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SILVER SPRING, MD—August 02, 2010—Easter Seals of Greater Washington-Baltimore Region's Board of Director's elected its 2010-2011 Slate of Officers as follows: Chairman, Phil Panzarella, President & CEO of CPS Professional Services, LLC; 1st Vice Chairman, Jonathan Horowitch, VP Capital Management, Capital One; 2nd Vice Chairman, David Hoppe, Vice Chairman, Quinn, Gillespie & Associates; Secretary, Eugene Manning, President/CEO, Manning Broadcasting, Inc.; Assistant Secretary, Glenn Yarborough, Principal & Founder, WGY & Associates; Treasurer, Thomas Cholis, Managing Director & Chief Fiduciary Officer, Chevy Chase Trust Company; Immediate Past Chairman, Ralph Boyd, Executive Vice President Community Relations, Freddie Mac, President & CEO, Freddie Mac Foundation.

The newly-elected officers' mission is to lead Easter Seals of Greater Washington-Baltimore Region during FY 2011, serving a term beginning September 1, 2010, and ending August 31, 2011.

Easter Seals Greater Washington-Baltimore Region provides comprehensive services for children and adults with disabilities and their families, throughout the District of Columbia, Maryland and Northern Virginia. Easter Seals' core services include Early-Childhood Intervention therapy, Adult Day Services, Assistive Technology, Respite Care, and home- and community-based therapy. Easter Seals recently added Military and Veterans Services as well as Veterans' Employment Services.

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FAIRFAX, VA—AUGUST 01, 2010—CPS Professional Services, LLC, was awarded a multi-million dollar contract with the United States Transportation Security Administration, for Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Training and Consulting Services. CPS will provide staff training in Lean Six Sigma methodologies. CPS Professional Services, LLC (CPS) is a Management Consulting company that designs and delivers performance-based solutions to enhance organizational effectiveness; with a focus on Business Transformation and Performance Management. CPS has worked with an array of impressive partners and subcontractors such as Accenture, winning a reputation for managing well-credentialed professionals across many disciplines in support of clients. "CPS projects are successful because we take a methodical approach to our work," asserts Panzarella, "Our emphasis is on effective planning and high-quality execution with outstanding results."

The Program Manager leading this effort is Mr. Donald Webb, a certified Master Black Belt with over 20 years of industry experience and over 10 years' experience applying and presenting Lean and Six Sigma concepts to organizations and their leadership. The CPS Team will assist TSA in developing a comprehensive, self-sustaining Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Training Program. CPS is ready to train TSA employees in Lean Six Sigma methodology, enabling them to propagate the methodology throughout the organization and across all projects. Under Mr. Webb's leadership, CPS will provide Executive/Project Sponsor training for TSA executive and process owners, and Master Black Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt and Instructor Techniques training as well as related consulting to other TSA personnel.

CPS Professional Services is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in the Washington DC Metro area. CPS is a contract holder of the DoD BTA Cross Agency Support Services (CASS) contract, Seaport-e and GSA MOBIS. Further information regarding programs and services provided by CPS should be directed to Mr. Phil Panzarella, 571-282-4024 (x11), or www.cps-ps.com.

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BURKE/ALEXANDRIA, VA—January 04, 2010—CPS Professional Services, LLC (CPS), is pleased to announce Mr. Tom Arnsmeyer has joined CPS as partner and Chief Operating Officer (COO) on December 12, 2009. Mr. Arnsmeyer will manage corporate operations.

Mr. Tom Arnsmeyer is a seasoned leader in the Services and Consulting Business. Prior to joining CPS Professional Services as our Chief Operations Officer, he spent over 30 years in senior management and leadership in both the private and public sector. Mr. Arnsmeyer previously served as COO for Wintara, Vice President of Raytheon Technical Services Homeland Security business, with revenues over $400 million and Vice President of Northrop Grumman's IT Security and Infrastructure Solutions operating unit, with revenues in excess of $350 million. While in these positions he successfully achieved competitive year-over-year sales and profit growth. Mr. Arnsmeyer was also the lead executive for major pursuits in the homeland and international markets. He also started Northrop Grumman IT Managed Services Horizontal practice, chartered to bring "best practices and expertise" in managed services to the company.

"We are very pleased to have Tom join our team", stated Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Phil Panzarella. "Tom has exceptional experience to expand CPS in alignment with our vision and customer commitments."

Mr. Arnsmeyer holds a bachelor's degree in math and criminal justice from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and a master's degree in computer science from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida. Mr. Arnsmeyer lives in Northern Virginia with his wife Tere and their two daughters.

