Capture · Business Development · Program Management
Zero Day Consultants is a specialized advisory firm helping contractors position, pursue, and deliver work across the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA — from early market research through award and execution.
ZDC brings senior, hands-on expertise to the two moments that decide a federal program's outcome: winning the work, and delivering it.
Structured, Shipley-based capture that turns early intelligence into a defensible win strategy — and a clean hand-off to proposal.
Program leadership that keeps active DHS and FEMA work on scope, on schedule, and aligned to mission outcomes.
Specialized knowledge of how these agencies buy, what they value, and who shapes the requirement is the difference between a generic pursuit and a winning one.
A complex, component-driven enterprise with distinct mission needs, acquisition pathways, and stakeholder communities. ZDC helps contractors navigate that landscape and position credibly against it.
A mission environment where speed, resilience, and data underpin the response. ZDC brings firsthand understanding of FEMA priorities, programs, and the way work gets scoped and delivered.
ZDC works the Shipley business-development lifecycle — but the leverage is concentrated in the phases most teams under-resource.
Read the market, qualify the opportunity, and decide where to invest before the field gets crowded.
Build the customer relationship, shape the requirement, and define a win strategy mapped to stakeholder priorities.
Hand off a capture package that makes the proposal team's job a writing exercise, not a discovery one.
Stand up the program, manage transition, and deliver the outcomes the win was built on.
Zero Day Consultants is grounded in 15+ years leading complex federal and international technology transformation programs, including 12 years with the Department of Homeland Security / FEMA Office of the CIO, delivering mission-critical modernization initiatives supporting national resilience and public service.
The firm's principal is an executive program and portfolio leader with experience directing multimillion-dollar technology initiatives across the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, partnering with C-suite executives, government leaders, and multinational stakeholders — a trusted advisor in digital transformation, cloud modernization, Agile delivery, and enterprise governance, with a proven record of improving operational performance, strengthening cybersecurity, and enabling organizational growth across both public and private sectors.
ZDC is recognized for translating complex business challenges into practical technology solutions, combining strategic leadership, program management, and cross-cultural collaboration to deliver measurable outcomes in highly regulated and mission-critical environments.
ZDC is a senior, founder-led practice. See the full professional background, roles, and program history.
Zero Day Consultants, LLC provides capture, business development, and program management subject-matter expertise to federal contractors. The firm helps clients position for, pursue, and deliver work across the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FEMA.
Zero Day Consultants focuses on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — including their mission environments, acquisition patterns, and stakeholder communities.
Capture management is the structured process of positioning to win a specific federal opportunity before the solicitation is released. It includes customer and competitor intelligence, win strategy, teaming, solution shaping, and a clean hand-off to proposal development. ZDC applies a Shipley-based lifecycle to this work.
ZDC supports active federal programs with execution oversight, PMO and delivery support, risk and stakeholder management, and program leadership tailored to DHS and FEMA mission requirements.
Primes and subcontractors pursuing DHS or FEMA work can reach ZDC through the contact details below to discuss capture support, business development advisory, or program management engagements.