Our people are what make Destiny hum. We are celebrating ten years of providing services to the Federal Government and the private sector. Our staff are the solutions to the challenges you face. They are seasoned Government contractors who have demonstrated time and again their resourcefulness, energy, and commitment to quality. Résumés are provided immediately on request.

Donna M. Mitchell, President
Ms. Mitchell has over 20 years of experience in government accounting, auditing, financial management, budget, conference management, and contracts management. As president of Destiny for the last ten years, she provides management expertise and effective solutions to the full range of our contracts. Ms. Mitchell has implemented and initialized accounting systems and managed accounting departments for over 20 organizations. She has served as Vice President of Finance and Administration; CFO; Director of Accounting; and Contracts Manager. Ms. Mitchell has an MBA from Southeastern University and an undergraduate degree from Howard University.

Jack Downs, Director of Training and Operations
Mr. Downs has 20 years experience in program/project management functions of increased responsibility, including six years in training and facilitation. Mr. Downs has extensive experience with business communications and functional analysis activities, Total Quality Management, and technical writing. He has designed and implemented training courses for the U.S. Navy, the Veterans Administration, the Department of the Treasrury, and the State of Maryland. He has also managed programs on contracts with the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Treasury.Mr. Downs has a Masters in Business Administration from Loyola College, and a CPA.

Pamela S. Milan, Director of Communications
Ms. Milan is a talented Project Director and expert Meeting Manager who brings more than 20 years of professional experience in conference management, peer reviews and technical assistance to Destiny. Ms. Milan has extensive conference experience with numerous Federal agencies including the Department of Education; Health and Human Services; Labor, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

David Palmer, Director of Information Technology
Mr. Palmer is a Senior Software Engineer/, and a Developer/Information System Specialist in architecture, design, development, testing (IV&V), migration, and implementation of IT business systems for private industry and government. Mr. Palmer brings sixteen years of experience in the study, practice, teaching, writing, and real-life application of information engineering system life cycle methodologies applied in the development and maintenance of IT systems. As a Project Manager, he brings the maturity and knowledge to manage multiple projects and diverse staffs. Mr. Palmer has significant experience with federal agencies such as the Small Business Administration, General Services Administration and the Department of the Interior.

Melcom Pearmon, Director of Accounting and Finance
Mr. Pearmon has over 15 years of Government accounting, financial management, cash management and contracts administration experience. Mr. Pearmon has provided training on various accounting systems to companies that provide government contracting services to the Federal government. Mr. Pearmon has a BS in Accounting/Finance from Bowie State University

Other Staff Resources

Dong Fang Liu, Corporate Quality Assurance
Ms. Liu has ten years experience in accounting, auditing, and quality assurance. She is experienced in financial reporting and analysis, account reconciliation, development of accounting policy, and Federal Government compliance auditing. She has been responsible for review planning, performing review of Issuers and Document Custodians, and following up with the reviews as well as the quality assurance on several IT development and financial management projects. She is knowledgeable regarding the Ginnie Mae Mortgage-Backed Securities Handbook, and FHA requirements on Multi-Family projects. Ms. Liu holds a Masters of Science in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Dwight Mitchell, Contracts Manager
Mr. Mitchell serves as corporate contracts manager and develops, and/or reviews all corporate documents. Mr. Mitchell has reviewed and written and negotiated over thirty (30) commercial fixed price and fixed unit price type contracts, memorandums of understanding and letter contracts for parking services throughout the United States. Mr. Mitchell holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland and a Masters in Administrative Management.

Drusilla Pierce, Management Analyst
Ms. Pierce has more than twenty years in grants management, training and accounting experience, along with experience in financial statement preparation, budget/account management, accounts payable, general ledger, and reconciliation. She possesses strong management skills, and has automated and designed programs to streamline fiscal reporting. She has provided training on the Management Control Process (MCP) at WRAIR that covered the statutory and regulatory requirements of the Army's MCP, the underlying Army philosophy on management controls and the major elements of the Army's process. Ms. Pierce has facilitated brainstorming sessions to identify risk, and assisted with the identifying and developing of corrective actions to mitigate risk. With the State of Maryland, Ms. Pierce developed training packages and trained the Division Directors on how to write budget justifications and prepare the annual budget.

Archie Ford, Program Manager
Mr. Ford is a Program Manager with Department of the Army for over thirty years. He is an operating and systems accountant, and is a Management Analyst for Process Improvements for the Global War on Terrorism with Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He has been a Management Analyst for Agency Implementation of OMB A-123 (Revised). He is a licensed Examiner with the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award.

Sony Georgia, System Architect
Mr. Georgia has over ten years of experience in software design, development and evaluation across a wide range of software platforms. His experience includes various technical leadership roles. His expertise includes Internet technologies, relational databases, software development methodologies, and distributed systems. Mr. Georgia has broad and extensive knowledge in networking, wireless technologies, software engineering and operating systems. He holds an MS degree in computer science from Virginia Tech.

Larry E. Holeman, Trainer and Facilitator, IT System Tester
Mr. Holeman has more than 34 years of software and quality engineering experience using software development life cycle methodology, and IT IV&V Systems Testing. As president of Diverse Consulting Services, Mr. Holeman has offered training in: Writing Functional Requirements; Use Case Analysis; and Function Point Analysis. Mr. Holeman has a Bachelor of Arts, BA in Computer Information and Systems Science from the University of the District of Columbia.

Fred Myers, Financial Analyst
Mr. Myers is a Corporate Accounting / Finance Executive with over twenty years of experience in key management positions with companies ranging in size from start-up to large publicly-held corporations. He is experienced in the development of business strategies and translating those strategies into operating plans. Mr. Myers instructs Appropriations Law; Standard General Ledger Basic; Standard General Ledger Revolving Funds; Standard General Ledger Advanced; and Certifying Officer courses in various venues for federal employees. He has a Juris Doctorate in Law from Dusquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.