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March 23, 2023, 11:30AM - 1:00PM @ UNF
Dr. Dolores Kuchina-Musina, CFCM, NCMA Fellow
Dr. Dolores Kuchina-Musina, CFCM, NCMA Fellow
Dr. Dolores Kuchina-Musina, CFCM, NCMA Fellow
Chief Disruptor, REXOTA Solutions
Melanie “Mel” Charlton
Dr. Dolores Kuchina-Musina, CFCM, NCMA Fellow
Dr. Dolores Kuchina-Musina, CFCM, NCMA Fellow
Chief Creator, REXOTA Solutions
Dr. Dolores Kuchina-Musina, CFCM, NCMA Fellow; Chief Disruptor, REXOTA Solutions
Dr. Dolores Kuchina-Musina is the Chief Disruptor at REXOTA Solutions, LLC, a consultingcompany in the DC-Metro area focusing on strategy, planning, pursuit, capture, management,and administration of Federal Contract/Agreement Awards.
Dolores has over 10 years’ experience in federal, state, and international public procurement, specifically directing and managing strategic pursuits in collaboration with business development, proposal development, change management initiatives for Federal procurement acquisitions and served as a strategic partner in providing risk management support for Federal compliance contracts.
Dolores was featured in The Business Magazine of Coastal Virginia in 2019 and named “Millennials on theMove” for her business community involvement and civic contributions. She was awarded the Jacques S. Gansler Fellowship - Professional Services Council Foundation in April 2020. Dolores holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy and a Master of Business Administration from Old Dominion University. She received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Christopher Newport University.
Additionally, she has a graduate certificate in Public Procurement and Contract Management (PPCM), is an NCMA Fellow, a Certified Federal Contract Manager (CFCM), and has held numerous leadership positions in her local non-profit organizations. Currently, her research interests include innovation policy, other transaction authorities, federal procurement reform, and decision-making models.
Melanie “Mel” Charlton; Chief Creator, REXOTA Solutions
Melanie “Mel” Charlton is the Chief Creator at REXOTA Solutions, LLC. She has over a decade of experience leading business development and consulting on strategies for clients including the ACLU, Washington DC Executive Office of the Mayor, the George Washington University, and Asurity. Mel drives impactful design across several organizations, including REXOTA, Geocentric, and Brllnt. She founded Brllnt in 2014 on the belief that collaborative design has the power to build dreams and create solutions to our world's biggest problems.
Prior to leading Brllnt, Mel spent the early part of her career learning design and creative strategy from some of the world’s top creatives at Weber Shandwick and Erwin Pendland, where she served large brands including the Kellogg Foundation, BAE Systems, NATO, UN, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the US Army. Mel served on AIGA-DC's Board of Directors as Mentoring Chair from 2018 - 2020.
For nearly a decade, she has been leading design teams, and was recognized as a DC FemTech Powerful Woman Designer in 2016. In 2015, Mel co-founded Unleaded, a monthly design thinking MeetUp and passion project with the goal of connecting DC’s design community through creative problem solving.
Certifications & Awards
- MIT Mastering Design Thinking
- CSM, Certified Scrum Master
- DCFemTech Powerful Women Designers, 2016
- AIGA FLUX 2010, Best in Show
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