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WARREN H. SUSS

Mr. Suss is President of Suss Consulting, Inc., which currently has over 70 experts on Federal IT, most of whom have retired from senior positions in Department of Defense and Civil Agency IT organizations. Suss Consulting, Inc. has been delivering high value results with integrity for over twenty-four years, helping clients win over $40 billion in contracts. Suss Consulting specializes in federal market strategy, research, sales, and proposals (win strategy, management, editing, writing, and pricing). Suss Consulting also provides services directly to federal agencies. The company has completed assignments for the government in areas including technology strategy, information management, local service strategy, CIO organization design, IT investment review, Voice-over-IP (VoIP), ERP services and systems, call centers, performance reporting, and strategic management of human capital.

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RICHARD ABBOTT

Mr. Abbott is a Lead Consultant with Suss Consulting. He is a highly successful business development and program executive and was responsible for the execution of major systems integration programs and service contracts in a career spanning more than two decades.

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RENEE BARNOW

Ms. Barnow has more than 30 years of experience in marketing, organizational, and technical communication and management. As an employee, Ms. Barnow has been Publications and Publications Affairs Director for a small, independent federal government agency and Writer/Editor/Research Analyst for a major federal contract research company. As a consultant, Ms. Barnow has created, designed, and developed newsletters and training materials on e-commerce, telecommunications, and continuous process improvement. She has supported hundreds of proposals as a manager, writer, and coach. She is recognized as an orals proposal coach and her publications have won awards of excellence.

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RON BENREY

Mr. Benrey is a Senior Consultant with Suss Consulting. He brings more than 25 years of hands-on experience developing written and oral proposals, writing executive speeches, and coaching presenters and presentation teams.

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JOHNNY L. BERRY, P.E., MCSE

More than 30 years of experience in the management, development, and marketing of advanced telecommunications and C4ISR systems.

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JOSEPH J. BOBEK

Served as principal consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers managing financial management improvement projects for the Department of State and Department of Agriculture. Before joining PWC, he spent 33 years with the Federal Government in various leadership positions. As Chief Financial Officer for the US Courts, he managed an annual operating budget in excess of $4.0 billion. Prior to the US Courts, he served as the Deputy Assistant Director of Administration at the Secret Service, Chief of Financial Management at the Agricultural Marketing Service and Senior Budget Analyst at the Department of Navy.

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JAY R. BRANDSTADTER

Jay Brandstadter has over 45 years of experience in telecommunications and information technology in the public and private sectors. Mr. Brandstadter had management responsibilities in user organizations deploying advanced technologies and in supplier organizations developing and marketing leading-edge products and services. He is a nationally-known analyst, speaker and author in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and related areas.

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DANIEL G. BRAUN

Daniel Braun has more than 32 years experience as a military leader and corporate executive in operations, engineering, and program management positions vis-à-vis communications and computer systems.

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EVELYN A. BROWN

Evelyn Brown, a Certified Government Financial Manager, is a Lead Consultant with Suss Consulting, Inc. Ms. Brown has over 34 years of experience in the U.S. Government as a senior executive and senior manager. Her expertise covers all areas of the financial management arena including Standard General Ledger expertise as well as financial statement preparation, audit and internal control, accounting, budgeting, asset management, financial systems, and human resource management and development.

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ANDY CARPENTER

Andy Carpenter is a Senior Program Manager with Suss Consulting. He has over forty years experience in both supervisory and technical positions within the telecommunications industry.

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JOE H. CHADDIC

Deputy Chief Information Officer, Foreign Affairs System Integration, and Chief Knowledge Officer, for the US Department of State. His previous responsibilities included Director of the Regional Information Management Center, East Asia, The Pacific and South Asia, Director of the Internet Project Team, Director of the NATO Civil Communications Planning Center, and Executive Secretary of the Diplomatic Telecommunications System Policy Board.

