Results Driven
Our consultants not only learn problem-solving skills, but also how to actually get things done in the real world
Team Support
We offer competitive compensation and benefits, as well as flexibility and other perks that include limited travel time and opportunity to work from home
Exceptional Employee Experience
Enabling an Exceptional Employee Experience is the foundational driver for how we operate every day
Diversity and Inclusion are essential to living our values
Censeo aspires to be a model employer by leveraging diversity & inclusion to empower our people, deliver the best service to our clients and make a meaningful difference in the world
Who we are
Censeo has an incredible degree of stability, largely because our people are happy and passionate about the impact they create on a daily basis. Because we put such a premium on our people, we give them the flexibility to work independently, while at the same time investing in them to further their skills and careers.”
Derrick Moreira, President and CEO
Benefits & Perks
Schedules & Flexibility
- 15+ paid time days off annually
- Unlimited sick days
- 8+ paid holidays annually
- Flexible work hours available
- Up to 2 remote days per week
Training & Education
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- On-site training opportunities
- Conference reimbursement
Career Support
- Mentorship program
- Robust onboarding program
- Routine professional feedback
- Awards and recognition
Wellness Initiatives
- Gym membership/fitness class reimbursement
- On-site gym/bike storage
- On-site basketball court
- Free healthy food/beverages
Inclusive Community
- Scheduled company days and outings
- Frequent community and social events
- Trivia and game nights
- Company happy hours and team dinners
Family Support
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance program
- Reduced work schedule options
- Domestic partnership benefits
Our People
Censeo people thrive in an environment where they are supported, mentored, and given as much opportunity as they want to learn, grow, and advance
Chris Riches
Chris Riches has over 15 years of experience serving as a consultant and manager partnering with federal, state, non-profit, and private sector clients. As an Engagement Manager with Censeo, Chris is responsible for leading strategic-level discussions with clients, project planning, and managing staff to execute analyses on behalf of Censeo’s clients.
Chris’ work has focused on strategic planning, organizational assessment and development, change management, human capital development, workforce planning, and business process improvement. Since joining Censeo, he has led strategic planning and governance development for a non-profit client and helped drive supply chain integration across DOD agencies. He is currently leading a multi-year technology transformation within the Department of Commerce.
Prior to joining Censeo, Chris worked at ICF for 10 years where he led high-level strategic engagements with DoD appointees, CEOs, and CIOs. Chris holds a BA in Psychology from Georgetown University.
Riley Little
Riley Little has over 12 years of experience spanning the management consulting, talent acquisition, human resources, nonprofit sectors. Riley has spearheaded strategic HR initiatives, enhancing employee satisfaction, and productivity. With a focus on talent acquisition, he implemented innovative recruitment strategies, leveraging technology and analytics to build diverse and inclusive teams. Riley’s expertise extends to designing and implementing employee development programs, streamlining HR operations, and navigating compliance issues effectively.
Prior to joining Censeo, Riley serves as the global learning and development manager with FTI Consulting. He managed in-person learning programs and events, virtual instructor-led, self-paced, and compliance training across all regions and offerings for FTI’s 5,000 employees. Riley’s background includes non-profit learning program and events management, where he developed development curricula for college students and oversaw web and mobile application development for non-profit learning management systems.
Expertise Highlights
- Talent Acquisition and Management
- Human Resources
- Learning and Development
- Training Event Management
- Learning Management System Administration
- Curriculum Design
- Diversity, equity, inclusion & accessibility (DEIA)
Education and Certifications
- B.A., Honors Program, Christopher Newport University
- SHRM-Senior Certified Professional, Society of Human Resource Management
- Executive Education Program, Robins School of Business, University of Richmond
Lisa Peterson
Lisa has almost 20 years of corporate finance experience in commercial contracting, government contracting and management consulting. Her roles have exposed her to the functional areas of Project Control, EVMS, DCAA Compliance, Accounting, FP&A and Financial Modeling.
Kurt Young
Over 20 years proven track record of successful consulting; operational, contracts and customer relationship management; risk mitigation; quality assurance; value management and reporting; performance improvements and regulatory compliance.
International, Federal, State, Local and commercial contracting encompassing negotiation, drafting, execution and cradle-to-grave administration. Proactive management of the contracting process (pre- thru post- award) to efficiently support corporate market and business objectives.
Education
- Juris Doctor. State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, June 1995
- Bachelor of Arts, Political Science. State University of New York at Buffalo, September 1991
Expertise Highlights
- Oversight of contracting and related compliance activities, as well as legal affairs;
- Cradle to grave contract management and oversight for federal, commercial, international, nonprofit & higher education engagements;
- Draft, negotiate and execute all contractual documents;
- Compliance monitoring and submission of all firm proposals (federal, state, higher education, nonprofit and commercial);
- Legal / risk subject matter expert (SME) to the senior leadership team;
- Enterprise level risk mitigation including compliance training, dispute resolution, conflict of interest mitigation plans and solicitation risk identification.
