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Courtney Heinze, President of SM Consulting, Inc. (SMC) a privately held, Baltimore-based consulting firm that recently marked its tenth year in business. Ms. Heinze's rise from a receptionist at an IT consulting firm to the founder of one of the fastest growing companies in America, is a remarkable success story. In 1996, Ms. Heinze founded SM Consulting, Inc. from a home office with limited funding and one employee. She targeted establishing relationships with and providing information technology services to the Fortune 1000 companies in the Baltimore area. The expansion of the firm led to a Northern Virginia office and the foray into government contracts which proved to the extremely successful. SMC has now emerged as a solid partner with the federal government in the war on terror, providing translators and intelligence specialists at home and in seven foreign countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. | 