J.D. is a creative digital marketing professional with experience in technology, entertainment, and design industries. She is currently an independent consultant providing marketing and web design services to small businesses. After a 5-month project, she was hired by a major medical device manufacturer where she worked as a digital marketing manager from 2014-2017. J.D. developed and implemented strategic plans to find, engage, convert, and retain customers, created marketing campaigns that included digital and social media tactics as well as offline programs, and used data and her ability to generate ideas to design exceptional customer experiences and build profitable businesses. From 2000-2014 she owned and operated an award-winning residential interior design business that she promoted via appearances on HGTV, byline print and digital articles, public speaking and live interviews. Prior to owning her business, J.D. worked for Fortune 500 companies from 1987-2000 where she created marketing programs, sales tools, managed the department P&L and launched new businesses. J.D. initiated and was active in several employee engagement and community service projects. J.D. stays current through ongoing education from certification programs at Middlesex Community College, eCornell and HarvardX. Courses include marketing strategy, digital marketing, and social media marketing. She is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Business School.

C.A. has 30 years’ experience working in both the private and public sectors.  From 2018-2019, she worked for a government contractor assisting with the maintenance of Human Resources files, and processing of Public Records Requests.  Prior to that, she worked for 15 years at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts first as a Temporary Contractor, was hired full-time as a Contracts Specialist, and later was promoted to Program Coordinator.  Her main responsibilities included processing payroll, approving payment vouchers from provider agencies, site monitoring visits and desk reviews, encumbering funds, interviewing candidates, and training interns/permanent staff.  C.A. was very successful in ensuring that staff and the programs she administered were in compliance with H.R.’s policies and procedures and the federal funder’s regulations.  Additionally, she provided Paralegal support to the agency’s counsel.  For over a year she performed certain CFO duties, including acting as the interim Supplier Diversity Program Officer.  Her career began at Meldisco as a Records Processor, where she excelled and was promoted after 9 months to Compensations Coordinator.  C.A. processed weekly payroll, union dues, leave requests for union and non-union staff, garnishments, and employment verifications.  She has advanced skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and is proficient in Access.  She has a Bachelor of Arts from Union Institute & University at Vermont College.

K.L. has 22 years of finance and operations management experience. She is skilled in financial planning, analysis, cash flow modeling, budgeting, board management; as well as leading and facilitating long term strategic visioning and operations redesign engagements, and managing long term, multi- team projects including systems design.  She was a Sr. Consultant at a Boston-based financial services industry leader and at a top Cambridge-based management consulting firm serving Fortune 500 clients. She has experience in investment management, international privatization and company valuation at a national accounting firm, and managed billing, customer service, and purchasing at a medical products VC-backed roll up during three mergers and a new systems implementation.  She is past President and Finance Chair of a non-profit board focused on hunger relief and local food distribution, as well as Finance Chair of an independent school.  She earned a CFA and Six Sigma Green Belt and is LEAN trained.  She has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

10 years of experience in the areas of operations, training, vendor management and quality with GE Capital International services and GE- ITS. As an operations manager she has trained, mentored and led large teams. She specializes in simplifying and improving processes, root cause analysis by driving six sigma projects, documenting standard operating procedures, developing, tracking and reporting key metrics using dashboards and hiring technical, administrative and management staff. She has worked with several clients such as Gillette, Pfizer, Gillette, Nike and Raytheon and has had to quickly learn to understand a variety of systems, reports and metrics and used excel and Minitab extensively for data analysis and reporting. She was promoted twice in the same year at GE Capital and promoted to a service delivery leader (Program management office) at GE-ITS with global oversight of a 90-member helpdesk staff spread across India, China and Spain.  She was awarded multiple times for her operational excellence, customer centricity and leadership skills and is six-sigma black belt certified. She currently works as a contractor with a leading provider of real-world observational data for autoimmune diseases. She speaks seven languages, is proficient in Spanish. She is a “science-arts graduate” and has a bachelor’s degree in genetics and a master of philosophy degree in English literature, both from India.

J.C. is a seasoned marketing manager with 10+ years of copywriting, editing, collateral development and event planning experience, having worked for blue-chip corporations, associations, start-ups, and community organizations. For the past 15 years, J.C. has worked as a freelance marketing consultant, most notably for Spring13, a digital marketing and branding agency. From 2001-2003, J.C. was Director of Marketing for the Specialized Carriers and Rigging Association, where she wrote, developed and supervised the production of the organization’s annual report, weekly newsletter to members and all special event materials. From 1998-2001, she served as Communications Manager for two emerging Internet start-ups. Prior to this, she was a Senior Account Executive at Edelman Worldwide/PR21 (now Zeno Group), providing marketing and PR counsel to Motorola and Lucent Technologies. J.C. began her career as an Industry Marketing Analyst at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). She received a BS in Journalism/Public Relations from the E.W. Scripps School Journalism at Ohio University.

