has a BS in Electrical Engineering from NYU Tandom School of Engineering.

T.L. is an experienced HR and recruiting professional with 9+ years of international experience. Her experience spans talent acquisition to talent management and training and development. She has worked with professionals from diverse backgrounds in South Africa and the Baltic States. Prior to taking a career break, she served as Regional Talent Acquisition Manager for the biggest retail group in Southern Africa, where she worked on restructure and realignment projects for the organization. She analyzed and interpreted recruitment trends and statistics for the region, which recruited 5K+ people per year. She has a three-year Diploma in Human Resources Management from Mangosuthu University of Technology and has been trained in Targeted Selection Interview as well as Competency-Based Interview methods.

L.H. is an office operations and financial analyst professional. She utilized her MBA and experience as a financial analyst to create, market, and successfully run her own personal training business for the past nine years. Prior to establishing her business, L.H. was a financial analyst at MCI WorldCom from 1996-2001, where she developed and managed a product line profitability reporting system used to assess product launch and renewal decisions throughout the company. She then created a program that streamlined the reporting process across departments, enabling her to work remotely from home, an innovation for the company. From 1991-1994, L.H. worked at a health club in Washington, DC, where she was promoted from receptionist to sales representative, and then to club manager. L.H. has an MBA from the University of Maryland and a BS from George Mason University.

N.P. is a CFO-level finance and operations professional with deep experience working for small and large federal government contractors, including Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and CACI. In addition, he is a U.S. military veteran with a distinguished military career and multiple combat deployments. He is currently an SVP of Finance & Operations for a DE-based government contracting firm. One of N.P.’s successes was developing an automated reporting system that tracked contract, financial, and program performance metrics for 20 subcontractors. He has also implemented program controls and corporate guidelines to ensure compliance with GAAP, FAR, and DFAR. In addition to managing the finance function, he has held other operational responsibilities as well, including program management, business development, sales, contracts management, proposal support, acquisition, and integration. He has managed the enterprise IT implementation and performance across multiple federal program offices with over 200 FTEs. N.P. is proficient in Earned Value, SAP, Deltek Costpoint and MS Office Suite. He has a green belt in Lean Six Sigma. He has an MBA from Walden University and a BS in Business from SUNY Oswego. NP has a current updated DOD Secret security clearance.

Seasoned program manager and customer experience leader with 10 years of experience supporting mission-driven nonprofits and small businesses. From 2010 to 2017, she worked for Hourcar, Minnesota’s largest car-sharing operator, where she quickly moved from customer support representative to operations manager to program manager. As program Manager from 2014 to 2017, she managed an $850K annual budget, built a cross-functional staff team and spearheaded modernization of Hourcar’s technology infrastructure. She also led the development of a high-profile public-private partnership which made Hourcar the first car-sharing operator in the U.S. to allow users to access vehicles with their public transit passes. (Media coverage of this project can be found here: http://strib.mn/2JAJa8J) In 2018, she joined a Boston-based transportation startup, where she was responsible for company-wide customer experience strategy and scaling the customer support team. M.H. is currently an independent consultant, using business analytics to help early-stage companies get better customer feedback and build successful products. She is an experienced data analyst with extensive experience implementing customer surveys and building dashboards with Excel, Tableau, and SQL.

Sales Professional with experience in Job Placement, Event Management and Retail Sales spanning over 10 years. She is currently transitioning back to work after a career break. Prior to this leave, A.G. excelled in customer service which resulted in three promotions, and the opportunity to live in multiple states. As a Job Placement Manager, A.G.was responsible for filling open jobs with the most qualified candidates through a thorough screening process. She recruited potential employees through active participation with local colleges and agencies. Previous to this position, A.G. was an Executive Meeting Manager for Marriott International. She reached all Sales & Catering Department goals by ensuring exceptional customer service while maximizing revenue within each booking. She conducted site visits, created menus, attended taste panels and conducted pre-and post-meetings with her contacts. A.G. is currently enrolled in Lynda.com to advance her technology skills. She has an A.S. Degree in Hotel Restaurant Management and a B.S.degree in Sales & Meeting Management from Johnson & Wales University.