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PAUL J. CHRISTIANSEN

Paul Christiansen has more than 27 years experience in IT, including seven years in large, complex proposal preparation and quality assurance for many federal, state and local government agencies. He can perform a full range of proposal activities, including specialized areas such as IT service, SLA development/definition and complex project risk assessment and mitigation planning.

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KEVIN J. COGAN

Kevin Cogan has over 35 years of experience in military communications, software development, information systems, education, and acquisition management. He has a broad technical education and background and has served in a variety of research and development positions in both Army and multi-national projects. He is certified by the Department of Defense (DOD) acquisition management program. He retired from the U.S. Army after 30 years of uniformed service in the grade of Colonel.

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LEE COOGLE

Lee Coogle is a Senior Consultant with Suss Consulting with over 20 years of program and contract management, business process reengineering, proposal development, and marketing experience. He has served as a program manager for a multi-million dollar program providing computer networking equipment to the Department of Defense; and has worked as a business development manager for a large systems integrator. Mr. Coogle is a skilled manager, negotiator, communicator, and analyst providing process improvement analysis, program management, technical writing and editing, marketing, and proposal preparation.

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JOHN W. COOK

John Cook has over thirty years of senior leadership experience Managing Programs, Designing and Executing Capture Management and Business Development Strategies and Developing Policy and Program Plans in the Government marketplace. He has particularly deep and broad experience in the areas of Health Information Technology (HIT) application; Electronic Medical Records based solutions and Public Health policy and programs.

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MICHAEL L. CORRIGAN

Former Vice President within EDS Government Information Group and Assistant Commissioner for GSA. Special Assistant for Integrated Digital Architecture in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (C3I), and Technical Manager of the Defense Data Network (DDN). Proposal manager, technical proposal lead, and senior writer/editor on systems integration, software engineering, information systems security, and enterprise networking proposals.

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CHARLES F. CROWE

Has has over 30 years experience in the area of IT federal proposal preparation, project management and government sales. He can perform a full range of services from marketing support to proposal assessment and program management. Charlie's primary strengths are in the areas of marketing direction, technical assessment and proposal management.

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MARIO DE MARCO

Mario De Marco is a Lead Consultant with Suss Consulting. He has more than thirty-five years of experience planning, developing, designing, implementing and managing information technology systems in the private sector.

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NICHOLAS DEL VECCHIO

Mr. Del Vecchio is a Lead Consultant with Suss Consulting with more than 45 years of experience in the acquisition, development, implementation and operations of information and telecommunications systems for the Department of Defense, the National Intelligence Community, and other Federal Agencies such as the VA, NASA, and the FAA. Included in Mr. Del Vecchio’s experience is more that 25 years of senior executive management experience in building and operating business units in large and small companies such as SAIC, Hughes, Linkabit, BETAC and ARTEL.

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KAREN S. DEUTSCH

Ms. Deutsch is an experienced federal proposal manager and editor, and has also held senior positions in federal business development.

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JAMES E. DOLEZAL

Has more than 35 years experience in designing, planning, acquiring, and managing telecommunications services. Prior to joining Suss Consulting, he served as the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Telecommunications Chief. He has experience in project management, policy analysis, developing and implementing new services, optimizing service delivery, and improving data networks, telephone systems, and radio communication services, and is familiar with new telecommunications technologies, Federal acquistion procedure, and alternative pricing mechanisms.

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CHARLES F. DUBAY

Experienced Program Director of Treasury Communications System, Customs Support Systems Division, and Honeywell.

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PETER M. DURANT

Peter Durant has over thirty years of experience in improving the performance of Federal organizations. He has a track record of achievement in managing Federal budgetary, acquisition, human capital, infrastructure, and information management operations. Throughout his career, he has served as a consultant to senior political and career executives, helping them address successfully their most challenging organizational issues.

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GORDON DURFLINGER

Mr. Durflinger is a Senior Consultant with Suss Consulting. He is a successful business development and program executive with 40 years of IT experience in the Federal and Private sectors. Mr. Durflinger has extensive knowledge and expertise in Business Development, Program Management, Project Management, Database Development and Administration, Federal Government procurement practices and regulations, IT ordering and billing, and customer service.

