Judith Kahn has been managing, writing and winning telecom, IT, and professional services proposals for over 20 years.
Prior to joining Suss Consulting, Ms. Kahn was an independent consultant providing management and proposal support.
She has provided capture management, proposal management, Pink, Red and Gold Team reviews and has written major portions of many proposals. Proposals have ranged from short IDIQ responses with less than 10-day turnaround to multimillion-dollar full and open competitions to provide communications hardware software and services to government clients nationwide.
She has recently completed the proposals for the FTS Connections program and for a Department of Defense A-76 for the Department of the Army. Ms. Kahn has in depth knowledge of federal procurement regulations and has performed pricing and cost proposal preparation. Ms. Kahn has also assisted clients in preparing/red teaming oral presentations and preparing client employees who will do the actual presentations.
Ms. Kahn was the Executive Vice President at Computer Data Systems Inc (CDSI) for over 7 years. In this capacity, she had overall P/L responsibility for an operations group consisting of three divisions, 1500 staff members and subcontractors, with revenues over $200 million. This professional services operating group, one of three in the company, consistently produced more than 50% of corporate revenues and profits. Ms. Kahn was responsible for the capture of many opportunities for CDSI. To increase corporate revenues, she established criteria for proposal selection and development. Use of this criteria and her production of winning proposals led to the award of $350 million in new contracts. She also managed, priced and negotiated the largest contract awarded to the company in 25 years.
B.S. in Education from the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland |