Senior Management Team
President/CEO
Jacqueline Woodard is chief executive officer of PbSi, maintaining direct responsibility for overall corporate oversight, executive management and new business development. Her corporate vision is to continue advancing PbSi as a premier program management organization, delivering comprehensive and innovative acquisition, logistics and information technology management quality solutions to our clients. Emphasizing ethical business practices, challenging PbSi employees to reach their maximum potential, and supporting the communities in which we live and work continues to be key priorities of Ms. Woodard. In prior years, Ms. Woodard served in numerous senior management positions throughout her career, including over 25 years as a business development executive. She continue to utilizes proven techniques of leadership, team building and employee empowerment to maintain a positive culture within PbSi of excellence, teamwork and personal motivation.
Before PbSi was founded, Ms. Woodard was director of marketing and business development for three successful government contractors, each grossing millions of dollars annually. During that period, her responsibilities included managing, facilitating and implementing all business development activities for the firms; and serving in ancillary functions, such as staff training and development, strategic partnerships manager, public relations manager, corporate monitor on major contracts and project manager tasked with integrating institutions of higher education into programs delivering management and technical assistance to emerging government contractors.
Ms. Woodard also spent eight years of her career supporting the Office of the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration, coordinating policy development and dissemination, procedural development and performance measurements for several small business programs and activities related to state and local initiatives. She holds a Master of Arts Degree and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from North Carolina Central University, and has received extensive post-graduate training in a variety of subject areas relating to leadership, management, marketing and business development.
Director of Business Development
Greg Ayres is Director of Operations/Director of Business Development for PbSi and is responsible for overseeing and directing all aspects of day-to-day program operations, and ensuring that new business opportunities are aligned with the company’s growth strategies. Mr. Ayres is a seasoned Health Care Information Technology senior executive with over 30 years of experience utilizing his technical knowledge to Management IT Programs for large and small Federal programs. He has been instrumental in taking these programs from development, to design, to testing, and then implementation. Mr. Ayres has managed programs for as little as six staffers to as large as 350 in 35 different states. He has developed program support plans using the PMBOK style of planning. He is a hands-on manager but always careful not to suppress creativity. Mr. Ayers is credited for being quick to identify program risk and to building methods to mitigate those risks. He has also built and overseen the measurement of a variety of quality milestones that were used by both large and small management teams to evaluate production. All of his efforts are approached with quality customer satisfaction at the forefront of his planning. As a retired Army Medical Services Corps Officer; he implemented business process reengineering and improvement tactics utilizing Lean Six Sigma and Project Management Professional methodologies
The results of some of his efforts lead to the development of the Theater Medical Information Program (TMIP) and the first Medical Smart Card ever deployed to the battlefield, which provided the design concept to be used in the DoD Common Access Card (CAC). He has provided expert consultation on the development, marketing, and maintenance of General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) for small and mid-tier businesses. He has also developed an approach for quickly responding, staffing and delivering GSA issued Task Orders. As a certified instructor and Instructional Systems Developer (ISD), Mr. Ayres routinely teaches at the post graduate level as an Assistant Professor. He holds a Master of Science degree from Our Lady of the Lake University and a Bachelors of Science from the University of California. Mr. Ayres has also completed MEL 4 military training and education.
Chief Technology Officer
James Chavis is PbSi’s Chief Technology Officer. He brings to the organization over 30 years of experience as an engineer, technical consultant and project manager. Certified as a Lotus Notes Systems Administrator, Novell Engineer and Lotus Notes Applications Developer, Mr. Chavis has expertise in numerous software applications and hardware systems and servers. He is also an experience Project Manager. His specific experience includes implementation of new software solutions from the test lab environment to the production environment, providing true stress testing analysis, mock staging procedures, documentation, proof of concept evaluations and troubleshooting solutions. Mr. Chavis served as Project Manager for the Orbital Astrological Observatory where he managed a technical team in support of the U.S. EPA’s Office of Research and Development under FAIR II. His team supported and reconstructed their Domino Intranet Server, Domino.Doc, and Domino Web Server and managed the ORD Notes Mail Server and Backup System. He led the team to satisfy all SLA objectives during contract periods. He was accountable for achieving assigned goals for the business unit and all program objectives which included: customer satisfaction, operating within cost, continuous process improvement and the professional development of subordinate employees. He was responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, skill assessments, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions. He assisted with all phases of the program development and execution. As a Lotus Notes Administrator, he supported the U.S Foreign Commercial Service’s International Notes and NT Server rollout deployment to all U.S. embassies, consisting of 167 sites. Mr. Chavis provided technical support for worldwide replication and server configuration efforts to open up the communications and global marketing efforts for the Foreign Trade Administration. He provided technical support for 187 international Lotus Notes system administrators and also provided training and technical problem solving pertaining to international support issues for various COTS products. As a Lotus Notes Administrator for the Bersoff Technology Group, Mr. Chavis’ lead a team that installed a 6000-node Lotus Notes server and fileserver, workstation hardware and software installation and upgrades. Also while at BTG, Mr. Chavis built the U.S. Department of Education’s Web server.
He also served as technical lead working for TechStar to support an IBM task to provide technical assistance, troubleshooting support, and messaging migration for the Federal Aviation Administration National Notes support project. He also has been a technical consultant with Automated Communications Inc., supporting mail migration projects, Lotus Mail, and IP related problem solving. As a network engineer, he was responsible for reconfiguration and automation of software applications for SPAWAR, providing technical assistance with remote software, trouble shooting of all networks and resolution of general computer related problems.
Mr. Chavis holds a M.S. Degree in Instructional Technology from the University of District of Columbia, a B.A. Degree in Education from Shaw University and numerous Technical Certifications.