About the Speaker

Ed is a federal procurement Subject Matter Expert (SME), consultant, author, and trainer with a total of 43 years of federal procurement expertise. He is an author of "Federal Acquisition Regulations Made Easy: A Quick Guide to the FAR for Contracting Officers and Federal Contractors," which was published in 2024.

Ed had 33 years experience as a federal contracting officer. He retired from federal service and started a business called Barlow Acquisition Solutions specializing in the federal acquisition process.  He worked as a federal employee at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) and had an unlimited contracting officer’s warrant.  He held a Level III FAC-C certification with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWAI), which were the highest levels. Ed has an MBA from Marymount University.