Proposal and Grant Writing

Over the course of a 25-year career, Tamara has successfully authored, led, or provided strategic advice and review for over $25MM in federal, state, and local government proposals focused on civilian agency programs, health and human services, health information technology, enterprise transformation, and modernization. Her systems engineering training, coupled with her skills in human centered design and organizational change, provides her with a unique ability to see the big picture, craft a value-based strategy, and direct teams to winning proposals whose innovative solutions speak to their client’s needs and outcomes while demonstrating they are the best value.

A sample of her successful government-based proposals are below:

CDC Public Health Integrated Project Management – $4MM; POP: 1 Year (8a Award)
HHS Technology Group (HTG) COVID-19 Research Database – $1MM, POP: 1 year (Commercial Health)
MassHealth Community Partners Analytics and Portal Program – cumulative $4.5MM, POP: multiple renewals of 1-year periods (State Health)
Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Task Order 52 – authored SOW and proposals for multiple $2MM projects administered by the Agency Director’s Office (Federal Health)
VA Electronic Health Record Modernization support – $11MM; POP: 1 year (Federal Health)

Tamara also served as a strategic technical advisor to the State Health division of a for-profit company where she identified and qualified opportunities for both proposals and IDIQ bids and set the technical strategy and budget for bids. In CY2022, her efforts yielded an over 50%-win rate resulting in approximately $10M in future work for the organization.

Tamara’s experience as the Founder and Principal Counselor of The College Application Specialist™ has provided multiple opportunities for her to author proposals and grants focused on professional development, training, and education. To date, she’s established a multi-year partnership with True Ground Housing (formerly APAH) to provide college counseling and guidance to their residents; and the Prince George’s County MD and Charles County MD Public Libraries to provide online college preparatory programming.

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Results that speak for themselves

Throughout my time working with Tamara, she consistently demonstrated empathetic leadership, IT project management, and enterprise transformation expertise, and consistently delivered results. Tamara exercised her talent for explaining technical concepts to non-systems staff - elevating her colleagues and direct reports while delivering for clients. I would highly recommend Tamara for leadership roles where a combination of technical and business acumen must be balanced with building trust internally and externally.

Tamara is one of the few who have the ability to manage the near term and our customer while keeping the long-term big picture in focus. Her ability to pull together people from all levels of the organization and lead them to an end goal (and on time) has delivered great Tamara’s skills allow her to talk at the appropriate level to various team members keeping everyone engaged at the tasks at hand. I’ve worked with Tamara for many years and personally can’t think of a stronger person to have in our (or any) key position.

Tamara is my 1st pick for positions requiring formidable leadership and an uncommon balance of technical and business expertise. I am extremely grateful for her as my trusted colleague and friend and will go to great lengths to work side by side with her again, anytime and in any capacity. She established and maintained trusted advisory relationships with senior VA staff up to and including Deputy Undersecretary levels. Tamara commands attention, respect, and consistently delivers influence and impact.