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SERVING PENNSYLVANIA STATE GOVERNMENT

The projects you can't get wrong. We get them right.

16 years of large-scale program management discipline. Veteran-owned. Operationally current. Results documented.

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16YR

01CHART FRAMEWORK · PROVEN

$56M+

02DOCUMENTED COST SAVINGS

25%

03LEAD-TIME REDUCTION

▸ BASED 40°16'N · 76°53'W

▸ SERVING PENNSYLVANIA LOCAL & STATE GOVERNMENT

▸ VEHICLE PA ITQ 4400007410

▸ PREFERENCE PA-VBE ELIGIBLE

01 The Problem

Consequence has outgrown capacity.

Whether a nine-figure data center is reaching your county, a capital program is slipping in public view, or federal funds are heading into their final audit — the pattern is the same. The schedule is slipping. Accountability has gone diffuse. Your team is holding it together through individual effort, not organizational structure.

That is not a people problem. That is a systems problem. PMWERX diagnoses it, fixes it, and builds the infrastructure that keeps it fixed.

"I have spent 16 years managing billion-dollar programs. I have seen this pattern end badly and I have seen it get fixed. The difference is always the same thing — and it has a name, a sequence, and a solution."

JOE WALKER · FOUNDER, PMWERX

02 Capability

From data center to courthouse to classroom. One discipline.

PMWERX engages where the consequences of program failure are generational — not procedural. Data center and capital project decisions, county programs in trouble, federal-funds closeout, and Commonwealth modernization all show the same failure mode. We are built for that exact work, at every level of Pennsylvania government.

▸ DATA CENTER · CAPITAL · PUBLIC-SIDE

Data Center & Capital Programs

Public-side advisory when a data center reaches your community
Independent review of developer proposals — never developer-side
Host-community, road-use, and tax-structure negotiation support
Owner's-representative program management through delivery

▸ COUNTY · MUNICIPAL · LOCAL

Counties, Authorities & Local Government

County ARPA closeout, audit readiness, and program recovery
Municipal authorities managing capital programs at scale
School districts and intermediate units via COSTARS
Regional planning commissions and Commonwealth-funded initiatives

▸ STATE · COMMONWEALTH

Commonwealth Agencies

Modernization programs and portfolio governance at state scale
Departments where program failure reaches PA residents directly
Independent oversight of vendors, schedules, and delivery risk
Engaged directly via Consulting Services ITQ #4400007410

01/ CLOSEOUT

Federal Funds Closeout

Closeout certification, final P&E reporting, and documentation assembled to Single Audit standard — with audit response support up to five years beyond the last dollar.

02/ CRISIS

Program Recovery

For programs at serious risk of budget overrun, schedule failure, or loss of stakeholder confidence. Diagnose root cause, stabilize governance, rebuild trust, lead recovery before the situation goes public.

03/ TEAMING

PA VBE Teaming

PA DGS Veteran Business Enterprise — preference-eligible on Commonwealth procurements. Available as a subcontracting partner to primes pursuing PA work needing real PM capability behind the certification.

03 The Framework

The CHART Framework.

In plain English: a disciplined sequence for finding the human and organizational failures underneath an underperforming program — and fixing them in the order that makes the fix stick. Refined over 16 years across large-scale enterprise programs, military operations, and disaster response — CHART is a proprietary leadership system that addresses what process improvement cannot: the human and organizational failures underneath every program that underperforms.

It is style-agnostic. Industry-agnostic. What changes is the language used to apply it — and PMWERX translates it directly into the context of your programs.

N-01 C

Communication

Shared understanding before any execution begins. Eliminates ambiguity that produces cost overruns.

N-02 H

Human Infrastructure

Relationships and trust architecture that determine whether people actually execute what they committed to.

N-03 A

Accountability

Ownership that is specific, visible, and consequential — at every level of the program organization.

N-04 R

Resilience

Identifying problems at yellow — before they become red. The early warning system most programs don't have.

N-05 T

Transformation

Capability that sustains performance after PMWERX disengages. Not dependency — independence.

04 Case Study

REF · 2023-001 SECTOR · GOVERNMENT PROGRAM OUTCOME · RECOVERED

From near cancellation to growth.

▸ 01

NEW POSITIONS CREATED

▸ 02

$4M+

DOCUMENTED COST SAVINGS

▸ 03

25%

LEAD-TIME REDUCTION

▸ 04

PERSONNEL LOST IN RECOVERY

A large-scale government program was at near-cancellation risk. Stakeholder confidence had eroded. Accountability within the program team had broken down. Leadership did not have a shared understanding of what had failed, in what sequence, or how to recover.