Brian Lennon
Experienced business development executive with over 25 years of experience in multiple industries, including homeland security, healthcare, environmental protection, and higher education. Accomplishments include contracts in excess of $500M over the past ten years. Recent project engagements include strategic planning, information sharing, data analytics, program management, technology modernization, and business process outsourcing.
Specializes in building sales organizations and capabilities, including hiring and managing sales teams, developing a robust sales strategy and pipeline, identifying and managing teaming partners, managing client relationships, writing proposals, and closing new project engagements. Prior to management consulting, spent seven years at Sallie Mae, a Fortune 200 financial services company. Built a national sales organization, including management of 12 salespeople for a business unit providing SaaS and outsourcing of financial services to 2500 higher education clients.
Expertise Highlights
- New business strategy
- Capture management
- Managing a network of teaming partners
- Proposal writing
- Building business development capabilities
Education and Certifications
- M.B.A, Marymount University
- B.S., The Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland
Wati Kadzai
Wati has over 15 years experience working in public sector organizations. She began her career at the Supreme Audit Institution of the U.S. Government (GAO). In this capacity, she worked as a policy analyst and performance auditor in various issue areas – including financial markets and the federal fiscal policy. Her experience has been gained in diverse audit organizations, including working in municipal government working as the Chief Auditor for the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General, and most recently working in the external audit body of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Throughout her career, she has led and collaborated with team members from diverse backgrounds, as well as external stakeholders—including the U.S. Congress, federal and state public health agencies, nonprofit entities, industry groups, and international organizations including the agencies within the United Nations and the International Civil Aviation Organization.
In her tenure at Censeo Consulting Group, Wati has served as an Audit and Financial Markets Subject Matter Expert for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) account.
Education and Certifications
- BA, International Relations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- MA, Political and Justice Studies, Governors State University, University Park, IL
Expertise Highlights
- Functional Specialist, Censeo Consulting Group, July 2022 to Present
- Responsible for driving large-scale transformations within the CFPB Consumer Response Section, including developing strategic program management guidance and expert technical and research capabilities to help the Consumer Response Section establish project goals and key metrics.
- Led the standardization of data governance and analytics processes and presented findings to CFPB senior leadership
- Core Competencies include:
• Audit and Risk Management
• Financial Markets Policy
• Public Finance and Budgets
• International Policy and Security Issues
• Strategic Planning and Evaluation Design
• Data analytics, Quantitative Analysis, Qualitative Analysis
• Project Management (PRINCE2 Certification)
Dann Truong
Dann Truong has over 5 years of data management specializing in cloud-based IT projects, oversight of infrastructure, application support, risk management, and security auditing. Dedicated to customer satisfaction with focused delivery of technical solutions. Excellent
communicator and influencer in working collaboratively with IT leadership teams to define and accomplish project milestones. Highly adept in problem-solving, request for proposal development, and technology needs assessments, with a focus on long-term systems governance and management.
Expertise Highlights
- Multiple years of experience with database administration, management, and entry
- Risk management strategy development
Technical Skills
- Database Management: Oracle, SQL, MySQL, PL/SQL
- Data Analytics: R, Python, PySpark
- Programming languages: Java, PHP, HTML, CSS
- Software: Microsoft Office Suites, OS
Education and Certifications
- Pursuing M.S, Data Analytics, George Mason University
- B.S, Information Technology, George Mason University
Shelley Rawlings
Shelley has over twenty years of experience in contact center operations and management consulting in the private and public sectors. She has held corporate leadership roles in Fortune 500 companies in the telecommunications and internet industries leveraging her deep expertise of building new, highly successful customer service centers, developing turnaround strategies, and designing customer support expansions across omni channel environments.
Shelley expanded her wealth of experience into health, federal and nonprofit sectors, helping clients design business processes and standards that produce operational excellence. Her numerous accomplishments have been spotlighted in company marketing campaigns, print ads and radio shows. She was the recipient of JD Powers awards including Top Executive and Best Customer Service Operations.
Shelley has served on 3 boards in numerous capacities in the Washington DC Metropolitan area and New York, mentoring young women and underserved communities.
As an Engagement Manager at Censeo Consulting Group, Shelley serves as the Customer Support Subject Matter Expert managing a breath of federal client contracts. She has led efforts to build a firmwide Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program and currently serves as the Communications and Information Sharing lead in the firm.
