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Brenda Ballard is an accomplished proposal professional with more than 20 years' experience in developing winning proposals for myriad clients and industries. Employing
actionable leading practices, her experience has spanned education, non-profit, IT, military, government, commercial, healthcare, science, and many other business spaces. Her personal win record includes more than $1.1 billion in awards while maintaining a 92% win rate. An expert in change mastery and joyous living, she is known for simplifying complex problems and creating actionable and effective solutions with measurable results. 

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Karin Mellow began her proposal career in 1997.Starting her career in IT, she has also worked in the Financial services field and Medical billing. She has experience in most proposal positions, including proposal writing, business engagement, database creation and management, and proposal management. Her focus is Government (State, Local, Fed, Ed), but also excels in large, commercial opportunities. Karin enjoys reading and gardening and spends a lot of time on her fixer upper house in Atlanta. She has a 16 year old son and a dog named Cujo. Karin completed her studies in Texas; BA in Psychology and an MBA in International Business. She is a certified APMP Foundation level.

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Heather Kirkpatrick, CP APMP is currently serving as Business Development Analyst at Pride Industries. She has been with the firm for 14 years taking various roles from Research Anaalyst, Proposal Development Coordinator and recently as Business Development Coordinator. Heather is an APMP 40 under 40 award winner and also serves in the APMP California Chapter as Chapter Chair. She joined the California board  in 2015 as Membership Director. Heather is APMP foundation certified and has degree in Political Science and Government at the University of California, Sacramento.

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Sandy Luttrell has over 30+ experience in the bid and proposal industry and has worked for three great companies in her career. Her involvement with the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) started more than 15 years ago initially as a member attending her local Georgia Chattahoochee APMP Chapter meetings then she took bigger role by joining the chapter board.  Sandy was the Membership Chair for 6 years and the Promotions Chair for almost two years.  She has also given presentations at the National APMP conference in Savanna, GA.  Also, for more than eight years, she was heavily involved with the annual Southern Proposal Accent Conference (SPAC) conference that was sponsored by the Georgia, Florida, and Carolinas chapters. Sandy is APMP Foundation certified. 

Sandy recently moved to Washington DC and is exploring the possibility of getting back into the proposal management world. Sandy attended the University of South Florida and received her BA degree in Art Education.

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Alvin (Al) S. Whitt is a Principle Associate for SM&A, formerly Steven Meyers & Associates.  SM&A is the world’s foremost management consulting firm providing leadership and mentoring solutions to position clients to PURSUE the right business opportunities, WIN new business, and PERFORM complex projects and programs.

 Mr. Whitt is an executive level consultant for proposal development and program management services in both public and private industries.  He leads integrated product teams through all phases of proposal and program execution from inception to completion.  He guides the teams in the preparation of proposals, business plans, proposal work statements and specifications, operating budget and financial terms and conditions of contracts.  He is an expert in Logistics enterprise, technology insertion, engineering change management, proposal development, program management, program assessments, program affordability analysis, configuration and data management, and modernization of logistics capabilities and processes.

 Al Whitt was born in Richlands, Virginia and grew-up in North Carolina where he graduated from Brunswick County High School in 1974 and earned a Bachelor of Science from Appalachian State University in 1978.  He subsequently earned a Master of Science in Procurement and Acquisition Management from Webster University in 1993.

 Upon graduation from the university, Mr. Whitt was employed in the private sector for two years and then enlisted in the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1980.  In 1985, he was selected to attend the Air Force Officers’ Training School; Mr. Whitt was commissioned in January 1986.  He held assignments at the product center, wing-base, and air logistics center levels; systems center level, major command level, and various joint and inter-agency levels.  Mr. Whitt retired from the USAF in March 2003 in the grade of Major after 22 years of military service.

 Prior to coming to SM&A, Al Whitt served as the Chief, MILSATCOM Logistics Integration, Directorate of Logistics, MILSATCOM System Program Office, Space and Missile Center. Before joining the MILSATCOM System Program Office, Mr. Whitt served as the Chief Joint Logistics and Deputy Chief for Counter Drug Operations in Lima, Peru.  He was the principal advisor to the US Ambassador on all security assistance matters and counter drug operations support by Department of Defense personnel.

