Janai Walters

Baobab Consultancy, LLC is a boutique consulting firm providing specialized advisory services to address emerging marketplace safety and security demands at the intersection of innovative biometric, thermal and touchless Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. Our solutions complement the fusion of a full suite of on-demand products, services and expertise through the creation of strategic partnerships with minority businesses of excellence to address intricate challenges and achieve client success across different industry verticals from educational, healthcare, and commercial institutions.

Managing a $1.4 Million multi-state real estate portfolio performing property acquisitions, management and operational functions. Successfully revitalized under-performing properties through expenditure analysis and controls, developing and managing services partner contracts, and optimizing rental income. Lead association management activities. • Increased rental portfolio income by 35% annually from 2017 – 2020, managed legal affairs recovering over $24,300 in delinquent accounts, and consistently built on-going consultancy services each by year 10%+. • Serve as Board of Director President, for the Longfellow Condominium Home Owners Association (HOA) in the District of Columbia. Managed condominium $400,000 annual budget and established the $200,000 reserve investment platform. Provided strategic leadership recognized by the Washington Metro Community Association Institute as an awardee of the prestigious 2018 Community of the Year Award and named as a keynote panel speaker at the 2019 Community Association of Institute’s annual Expo/Convention. • Create and manage communications channels for HOA and constituents. Collaborate with local government officials, community management team and vendor/service organizations to cresting content to report on legislative changes, fiscal health and financial best practices, and other information during regular meetings,

Managed organization change, market / customer, communications and business transformation strategy solutions and delivery of services supporting public sector clients. Served as project and team manager on federal initiatives. • United States Department of Health and Human Services, Grants.gov, Marketing Outreach and Communications Lead Built a team, developed strategic plans aligned to the delivery of Grants.gov program goals, managed various program initiative budgets ranging from $50 million to over $300 million, and directed the day-to-day team performance for program spanning 26 grant making agencies that offered 1,000 programs awarding over $400 billion annually. • United States IRS, Compliance Support Tools (CST), Senior Technical Manager Led the project management for three concurrent technical releases and received a commendation for stellar performance. • United States Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC), Enterprise Systems Support Services, IBM Program Organizational Change Management Project Manager Served as part of a 7-member team assembled to bring industry-leading practices, provided leadership to the OCC to successfully apply IBM methodologies, developed the Communications Management and Organizational Change Management (OCM) Plans. • United States IRS, Tax Exempt and Government Entities (TE / GE) Division, Tax Exempt Determination System (TEDS), IBM Organizational Change Management Lead Led change management and transition efforts for the transformation to a new TEDS business unit work-center.