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Carter Raines, MIL’s newest VP communication to the affiliate community at large of over
1200 federal, state, and local organizations who leveraged the
It is with great pleasure that we USA Search platform. He was also head of strategic products,
announce the promotion of Carter forming and facilitating the Innovations Council, a review
Raines to Vice President. Beginning board consisting of top OCSC and GSA executives, responsible
his career with MIL as a technical for reviewing product and enterprise architecture proposals
lead in 2002, Carter has been a and strategic planning for OCSC.
proven asset to our company. His Since returning to MIL, Carter has been instrumental in
technical and business acumen as a positioning the company to the forefront of our competitors
developer, application administrator, in technologies such as Office 365, Amazon Web Services
system designer, project manager (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Salesforce, defining solutions
and SME consultant, have made to move our customers from legacy systems to state of the
him a highly sought-after resource art functionality. His ability to lead teams through intricate
on various consulting assignments. implementations have demonstrated MIL’s technical expertise,
Currently, he serves as Enterprise diversity, and capabilities in the market place. In addition to
Program Manager across several his billable activity, Carter has been instrumental in business
MIL accounts, including Department of Commerce, Library of development across the Information Technology Service sector
Congress, and National Archives and Records Administration. and is now busy kicking off several new contracts for which
As a seasoned consultant, Carter provides strategic project and the ITS Sector has landed this year.
portfolio management at the senior levels of our government
clients. Outside of work, he still flies the MIL flag, volunteering for the
Hyattsville Elementary School 5k, where MIL is the premier
Knowledge of MIL’s customer base was not learned solely by his sponsor, raising over $20,000 annually in direct money for
years of consulting, but Carter also has first-hand experience students at the neighborhood school. Carter is a graduate of
being a Federal government employee. From 2005 - 2008, WVU and a proud Mountaineer.
Carter briefly left MIL for positions at the US Department of
Commerce, and then to serve as Branch Chief, USA Search Please join me in congratulating Carter on this well-deserved
and Strategic Products. Under the USA.Gov program, he led promotion! We look forward to many more years of his
the USA Search platform, managing product management, leadership and support within our MIL team family.
platform enhancements, contract and federal staff, as well as

conferences

AGA's 2018 PDT Event

MIL, once again, had a major presence at the Association
of Government Accountants’ (AGA) annual Professional
Development Training (PDT) conference. This year’s four-day
event was held July 22 – 25 at the Orlando World Center Marriott
in Orlando, FL. The 2018 PDT keynote speaker was Shannon
Huffman Polson, author of The Grit Project, and one of the first
women to fly Apache helicopters in the U.S. Armed Forces. Ms.
Polson offered her unique perspective on leadership in dynamic
environments.
This year, PDT event organizers welcomed approximately 1,800
attendees and 40 exhibitors to the educational and networking
event. PDT attendees enjoyed the opportunity to learn about
what’s up and coming in the field, while simultaneously earning
up to 24 CPE hours of training.
Along with serving as an event sponsor, MIL also contributed
the subject matter expertise of VP John Roland, Sr., CGFM,
who served as the moderator for PDT Session 107, The New Tax
Reform is Here!

The 2019 PDT event is already scheduled for July 21 – 24 in New
Orleans, so make sure to put it on your calendar!

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