Work History

ULTEIG: Proposal Director - Power and Renewables
November 2024 – June 2025
Proposal Director responsible for scope and fee technical proposals and project cost estimates in collaboration with the sales and technical teams for three out of four LifeLine Sectors: Renewables, Power, and Transportation. Favorite part of my job: learning about renewables!

Highlights

  • Managed multi-year MSA proposals

  • Updated the Renewables process guidelines to include newly integrated tools and technologies

  • My work featured in Lookbook created to showcase InDesign work

  • Assigned tier A renewables clients

Responsibilities

  • Lead proposal strategy and color reviews, ensuring win themes, value proposition, and messaging are incorporated into proposals

  • Collaborate with business development leads, capture managers, business/functional leaders, and subject matter experts 

  • Lead the draft response document and estimate creation efforts with the pursuit team to ensure input accuracy

  • Prepare proposal development plan (PDP) and manage assignments

DAY & ZIMMERMANN: Proposal Manager
October 2021 – October 2024
Proposal Manager responsible for leading nuclear power generation EPC and maintenance contract proposals. Skilled at building relationships with internal and external clients across all levels of the organization. Favorite part of my job: working with people who pick up tools and build things!

Highlights

  • Coached teams to adapt to new file sharing platform and new technology 

  • Improved graphic library quality and coached on graphic standards

  • Managed multi-year MSA proposals

Responsibilities

  • Manage the integration of proposal development processes and functional subject matter experts to evaluate and submit compliant and compelling proposals.  

  • Manage the proposal development processes and functional subject matter experts to achieve compliant and compelling proposals

  • Support content library system, past performance information, presentations, proposal development tools and templates, market/competitive intelligence and lessons learned/win-loss data

  • Develop capability statements promoting capabilities, discriminators and value propositions

  • Edit and standardize material prepared by other writers Identify and resolve gaps and risks to proposal management

S&ME: Senior Marketing and Proposal Coordinator
May 2021 – October 2021
Provided qualifications based proposals and marketing for the Greenways /Trails and Roads/Streets sectors of Transportation BU. Solutions included proposals for complete streets, city and county master plans, and urban and rural planning. Favorite part of my job: learning about urban planning and safety!

Highlights

  • Initiated strategy to reduce time, materials, resources, and expense on printed city and county proposals

Proposal Manager Responsibilities

  • Initiate proposal meetings, kickoffs, status and updates

  • Collect and download proposal files from client portals, coordinate writing and deliverables SMEs, maintain internal process

  • Coordinate with Marketing Manager on externally facing materials for conferences and trade shows

POWER ENGINEERS: Proposal Coordinator, Technical Writer
October 2015 – April 2021
Proposal Coordinator/Technical Writer responsible for power transmission, distribution, substation, and EPC proposals up to $100M. Led marketing efforts for the Canada acquisition and subsequent proposal efforts for the Toronto, Calgary, and Edmonton offices in Canada. Favorite part of my job: working with electrical engineers in two countries!

Highlights

  • Lead, Overhead Lines Service Strategy Team

  • Lead, Engineering Sustainability Initiative, Marketing Strategy

  • Lead, Canada Expansion Initiative, Proposal Strategy

  • Lead, Canada Acquisitions, Communications Strategy

Proposal Manager Responsibilities

  • Create pursuit responsibility matrices defining roles, deadlines, and team assignments

  • Develop compelling visuals that support strategic messaging Implement and monitor continuous proposal improvement processes

  • Maintain up to date library of resumes, project profiles, presentations per brand standards Identify and resolve gaps and risks to proposal management

  • Translate complex ideas into easily understandable text Interview program managers and task leads to collect methodology and for technical approach sections of proposals

  • Attend all gate reviews, pipeline reviews, and other BD/capture meetings as a stakeholder

  • Develop proposal volumes (management, technical, past performance, corporate experience), executive summaries, staffing plans, resumes, oral proposal presentations

  • Participate in peer editing and production review

  • Manage updates to technical literature and white papers

 

PIXEL FUTURES: Owner, Manager
Los Angeles, CA and Sun Valley, ID
I started my own internet solutions company committed to the goal of, “Connecting people to technology by design”. Running my own company reinforced the necessity of being highly organized and detail-oriented throughout all phases of a project from start to finish. My company focused on land conservation, wildlife, sustainability, and humanitarian non-profits organizations to promote their culture, vision and goals to local and national stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and coordinate creatives and web developers to build website and ecommerce solutions

  • Graphic and digital design, illustration, photo, and social media content creation

  • Conceptualize, build, and maintain websites across various platforms

  • Account management and client communication

  • Content creation and management

  • Produce navigation, structure, and/or information design, for internet portals, applications and interfaces

  • Develop and adhere to corporate standards, processes and style guides while ensuring the integrity of the Client Brand

  • Manage multiple clients in tandem

  • Pursue latest web design and UX trends

  • Balance functionality with design

  • Brand strategy and positioning

CITYSEARCH: Designer
Los Angeles, CA
Hired in an initial round at Los Angeles internet startup, Citysearch, I participated in the development and growth from a tiny startup to merging with Ticketmaster through a successful IPO. Getting in on the ground floor of an internet startup provided great experience in a fast-paced environment alongside founders, creatives, and software engineers. A startup, especially in its early stages, needs people to be good at wearing several hats and solving a lot of different problems.

Highlights

  • Voted 3rd best website in the world by Internet Magazine

Responsibilities

  • Design website interface, wire frames and navigation

  • Test, troubleshoot and report software bugs to developers

  • Adapt to constantly evolving technology landscape

  • Coordinate deliverables for multi-city website launches

  • Maintain customer information, maps, driving directions, editorial, and user reviews