CPS Professional Services, LLC is a values-driven firm that optimizes and sustains performance by providing quality solutions and professional services to achieve success for clients. CPS has a highly skilled and diverse workforce with expertise in program management, strategic planning, performance management and human performance. CPS is a current contract holder of the DoD BTA Cross Agency Support Services (CASS), Seaport-e, Army LSS and GSA MOBIS Contracts. As a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, CPS maintains offices in the Washington Metro area.

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BURKE, VA—September 29, 2009—CPS Professional Services, LLC, has been awarded a contract with the Business Transformation Agency (BTA) of the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide key services that support critical DoD business operations. Building on previous successful projects with the BTA, CPS will provide experienced and knowledgeable professionals in the areas of finance, acquisition, budgeting, communications and administration, to perform specialized, transformational work within the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer (ODCMO). The ODCMO performs a critical advisory role to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense in improving and managing business operations in the Department of Defense.

"The Department of Defense, as the largest organization in the world, is on a mission to transform itself by creating effective and efficient business operations," says Phil Panzarella, CPS CEO. "With our people, processes and methodologies, CPS is delighted to continue to provide quality management consulting services to the Deputy, Chief Management Office. CPS is poised to help in this transformational process to ensure DoD provides the best support and services for our troops in the field and their families at home."

Contributing efficiently and effectively to day-to-day operations, the CPS team will help ensure that ODCMO business transformation policies and programs meet stated performance goals. The CPS team is committed to helping the ODCMO meet the challenges of supporting the Warfighter mission and demonstrating financial and performance accountability.

This new contract adds to CPS' expanding list of DoD projects. CPS has supported the BTA and DCMO in various capacities since 2007. Past and current projects provide planning, communication, and event management, program management, office support, and administrative support, as well as Lean Six Sigma instruction and program support. During this period, CPS has received outstanding evaluations for its performance. CPS plans to build on its understanding of the BTA and DCMO mission, challenges, and culture, resulting from the past two-and-a-half years experience in supporting the Lean Six Sigma roll-out effort, the DCMO stand-up, and major events such as the Agility Forum and SOA Symposium.

CPS is a management consulting company specializing in business transformation and workplace performance. By building strong partnerships with a diverse range of companies, CPS assembles teams of specialists that match the requirements of each client and each project. For this contract, CPS has teamed with three other distinguished companies: FederalConference.com, OpenSource, and YRCI. FederalConference.com is an event planning firm that delivers professional event planning and management services. OpenSource is a high tech software development and new media company with solid web development experience. YRCI is an established leader in Federal Acquisition Advisory Services, and performs the functional professional services necessary to deliver business solutions for enterprise needs.

The entire CPS team looks forward to working with the BTA and DCMO on tasks that contribute to the successful execution of our national defense plans and support the U.S. Warfighter.

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BURKE, VA—September 29, 2009—The United States Department of Agriculture has engaged CPS Professional Services, LLC, to provide policy development services to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) International Services (IS). APHIS has the broad mission of protecting the health and value of American agriculture and natural resources through blocking disease and pestilence pathways to the United States. CPS provides related services under its GSA MOBIS Schedule.

CPS has spent the past two years engaging in APHIS projects valued at well over $1 million. Projects included establishing a Concept of Operations for the Agency's overseas workforce and a robust set of eighty-eight supporting standard operating procedures. CPS also designed a Decision Model to help quantify administrative feasibility as a function of technical need, in ranking potential locations for overseas posts. CPS staff worked with APHIS IS overseas personnel in the field, developing a Talent Management and Succession Plan.

The CPS team looks forward to applying its knowledge of APHIS IS' infrastructure, mission, and processes to the new USDA Policy Analyst task, which includes researching and developing new policies that uniformly apply to the agency's international workforce stationed around the world. The work requires crafting international policies, incorporating USDA, OMB and State Department guidelines and regulations, to develop ISO-compliant policy and procedure documentation.

Successful execution of this project will enable APHIS IS to become a performance-based organization, providing administrative field personnel with policy-driven responses to situations that are now handled inconsistently, on a case-by-case basis. APHIS IS can use the new policies as the foundation for developing standard operating procedures, which in turn, can serve as benchmarks for performance objectives.

CPS is a management consulting company specializing in business transformation and workplace performance. CPS has established a reputation as a leader in providing timely and successful completion of business transformation projects while remaining focused on the highest level of quality customer service. CPS professional staff have supported strategic planning, process development, performance measurement and reporting, organizational development, and delivery of ISO-compliant policy and procedure documentation to the USDA, DoD, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Department of Labor, as well as to the private sector.

