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<h1>Nicholas Michalenko</h1>
<p>A working page. Business development, proposal management, and content strategy in the public sector. Based in Colorado Springs.</p>
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<h2>What I'm doing now</h2>
<p>I lead business development and marketing at Quantam Solutions, where I run capture, pursuit, and content end to end. I'm also developing a consulting framework called <a class="internal-link" href="#">Solv</a>, built around the idea that better questions produce better answers.</p>
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Leadership roles in proposal management, capture, and content strategy. Public sector preferred. Open to GovTech, mission-driven SaaS, and organizations where the work has weight.
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<h2>Selected work</h2>
<h4>Quantam Solutions</h4>
<p>Built the company's full BD and marketing function as a one-person operation. Designed a three-layer content architecture (Truths and Proofs) that separates raw facts from voice from RFP-specific compliance, with a React tracker for collaborative authoring.</p>
<h4>Proposal management</h4>
<p>Fifteen years across federal, state, and local pursuits. Compliance matrix development, win-theme work, color-team facilitation, post-submission learning. Shipley methodology.</p>
<h3>How I think</h3>
<p>Strategic clarity is the work I'm best at. Listening past the surface problem to find the root one. Helping people and organizations articulate what they actually do.</p>
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The question that opens the room is usually the one no one wanted to ask.
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<h2>What I'm reading</h2>
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<li><em>Several Short Sentences About Writing</em>, Verlyn Klinkenborg</li>
<li><em>Ways of Seeing</em>, John Berger</li>
<li><em>Four Thousand Weeks</em>, Oliver Burkeman</li>
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<h2>Recent pursuits</h2>
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<tr><td>Proposal Manager</td><td>Defense</td><td>Closed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Proposal Operations Manager</td><td>Option 2</td><td>Active</td></tr>
<tr><td>Partnerships Manager</td><td>Option 3</td><td>Active</td></tr>
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<p>An unresolved link looks like this: <a class="internal-link is-unresolved" href="#">Future essay</a>. A tag looks like this: <a class="tag" href="#">#bd</a> <a class="tag" href="#">#proposal</a>.</p>
<p>Inline <code>code</code> renders quietly. Block code:</p>
<pre><code>const ask = (question) => listen(question);
ask("What is the real problem here?");</code></pre>
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<h4>Reach me</h4>
<p><a href="mailto:
[email protected]">email</a> · <a href="#">LinkedIn</a> · <a href="#">Resume (PDF)</a></p>
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