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VAN T. FOSTER

Director of the Department of State's Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Program Office.

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DONALD E. FOWLER II

Don Fowler is a proven leader with over 37 years experience in telecommunications, information management, operations research, and artificial intelligence. He has extensive background in program management, project management, strategic planning, budgeting and business development. Don has over 26 years experience in the Army Signal Corps (Colonel; Top Secret/SCI clearance), and over 12 years experience in industry as a program manager, account manager, operations manager, consultant, and client principal.

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PETER E. GAGNON

Chief of Telecommunications Management with the Department of Education, and Senior Manager at the Bureau of Census.

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JOAN GARIAZZO

FAA program manager for telecommunications systems and services. Managed RCL, LDRCL, NADIN II, and DMN. Also played key roles in acquisition of other major systems and services, including LINCS and FAATSAT.

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JOHN GARING

Mr. Garing is a highly successful executive with experience in strategic planning, delivering and operating information technology and telecommunications solutions for defense, other government, and commercial clients. He has a track record of connecting dots and discerning needs with practical and game changing strategies and solutions in a career in government and the private sector spanning more than four decades.

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GEORGE H. HOGEBOOM

Mr. Hogeboom is a Senior Consultant with Suss Consulting. He has more than 25 years of experience in all phases of the information systems development lifecycle and extensive experience developing successful information technology proposals. After contract award, Mr. Hogeboom often managed the resulting engagements, ranging from large system development and implementation programs to analytical studies involving highly complex systems and solutions.

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MARY ANN HOVIS

Director of Marketing and Business Development for NIS at GTE, Director of Civil Government Sales for Contel, and Director of Sales for Northern Telecom.

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WAYNE HUCKE

Proposal and Pricing Director at N.E.T. Federal, IT Director, N.E.T. Federal, and Manager of Technical Administration with M/A-COM DCC, Inc.

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CAROL J. HUDGENS

Carol Hudgens is a Sales and Business Development professional with Suss Consulting. With more than twenty-five years in Sales and Sales Management in the Wireless/Telecommunications industry, Ms. Hudgens has a proven track record in sales attainment and building high performance sales teams. She has a successful track record in negotiating and closing large revenue contracts in the Federal and commercial marketplace both domestically and internationally. Having won numerous awards in new contracts in the Federal civilian sector, she is a proven leader in forming teams with Telecom services providers, Federal system integrators & partners. She is a proven sales professional with a reputation for strong leadership and an obsession in delighting the customer.

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TERESA M. JENKINS

Teresa Jenkins has more than 30 years of distinguished accomplishments with the Federal Government. She served as Deputy Associate Director for Management Services and Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency responsible for helping the President manage the 1.8 million civilian employees in the Federal workforce. She has extensive HRM experience with numerous agencies within the Defense Department to include the Army, Navy, National Guard, and the Department’s overseas school system. Ms. Jenkins’ experience in HRM policy leadership, advice, and assistance, helped build successful, high performance organizations. Her leadership experience and skills enabled her to develop a vision and roadmap to strategically transform organizational cultures to achieve mission objectives.

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DAVE JOHNSON

Dave Johnson is a Senior Consultant with Suss Consulting. He has more than 30 years military, civil service, and civilian experience, principally as a Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) operations manager.

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FRANK M. JONES, JR.

Mr. Jones has more than 31 years of federal government experience in leadership, development, and direct management of administrative and management programs including emergency preparedness, personnel and physical security operations, personnel security policy and operations, and health and safety operations. He also has experience in the management of national health insurance programs and systems.