Education and Certifications
- BS, Sociology, Towson University, Towson, Maryland
- PMI™ Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®)
Awards
- Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine “Pro to Know” (2022)
Rachel Shulruf
Rachel has over ten years of experience spanning from management consulting to international development and financial innovation. She has engaged in cutting-edge consulting projects with agencies across the federal government, nonprofits, community organizations, and Fortune 500 companies. Rachel possesses extensive experience in working with clients to identify sustainable, data-driven solutions to their toughest challenges.
Prior to joining Censeo, Rachel was a Fulbright Scholar and served as a Program Manager at a refugee resettlement and protection organization, where she conducted monitoring and evaluation of Latin American operations. Her interdisciplinary career has enabled her to not only become proficient in Spanish and Portuguese but also to speak the language of businesses, the federal government, and nonprofits.
Education
- MBA, Social Impact, Boston University
- BA, International Relations, Drake University
- Prosci Certified Change Management Professional (PCCP)
- Certificate in Social Impact Partnerships, Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
- Certificate in AI Management, Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
- Certificate in Servant Leadership, University of Wisconsin Madison School of Continuing Studies
Andrew Varnum
Andrew has nearly 15 years of management consulting, corporate, and startup leadership experience. He focuses on strategic planning and operational improvement, helping numerous multi-billion-dollar federal agencies craft their long-term visions and stand up initiatives to achieve their missions. He has a strong background and interest in social impact and has assisted federal, state, and local government agencies with their most pressing challenges to better serve their constituencies.
Prior to joining Censeo, Andrew led strategy and operations projects for Axiom Consultants, a women-owned 8a government consulting company, and served as the Vice President at DC-based food business accelerator, Union Kitchen. At Union Kitchen, he managed strategic engagements such as consulting and government relations and led overall corporate strategy. He has designed and ran multiple business accelerators to improve economic development across the US (including the women-focused Farm2Food Accelerator) and overseas (including the LIFE project, which helps refugees from across the Middle East integrate into their new communities and improve their livelihoods), creating lasting impact for his clients and their communities.
Andrew’s management consulting background includes consulting with A.T. Kearney and Deloitte. He is a Cum Laude graduate of Dartmouth College and holds a master’s degree in international Trade and Investment Policy from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He is a Boren Fellowship recipient and is a PMI™ Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®).
Willis Zhu
Since joining Censeo in 2010, Willis has advised clients across the federal government in all aspects of operational effectiveness, spanning strategic planning, performance management, process improvement and reengineering, cost reduction, supply chain and acquisition strategy, program management and business initiative development, and communications and change management. His recent work in directing a four-year organizational transformation effort for an organization within the Marine Corps Logistics Command was recognized by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine as part of naming Willis a 2021 “Pro to Know” and is just one example of how Willis has developed deep expertise in driving change in environments requiring the buy-in of multiple government stakeholders.
Expertise highlights
- Deployment of Agile principles
- Metrics development
- Workshop and meeting facilitation
- Data strategy and governance
- Customer experience
- Human-centered design
Education
- BA, Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- BSE, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania
- PMI™ Project Management Professional (PMP)
Matt Bernstein
Matt has 20 years of experience in management consulting. As an Associate Partner at Censeo, he is responsible for ensuring successful execution of a variety of complex, strategic projects for civilian agency clients. His areas of expertise include process improvement, project and program management, risk assessments, and payment and compliance audits. He is a Lean Six Sigma black belt and experienced facilitator.
Matt has worked with a variety of public sector clients, including the FCC, the FAA, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In addition to his work with the Federal Government, he has also advised senior leaders and led large programs at Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to joining Censeo, Matt obtained client facing consulting experience with Booz Allen Hamilton, Grant Thornton, and CrossCountry Consulting and internal consulting experience in ICF’s Business Transformation Office.
Expertise Highlights
- Managed business transformation analysis and implementation
- Designed risk review programs, developed mitigation strategies, and conducted audits
- Led program management offices for large transformations
Education and Certifications
- BS, Finance, University of Maryland
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Expertise
- Operational Improvement
- Process Improvement
- Implementation
- Implementation Support
- Data Driven Decision Making
- Data Strategy & Analytics
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Civilian Government Agencies
Kisha Dimbo
Kisha Dimbo has more than 20 years of management consulting, corporate, and nonprofit leadership experience. Her diverse experience spans corporate strategy, operations management, product development, business process reengineering and change management in the federal, health, legal, and consumer goods sectors. As a member of Censeo’s Leadership Team, Kisha manages client contracts for organizations across the federal government, and as Censeo’s Director of Employee Experience, she collaborates with Censeo leadership and staff to co-create an exceptional employee experience for all Censeans.
