Govcon Giants

Elliott Branch is truly a once in a lifetime individual who is absolutely brilliant.  He was the Director of Contracts for Naval Sea Systems command, which is the largest or next to largest single buying activity in federal government. And our team over here at Govon Giants just happen to catch him a cool 6 weeks out of retirement at the time of this interview so we got lucky to be the first ones ...

One of the interesting things about Social Media is how far your voice travels. Apparently, there are no boundaries and I found this out by becoming acquittances with our guest.  "Buongiorno Eric" the email reads, along with the subject line "From Italy" Vicky Mangano reached out to me back at the end of 2018 all the way from Europe, Sicily, Italy to be specific. She was a consultant helping compa...

Today's guest is Charles Jones. He started out in the mortgage industry back in 2008 until the market crash and everything's shut down. It was during those difficult times that he formed his company C&S Jones group to start assisting with cleaning up all the abandoned properties on behalf of asset managers. Today his business looks very different and Mr. Jones is responsible for managing Military...

Alex Hernandez founded Hernandez Consulting & Construction in 2005 and currently serves as CEO and Chairman of the Board. Hernandez Consulting & Construction is a project management firm and general contractor specializing in design, construction, design-build and real estate development. Under Alex's leadership, the firm has grown exponentially and now actively operates in a large portion of the...

Today's guest, Ms. Janetta Brewer, is the  owner of Blue Alchemy Consulting. She has an extensive federal contracting background, which includes roles with the Office of Secretary of Defense, US Navy, Defense Logistics Agency, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Air Force, Department of Homeland Security and in her last federal, she was a senior member of the Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy...

Today's guest, Dee Kivett is the CEO and president of NextGen Supply Chain Integrators. NextGen specializes in helping companies seeking certification to ISO 900 and 1345, AS 9100 and 9120, TS 16949 standards, as well as the rigorous requirements of Boeing. Dee grew up sitting on tires at the race track watching her father and uncle, the world famous Wood Brothers, race their cars around the circu...

Beverly Kuykendall, President of Government Business, leads AMD's expansion into key areas aligned with the firm's long-term strategic goals. She has a background in relationship development and government contracting, and brings a facilitative approach to understanding and proposing solutions to difficult economic issues. In March 2016, AMD was awarded a $1.2 billion government contract for the p...

Orlando Epinosa is the recipient of the U.S Small Business Administration South Florida District and State of Florida Small Business Advocate of the year for 2016 and 2018. In this episode, we talk about the SBA Emerging Leaders program as well as other valuable resources.  Orlando is the co-founder of Emineo Media, an organization that designs, develops and implements business and outreach curric...

Today's guest was gracious enough to take time out of his busy schedule as the newly-appointed SBA regional administrator, to talk with us. Ashley D. Bell was appointed Feb. 2018, by the White House, to serve as regional administrator for the US Small Business Administration, Region IV, serving nine district locations and eight southeastern states, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mi...

Donnie Harris, former senior contracting officer with an unlimited warrant, meaning he could sign off at any size contract. Over the course of his 20 years in government he managed complex and high-profile procurements totaling over $3 billion, that's billion with a B, from the acquisition phase to the pre-award for three DC agencies. His government customers where Mr. Harris provided procurement...

Dr. Karen Vieira owns The Med Writers, is an author and speaker. The Med Writers formed in 2011, writes content for medical and scientific clients in the fields of pharmaceutical, healthcare, supplement, and biotech.  Her doctorate is in biomedical sciences, with a Masters in Management. Last year, she was awarded the Small Business Administration Miami's Women-Owned Small Business Person of the Y...

With more than 18 million veterans in the US, either you or someone you know will be able to benefit from the information we share in this upcoming episode. Darcella Craven is the Chief Fear Conqueror and President of the Veteran Resource Business Center, the nonprofit economic development agency assessing challenges and developing solutions to grow successful veteran-owned businesses and also imm...

In 2018, Ms. Burnett was appointed the Executive Director for the HUBZone Contractors National Council, a member-based non-profit organization established to advocate, educate and promote the HUBZone Program. Ms. Burnett's knowledge of the HUBZone Program and expertise on government contracting stems from 10 years supporting the HUBZone small business community both as a contractor for  SBA and sm...

In this episode, LTC Gabriel Ruiz (Ret) brings us an incredible story of success through hard work, perseverance, learning and giving back. LTC Gabriel Ruiz is President and CEO of Advanced IT Concepts, Inc. (AITC), was recently awarded the 2017 North Florida Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Ruiz was also recognized as the 2016 North Florida Distri...

Matthew Schoonover is a partner at Koprince Law LLC, a boutique law firm in Lawrence, Kansas, that works exclusively with federal government contractors. As part of his practice, Matt counsels contractors on the unique issues they face working for the federal government from compliance with the FAR and the SBA's regulations, to representing clients in bid protests and claims. Matt is a frequent co...

Angela is President of Perez APC, an international design-build-develop firm. She was  named New Orleans 2016 Small Business Person of the Year and first runner up for National Small Business Person of the Year,  by the U.S. Small Business Administration. She is a passionate advocate for women in architecture and construction, and works with professional and non-profit organizations dedicated to t...

Jennifer Namvar is a Capture Director for Leidos with 16 years of experience in all phases of the federal government business development life cycle. Her previous 4 employers are all consistently on the DOD Top 100 list.     Jennifer built her reputation in the GovCon industry by bidding and winning large, strategic opportunities within the Defense and Federal Civilian agencies with a focus on eme...

Linda Rawson is a technology entrepreneur, author, inventor, and C-level executive.  Since 2006, she has owned and operated DynaGrace Enterprises, a Women-Owned Small Business in rural Morgan, Utah.  She started as a software engineer in the eighties when it was not typical for a woman in Utah.  She has received several awards for Davis/Morgan business of the year and wrote a very vulnerable book...

Robert Wink is the CEO of Integrity Lion Acquisitions. Robert comes with a vast experience working from within government. He retired from the US Army with multiple deployments to Iraq, was Contracting Officer with FEMA and is currently a Contact Specialist with the US Army Corps of Engineers.  Robert is also written two books "Small Business Starter Guide to Federal Government Contracts & Searchi...

Narjis B. Ali is the President and CEO of Sure Secure Solutions, an 8a Woman Owned Information Technology (IT) Security company founded in 2004.   The companies core capabilities include Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Content Management and Information Management.     She has received numerous awards dating back to 2012 and most recently the prestigious 2016 US Small Business Administration and...

After the real estate market crashed in 2007 Mr. Coffie launched a successful consulting company helping small business owners earn millions in revenues via federal small business programs. In 2012 he launched Evankoff Construction, a steel erection company building airplane hangars and metal buildings for government agencies around the country.   In 2017 Mr. Coffie launched Scorecontracts @ YouTu...