As the prime contractor’s IT Professional Services Practice Manager and the Director over federal-civilian business agencies, built this team as a start-up, maintained profitability over a three year period, and successfully led the business capture effort to win one of the small business contracts awarded under one of our client’s $5 billion multiple-award IT services contract.  The Capture effort involved coordination with 12 external partners, and Mr. Rupp wrote the technical proposal with assistance and content from those partners.  After the win, Mr. Rupp oversaw the development of task-oriented proposal efforts to bid and win new business under the multi-award contract.  Those efforts led to the placement of ~100 IT consultants into various engagements with the client over the first six months of the contract’s award