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Alan Berman is Vice President for Research and Strategic Initiatives at SMA, Inc. He specializes in market analysis, strategy development, and new business creation. He focuses on growing the SMA business through new systems and processes to enable rapid scaling in core and adjacent markets. Alan also leads the SMA Research team, which conducts analysis on government contractors, major programs, and government agencies, to support business development and client engagement teams. Prior to SMA, Alan spent 11 years in strategy consulting at Monitor Group and Deloitte Consulting, focused on growth strategy and innovation. In that role, he led engagements with clients that included senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies, emerging technology-based firms, and the Department of Defense. These engagements tackled thorny challenges with multi-billion dollar implications. The projects spanned the aerospace & defense, healthcare, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Prior to consulting, Alan was at Zone Reactor, a technology incubator funded by the Draper Fisher Jurvetson venture capital network, where he served as Entrepreneur in Residence. Projects centered on technology commercialization of government-funded R&D and resulted in commercial application of over a dozen patents. Prior to Zone Reactor, Alan worked as a hard drive and tape drive development engineer and tribologist at Seagate Technology. Alan received his Bachelors and Doctorate degrees in Chemical Engineering from UCLA and UC Santa Barbara, respectively, and earned an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. 

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Edith Lopez is a Venezuelan and Canadian passionate Proposal Manager with + 14 years of experience, in the Telecom sector, and always in the Bid & Proposals Management field, filling roles as a Bid Manager and Team Leader; in Latin-American and North America markets; mainly for Private Customers and complex proposals, some of them raising billionaire sizes. She is Chemical Engineer, with a specialization, and master’s degree in Project Management; in 2014 she obtained the CF and CP APMP Certificate (Certified Practitioner, APMP Member), in 2015 a Certification in Business Communications (Mount Royal University), and in 2018 the CPP Certificate that she just renewed it.

Additionally, to her full-time job in Nokia as a seasoned Bid Manager, Edith is an active member of the APMP “Maple Leaf” Chapter, in the past, she was Communications Chair and Western Region Chair, mentor for the mentorship program; besides, within Nokia, she is member of a group that promotes Women inclusion in her company. 

Edith is preparing herself for Teaching at University level and i keen to learning and support the growth of others on the Proposal Management fields, with special attention to the Tech sector, as well as keep creating winning proposals!

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Lauren Daitz, CF APMP has been a proposal manager since 2005, after starting her career in marketing. She discovered the APMP in about 2007 and has been an active member since then, serving as Communications Chair of the NY Metro Chapter (now the Liberty Chapter) from 2009 to 2015. Lauren has spent her entire proposal management career in the business / commercial sector, in health care and the recognition industry, leading the proposal efforts for some of the largest pieces of business for the companies she has worked for. She specialized in managing small teams, wearing multiple hats throughout the sales cycle. In addition to proposal management, Lauren oversees the sales administration team and is the primary liaison for our division’s contracts.

Outside of work, Lauren enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading, and spending time outdoors in fresh air, from the beach to the forest including Hiking. Since her involvement with yoga, Lauren started a regular meditation practice, and she recently achieved Reiki level II (a type of energy healing). 

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Mitch Boretz has been managing proposals for engineering research and education at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) since 1996. He helps faculty and researchers identify funding opportunities, develop pursuit plans, and write and submit winning proposals. He joined APMP in 1998 and became a Fellow, one of only a handful from the non-profit sector, in 2008. He has served on the APMP California board (and its predecessor Southern California chapter board)in many capacities over the years, and in 2010 he led an APMP task force on “rich media,” which sought to set standards for video and interactivity in proposals. Mitch’s group manages approximately 600 proposals per year to government agencies, industry, and foundations, producing about $50 million per year in grant and contract awards. Mitch has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and worked for about 12 years in newspapers before the transition to proposals. He is aiming to retire at the beginning of 2021 and is looking forward to working as a volunteer with small non-profit organizations on their grant needs.

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Keith Propst retired in 2018 with 30 years of experience in proposal management. He held proposal-related positions with two high tech companies for most of this time, with a 3-year period of independent proposal contracting between companies. Like most proposal professionals, Keith was drafted into proposal work unintentionally. He worked as a hands-on proposal manager as well as a director of a proposal organization. Before making the leap into proposal work, Keith worked for several Georgia-based manufacturing companies in a variety of roles.

APMP was a major factor in Keith’s success. APMP contacts helped him get started as an independent contractor and led directly to his second proposal position, which lasted 13 years. For more than 20 years, Keith filled a variety of leadership roles with the Georgia Chattahoochee APMP chapter, starting as program co-chair, then chapter chair for several years, and finally treasurer. He also served as co-chair for the Southern Proposal Accents Conference (SPAC) for more than a decade, working closely with peers in the Carolinas and Florida Sunshine APMP chapters. Keith is an APMP Fellow and was named Chapter Chair of the Year.

An Atlanta native, Keith grew up in Savannah, Georgia and graduated from Georgia Tech in 1973 with a BS in Applied Math. He credits his favorite high school English teacher with instilling good writing and editing habits and strongly believes that the ability to write clearly helped open doors throughout his career.​

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