🎙️ In Episode #235 of The Geek Within, my guest is Taylor Kelley. She is a Director of Business Development at GDIT, a graduate of both the ACT-IAC Associates and Voyagers program, and a proud mom. Taylor and I met during her Associates program and continue to run into each other at all the local networking events. We also took time to discuss the challenges caused by contract award protests and impacts on the people involved. Thank you for joining me.

🔗 You can engage Taylor here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-kelley-825b33a4/

🎙️ In Episode #234 of The Geek Within, my guest is Jade Pech. She is Director of Analytics at Scope Infotech, Inc, a software engineering company in the federal contracting space. Jade was previously a Data Scientist at the FAA, which is when we met. Jade and I discuss how people looking at the job situation today need to be willing to put the work in and make whatever changes are needed to get through to the other side. Thank you for joining me.

🔗 You can engage Jade here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jade-pech-92574630/

🎙️ In Episode #233 of The Geek Within, my guest is Karen F Lee. She is a Co-founder and President of FedsForward, an organization committed to helping civil servants continue their service to the nation by moving forward into mission-driven careers across all sectors of the economy. They are a staunchly non-partisan organization focused on enabling mission-driven individuals to make an impact in for-profit, non-profit, and governmental organizations. We talked a bit about how large the challenges are in migrating your career amongst sections, such as public service to private sector. Thank you for joining me.

🔗 You can engage Karen here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenfranceslee/

Website - https://www.fedsforward.org/