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This former growth team member and consistent liability for Oddball nearly severed Heather Caudle's spinal cord on accident while attempting to dance, as seen here.
Who is Tom Ramage?
This web-based whiteboarding tool serves as the "home base" for many brainstorming sessions
What is Mural?
Considered a pipeline anomaly to everyone with a single firing neuron, this so-called "agency" tugged on the heartstrings of Oddball CGO Tony Meyer and almost convinced him to bid a hilariously low-budget RFQ by appealing to his ancestors.
What is the Railroad Retirement Board?
"You expect me to write code? You don't mean that do you?"
Who is Oddball Senior Accountant Debbie Urkevich
This growth team member, having had stellar interviews and recognizing an obvious culture fit to join the best growth team and best company in the game, is still making amends today as they actually had first decided to take a counter offer, breaking many hearts but notably Kyle's in doing so, but ultimately came to their senses and signed with Oddball for real just a few short months later.
Who is Caroline Devlin?
Often regarded as Tony's biggest mistake by Tony and everyone around him, this former executive was whacked with the Tony Paddle on his way out the door after less than 2 weeks on the job.
Who is Robert Hicks
Often involving sequential numbers, this weekly meeting aims to assess a "go" or "no go" for a given opportunity.
What is a Gate Review?
While Oddball does not do any state and local work, this state and its junior varsity contracting division was vilified by the entire growth team after they bamboozled us not once but twice into pursuing not one but two failed bids, and kept digging the knife deeper as they 1) released amendments well after notifying us of a loss and 2) specifically sent us a state-level FOIA inquiry as was required for "successful bidders"
What is Maryland (FAMLI and ADEPT)
"I only use cash so the deep state can't track my whereabouts"
Who is Huntley Parker
In an earnest but unintentionally successful effort at team building, CGO Tony Meyer once set up a virtual game of this Milton Bradley classic that really doesn't transfer well, like at all, to a virtual asynchronous tabletop free-for-all with 10+ other players, evidenced by a former growth team member and persistent headache saving their "positions" (in what might have been their only original work product at Oddball) to the shared drive.
What is Battleship
This capture genius, HR nightmare, and moral enigma once said of himself, among many other ridiculous things: "I'm like rainman...but with predicting wins"
Who is Will York
Spinning up slack channels is not for the faint of heart and takes a lot of care to avoid unfortunate acronyms, but some cannot be avoided. One of the following is not an actual opportunity name of something we pursued: GADSSS, EASS, VATAS, HAMAS, DevMAC, Chili
What is HAMAS
This Oddball program and villain origin story for Christopher turned over a KP role 5 times and had a major data breach just before the recompete, leading to a loss, but as the straw that re-broke the Camel's broken back and nearly killed the camel this time, ultimately marked the definitive transition to the Shaylee Era and a subsequent winning streak on SPRUCE.
What is AskVA (AVA)
"Do you like soul food?"
Who is Stephanie Breen
A very clearly horrible so-called "graphic" allegedly illustrating this methodology is the source of one of the only public feuds between Oddball CTO, Chief Evangelist, and general savior of growth efforts Rob Wilkinson and resident proposal jerk Kyle Bishop.
What is SAFe?
This former proposal writing savant and adversary to basic food hygiene broke Kyle's professional heart in 2024 over the enviable and eyebrow-raising decision to retire at the age of 28.
Who is Hannah Harvey?
This oft-repeated introductory phrase can be heard at the beginning of several narrated EIDS videos.
What is "Hi, I'm Clay Benson, a solutions architect at Oddball."
This humiliating Oddball loss, through Olympic-grade mental gymnastics, was actually coded as a no-bid because according to eternal optimist and CGO Tony Meyer: "technically it was an advisory down-select and we decided to not submit Phase 2"
What is CMS UCM
"You're so f***ing fake"
Who is Heather Caudle
During the final minutes of this proposal for what ended up as probably Oddball's marquee net new win for 2025 and incredible takeaway from an entrenched incumbent, there was a global outage of the underlying platforms of much of our challenge tech stack, causing our proposal to be submitted with less than two minutes to spare, with John Weaver helpfully noting at the same interval throughout all of white glove, quote: "I am so anxious right now"
What is SPRUCE MHV BE
This growth team member got expelled from college for two semesters.
Who is Tony Meyer?
This proposal development process shares its stages with the colors of a famous Karma Chameleon.
What are Color Team Reviews?
After partnering with Oddball for a brief time to lend his so-called "company's" so-called "expertise" with Drupal before unilaterally terminating his teaming agreement in a tantrum and promising to be "100% done with Oddball," this company's CEO was later found to not be 100% done with Oddball and reached out to partner on another opportunity.
What is Agileana?
"haha no worries, I'll just make up a bunch of numbers, nobody's paying very close attention anyway"
Who is Pricing Analyst David Graham
This former growth executive, known for his anachronistic hat wear and anaphylactic allergy to winning new work, was unceremoniously fired at a coffee shop by Travis Sorensen, and famously had to drive at least an hour and a half back home in traffic afterwards.
Who is Jason Cullum