CPS is confident in its ability to execute this project and looks forward to competing for other USDA projects in the areas of business transformation and human performance systems.

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BURKE, VA—July 30, 2009—CPS Professional Services, LLC, was awarded a multi-million dollar contract with the United States Army for delivering training, coaching, and mentoring; providing project management and execution; and for offering consulting services centering on Lean Six Sigma (LSS) process improvement. "We are very pleased to win this important award from the Army in its Enterprise Approach to transformation," says Phil Panzarella, CPS CEO. "This project allows us to team with Accenture to provide Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belts in the training, coaching, mentoring, project execution and project management consulting services to Army personnel around the globe."

CPS is a management consulting company specializing in business transformation and workplace performance. Although a small company, CPS has worked with some impressive partners and subcontractors such as Accenture, General Dynamics, and IBM. It has won a reputation for presenting well-credentialed professionals to work projects using the Project Management Institute's renowned Body of Knowledge. "CPS Project Managers are successful because we take a methodical approach to our work," asserts Panzarella, "Our emphasis is on effective planning and high quality execution with outstanding results."

Reporting to executive sponsor CEO Phil Panzarella is Mr. Greg Foster, the CPS Program Manager. Mr. Foster is a process engineer who came to CPS from the celebrated George Group, a stellar name in the Lean Six Sigma practice community. Ms. Stafford L. Kim, PMP, is also supporting the contract as Deputy Project Manager.

Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and variations in business processes. Lean offers a systematic approach to eliminating waste to develop procedures that are more efficient. Lean Six Sigma helps management improve workforce throughput while upholding high quality standards. The methodology borrows martial arts terminology to designate various levels of LSS expertise, culminating with Master Black Belts.

In hard economic times, an Army faced with its seventh year of conflict seeks the strategic advantages offered by prevailing management wisdom.

Using the Army's Systems Approach to Training (SAT) approved Programs of Instruction; CPS certified LSS instructors will support its customer's strategic decision to substantially increase its cadre of LSS-trained employees. This training is targeted to produce various levels of certified "belt practitioners" including Green and Black Belts, as well as the more prestigious Master Black Belt certification and Strategic Leader Workshops.

CPS Professional Services is partnered with Accenture Global Services on this 6-month bridge contract. During this period, CPS Lean Six Sigma instructors will teach, coach and mentor more than 500 students and lead and participate on several enterprise-wide Army projects. CPS provides a number of consultants to the Business Transformation Agency (BTA) of the Department of Defense. The staff members provide project management, communications, and consulting services to several groups within BTA.

In addition to CPS's opportunity with the Army, CPS has a thriving practice using LSS to execute a variety of programs. CPS has executed some notable projects in business transformation. For USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), CPS Professional Services has built tactical plans, performed strategic alignment, formulated a succession plan, and designed training programs that significantly impacted the organization.

CPS is confident in its ability to execute this project and looks forward to competing for ongoing Lean Six Sigma support to the Department of Defense, other Government agencies and private industry.

CPS Professional Services is a service disabled veteran owned small business with offices in the Washington Metro area. CPS is a contract holder of the DoD BTA Cross Agency Support Services (CASS) contract, Seaport-e and GSA MOBIS. Further information regarding this program and the services provided by CPS should be directed to Mr. Phil Panzarella, 571-282-4024 (x11), or phil.panzarella@cps-ps.com.

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BURKE, VA—August 25, 2008—CPS Professional Services, LLC, achieved a rating of 94% out of a possible score of 100 in Dun & Bradstreet's Open Rating System. CPS Professional Services has been certified by as a Top 20% Performer. This rating was based on the Past Performance Evaluation survey responses of its reference customers. A PPE score of 94/100 demonstrates outstanding overall customer satisfaction relative to similar companies.

CPS Professional Services prides itself on offering superior customer service. The company acts as a virtual team, augmenting each customer's staff with experienced resources, while focusing on facilitating the customer's mission. Along with its partner Abrams Learning & Information Systems, Inc., CPS Professional Services was recently awarded a $1 million contract to provide strategic organizational development services for USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). Over the past year, CPS Professional Services worked with APHIS to develop a Concept of Operations to design, sustain and maintain an overseas workforce. This work included a robust set of standard operating procedures covering administrative operations in overseas offices.

Founded in 2006, CPS Professional Services is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned management consulting company with an agile boutique solution approach. In its second year of operation, the company provides federal government customers with program management, organizational development and human capital planning. CPS Professional Services customers include the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense and the United States Department of Agriculture.

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