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MasterPeace at a Glance
in September and October
Submitted by Leon
MasterPeace at A Glance” is written to keep us all up to
date on the progress of MasterPeace. It highlights last
month‟s activities and accomplishments on many fronts,
and provides glimpses of company growth and forward
motion.
Team Members:
Top notch engineers on assignment or about to go on
assignment including our 4 current employees and 2
who have accepted offers and are being actively
interviewed by clients.
Candidates:
Six (6) additional candidates have accepted offers
from MasterPeace.
We have extended offers to 8 more software and
system engineers.
Contracts:
MasterPeace‟s name is becoming recognized and is
being invited onto Prime Teams for existing and
future contracts.
Aggressively seeking out Northern Virginia
opportunities for contracts
Aggressively locating new business and contract
opportunities for all team members.
Working with 2 major (Lockheed Martin and
Raytheon) and one midsize prime (QinetiQ) to
establish long-term strategic relationships, which will
create future contract opportunities for MasterPeace
In conversation with 5 major teams and advancing
toward strategic agreements with an additional three.
Marketing has been broad.
Continuing to track over 130 programs in the Intel
community.
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Partner Companies:
Hire Performance, an agency focused on recruiting
cleared personnel, hired LaMont to support and focus
on developing the team growth of MasterPeace.
Vendors:
GemStone representative will be presenting at the
next MasterPeace board meeting
StreamBase representatives will also be presenting
at the next board meeting
SAP/Business Objects joins the growing vendor list
with „a broad portfolio of tools and applications
designed to help … optimize business performance
by connecting people, information, and businesses
across business networks.‟
Infrastructure:
Moving to a new office in 6 to 8 weeks located just off
Routes 100 and 108. It has 11 offices, allowing
MasterPeace to accommodate growth with additional
space for the Lab and conference rooms.
Lab completion is expected in the 1st quarter of
2010.
Taleo, a Recruiting and Performance Software
package, is coming online in November.
Recognition and Thanks!
Part of being a team player involves the commitment to
go beyond the normal expectations of the company.
Many people make that extra effort on behalf of
MasterPeace.
At this time, we would like to thank two members of the
team for their dedication and willingness to promote and
expand opportunities for MasterPeace. They respond to
requests made by any other team member and do so
willingly.
Thank you very much, Jim, for being part of the
“Reachback” program and being available to Matt when
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he needed information on MATLAB. Sharing an to make our picnic happen! Thank you to everyone for
individual‟s knowledge is critical to the success of making this a successful event.
everyone on our team.
Some pictures from our picnic:
Thanks also go to both Matt and Jim for taking the time
to speak with those individuals to whom offers of
employment have been made. We appreciate your
candor and enthusiasm with them. Your conversations
have had positive results for MasterPeace and supports
the growth of the company.

First Annual Fall Picnic

Submitted by Judy

October 11, 2009 was a beautiful, sunny, and crisp Fall

day, and it was the day that MasterPeace Solutions held
its first annual picnic. We were all pleased that the
entire office staff, engineers, families and guests had the
chance to meet. Schooley Mill Park in Highland,
Maryland, was a great location for our picnic. Thank you
to everyone for contributing such delicious dishes! In
addition, there were barbequed hot dogs and
hamburgers, with pit beef and turkey and other side
dishes from a local caterer.

While the adults enjoyed mingling and getting to know

one another on a personal level, the children had fun
with putt-putt golf, horseshoes, and the playground
equipment. At the end of the day, we all met inside the
club building for dessert. Included among the desserts
was a MasterPeace cake. Leon presented the engineers
and their wives with a certificate for dinner at a
restaurant of their choice and each received a copy of
the book “7 Habits Of Highly Effective People.” Technology Advancements at
MasterPeace Solutions
Leon asked the children to pull a name for the winner of
the drawing. Congratulations to Bryant, one of our
MasterPeace Solutions has been meeting with
guests, for winning the drawing for a webbook computer.
GemStone to develop a relationship that will allow all
Everyone had a great time and each child left with a
parties to move the GemStone product line into the heart
pumpkin from the Fall decorations that Elizabeth had
of our customers‟ critical front line processing systems.
designed for the picnic.
GemStone‟s product line allows a distributed memory
Kudos to Cheryl, our Human Capital Champion, for her
data management solution across multiple processes
hard work in planning and putting together all the details
that manage application objects and behavior. They
provide continuous availability, high performance,