M.R. is a Deloitte and Touche-trained accounting professional with 12+ years of finance and management experience.  Prior to leaving the workforce, she was Controller of a large investment management company from 2002-2005. She managed an accounting team of 3 that was responsible for AR, AP, and collections. She provided account and expense analysis to track and control expenses, prepared financial statements, oversaw audit, and drafted financial annual reports to shareholders. She has held senior financial reporting and analysis roles at The Mills Corporation, American Management Systems (AMS), and MCI. At federal government contractor AMS, M.R. prepared financial statements, analyzed general ledger account activity, tracked revenues and expenses, provided SEC reporting, managed audits, and supported investor relations.  She created and implemented a contract review process for the company and taught a revenue recognition workshop to business managers to ensure GAAP compliance and strengthen internal controls. M.R. began her career as an auditor with Deloitte and Touche. She has an MBA from Loyola College and a BS in Accounting from the University of Maryland. She is proficient in MS Office (Intermediate Excel) and quickly masters an understanding of work flow and proprietary accounting software.

N.A. is an MBA professional with nearly 20 years of experience in marketing and communications as a consultant and as a manager for Fortune 500 communications firms. For the past eight years N.A. has kept her project management, communications and public relations skills sharp by chairing committees and managing fundraising events mostly for a variety of community organizations. She coordinates marketing and PR campaigns for major fundraisers and outreach events using electronic, social and traditional media outlets. She writes press releases and grant application requests, in addition to publishing monthly and weekly electronic newsletters. N.A. worked at Verizon from 1997-2005, holding a variety of manager and senior manager-level positions in marketing and CRM as part of an executive training program.  In these roles, she directed and managed the rollout of successful targeted marketing campaigns, collaborated with other business groups to develop incentives to retain high value customers, developed financial models to quantify campaign success rates, defined project requirements and managed the rollout of CRM – based desktop systems for call centers, and identified best-practice productivity initiatives which closed a $4M budget gap post company merger.  N.A. is advanced proficient in MS Office Suite and Google for business, and proficient in Vertical Response, Constant Contact, WordPress, WIX, Weebly, and most social media platforms. N.A. has an MBA from the College of William & Mary’s Mason School of Business and a Bachelors from Duke University.

R.B. is an IT professional with experience serving as an IT Manager, Network Administrator, Programmer, and Web Developer. He is proficient in Microsoft technologies and has created workflow systems, upgraded hardware and software, provided Help Desk support to users at all levels, and managed and mentored junior IT staff. From 2006-2012, R.B. worked for the Georgia State Ethics Commission (campaign finance monitoring), where he quickly moved up the ranks to Manager of IT, supervising a team of 5. He was responsible for converting agency regulatory requirements into technical specifications for electronic filing. Along with technical abilities, R.B. delivered customer service support during peak reporting periods. In 2005 as an independent contractor, R.B. designed, developed and implemented a web-based data management system to collect and report healthcare information for a national association. R.B. is proficient in web technologies, programming and office productivity software including Microsoft C#, WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. R.B. has a Masters from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Associate degrees in Programming and Networking.

B.W. has 20+ years of IT experience as a lead Business/Systems/Quality Assurance Analyst and Software Developer. She consistently advanced throughout her career, delivering process improvement and system implementations on large- and medium-sized software projects in the healthcare, financial, software, government and media-research industries. From 2015-2018, as the Quality Assurance Analyst at a startup managed care organization, she developed and implemented the company’s requirements system, managed the testing process for all internal and external reporting, and acted as back-up project manager. From 2012-2015, B.W. worked in a variety of contract IT roles. For an online brokerage firm, she became System Administrator for their SharePoint requirements system and advanced to the Marketing Business Analyst. For a global asset management firm, she automated and improved several operational and testing processes. She also worked as an IT Specialist on a contract with the Social Security Administration. From 2000-2012, B.W. worked at Arbitron (now Nielsen), a global information and measurement company, providing comprehensive solutions to as many as 33 systems as a Senior Developer, Business Analyst and Lead Tester during her 12-year tenure. B.W. graduated at the top of her class earning a Computer Programming Diploma from The Chubb Institute in Parsippany, NJ. Note: B.W. is planning to relocate to the DC area.

M.D. (Baltimore, MD) has more than 20 years of experience in the field of sales and small business management. She has created and managed small businesses, from their development, marketing, client retention, procurement, and HR to accounting needs. Most recently, M.D. successfully worked as a sales assistant for a FlexProfessionals client in the construction industry and received excellent feedback regarding her performance. Prior to this project, she was a Real Estate salesperson licensed in MD, VA and DC. From 2003 to 2009, she lived in Europe where she created a business and also was a consultant for a printing company looking to gain market share. Earlier in her career she ran a Day Spa in DC, managed a team of 10 employees, and sold a skin care line where she created all marketing and POS material, organized trade shows and followed on leads to convert them into viable buyer accounts. She is proficient in Microsoft Suite, several CRM and is familiar with QuickBooks. She is open to a relocation closer to the DC area. She has a Professional Degree (equivalent BS) in Business Management and a Bachelors in International Commerce Operations.