Kent is a Senior Small Business Advocate with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU). 

Kent’s 33-years of DOE experience encompasses promoting energy technologies, small business procurement policies and practices, and technology transfer initiatives.

In OSDBU, Kent counsels small businesses, representing OSDBU on the Agency’s Tribal Energy Steering Committee, and updates small business policy guidance, helping DOE program elements meet statutory socio-economic small business procurement goals, with an emphasis on HUBZone firms. 

Kent represented DOE on the FAR Small Business Team and helped create the DOE Small Business First Policy. With the Office of Technology Transitions, he helped create and implement the DOE Technology Transfer Execution Plan.  He directed an Acquisition Reform Initiative when detailed to a U.S. Navy Base, advancing DOE/DOD collaboration.  He is working with the Federal Laboratory Consortium to update their training resources. Also, as a Special Investigator for the Office of Hearings and Appeals, he drafted legal decisions, resolving refund cases for small businesses, nationwide. And as an Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy COR, he managed several $25Million service contracts. 

His FAC-II certification remains current, combining with his Masters Degree in Technology Entrepreneurship, to advance America’s diversity of innovators.