Kate Allen
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Project, Contracts and Program Manager

Objective: To consult on short to long term, full time, consulting assignments
in the Northern Virginia area as a project, program or contract manager.

I am a seasoned professional with 12 years of experience in project and contract
management in the federal and private sectors. In the federal sector, as a
project manager for a USAID contractor, I managed several large multi-year
projects in Africa and Asia. I also worked on new business efforts in a variety
of capacities, including proposal manager and pricing specialist. I have
consulted on several IT projects for the Department of Education as a PMO lead. I
currently work as a contracts manager for a large defense contractor. In the
private sector, I have served as a Program Manager for a Web 2.0 strategy firm,
working with clients, consultants, and overhead staff.

My true value to an organization is my ability to get tasks done efficiently,
through skillful problem solving, task orientation, and with excellent written
and verbal communication. I work well independently and am extremely
self-motivated but who can also work in teams. Through my experiences in the
federal and private sectors, overseas, and with different cultures, I also have
the ability to work effectively with all types of people and situations. I have
extensive MS Office skills and can use Work, Powerpoint, Access, and Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Manager, Contracts and Pricing, L-3 LOTS 6/2008-present
 * Serves as Contracts and Pricing Manager the Linguist Operation and Technical
Support division of L-3 Services, Inc.
 * Responsible for contract management of 8 contracts and all division pricing,
for all types of federal contracts.

Program Manager, Hinchcliffe & Company 7/2006-6/2008
 * Served as Program and New Business Manager for Hinchcliffe & Company, as well
as performed back office work.
 * Responsible for growing the business through the new business process by
reviewing all technical proposals and creating the pricing volumes, and
negotiating with partners and subcontracts on their costs. RFPs include FFP and
T&M type proposals.
 * Manage sales and administrative staff, Web sites, and client relationship
management.

Independent Consultant, Washington, DC 5/2005-7/2006
Consultancies include:

E-Source Technologies, Inc., 2/2006-7/2006
New Business/PMO Support Specialist, Office of CFO, Department of Education
 * Assisted Contracts Officer and Technical Team to draft an approximately $25
million CPFF grants management system RFP for the DoEd. Assisted the Technical
Review team with the proposal process, including responses to industry,
Competitive Range and BAFO Selection Rounds.
 * Worked with the DoEd on managing the RFP process, including source
selection,

Innovative Solutions International 10/2005-2/2006
Contract Manager and Senior Pricing Specialist
 * Consulted as a contract manager and pricing specialist for an FAA
contractor.
 * Initiated and reviewed all contracts for the organization including, teaming
agreements, contracts, subcontracts, NDAs, memorandums of understanding, purchase
orders, and other supporting documents. The contract types included FFP, T&M, and
CPFF. The contract values ranged from $10,000 to $2 million.
 * Reviewed existing contract budgets for compliance, profitability, and
completeness.
 * Reviewed RFP for strategy. Created pricing volumes for business development
efforts for FAA and private sector RFPS. The RFPS were in the range of $200,000
to $1 million and were CPFF and FFP type contracts.
 * Once awarded, reviewed the contracts for appropriateness, negotiated changes,
and after signature, created subcontractor and consulting agreements based on the
flow down terms of the prime contract.

E-Source Technologies, Inc., 5/2005-11/2005
Team Lead/Deputy Project Manager, Office of CFO, Department of Education
 * Served as team lead/deputy project manager for a team of analysts for the
Office of the CFO for the Department of Education.
 * Responsible for a redesign of the Department of Education's grant management
system.
 * Responsible for understanding and documenting current business process to
identify areas with need for process re-engineering.

SAGE System Technologies, Inc., Crystal City, VA 3/2005-5/2005
Requirements Analyst, OUSD-Acquisitions, Technology, & Logistics (AT&L)
 * Served as contractor Analyst to an IT Management Department for one of the
Undersecretaries of Defense.
 * Interfaced with AT&L staff at Pentagon on three systems regarding budgeting,
procurement, and OMB liaison efforts.