Prior to joining Censeo, Kisha held strategy, growth, and operations leadership roles for a government contractor supporting federal clients. She has also led strategy and planning, membership development, marketing strategy, and business development for several nonprofits. Kisha’s management consulting background includes consulting with A.T. Kearney, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Commerce One.
Expertise Highlights
- Organizational strategy
- Organizational design, transformation & change management
- Process efficiency & effectiveness
- Diversity, equity, inclusion & accessibility (DEIA)
- Qualitative and quantitative assessment & analysis
- Management of large-scale, multi-task contracts
Education and Certifications
- M.B.A., The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
- PMI™ Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®)
- Prosci Certified Change Management Professional (PCCP)
Adam Walters
Adam Walters is an Associate Partner at Censeo with more than a decade of experience leading public sector consulting engagements. Over the course of his consulting career, Adam has successfully led or supported more than 20 projects for a wide range of Federal civilian, defense, and higher education organizations. Some of the key clients he has supported include DOS, EPA, FCC, GSA, NIH, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and James Madison University. He is a subject matter expert in strategic planning, implementation planning, program and project management, metrics/evaluation, federal acquisition, category management, supply chain management, and data analytics.
Adam attended the University of Maryland, College Park for both undergraduate and graduate programs, in which he earned a Master of Business Administration degree, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Supply Chain Management. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute, as well as a Certified Federal Contract Manager (CFCM) through the National Contract Management Association.
Throughout his career, Adam has been recognized with a series of awards for his industry leadership. These include Supply and Demand Chain Executive’s “Pros to Know,” as well as Poets and Quants’ “MBAs to Watch.” He has also published seven case studies regarding the approaches used, and results accomplished, on a series of consulting engagements.
Brad Golson
Brad brings experience from the Federal and private sectors to all of the work he does with his clients. For almost a decade, Brad served as an advisor and program lead for federal Senior Executives, driving program effectiveness and innovation, and large-scale change management efforts. At the Department of Homeland Security, Brad led efforts for the Under Secretary for Management, and at the General Services Administration, he played a lead role with the President’s Management Council (PMC) and advanced the President’s Management Agenda. During his federal career, he also served on the response team to the largest cyber-attack on the federal government at the Office of Personnel Management and worked with the Center for Presidential Transition in anticipation of the 2016 Presidential election.
While at Censeo, Brad has overseen the firm’s work at the General Services Administration.
This work has included, but is not limited to:
- Establishing a governance process for major technology investments in the Federal Acquisition Service
- Creation of a government-wide interactive dashboard for federal procurement personnel to assist with the development of a procurement strategy
- Strategic and programmatic support of the government-wide Category Management PMO Digital.gov
- Programmatic support of government-wide executive councils such as the Chief Data Officers Council, and leadership development programs such as the CXO Fellowship Program
Expertise Highlights
- Strategic program initiation, Program, Portfolio and Project Management;
- Strategic Communication, Stakeholder Management, and Change Management;
- Process design and re-engineering, meeting and planning facilitation and organizational governance implementation.
Kashni Sharma
Kashni Sharma has over 10 years of experience as a project manager to an array of private- and public-sector clients. Kashni’s work has spanned multiple private sector and Federal Government clients. Kashni brings expertise leading process and program evaluations by utilizing a variety of evaluation methods, including Lean Six Sigma and project management principles, to execute organizational assessments to identify capability gaps, execute risk assessments, and develop key performance indicators resulting in quantifiable improvements across performance and quality.
As an Engagement Manager at Censeo, Kashni is leading projects with GSA and DoS. Prior to Censeo, Kashni worked closely with the DoD to execute process improvement evaluations to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of departments across the Navy, Army, and Marine Corps. She holds a MPS in applied economics from the University of Maryland and a BS in economics from University of Maryland.
Expertise Highlights
- Operational improvement
- Risk assessments
- Key performance indicator development and tracking
- Organizational strategy
- Process and program evaluation
Education and Certifications
- MPS, Applied Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
- BS, Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
- PMI™ Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Derrick Moreira
Derrick Moreira brings more than 20 years of management consulting and industry experience, leading and delivering complex supply chain, organizational transformation and operations strategy solutions. He is a sought-after expert in strategic acquisition and in transforming organizations to better enable exceptional mission outcomes. He has directly led projects at over a dozen agencies across the Federal Government.
Derrick is President and CEO of Censeo and leads Censeo’s Organizational Effectiveness practice. Prior to joining Censeo, Derrick worked as a project team leader and consultant for A.T. Kearney and as a process improvement manufacturing engineer for Boston Scientific Corporation.
Derrick holds and MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and a BS in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University. He is a multiple time recipient of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Pros to Know list.
Our Clients
Our clients include some of the biggest organizations, and our projects include some of the most complex operations challenges you’ll face anywhere.
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