K.B. has over 12 years of management and business operations experience in the IT industry for small and large companies, with noteworthy skills in business process improvement and transformational management. For the last 10 years she has been the Director of Business Operations for JBP Enterprises, LLC (a parent company to multiple businesses), overseeing business operations and compliance. Prior to running a business, she served as IT Service Delivery Manager for Corporate Executive Board, where she excelled as a change management coordinator, led root-cause analysis meetings to identify trends, managed firm-wide IT communications, and directed vendor relationships and hardware procurement. In her role as an IT Help Desk Analyst at PTC, an engineering software company, she was part of a 5-person team supporting 5K+ users worldwide and  executed a massive software migration for 2,500+ users, performed level I and II break-fix installations, and managed account administration for 5K+ users internationally. She is advanced in troubleshooting Windows 7,8, utilizing VPN, Citrix, remote server applications, proficient in MS Office, OneDrive, iPhone, and familiar with Mac OS and applications.

M.P. has over 20 years of experience in finance and accounting in the publishing and financial services industries.  She has worked in both corporate and operational settings as Senior Financial Analyst for Cahners Publishing, State Street and Fidelity Investment and as Director of Finance for Houghton Mifflin. She has been involved in all aspects of the business accounting cycle, managed monthly management reporting, coordinated strategic planning, provided project evaluation, advised on human resource events, supervised staff and prepared budgets and forecasts. M.P. has worked for the past 5 years as a part-time consultant for small businesses providing office management, accounting, strategic planning and financial analysis services. Her clients are from a variety of industries including construction, real estate, private aviation and individual clients. She has a Master’s in Business Administration from Suffolk University and Bachelor of Science in Business from Fitchburg State University.

S.M. has 12 years of accounting and audit experience, including Big Four public accounting, internal audit, small company Controller, and SEC reporting. She is currently an independent contractor providing accounting services to small businesses. From 2011-2013, she was the Senior Manager of Accounting for Verisign, focusing on international accounting, consolidations, inter-company transactions. S.M. was hired as part of a team of accountants that transitioned the company from its west coast location to the DC area. From 2010 -2011, she was the Accounting and Financial Reporting Manager for RCN (a cable and internet company), focusing on SEC reporting, fixed assets, leases, and capitalized labor. She worked heavily on the division of the company’s accounting records into two separate entities. From 2008-2010, she was a Financial Reporting Supervisor at Gannett Co., working heavily in SEC reporting. From 2007-2008, she was Controller for Mooring Financial Corporation, responsible for all aspects of the company’s accounting, financial reporting, tax, and human resource functions. From 2003-2007, S.M. worked at Freddie Mac first as a Senior Internal Auditor and then as an Internal Audit Project Lead. She was promoted a second time to Accounting Manager, where she received awards for improving the efficiency of the account reconciliation process and reducing dependencies within key processes. She began her career in public accounting at Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young. She has a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia and is an active CPA. She is proficient in Oracle, Great Plains, and PeopleSoft, and familiar with QuickBooks, Lawson, and Hyperion Enterprise.

A.W. is a seasoned business professional with almost 20 years of experience in telecommunications and high-level technology consulting. She has a background in vendor management, customer liaison, detailed project planning, business process life-cycle and design, executive briefing, training as well as statistical analysis. She worked at Sprint for 5 years as Project Manager in Information Technology. A.W. was in charge of executive reporting, an internal web-site, software maintenance releases and asset management. Prior to Sprint, she has worked at several organizations including 5 years with MCI Telecommunications that included 5 promotions within 5 years and a cross country relocation. A.W. holds a masters degree in Business Administration from The American University in Washington, DC and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Colorado State University.

D.H. has extensive experience mastering complex data and providing concise, actionable recommendations to sales, marketing, and product management teams.  He has a proven ability to bridge the gap between research/analysis and business objectives leading to higher revenue, lower costs, and greater internal efficiencies.  He possesses excellent communication skills, is a strong team player who is adept at working with diverse individuals and groups.  His participation and advice is routinely sought out.  He is a self-starter who has successfully made several challenging career transitions. He is a graduate of the Defense Intelligence College (M.S.), George Washington University (M.A.), and Washington and Lee University (B.A.)

I.R. has 14 years of software industry experience, serving as a software engineer at small to large companies, including Boeing and Textron Systems. She has extensive experience in the full Software Development Life Cycle including software requirements specifications, software design, user interface design (UDI), development, test plan development, and testing and documentation. Her primary domain experience has been in geo-spatial data visualization and imagery analysis products for the defense industry. She has developed in various languages, including C++, C#, and Java. She has experience in software development as an individual contributor, and as part of a larger group. She has a MS in Computer Science from University of Maryland Baltimore County.

M.J. has 25+ years of experience in health care planning, service line development, and marketing communications. Most recently, she has remained professionally active through several community organizations, including serving six years (one year as President) on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Falls Church Education Foundation (FCEF). She led an overall assessment of FCEF, which resulted in changes that moved the organization from an operating deficit to returning more than $250,000 a year to the local school system. Throughout her career she has worked in hospitals and with a large, private practice with multiple outpatient sites. M.J. has developed outreach, customer engagement and branding strategies, adapting messaging across a variety of media platforms, and consistently produced results that generate revenue growth. Her work has encompassed the full range of marketing activities including research and analysis, creation of business plans, development of comprehensive marketing and communication plans, and oversight and tactical implementation of campaigns. She has an MBA from The George Washington University and a BA in Journalism from Marshall University. She is currently completing a graduate certificate through University of Virginia in “e-Marketing”.

Zhen is an experienced software developer with expertise in SharePoint, including installation, configuration, upgrades, migration, debugging, custom pages and coding.  Prior to owning his own IT consulting firm, Zhen worked for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) as a senior SharePoint consultant, leading 2 large SharePoint projects.  From 2004-2012, Zhen worked for 2 IT firms on contract to the Federal Railway Administration (FRA).  He served as a lead developer on 9 large, complex, full life cycle software development projects, including the development and subsequent upgrade of FRA’s SharePoint Portal System and development of its Secure Information Repository.  In these roles, he won an exemplary performance award and an AIRG project award.  Zhen has an MS in Information Systems from George Mason University.

Elizabeth was most recently a Web Designer at a healthcare company, where she collaborated with developers, designers and managers to develop front-end designs for integration into web and mobile applications.  Prior to this she did some contract work through Aquent for NASDAQ and Booz Allen.  Elizabeth spent the bulk of her 15 year career (1998-2009) as a Graphic Designer and Art Director for SilverHook Marketing Communications, providing graphic and web design services to a variety of clients, including government agencies and small and large companies.  She has expert-level skills in Adobe Creative Suite as well as CSS, HTML and Dreamweaver. She is also proficient in Javascript and JQuery.

Catherine is a finance professional with an MBA and 10+ years experience in financial budgeting, reporting, and costing. From 2002-2006, Catherine moved quickly up the ranks at Covidien, beginning as a Cost Analyst and then Cost Accounting Supervisor.  She was second in charge to the plant controller and oversaw accounts payable, monthly financial reporting, annual budgeting, and financial controls. She eventually moved to corporate  where she was a Senior Cost Analyst, coordinating financial reporting for all manufacturing plants and supplying the CEO and CFO with cost information related to new and existing products. Catherine began her career (1994-2000) at The Hartford Financial Services Group, where she was promoted from Treasury Analyst to Team Leader for the Treasury Electronic Funds Transfer Unit.  She has an MBA from Villanova University and a BA from Wheaton College. She is looking for part-time work.