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Jim K. McCarthy career spans over 37 years of marketing and proposal strategy creation, proposal development, and oral presentation coaching in support of contractors seeking to expand their market shares or to enter the government contracts market sector. As a founder of AOC Key Solutions, he built an organization that, since its inception, has played a part in winning more than $184 billion in federal contract awards for its clients.

Jim frequently serves as a conference guest speaker or panel moderator on topics ranging from leadership to winning government contracts through every legitimate means available. He has served in an advisory role with the George Washington University, Virginia Science and Technology Campus, Technology Accelerator and has been a frequent speaker with the George Mason University Procurement and Technical Assistance Center. Jim has also served on the board of the Veterans Institute for Procurement GovCon Council. In February 2016, Jim was named to Executive Mosaic’s Washington 100 as one of the top–100 most influential leaders in the government contracting arena. He currently serves on advisory boards for the USO-Metro and the National Contract Management Association.

Since 2016, Jim has served at the Chairman of the Board of Rekor Systems, Inc., a publicly traded technology and AI company traded on NASDAQ: REKR.

In this inspirational episode, we will discuss Jim's

Early life and career
Capitol Hill and the White House experience
Entry to proposal world
Memorable projects
View of how proposal industry evolved over 35 years
View of what’s better or worse about how we did proposals in the past versus how we do them today?
Founding AOC Key Solutions in 1983 and how the company evolved over the years?
View of Principle Centered Winning
Love for Ocean City
Inspiration behind his 6 days of health and fitness
Favourite movie
People influential in life and career
Fond memories of watching Baltimore Orioles during their glory years and at Oriole Park at Camden Yards   
Advice to bid and proposal professionals

Few random questions
If Hollywood made a movie about your life, who would you like to see play the lead role as you?
If you were asked to play any Star Trek® [or Star Wars® ] character, which one would you choose and why?
What is your favourite science fiction movie and why? 
What’s the most interesting books you’ve read ?
Suddenly you are switch into the body of Clint Eastwood - How would he describe proposal profession to his audience?
You have worked at the white house and capital hill which political TV show resembles closely to real life politics ? 
If you could visit any place in the world, where would you choose to go and why?
If you could be any male/female sports star, who would you be?

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