Carmen Ortiz Larsen, President
Ms. Larsen is a senior consultant with over 20 years experience in the information management technology industry, management consulting and public policy. An experienced business process improvement analyst and facilitator, she has provided extensive technical management and consulting services to the public, international and private sector.
Her work has spanned health care, education, agriculture, environmental impacts, and economic development. Among her significant business achievements are:
* her recognized work for the Cardiology military community under a US Department of Defense clinical practice process improvement, military service re-alignment, diagnosis technology standardization, and investment business case development (1991-2000);
* her work in the development of a computer-based national water quality model incorporating 20 distinct pollutants from point and non-point sources as a contractor to Resources for the Future under grants from the US Geological Survey, US Department of Agriculture, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (1979 – 1988);
* the design and leadership in the construction of a case management, bio-ethics process compliance, and knowledge base system for clinical bio-ethics for the Veterans Health Administration, Veterans Affairs (2000-Present), and the deployment of the system to over 120 Veterans hospitals nationally;
* the engineering and construction of an integrated activity-based cost accounting, labor time tracking, travel expense allocation, and inspection billing system for the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service, currently deployed to support over 800 poultry graders (2000-2008);
* a national study of use, reporting, and obstacles in the outreach and inclusion of minorities in HUD-funded projects at the local levels.
Ms. Larsen is a graduate of Georgetown University, where she was the first woman Physics major to attend all four years and graduate from the College of Arts and Science. Born of Ecuadorian immigrants in Rome, Italy, she migrated to the United States when she was 16 years old. She is a United States citizen, is experienced in domestic and international work assignments, and is fluent in Spanish, Italian, French and English. She has been a resident of Montgomery County, Maryland for over 30 years.
In her social concerns, Ms. Larsen has been engaged in minority owned small business advocacy and legislative reviews at the Federal and State levels since 1998. She has promoted initiatives to strengthen the economic development of minority communities as a way to resolve social issues. She has actively participated in the development of initiatives to support micro-enterprises and ensure their sustainability, both in global markets as well as locally. She has held numerous public speaking engagements and created public discussion forums. She has operated and managed non-profits and led several fund raising efforts.
