Atlanta Counselors

Nancy Cleveland
Counselor, Atlanta

Nancy Cleveland is a government contracting counselor with the Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center. She has over 30 years of management and consulting experience with federal, state and local governments. Nancy has hands-on experience in bidding and contracting as a project manager, and in assisting small businesses in plan development and government contracting. She also has 15 years experience in the commercial and public transportation/transit industry. Ms. Cleveland holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from Clark-Atlanta University and a Masters degree in business administration from the University Of New Haven, Connecticut.

Thomas C. Larkin
Counselor, Atlanta

Tom Larkin is a Procurement Counselor with the Atlanta office of the Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center. He has over 25 years of management and consulting experience with the federal government. This includes 17 years of hands-on experience in federal acquisition including service on the “HEMTT Should Cost” team, performance as an Administrative Contracting Officer at the Detroit Tank Arsenal (M1A1 Abrams MBT), PCO at the Tank Automotive Command, Purchasing Agent with the USDA’s ARS, as well as a Professor of Contracting at the Defense Acquisition University’s Mid-West Campus.

A career Army Officer, Tom holds a Masters in Management degree from Florida Institute of Technology and a BS from Southeastern Louisiana University in Animal Science. He holds a Level III certification in Acquisition.

Chuck Schadl
Senior Counselor, Atlanta, and Group Manager-Government Contracting Services

Chuck Schadl has been a procurement counselor with the Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center since 2003, and served as the program director from 2009 to 2012.  He has 45 years of experience in program management, marketing and government contracting. He began his government career as a federal contracting officer and later held senior leadership positions at Atlanta’s transit system. He oversaw $2 billion in contracting and later headed the marketing and communications department for MARTA, including responsibility for the public transportation communications plan during the 1996 Olympics. In business for himself during a six-year period, Chuck provided consulting services to state governments, cities, counties and school boards.

As Group Manager of Government Contracting Services, Chuck is involved in the design of course work and providing instruction and consulting advice to a range of governmental agencies on behalf of The Contracting Education Academy at Georgia Tech.  The Academy provides continuing education training to government contracting officials as well as to business professionals working for government contractors or pursuing opportunities in the government contracting arena.  The Academy is recognized by the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) as an official equivalency provider of DAU course work.

For 5 years (2012-2016), Chuck served as the Vice President-Education for the Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (APTAC).  Subsequently, he was a regional director for APTAC, and achieved the highest level of professional certification from that organization. Currently, he is Chair of APTAC’s Communications Committee.  He is a founding member of the National Contract Compliance Association, served on the panel of arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association, is a recipient of exceptional and meritorious service citations from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation, and attended the University of Akron.