Managing Partner
Prior to founding Trusted Force, Bill worked for Qwest Government Services where he created and led the Federal Professional Services and Application Hosting Practice. Bill hired and managed a multi- disciplinary team of developers, engineers, program managers, and administrative personnel and was personally responsible for managing all associated customer relationships. In less than four years, Bill increased sales in these areas from a "zero position" to more than $100m in contracts with Civilian and Department of Defense customers.
Before joining Qwest, Bill held Sales Director roles at IconCMT and Frontier Media Group (firms ultimately acquired by Qwest) where he sold front-end, custom web application development to commercial clients including: BankOne, Comcast, ARAMARK, SEI Investments and others.
Bill's experience and tenure in the technology field have afforded him the opportunity to develop an extensive network of experienced professionals. Having personally recruited and placed dozens of qualified candidates with key Federal and Commercial clients, Bill has demonstrated the ability to pair the right individual to the right organization in order to yield highly successful short and long- term outcomes.
Prior to moving into the technology field, Bill and his wife Nancy owned and operated three highly acclaimed restaurants in the Philadelphia area (two American Regional restaurants and one French restaurant). With more than 200 full and part time employees, Bill claims that this experience offered the "single best insight into the psychology of customer relationships and employee management."
Bill is a 1981 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English Literature and a minor concentration in mathematics. He is married with three children and splits his time between Washington, DC and "the great state of Maine."
Partner
Director, Commercial Recruiting
Jeff joined Trusted Force after 6 years with Qwest Communications and Qwest Government Services, where he held several senior level positions across different parts of the enterprise, including Commercial Sales and Federal Program Management. Jeff started his career at Qwest as a founding member of its Managed Security Services group including network and data security, firewalls, intrusion detection, network based anomaly detection and virtual private networks.
Jeff also served as Program and Account Manager on a multi-million dollar account with several government agencies and leading systems integrators. This included The Department of Treasury's TCS contract (Treasury Communications System), Qwest's Government Services' largest civilian account providing network and telecommunications services to virtually all Treasury agencies. Jeff was responsible for all aspects of service delivery, client relations and professional services staffing. Later, as a Sales Executive, Jeff worked with a wide variety of enterprise customers, designing and selling solutions for wide area networks, IP telephony, network security, managed hosting and professional services.
Prior to his Qwest career, Jeff served as IT Director at the National Motor Freight Traffic Association, a non-profit organization supporting thousands of trucking companies throughout the U.S. and Canada. Jeff managed all web site development and network and systems administration for the association. He also hired and managed IT contractors to augment the association's personnel, utilizing the contractors to perform application development, network upgrades and customized database enhancements. Responsible for strategic planning and budgeting for all IT initiatives, Jeff reported directly to the association president and board of directors - gaining valuable insight and experience with executive-level processes related to IT spending and decision-making.
Jeff is a graduate of the University of Maine, with an honors degree in Economics and Philosophy. He lives with his wife Keonna and young son Maxwell in Falls Church, VA. He is also a hopeless soccer addict and a lifelong fan of the Scottish football club, Glasgow Celtic who, as Jeff will point out to anyone willing to listen, will one day reprise its 1967 European Cup win.
Partner
Director, Public Sector
Prior to joining Trusted Force, Patricia worked for Qwest Government Services where she managed some of the division's largest and most successful Federal Professional Services and Application Hosting contracts. In this capacity, Patricia had overall responsibility for all contract activities including performance, contract administration, finance and budgeting, business development, staffing and customer relationship management.
Before joining Qwest, Patricia worked for twelve years at EDS where she managed several IT outsourcing programs for commercial clients in the company's financial and insurance unit. She also played an integral role on the company's Military Systems Capture Team, a small team of subject matter experts selected to lead the proposal capture process for the division's largest and most strategic contract opportunities. Her team enjoyed a win rate of 90 percent, with some of the contracts individually valued at more than $500 million.
Patricia has more than fifteen years of extensive experience hiring and managing IT professionals in both the commercial and public sectors, supporting clients such as The Hartford, Mutual of Omaha, Department of Defense, United States Mint, Internal Revenue Service and the National Institutes of Health. She brings the unique perspective of understanding first-hand the importance of identifying the right personnel to ensure program and mission success.
Patricia is a graduate of James Madison University with a BS in Political Science. A native Virginian, she lives in Maryland and is a frustrated aspiring musician, as she tries to tackle the acoustic guitar.