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At Scribble Talk Podcast, we document the journey of APMP veterans and the brightest bid & proposal minds in planet earth. To our listeners, please support our podcast. Your annual membership will help us to cover our costs to record, edit and host the digital audio vault of inspiring stories, teaching and talent episodes and more. Thank you for the love and support - Baskar Sundaram.

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Scribble Talk - Episode 32 Mel Smith (Relentless and Determined)

May 30, 2020 • S01 E32 • 00:54:52

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Today’s Guest is Mel Mae Smith  

Mel is a Senior Business Winning Consultant with Harmonic with a track record of winning bids in the commercial and public sectors worth up to £1.4bn. As a certified Professional within the APMP, Mel adopts best practice techniques to shape winning bid campaigns alongside mentoring fellow proposal professionals to help advance the profession. Mel has a varied career background spanning Graphics, Marketing and Communications for International Investment Banks, Asset Management Companies and Hedge Funds as well as having owned her own Florist business before returning to the corporate life and the world of bidding. 

Mel has been a member of APMP since 2012. Mel is current past UK APMP chair and is 2020 conference director. She is member of the APMP UK Chapter Board since 2018 where she held Marketing & Communications Director and Vice Chair positions. Mel led the delivery of chapter's strategic goals, building on its current comms and engagement activity and developing the way chapter engage effectively with its members. Mel is also an International APMP Board Member since Jan 2020. 

In this Scribble Talk episode we will discuss Mel's 

Early life and career 
Time at US 
Florist Business
Career at Harmonic 
Leadership at APMP’s Bid and Proposal Con and UK Chapter 
Working alongside Jon Darby
Memorable capture and proposal effort 
Memorable training effort 
APMP certification journey 
People influential in her life and career 
Best piece of advice 

Few random questions 

As a child, what did you wish to become when you grew up?
Can you talk about your five buckets? 
Sitting alone in a big field, looking at stars, what do you think/feel?
What takes you out of your comfort zone?
If you wake up as (Queen Elizabeth 2), what's the first thing you would do?
Tell us more about your May Marathon run? 
You did bike ride London to Paris - whats the biggest lesson the experience taught you? 
If you could organise a motorbike race for you and your friends where will you go and who will you invite? 
Whats the maximum number of cadbury creme eggs you have eaten in one day?
If you were going to a famous historical figure dress up party, who would you go as? 
Sing in the rain or dance in the streets? why? 

Listen in and get to know the inspiring Mel Smith. 

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