SUMMARY:

• Designed two grant proposal and technical writing consulting firms that served academic, non - profit, and corporate clients.
• Secured public and private grant funding and produced white papers.
• Created clients’ grant manuals and guides.
• Grant Office Creation and Management
• Secured science research, medical, graduate fellowship funding for natural, physical, biomedical sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts programs.
• Grantsmanship training for college, university, non-profit, and research-based small businesses
• Created Confidential responses.
• Managed grant/contract lifecycle (pre-award, post award and close-out).
• Assessed grantees’ performance, enforced regulatory compliance, and created grantees’ corrective action plans for 100+ grantee portfolio.
• Training
• Designed and delivered grant development training.
• Developed and taught Confidential Clear Writing seminars (using federal, Plain Language standards).

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Technical Writer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Technical writing, editing, and grant expertise for private for profit and non-profit companies and for colleges, universities, and arts organizations.

Contract Technical Writer

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating on Subject Matter Expert Team to produce Confidential electronic health record (eHR) documents on Cybersecurity, IT Infrastructure, Health Informatics, Business Processes research and guidance documents.
• This included developing lay accessible, informaticists’, engineers’, business processing professionals’, and privacy and security experts’ content in lay language.
• The work involved describing necessary fortifications for the IT infrastructure upon which Confidential could rely.
• It involved Interviewing Confidential medical professionals and potential vendors; creating assumptions, constraints and risk management texts.
• This effort included explicating all eHR-related functional and technical requirements.

Federal Program Officer/Education Program Specialist

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Managed pre/post award and closeout grant phases; managed programs and grantees; designed competitions, guidelines, Requests for Proposals (RFPs), standard operating procedures (SOPs); provided technical assistance to applicants; represented the Department at professional meetings.
• Managed 100+ grantee portfolio (e.g. curriculum, faculty and workforce development projects, museum collections expansion, student support services).
• Monitored grantees’ performance and compliance with federal rules and regulations.
• Managed grant competitions and peer review panels for 25+ programs.
• Wrote and edited technical program guides, blogs, web content, official documents, Congressional correspondence, and Freedom of Information Act ( Confidential ) responses.
• Developed and presented Office of Postsecondary Education Clear Writing seminars.
• Collaborated with Office of the General Counsel and Inspector General’s Offices to undertake grantee-fact-finding and corrective action plans.
• Conducted grantee site visits and developed assessment reports.

Consultant/Consulting Firm Founder/President

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Created, marketed, and managed two winning proposal writing/technical writing/editing consulting firms.
• Clients: colleges, research universities, hospitals, biotechnology companies, medical device corporations, public health and education non-profits, state and county agencies, and biomedical research facilities.
• Developed successful, clearly written proposals that articulated complex scientific and engineering advances.
• Produced technical documents that explained scientific and medical research in lay language.
• Provided grantsmanship training -- faculty, professionals, EPA fellows, non-profit leaders.
• Hired trained, and managed teams of contracted writers and library researchers.
• Recruited and hired previous grantees to serve as pre-submission grant reviewers.

Development Director

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Developed promotional materials and successful grant proposals; secured private corporate and foundation funding.
• Developed and submitted successful grant proposals to federal, foundation, and corporate philanthropic entities; developed white papers on electronic medical records, retail health clinics, and emergency preparedness (including telecommunications issues); developed emergency-preparedness tabletop exercises.

Director, Federal Grants Division

Confidential, Puerto Rico/Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Designed office, trained and managed 7-member, staff and formulated successful proposals that secured Department of Commerce, National Endowment for the Arts and other federal funding (including Confidential Save America’s Treasures grant applications
• Developed Commonwealth agencies’ federal communications, environmental, health, and education regulatory compliance plans.
• Brokered agreements between Commonwealth’s government and federal agencies.
• Researched and wrote Commonwealth’s agricultural, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical economic development white papers. Helped to write Commonwealth’s Annual Strategic Plan.