Walker applied the CHART Framework diagnostic, identified the root communication and accountability failures, and led the recovery. Within one contract period the program captured additional scope from competing contractors through rebuilt stakeholder trust.

▸ APPLICABILITY · PA GOVERNMENT

Every element of this recovery — the communication breakdown, the accountability collapse, the eroding stakeholder trust — exists in county capital projects, the data center decisions in front of Pennsylvania communities, federal-funds programs, and Commonwealth modernization efforts today. The scale may differ. The pattern is identical.

"You were close to losing this program altogether. I want you to know how happy we are with you and the team."

GOVERNMENT PROGRAM STAKEHOLDER

"Thank you for having the processes and procedures needed to get this done the right way — it's very much appreciated."

SENIOR PROGRAM CONSULTANT

05 Data Centers

The buildout is reaching your county.

A multibillion-dollar data center buildout is moving across Pennsylvania — and the proposals are reaching counties and townships that have never governed a project of this scale. The developer negotiates these deals for a living. Your community will do it once. A weak host agreement, a mispriced tax structure, or a missing decommissioning bond binds you for a generation.

PMWERX stands on the public's side of the table — never the developer's. Federal-scale data center program experience, applied to a fair agreement, a defensible process, and a project that delivers for your community. And when federal funds still need closing out, that is handled to audit standard.

Talk to Walker before anything is signed →

▸ 01 / READINESS

Governance Readiness

Stress-test your ordinance, fiscal terms, and decision process before the proposal arrives.

▸ 02 / EVALUATION

Proposal Evaluation

Independent, public-side review of what the developer is offering — and omitting.

▸ 03 / NEGOTIATION

Negotiation Support

Host-community agreements, road use, decommissioning bonds, and tax structure.

▸ 04 / DELIVERY

Owner's Representative

Program management on the public's behalf — through delivery and energization.

06 Procurement Channel

Direct procurement. No RFP required.

PMWERX is registered on Pennsylvania's Consulting Services Invitation to Qualify — the statewide vehicle for direct Commonwealth and COSTARS procurement — and Pennsylvania counties can engage PMWERX directly under the County Code professional-services exemption, no competitive bid required without running a separate competitive RFP process.

▸ Procurement questions → call Walker directly · 443.771.6795

PRIMARY VEHICLE

PA Consulting Services ITQ

#4400007410

COMMODITY CODES

80100000 — ITQ-60, 62, 65, 66

ACTIVE

REGISTRATION

PA Supplier Portal · Commonwealth vendor

VERIFIED

PREFERENCE

PA DGS Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE)

ELIGIBLE

COOPERATIVE

COSTARS · accessible by 9,500+ PA local entities

ELIGIBLE

NAICS

Management consulting · Process consulting · Training

541611 / 541614 / 541618

▸WHERE WE SERVE

County governments · direct engagement School districts via COSTARS PENNDOT Municipal authorities & townships PA Office of Administration PA Treasury PA Emergency Management Agency PA Dept. Military & Veterans Affairs

07 Founder

FOUNDER · ACTIVE

NAME JOE WALKER

CREDENTIAL MBA · MS

DESIGNATION PA-VBE

STATUS CURRENT

Current. Active. Not retired experience.

▸ SENIOR PROGRAM PORTFOLIO MANAGER

Walker is a senior program portfolio manager — leading data center programs at federal scale today — with 16 years leading large-scale, complex programs through the exact failure modes Pennsylvania government programs face today — schedule slippage, accountability breakdown, eroding stakeholder confidence, and the human dynamics underneath all of it. He brings that experience — current, not retired — to every PA engagement.

An Air Force veteran, Walker's background includes service in Air Force Security Forces and disaster response operations in Japan following the 2011 earthquake and Fukushima disaster. His academic credentials are calibrated to match: MBA from Colorado State University, MS in Organizational Leadership from Johns Hopkins University.

▸ CERTIFICATIONS

PA DGS Veteran Business Enterprise (preference-eligible on Commonwealth procurements). PA Consulting Services ITQ holder.

▸ EDUCATION

MBA, Colorado State University. MS Organizational Leadership, Johns Hopkins University.

▸ MILITARY SERVICE

U.S. Air Force veteran — Security Forces. Fukushima disaster response (Misawa AB, 2011).

▸ CURRENT FOCUS

High-stakes program advisory for Pennsylvania government — data center & capital programs, program recovery, and federal-funds closeout, for counties through Commonwealth agencies.

★ GET STARTED

If you recognize your program in this — that is not a coincidence.

Walker takes the call personally. You describe the situation. He tells you what he sees and whether PMWERX can help. If there is no fit, he will tell you that too.

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