REPRESENTATIVE FOUNDER EXPERIENCE
Leadership Proven Across Technology Environments
Bernard A. Coles III brings more than two decades of leadership across federal, state-government, financial-services, defense, and commercial technology programs. The examples below reflect his work through prior employers and consulting engagements; they do not represent corporate past performance of The B A Coles Group.
20+ Years Leadership
Up to $35M Program Scale
Federal • State • Financial Services • Defense
MBA • PMP
FEATURED EXPERIENCE
Multi-Contract Program Leadership & Performance Recovery
Linkitall, LLC - Small Business Defense Contractor
Senior Program Manager
Executive Context
Accountable to the CEO and board of advisors for client service delivery, contract performance, operational cost optimization, personnel leadership, and organic growth across multiple federal defense contracts.
Challenge
Managed multiple defense contracts with differing mission requirements, customer expectations, performance risks, staffing demands, and growth objectives while maintaining delivery discipline across the business.
Leadership Response
Directed contract delivery and program performance across multiple engagements; led personnel and performance management; strengthened client relationships; addressed underperforming work; supported proposal development and scope expansion; and balanced delivery execution with profitability and growth responsibilities.
Defense Contract Portfolio
Selected Results
Performance Recovery - Reversed sub-par performance on a U.S. Army Directorate of Public Works contract at Fort Detrick and achieved consistently exceptional performance ratings in subsequent option years.
$1.6M Growth - Expanded an Army information-assurance support services contract, generating an additional $1.6 million in revenue.
$4.5M Renewal - Supported renewal of a Marine Corps Systems Command technical-manuals contract for an ACAT I program, resulting in $4.5 million in additional revenue.
Program Leadership • Performance Recovery • Contract Governance • Client Delivery • Growth • Executive Oversight
Additional Representative Experience
Department of the Interior
Enterprise Modernization at Scale
Challenge
Modernize a highly distributed federal infrastructure environment and create stronger enterprise-level governance across multiple bureaus.
Leadership Response
Established and executed a $35M enterprise WAN and services initiative, coordinated contractor and subcontractor delivery, consolidated 13 bureau data centers, and centralized IT change and investment decision-making.
Result / Proof
$35M program scale • 13 bureau data centers • OMB-level reporting
Mobilization • Governance • Transformation • Executive Visibility
Program Recovery • Cybersecurity Delivery • Governance • Executive Intelligence
Navy Federal Credit Union
Regulatory Infrastructure and Operational Improvement
Challenge
Protect regulatory compliance and operational performance while improving high-volume business processes.
Leadership Response
Executed an $11M infrastructure upgrade addressing NACHA and OFAC requirements and led automation that reduced membership-processing time from three weeks to three days.
Result / Proof
$11M infrastructure program • 3 weeks → 3 days • ~29,000 recruits/month
Execution • Risk Management • Transformation • Operational Improvement
Freddie Mac
Cybersecurity and Program Recovery
Challenge
Reduce enterprise technology risk while restoring delivery momentum on challenged initiatives.
Leadership Response
Led a $2.7M enterprise credential-management migration with supporting operating controls and recovered an off-track ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management initiative.
Result / Proof
$2.7M security initiative • Troubled-program recovery • Automated risk workflows
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Shared Services Transformation
Challenge
Support federal shared-services consolidation while managing technology delivery and organizational change.
Leadership Response
Implemented a travel-management solution serving 18 Treasury and 66 non-Treasury clients and helped prepare the organizational-change initiative supporting consolidation into the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
Result / Proof
84 client organizations • Shared-services consolidation • $96M anticipated five-year savings
Transformation • Organizational Alignment • Governance • Change Leadership
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Whether you are mobilizing a new award, strengthening governance, recovering delivery, or coordinating transformation, The B A Coles Group brings senior judgment and disciplined execution to complex program needs.
Senior judgment. Disciplined execution. Greater delivery confidence.