CONTRACTING SPOTLIGHT:


MS. MITZI F. WALL Sticking close to home


MS. MITZI F. WALL


COMMAND/ORGANIZATION: U.S. Army Contracting Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground


TITLE: Contract specialist/team leader


DAWIA CERTIFICATIONS: Level III in contracting


YEARS OF SERVICE IN WORKFORCE: 32


EDUCATION: M.S. in management/contracts and acquisitions, Florida Institute of Technology; B.S. in sociology, Towson University


AWARDS: Numerous service, special act and performance awards


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n a career field often characterized by change and movement, Mitzi Wall has managed to progress simply by staying in one spot. She’s been with the U.S. Army Contracting Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), MD, since 1983, starting as a secretary and eventually advancing to her cur-


rent position: contract specialist and team leader. “I know that mentors often say that it’s important to move to other locations to get more experience,” she said, “but as a mother with a husband who was constantly traveling, that was not an option for me. I found plenty of opportunities to cross-train and expand my level of exper- tise while staying here in Aberdeen. I even had the opportunity to work part time when my children were younger. I’ve been incredibly fortunate in that regard.”


In 2011, ACC-APG resulted from the merger of two contracting centers, “and that changed our organization from a small one to a bigger one, with more layers of oversight and less autonomy. But as a larger organization, we serve more customers, and that means a lot more opportunities to work with different requiring activities and on different commodities.”


Wall’s work has earned her numerous awards over the years. “But the most meaningful awards are the ones I have received from customers who felt genuine appreciation for our work supporting the warfighter mission,” she said.


What do you do in your position, and why is it important to the Army or the warfighter?


As a team leader with an unlimited warrant, I coordinate and manage the distribu- tion of work to provide acquisition guidance to support several customers across the Army and DOD, including the Treat Systems Management Office; Direc- tor, Operational Test and Evaluation; the Test Resource Management Center; the Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems; and the National Ground Intelligence Center. Tese offices all have different missions and therefore require different procurement strategies. Ensuring that deploying brigades have state-of-the-art equipment through development, production and, ultimately, field- ing has been my ultimate goal in the acquisition field.


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