CHEMONICS INTERNATIONAL, Washington, D.C. 10/1997-3/2005
Served as a Project and New Business Manager for 6 years and a Director for 2
years. Position specifics include:

Director, Document Management Department 10/2004-3/2005
 * Tasked with launching new department for a content and document management
implementation.
 * Responsible for product selection, contract and pricing negotiations, and
subcontract creation.
 * Administered staffing, scheduling, budget, customer communications, risk
management, QA/QC, and training of software implementation projects.
 * Managed 4 direct reports and a 4-member team of subcontractor consultants.
 * Established subcontracts, budgets, and staffing needs.
 * Monitored and directed work and performance of staff and subcontract staff
 * Managed and reported on departmental, project, and subcontract budgets and
costs.
 * Developed and reported on monthly and annual costs as well as annual budgets
and staffing configurations for executive review.
 * Prepared weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual status reports and conducted
progress briefings with executive staff.

Manager, Business Solutions Department 2002-2004
 * Established new software department within company. Established staffing plan
for building from 6 to 50 staff members and consultants and assisted in the
implementation of a testing team. Created templates for technical, process, and
budgetary reports.
 * Interviewed and hired 10 staff members, including staffing and salary
negotiations. Performed enterprise-level needs assessment with 14 departments and
established work plan and budget to address enterprise-level software needs.
 * Initiated and planned corporate intranet redesign, a web-based solution for
employees in the DC-based home office and 80 field offices. Ensured the
elicitation and input of requirements from President/CEO and other executive
staff to ensure capture of executive vision. Elicited additional
requirements/design specs for information architecture, branding, user interface,
and platform from executives and the general user community. Managed a team of 18
staff and subcontractor consultants.

New Business Manager, International Health Group. 2001-2002
 * Managed USAID RFPs and Contracts and subcontracts for Health Group for
international contracts. Reviewed the Prime Contract and created the
subcontracts, using the Prime Contract provisions. Negotiated the subcontract
with subcontractors.
 * Worked with New Business teams on RFP analysis and pricing strategy. Created
RFP response approach, including page allocation strategy and pricing strategy.
 * Worked a variety of proposals and contracts, including RFPs for CPFF, T&M,
CPAF, IDIQ, and Fixed Priced proposals. Created Cost Volumes, including cost
notes, and other required cost volume documentation. RFP sizes ranged from $10
million to $50 million, typically over 5 years. Additionally, served as Senior
Pricing Specialist. In particular, worked on a $250 million Health Implementation
CPFF USAID RFP, with 8 subcontractors and 70 proposed staff members. Managed 2
assistant pricing specialists who also worked on pricing effort. Worked with
subcontractors to establish teaming agreements and subcontractor pricing.
Supervised the creation of the entire Pricing Volume with cost notes, resumes,
and subcontracting plan.
 * Worked on competitive range and BAFO response strategy and pricing.
 * Worked with Proposal teams, Executive Staff, Senior Staff, Recruiters,
technical writers, procurement staff and others to create a robust and accurate
cost proposal.
 * Extremely familiar with FAMS, FARS, and USG CAS.
 * Trained junior staff in creating cost volumes.
 * Worked with procurement teams on international shipping and exports for cost
and contracts needs.
 * Assisted in starting-up a new Health Group for USAID contracts. Hired and
managed a new business staff of 4.
 * Managed departmental budget projections and management, reported directly to
senior vice-president.

New Business and Project Manager, Africa/Asia Department 1997-2001
Extensive experience in project and contracts management and new business:
 * Also managed USAID international development projects in Nepal, Botswana, and
Mali. Managed contract compliance, project deliverables, budget, and
communications with client.
 * Traveled extensively on supervisory visits to ensure projects met targets.
Met with local country staff and USAID Mission personnel.
 * Consultancies included:
 * Managed software development of a CD-based application with a user-friendly
interface front end with database-driven back end, providing Haitian Parliament
with data on international development projects implemented in Haiti. Managed the
design, development, testing and production of application. Also supervised data
collection and cleansing in Haiti. Worked with international donors to verify
data.
 * Traveled to Uganda to help the USAID-funded Uganda IDEA project reformulate
its milestones and monitoring and evaluation plan when a five-year extension was
awarded. Worked with the technical team and monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
specialist to recast indicators and results framework.
 * Managed project in Haiti creating an informational system for the Ministry of
Agriculture th