Olessia Smotrova-Taylor

My company, OST (www.ostglobalsolutions.com), helps businesses grow by winning government and commercial contracts. If you are short-staffed or lack in-house expertise, and need quality capture and proposal managers, technical writers, orals coaches, coordinators, graphic designers, and desktop publishers, OST is the solution. We are here to help as you grapple with lightning-fast deadlines, tight page limits, and peculiarities of IDIQs, GWACs, orals, and performance based acquisition.

Responsibilities included customer-focused marketing, capture and proposal development, development of strategic teaming alliances, management of pursuit-specific selling and B&P budgets, and mobilization of awarded projects. Certificates and training include: •Six Achievement Awards (2002-2005) •Best Practices in Capture and Proposal Management - Training (2005) •Six Sigma Specialist Certificate (2004), with three Six Sigma projects completed •Cost in Capture and Proposal Process Certificate (2004)

•Conducted marketing effort for plasma arc centrifugal treatment and advanced filtration-based systems in Russia, Europe and Japan. •Prepared sections for the winning CTRIC bid (teamed with Raytheon), and full proposals for winning $200,000 US TDA feasibility study grant for new technologies and $2.7M Mayak SNF Storage Facility design and construction. •Performed as a de-facto deputy program manager on the $40M Low Level Radioactive Waste Volume Reduction Program •Designed company website