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Ms. Agnew has thirty years of experience in policy development and implementation, program and project management, coalition building and negotiation, public communication in four Federal agencies and five State agencies. Most recently Ann served as Executive Secretariat for the Department of Health and Human Services where she managed the office responsible for ensuring coordination and clearance of all policy documents for Secretary’s briefings, decisions and signature. In this role she directed review and coordinated policy decision making across all of the HHS departments, including CMS, CDC, FDA and NIH. With her staff she served as a gatekeeper for approval of all Department regulations, including complex Medicare payment

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Charlotte Bryan is a nationally recognized expert in aviation security with over 36 years of Federal experience including senior management responsibilities at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).  Key assignments at agency headquarters and in Brussels included senior responsibilities for aviation security policies and programs and stakeholder relations with U.S. and international airports and air carriers.

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Ms. Connelly has more than 20 years’ experience as a senior officer in Federal financial services entities including the Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation, Resolution Trust Corporation, Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Her expertise includes advising boards of directors on complex financial, operational and asset management issues, as well as developing strategies and processes for budgeting, financial control and communications.

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Joe Cuddihy is a retired federal employee with over thirty years experience in the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.

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Patricia Grysavage has over 25 years of experience working in a number of federal programs. She held a broad range of executive positions entailing human and financial resources, IT, and organization management.

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Mr. Guilfoyle has held several Senior Vice President, Business Development positions throughout his 27-year career in federal government contracting. Prior to joining McConnell International, he led business development and sales teams for several top government contractors whose principal area of focus was Information Technology to include:

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With a 30-year career in the information technology industry, Joyce Hunter is a seasoned executive leveraging a diverse background in providing hardware, software and services to industry and all levels of government with a particular focus on health related agencies and organizations. This multi-dimensional experience enables Ms. Hunter to offer “big picture” strategies to clients, combining knowledge of today’s business needs with expertise in applying a spectrum of technologies, standards and partners to meet local, national and global challenges.

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Kristine Marcy is a retired federal executive with over 30 years of experience in ten federal departments and agencies. During her career, Ms. Marcy blended deep technical knowledge with extensive hands-on experience to assist agencies in both operational and leadership positions. Today, as an executive consultant for McConnell International, Ms. Marcy brings to bear her considerable network of contacts and her direct knowledge of many US federal agencies to help clients navigate the procurement process and prepare themselves for the right opportunities.

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Lynn McNulty has more than 30 years of IT and computer security experience. Mr. McNulty’s entire federal career has centered on computer security including his time at the Department of State where he initiated the Department’s computer security program.

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Patricia O'Neil has an extensive background in the areas of e-government, veterans affairs, governmental operations and management issues, general analyses, and project management. Her distinguished career has spanned both the public and private sector.

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John Osthaus possesses over twenty years of experience in managing highly complex legislation focused on appropriations for the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Commerce. During his 22-year career with the House Appropriations Committee, he served for 15 years as chief of staff for the Subcommittee on the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and twenty independent agencies.

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Rear Admiral Gordon Piché retired from the US Coast Guard in June, 1998, having served more than 34 years of increasing managerial experience with extensive recruitment, assessment, and personnel management on a national scale in positions as Director of Personnel management for the entire Coast Guard with more than 44,000 military and civilian employees; and Assistant Superintendent at the US Coast Guard Academy.

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John Sandy has over thirty years of experience managing large, highly complex organizations in three diverse federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). Before joining McConnell International, Mr. Sandy served in a broad range of executive positions within these agencies.

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Denny Standridge is a former Director with more than forty years of direct experience in the Social Security Administration (SSA). His areas of expertise at SSA include multi-million dollar procurement efforts, worldwide deployments, and overall support of SSA's information technology infrastructure. He directed 24 x 7 support of SSA's overall network, desktop architecture and the National Data Center in Woodlawn, MD.

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Howard Stern has more than 25 years’ executive experience in all aspects of business development, sales, marketing and product management.  Mr. Stern has developed sales/marketing organizations and grown revenues in both the commercial and government markets with a strong focus on IT services, market intelligence and e-government solutions.  By combining extensive private sector sales and marketing expertise with a deep knowledge of Federal government operations, he has an impressive record of contract wins across a range of federal agencies.

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Dennis Szymanski has 29 years in the business of Information Technology.  He is a retired Federal employee with experience as an analyst, line manager, project/program manager, and executive.  As a Federal Government executive, he was the Deputy Chief Information Officer at the U.S. International Trade Commission providing discipline and leadership for main mission and infrastructure projects including an electronic document information system and network replacement project.