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scalability, and asynchronous event notifications – while
reducing overall cost of ownership. Their product line
allows seamless integration of data objects using C#,
C++, and Java development languages. The Agency is
heavily tied to C++ and Java developed systems. Other
competing “Cloud Computing” providers are one
language systems, making integration of numerous and
large applications unyielding and costly.
MasterPeace is using its close contacts and inside
customer relationships to get access to Agency
shareholders allowing GemStone to then stage product
reviews and demonstration of business successes.
MasterPeace will use the generated interest to fuel a
white paper research effort, which will show the
advantages and throughput gains possible on massive
data processing systems. MasterPeace will leverage its
experienced inside Agency engineers and GemStone
partners to design an innovative solution that will more
efficiently utilize limited resources and greatly increase
processing capabilities. Integrating GemStone products
to critical massive data processing systems with a
complete system engineering approach will show the
advantageous improvements that can be accomplished.
Introducing Cheryl,
A Transition Team Member
Submitted by Leon
A significant discriminator that separates MasterPeace
from most other companies of any size is our approach
to nurturing and developing the technical skills of our
engineering staff. Many companies profess to have a
development program but, in my experience, they all too
often turn out to be an afterthought tied to the annual
employee evaluation program. From the very start at
MasterPeace, Steve has championed the concept of a
meaningful Individual Development Program (IDP) for all
of our team members – a program that includes
mentoring, training, education, experimentation and
managed assignment changes all carefully tailored to
support the growth objectives of our people.
Cheryl was admired by Steve for her demonstrated
excellence in all areas of HR during her employment at
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ProObject and Praxis and in her consulting activity
supporting small business. We were delighted that she
accepted the key role of Human Capital Champion and,
in doing so, she became the first person actually brought
into the company after its start. Cheryl has focused on
making the IDPs real for each of our team members and
routinely starts working with them at the start of their
transition into MasterPeace. She actively collaborates
with each engineer to work on the entire spectrum of
IDP-related activities including goal setting,
implementation strategies, mentoring, reach-back,
training alternatives, and anything else that might be
helpful.
In addition to her work with engineers on their IDPs,
Cheryl has also proven to be an invaluable source of
knowledge, wisdom and experience regarding the
arcane and sometimes confusing plethora of rules,
requirements and best practices relating to the entire
area of Human Capital Management. Simply put,
Cheryl‟s role is to ensure that maximum professional and
personal fulfillment of MasterPeace team members is
optimized. She develops and manages the architecture,
design and implementation of all People Support
functions associated with the MasterPeace Human
Capital Development Program. These responsibilities
include, but are not limited to Leadership Identification
and Development, Individual Development Planning,
Team Member Morale and Emergency Support
Programs, On Boarding for new team members, People
Communication Programs, Mobility and Bench
Programs, and Training Programs.
We are delighted to have Cheryl as part of MasterPeace
and have benefited from her counsel and support in
innumerable ways.
Cheryl has over 20 years of professional experience and
education related to Human Capital Support. She is
versed in all aspects of Human Resources Management,
Human Capital development, and Talent Acquisition. Her
experience spans the “best practices” of both
commercial and Federal sectors including the
Intelligence Community.
Prior to joining MasterPeace, Cheryl founded, and
remains sole proprietor of, 2/V Human Resources
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Consulting to Small Businesses, which supports small BS, Interdisciplinary Studies with a Minor in Business
organizations that need occasional and professional Administration, Towson University
support in the Human Resources function. She brings Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society
not only her years of experience to her clients, a
Master‟s Degree in HRD, a national certification Welcome Cheryl to the MasterPeace Transition Team.
Professional in Human Resources (PHR), but also a
passion for the HR profession. She has provided 
management and leadership support for organizations in
the high tech and government contracting arena as well
as the academic and not-for-profit arenas. Cheryl started We always welcome and encourage your thoughts and
2/V to help small businesses address and resolve articles for this newsletter. Please feel free to make
diverse challenges of the Human Resource operations, recommendations and submit articles to any transition
to solve the challenges that go “beyond the everyday.” team member!
She envisions 2/V as an organization which provides
supplemental HR support through crafting equitable
resolutions to employment challenges, sharing industry
expertise and building corporate knowledge. Transition Team Members
Before that, she held progressively responsible positions
in Recruiting and Human Resources including; Steve, 410.419.1487

Director of Employment and Human Resources at Leon, 443.259.9780

Solvern Innovations where she drove the development President
of an employee focused culture for Solvern‟s future
growth. Elizabeth, 443.277.4441
Business Manager & Human Resources Administration
Recruiting and HR Manager at Praxis Engineering where
she directed and managed HR and Recruiting, enabling Cheryl, 443.255.6773
Praxis to grow from 35 to 84 employees in 1.5 years. Dir. of Human Resources & Human Capital Champion
She also was instrumental in reducing attrition to less
than 10% by supporting the employee-focused culture of LeAnn, 443.831.1742
Praxis. Security Consultant

Her responsibilities included the management of HR and

HRD functional areas such as strategic planning,
employee relations, talent acquisition and retention,
policy development, process analysis, benefits
development and planning, and compliance
management.

Her professional and academic achievements include:

“Professional in Human Resources” (PHR) by Society

for Human Resource Management (SHRM) 2002-
2011
MS, Human Resource Development, Towson
University

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