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.

K.L. has 20+ years of experience in financial analysis and project management in the telecommunications industry, along with controller-level experience via her volunteer undertakings. In 2019 she accepted a company-wide buyout after a 17-year career at Verizon Communications, where she most recently served as Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis. She was responsible for budgeting, forecasting, quota development, commission structuring, and executive management reporting for a direct sales team of 40+ reps and over $150M in revenue. She reported monthly to the Sales Director and VP on revenue and sales performance. Through several acquisitions and reorganizations affecting her employer in recent years, K.L. adapted quickly to changes, developing new reporting for revenue and sales trends, employee performance, and other key metrics, presenting to executives monthly to facilitate focus on the evolving organization.  She also managed projects including facilities consolidation, capital project evaluation, cost model development and profitability analyses. K.L. is proficient in MS Office Suite and MS Access. She has advanced proficiency in MS Excel where she regularly utilizes vlookups, pivot tables, and graphs to best communicate financial analyses.  She earned a Bachelors in Economics and International Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MBA from Stetson University.

S.P. is an award-winning technical writer and editor with 12+ years of experience managing documentation projects to meet an organization’s compliance, training, or customer service goals. Her diverse experience includes positions in government, technology, and higher education. Currently, S.P. creates and edits sensitive internal documents, updates web content, and manages electronic records for a higher education provider. Between 2003 and 2015, S.P. worked six years at U.S. embassies in Guatemala and Cuba. In various roles, she planned and executed complex writing projects, including reports for Congress and the executive branch and social media outreach. From 2000-2003, as an independent contractor, S.P. created online help systems and interactive, web-based training modules for technology and wireless industry clients. From 1997-2000, S.P. worked as a technical writer and web content manager for software and eLearning companies in the Seattle area, documenting nearly every phase of the software and web development life cycles. S.P. is advanced proficient in MS Office Suite and proficient in WordPress, CommonSpot, Hootsuite, Adobe Creative Cloud, HTML, RoboHelp, MS Project, and MS Teams. She has a BA from Grinnell College and a Professional Certification in Technical Writing and Editing from the University of Washington.

B.F. has owned her own boutique, marketing firm since 2013 where she has specialized in working with small businesses to exceed their customer engagement goals. B.F. specializes in developing creative, effective websites, social media, events, partnerships, press releases, newsletters, promotional materials and branding.  Prior to relocating to Northern Virginia in 2013, she had a successful 15-year career in the entertainment marketing industry in New York City, where she managed marketing and advertising project for Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Bros. Pictures, Harris Publications, and more. She has an MBA in both Marketing and Media Communications from Fordham University and a Bachelor’s in Advertising with a Minor in Business from the University of Florida.

N.K. (Potomac, MD) has 15+ years of experience in planning, managing and executing meetings and programs both domestically and internationally. She has deep experience working with diverse audiences from young professionals to senior dignitaries within the military, federal government, NGO, academia and private sectors. She currently works on a project basis for the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), where she served as a Senior Program Officer from 2004-2013. She managed their SENSE computer simulation program, which involved locating venues that met specific IT needs, administering and managing the budget, preparing training materials, recruiting participants, and reporting results and outcomes. She managed and executed these programs in the U.S. as well as in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkey, including overseeing logistics and travel for participants and trainers. In addition, she regularly took the lead on implementing special projects for the Institute, including managing VIP/dignitary groups at special and high-profile events. She is proficient in MS Office Suite, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and MAC and PC platforms and is fluent in Arabic and Turkish.  She has a Masters in Design and Technology and an Associate degree in Graphic Design from Parsons School of Design and a Bachelors in International Relations from Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service.