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JUDITH M. KAHN

Over 20 years experience managing, writing and winning telecom, IT, and professional services proposals. Prior to joining Suss Consulting, Ms. Kahn was an independent consultant providing management and proposal support. She has provided capture management, proposal management, Pink, Red and Gold Team reviews and has written major portions of many proposals. Proposals have ranged from short IDIQ responses with less than 10-day turnaround to multimillion-dollar full and open competitions to provide communications hardware software and services to government clients nationwide.

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JAMES A. KANE Ph.D.

Dr. Kane is a successful leader of organizations that operate in complex, technology-intensive business environments. He has a unique understanding of business, technology and government domains, and the ability to strategically integrate these domains to achieve organizational objectives. His success reflects a keen intellect, effective leadership, and exceptional communications skills. He is a recognized thought leader as evidenced by numerous articles, conference presentations and Congressional testimony.

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MARY LAMB

Mary Lamb is Chief Operating Officer with Suss Consulting, Inc. She has more than 24 years of corporate executive leadership experience. Ms. Lamb has operations experience in managing people and processes for large applications development projects and information technology programs with numerous federal government clients as well as, extensive experience in strategic planning, client relationships and business development.

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MICHAEL W. LENZMEIER

Mr. Lenzmeier has more than 22 years of industry experience in systems engineering, technical and proposal writing, program management, and project operations. He offers special expertise in supporting telecommunications projects, including research, evaluation, and recommendations for technical design for complex telecommunications systems and writing of operations and maintenance procedures for large data centers. He can handle assignments requiring substantial knowledge of telecommunications and integration products, management and implementation techniques, and technical plan preparation. Mr. Lenzmeier has provided management oversight for the development of Help Desk, Overseas Support Desk, Warehouse and Logistics Support, Training and Installation, Configuration Management and Domestic Training responses.

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SALLIE McDONALD

Sallie is a Lead Consultant with Suss Consulting. Sallie is a retired Federal Senior Executive with over 30 years of experience specializing in cyber security, critical infrastructure protection and telecommunications issues.

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WILLIAM P. MCQUIGGAN

Mr. McQuiggan is a Lead Consultant with Suss Consulting. He has been the successful capture manager and proposal manager for over a billion dollars worth of new business from defense and non-defense agencies.

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RALEIGH W. MOSES

Project manager and proposal manager with GTE. Held leadership positions in DISA regional organizations and staff positions with Navy in the Pentagon.

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JOHN O'CONNOR

Accomplished writer and editor. More than 15 years of writing/rewriting winning proposals for high-tech corporations.

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DONALD V. OTEY

Vice President with ARTEL, Inc., Project Manager with CSC and DISA.

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EDWARD R. PALMQUIST

Mr. Palmquist is a Senior Consultant with Suss Consulting. He is a results oriented leader with extensive experience in strategic planning, business development, demonstrating technology, and developing cost effective IT solutions.

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DIANNE M. PIERCE REPP

Dianne Pierce Repp has more than twenty years professional experience in all aspects of large-scale Federal Government contracting efforts, including proposal preparation, negotiation, program and contract management, account development, training, and post award sales and marketing.

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PERCY J. PURNELL

Director of Marketing and Business Development for the Secure Enterprise Solutions Group of Lockheed Martin. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin he served as the Director of Marketing and Business Development for the Network and Information Systems Division of GTE.

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EARL D. RASMUSSEN, PE

Mr. Rasmussen has over 22 years experience in capital planning, systems acquisition, program management, policy analysis, and information technology (IT). He has supported investment analysis, strategy development, Clinger-Cohen Act implementation, and investment/program oversight. He has supported the senior levels of management across the federal government and has developed policy recommendations affecting technology acquisition, management, and workforce development. Mr. Rasmussen is a licensed Professional Engineer and certified Defense Acquisition professional.

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WILLIAM M. REAP

Over 20 years of experience preparing proposals for data and communications systems, defense systems hardware and software, air traffic control systems, system integration, shock and vibration engineering, environmental engineering, advanced modeling and testing, reliability and safety engineering, avionics, acoustics, electro-optics, highly secure network architecture, and information technologies.

