Program Manager Management

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Louis James Brenner

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Profile

Louis’s success in entrepreneurship, business development, and management for the information, business and

government sectors ranges from start-ups to multibillion- dollar enterprises to the Intelligence Community (IC), both here and abroad. As a graduate of several universities with degrees in finance, international business and foreign relations, Louis is founder of Devitas Incorporated, a consultancy that has won its clients over $500 million in revenue. He was recruited to establish and grow a small, disadvantaged startup and, within three years, created $98 million in revenue. He has worked and lived abroad; planning and executing mergers & acquisitions and managing IT programs for the private sector. He has worked in various capacities for the CIA and the State Department. He has worked in various capacities for the CIA and the State Department and held a TS/SCI with lifestyle polygraph for 21 years. References are available upon request.

Employment & Expertise

Devitas Incorporated 2008 – Present

Founder & President; VP for Business Development and Capture Management Louis is founder of Devitas Incorporated, a consultancy providing business development, capture management, and merger & acquisition (M&A) services to companies doing business with the private and public sectors. Using his expertise and customer knowledge, he identifies, qualifies, captures and generates business leads and proposals that secured more than $500 million in business for his clients. Louis leads capture teams pursuing government work after qualifying these business opportunities and composing capture plans for his clients. Louis focuses on pursuing work at the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, the Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Department of Justice.

Significant Wins

Client Opportunity Value Prime /

Sub

Description

DIA Logistics $35 million Prime Global Logistics

State WPS III $50 million Sub Aviation, Logistics, and Analysis NSA Mutarjarim $30 million Prime IT, Linguistics and Analysis Government

Agency

Classified

Contract

$70 million Prime IT, Linguistics and Analysis

State CNTPO TORP 95 $15 million Sub Aviation, Logistics, and Management

Skills

Business development

Start-up incubation

Mergers & Acquisitions

Capture & proposal management

Program management

Business process engineering

International business

Negotiations

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State WPPS II Air Ops

TO

$132 million Prime Aviation, Logistics, and

Management

State CNTPO Spare

Parts

$40 million Sub Aviation, Logistics, and

Management

State CNTPO TORP 21 $1.5 million Sub Aviation, Logistics, and Management

State of

California

Calfire $20 million Prime Aviation and Fire Suppression State CNTPO TORP 76 $109

million

Sub Aviation, Logistics, and

Management

SKC 2010 – 2014

Vice President for Business Development & Capture Management Louis boot-strapped and grew this small, disadvantaged technology and logistics startup. Within three years, he built the company’s business portfolio from no revenue to $90 million in contracts including single-award prime contracts with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the U.S. Army. He established and grew the company’s market penetration at the DIA and The Department of Defense (DoD) and pursued new business at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Geospatial Agency (NGA). He helped established a venture capital-funded cybersecurity start-up providing vulnerability assessment and remediation, incident response, and real-time network monitoring for the banking and insurance industries. For both undertakings, Louis grew operations to ten states and five countries. Additionally, he negotiated and wrote teaming agreements and contracts, guided the company’s strategic and legal initiatives, managed corporate operations, and developed and led strategic relationships with companies and clients.

Significant Wins

Client Opportunity Value Prime / Sub Description

U.S. Army Ft McCoy $30 million Prime Logistics and Supply Chain Management

DIA DLOC $65 million Prime Warehousing, Property

Accountability, Armory, and

Supply Chain Management

NASA WICC II $4 million Sub Base Operations,

Engineering, and Logistics

DIA Classified Contract $5 million Sub Technology, Intelligence Analysis, and Collections

Management

DIA SIA II $10 million Sub Intelligence Analysis

INSCOM INSCOM GI $7.2 billion Sub Intelligence Analysis, Mission Sustainment, and

Technology

DIA E-Site $5.6 billion Sub IT Services

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BAE Systems 2003 – 08

Business Development Director, Program Manager & Subject Matter Expert Louis served in numerous capacities. First, as a senior program manager, Louis managed a high- visibility program of 30 engineers to design, test, build and accredit an enterprise-wide Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) network for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ). This project was brought in ahead of schedule and under budget winning praise from then FBI Director Mueller that the PKI project was the standard that all FBI IT projects should attain. Louis led a team of technical experts and had overall responsibility for the $40 million contract. Louis managed daily operations to ensure schedules were met and deliverables were of high quality. He organized project and task workloads and selected individuals most qualified for assignments. He ensured problems were identified and resolved or mitigated prior to occurrence. Louis interfaced with the client on issues and business development opportunities; researched technical solutions against cost constraints and presented recommendations to management; developed standards and procedures, evaluates results of technical projects, and provides technical and career guidance; and developed, modified and executed company policies and business development strategies that affected immediate operations.

Second, Louis was recruited to work at a government agency to run highly sensitive, classified programs to disrupt terrorist groups operating in austere and high-conflict countries. He directed teams of analysts, case officers, linguists, and technical experts on intelligence gathering, analytical and disruptive operations. Louis travelled extensively working with all echelons of authority in the U.S. Government, Five-Eyes Partners, and foreign liaison services. He developed project specifics, deliverables, project plans, and budgets, to include deliverables, risks, costs, and profits associated with each project under his purview. Additionally, Louis won BAE $5 million in new work.

Finally, Louis was a business development manager. He helped win $30 million in new work. Louis’s role was to collect and scrutinize business intelligence, spot and assess business opportunities, develop proposal strategy and win themes, and write/color team the proposal volumes, including cost and staffing. Once the work was won, he assumed authority as an IT Program Manager & Lead Systems Analyst. He led and managed a team of engineers, analysts, and support officers responsible for the day-to-day mission of a critical technical project supporting operations abroad. His daily duties included designing, planning and coordinating technical and analytical projects. Louis managed project plans and timelines, wrote technical and analytical requirements, briefed senior management on project status, created project-specific documentation, evaluated project results, and made and executed recommendations to improve process efficiencies.

