Essix is a veteran-owned subcontracting partner for program management, PMO stand-up, and organizational change management. One senior lead available on 30 days notice, a documented enterprise PMO build delivered at 0.03% variance, and both set-aside credits on your subcontracting plan. We do the work we are written in for.
Not a pass-through. Every hour we bill, we perform.
You carry a subcontracting plan with SDVOSB and WOSB goals, and a task order that needs a PM or OCM lead. We fill the seat and the goal in one move. Key personnel resume on request. Capability statement within 24 hours of your call. On the task order in 30 days.
Work you subcontract to another SDVOSB, performed with that firm's own employees, does not count against your 50% limitation on subcontracting under 13 CFR 125.6. If you are capacity-constrained on a VECTOR, OASIS+, or agency task order, hand us the PMO or OCM slice and keep your compliance clean.
Written the way it lands on a staffing plan: the seat we fill, the scope we self-perform, and the proof behind it.
A PMP, CMMI-trained lead who has built two enterprise PMOs from zero. Charter, intake and prioritization, portfolio reporting, RAID, executive cadence. Written into your proposal as key personnel.
A carve-out with clean edges: operating model, intake, PMIS configuration, role-based dashboards that replace slide decks at the steering committee. Fixed-fee or T&M. Self-performed.
Prosci ADKAR-based adoption planning, stakeholder analysis, communications, and training. The workstream primes most often under-staff on transformation task orders, and the one that decides whether the system gets used.
Mid-flight takeover of stalled programs. Rebaseline, governance reset, honest status to the government. Drop in, stabilize, hand back with a runbook.
PMI Authorized Training Partner instruction. PMP preparation and delivery-practice training for agency and prime teams. Six federal cohorts taught since 2017, including Defense Logistics Agency personnel.
Disciplined delivery. Named risks. Built to outlast us.
Delivered by Essix leadership.
Client references and past performance questionnaires available on request.
Interim AVP seat held through the client's permanent hire. Runbook, PMIS, and capacity model handed off.
CRM platform and integrator selection, implementation PMO. Readiness 26/50 to 50/50. Delivered at 77% of budgeted hours; client extended twice.
ERP requirements and RFP, then delivery of a USDA home-delivery program scaled 30x from pilot at 98.4% confirmed delivery.
Program director, $200M DoD ERP implementation taken over from the systems integrator that failed it. Adoption rebuilt from the warehouse floor up.
PM training for program leaders; portfolio triage and governance reset.
Kickoff with your PM and the government lead. Governance cadence, reporting format, and escalation path agreed and written down. Workshare tracking set up against the subcontract.
RAID log live. Schedule baseline or rebaseline complete. First status in your template, not ours.
First executive readout. Audit-ready file structure. Workshare report you can hand to your SBLO without editing.
Cheryl Barnett is Chief Executive Officer and majority owner of Essix Consulting Group. She retired from the Army National Guard as a Major after twenty years as a commissioned Signal Officer, including service as Brigade Signal Officer for a Sustainment Brigade, the primary staff officer reporting to the commander on communications readiness. Her civilian career spans federal and DoD program and project management, federal contract management, and systems integration, including ERP and AI-enabled solutions. At Essix she owns contracts, compliance, certification, and teaming relationships. Before program management she spent seven years in international education administration at Southern Illinois University, running operations across stakeholders who did not report to her, which turns out to be most of the job.
Shane Dixon runs delivery. He has built two enterprise PMOs from nothing: one inside a consulting firm from its sixth employee through ISO 9001 and CMMI Level 4 to 21 people, and one inside a 14-hospital health system in 26 weeks on a fixed fee, after which he held the interim AVP seat until the client hired its permanent leader. Before that, two decades leading programs to $200M and portfolios to $62M across manufacturing, IT/OT, utilities, healthcare, insurance, and federal environments. PMI Authorized Training Partner instructor. Marine Corps infantry, then seven years as an Army National Guard Signal NCO.
Specializes in executive operating rhythm, aligning stakeholders, tracking priorities, and driving follow-through on key initiatives.
We founded Essix because we’re tired of people abusing small business set-aside programs and turning them into paper games. That stuff isn’t harmless, it wastes tax dollars, creates real audit and compliance risk for primes, and undermines why these programs exist in the first place.
As veterans ourselves, we take that personally. We built Essix to be the opposite of a pass-through: a small business partner that does real work you can document, defend, and audit, and that actually honors the intent behind the program by creating real impact, not just eligibility.
Name the contract or task order, the labor category or gap, and the timing. You will have a capability statement and a key personnel resume within 24 hours, and a yes or no on fit within 48.