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DAVID L. ROST

Senior Contracts Officer for GE, Electronic Systems Division, Federal Contracts lawyer, and Navy Contracting Officer.

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JOHN SANDER, MBA, CGFM

Senior financial analyst for the Department of State with extensive experience in financial management policy, systems and operations. Served as Chief Accounting Officer for State managing the domestic and overseas accounting programs and as Deputy Executive Director and Budget Officer for the Foreign Service Institute. Prior to State, directed all planning and budgeting activities for the National Credit Union Administration. Active in CFO Council human resources initiatives and contributing author of publications in financial, budget and program management.

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DON SCOTT

Don Scott is an Executive Consultant with Suss Consulting. He has had a distinguished career in both government and industry which included senior military and civilian positions, and executive leadership positions in industry supporting civilian, military, and state and local government clients. He has extensive experience in strategic planning, client relationships and business development.

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GEORGE SIBLEY

George Sibley is a Lead Consultant with Suss Consulting. He has more than 37 years of corporate executive leadership experience in the computer services industry.

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JACK STRATFORD

Jack Stratford is a Lead Consultant with Suss Consulting. He was a highly successful Air Force Officer who spent 28 years in Communications and Information Systems line, staff and command positions and subsequently fifteen years with industry in strategic planning, proposal development, program and financial management of large IT task order contracts, and customer relationship management.

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EILEEN M. SUSSMAN

Has 30 years experience in the information technology industry, with emphasis in government communication systems. She has a broad knowledge of the proposal process supporting both bidding organizations and government evaluators. She can perform a full range of acquisition activities, from capture manager to proposal manager to author.

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CHARLES TRIGGER

Served as the Requirements and Plans Department Head for the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Command (NCTC).

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WAYNE TURK

Wayne Turk is an accomplished management and project management expert with 35 years experience. He is an experienced program/project manager, most recently supporting the National Guard Bureau. He has also provided program/project management for IT, business process reengineering, strategic planning, and training projects for organizations. He served over 26 years with the Air Force, including flying and command assignments. He is a published author with numerous articles on management and project management.

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RICHARD D. WEIRICH

Served as Chief Information Officer with the US Postal Service culminating a 25-year career for one of the largest IT operations in the world. He transformed the IT function at the USPS from an internally focused service bureau to a business change agent, expanding its role to include mail-tracking systems, point-of-sale systems, call centers, and Internet-based services. He also served as Assistant Postmaster General of the Technology Resource Department.

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PATRICIA L. WENSEL

Mrs. Wensel has more than 25 years of experience as a government accountant, auditor, analyst, and manager with an emphasis in all phases of financial and management analysis; strategic and performance planning; financial management, accounting and audit policy development; program, financial management, administrative, and accounting systems reviews; budget analysis; and internal auditing. She has extensive experience in managing projects to implement various presidential initiatives and laws and regulations in financial management areas.

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LARRY K. WENTZ

Researcher at the George Mason University Center of Excellence in C3I, VP Advanced Communications Systems, ASD C3I Deputy Director of the Command and Control Research Program, Technical Director at the MITRE Corporation, Director US National Technical Expert support to the NATO C3 Agency, and Telecommunications Systems Engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories. In addition to his extensive technical and senior management experience in military C4ISR systems and commercial telecommunications and information systems he has extensive operational experience in the area of military support to peace operations in the Balkans. Additionally, he is a writer, author, and lecturer on Multinational C4ISR Systems Interoperability, Information Operations and Civil-Military Operations.

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ROBERT (BOB) YOUNG

Mr. Young is a Lead Consultant with Suss Consulting. He has more than forty years experience in the IT industry serving private sector and government clients in the U.S. as well as internationally. Mr. Young’s experience ranges from system design to business development, and sales with emphasis on large program management, general management/executive leadership and international business. Mr. Young’s international experience includes nineteen years of living and/or working in countries in the Middle East and the Asia Pacific regions as well as Puerto Rico.

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