Verizon 2002 – 03

IT Program Manager

Louis was a Program Manager responsible for overall management of enterprise-wide IT and telecommunications development, planning, integration, and interfaces with other functional systems. He led teams of engineers, systems integrators and technical experts tasked with 4

designing, implementing, and testing mission-critical IT and telecommunications solutions in a high-pressure, high-visibility environment. Louis tracked and evaluated project progress and status, integrated functional efforts to ensure optimum performance and schedule requirements. He oversaw requirements definition and development, and conducts presentations on project status to senior management. Louis managed multiple projects from inception to operation and was ultimately responsible for the project’s success and took the lead role in problem determination and decision-making with senior management. He developed project specifics, deliverables, project plans, and budgets. Louis was responsible for all aspects of the program include deliverables, risks, costs, and profits associated with each project. He provided technical feedback to the client and suggested solutions that met the client’s needs and managed client expectations to ensure high customer satisfaction. PA Consulting Group 2001 - 02

Consultant

Louis specialized in Mergers & Acquisitions, portfolio optimization and portfolio rationalization, and strategy consulting for banks, pharmaceuticals, and telcos. He lived in London, NYC, and Washington, DC. Louis developed and managed projects that help organizations implement more efficient customer-centric business processes. He designed B2B and B2C multimillion- dollar fulfillment process and global e-procurement systems. Louis designed, developed, and tested business process models, including as-is and to-be models, for implementation of major change programs, using Casewise. He also created and validated technical and functional architecture for major change initiatives to transition from legacy to new systems. Louis implemented customer conversion process to better serve regional and global customers. He also constructed stakeholder models, identified potential customer issues, and determined the most effective method for resolution. Additionally, he implemented pre-transition customer satisfaction surveys, one-to-one, structured, and one-to-many interviews, and workshops to ensure effective communication and project support. Louis designed portfolio optimization plans, implemented channel management plans, wrote B2B and B2C business development strategy, and created a process to identify and prioritize potential large, small, and mid-size channel partners. Louis developed a strategy to realize cost and process efficiencies while expanding into new markets, designed case studies of businesses that have successfully rationalized their business assets for a client; and developed business with U.S. Defense and Intelligence communities in 2002. He developed $4 million in business with Department of Defense Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (BioPort factory rationalization and portfolio optimization/B2B supply chain management/technology roadmap for Dynport and sub- contractors) and the Office of Military Transformation (strategy development and implementation). Louis also wrote business cases characterizing market size and segmentation, business drivers and unmet needs, potential revenues, proposition offerings, price sensitivities and penetration strategies. Additionally, he built SWOT and stakeholder matrixes to identify key decision-makers, business needs, and track actions in response to proposition offerings, draft presentations, write proposals, develop strategy. Louis’s clients included Vodafone, Royal Bank of Scotland, Gilchrest Pharmaceuticals, Cable & Wireless, Exxon, and the World Bank. 5

Central Intelligence Agency 1993 – 2001

Operations Officer, Analyst, Briefer, Foreign Service Officer Louis served in various capacities. First, he was an operations officer and managed multimillion- dollar programs, developed innovative solutions, oversaw program finances, provided field guidance, and deployed and oversaw team members at all levels of authority. Louis coordinated his worked with senior U.S. Government executives, sought legal guidance and coordinated operations within the IC, briefed White House, NSC, and Congress on programs under his purview, and sought congressional and legal approval as required. He used advanced technologies to support mission critical competencies, managed relational databases and wrote after-action reports benchmarking outcomes against best practice scenarios. Louis travelled extensively, working with foreign liaison services, and elicited information and tasked witting and unwitting sources. This information was used for operational and analytical purposes. Second, Louis was a policy and economic analyst and briefer, Louis managed several accounts assessing economic and political impact of international developments in Iraq, the Middle East, international economics and trade, UN affairs, and US sanctions policy. He wrote economic, banking, financial and political analysis using all-source information, gave briefings to senior government executives at the White House, NSC, State, and Congress, provided strategic policy assessments, and made recommendations based on White House-provided requirements. To support his analysis, he developed and applied methodologies using alternative analytical methods such as scenario-based outcomes, alternative landscapes, econometric modeling, Monte Carlo simulations. He integrated this quantitative and qualitative analysis into concise, clearly written reports for senior policymakers, ran meetings amongst analysts to coordinate findings and practice briefings. Additionally, he served as point-of-contact for briefings, taskings, production, cooperation, and feedback among intelligence and national security officers, contributed, edited, and coordinated weekly intelligence summaries, conducted intelligence gathering activities, maintained liaison relations with US allies abroad, traveled in support of his duties, and provided intelligence support to U.S. military activities and exercises. Finally, Louis was a foreign service officer focusing on Iran/Iraq and UN at State where he wrote and implemented strategy papers for the Secretary of State and National Security

(NSC), provided policy guidance to embassies and consulates overseas, wrote daily and weekly foreign affairs updates, ran meetings, and wrote congressional testimony for the Secretary of State and other senior officials. He was an acknowledged substance matter expert on the Near East, the UN, and diplomacy. He discussed U.S. foreign policy with foreign diplomats, arranged itineraries for visiting diplomats and dignitaries, consulted and briefed White House, NSC, Congress, and the Pentagon, and wrote public relations pieces for U.S. and foreign media representatives.

Education

MBA in International Finance

George Washington University

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Masters in International Economics

Georgetown University

Post-graduate studies in International Economics

University of Virginia

Bachelors in International Studies

Baldwin-Wallace College

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