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About

Built by an architect. Run like a mission.

Northmark Enterprises is a small, founder-led cognitive architecture and enterprise systems firm. The credentials primes vet on capture — experience, clearances, delivery history, accountability — sit with one name.

Why Northmark Exists

Solving the federal contracting gap.

Northmark Enterprises exists because the federal contracting ecosystem has a structural gap: primes need small-business teaming partners who can do more than check a compliance box, and the ones with real technical depth are almost impossible to find.

Jeff Kimble founded Northmark after fifteen years inside the firms that primes already trust — Guidehouse, Deloitte Digital, Magnet 360, NeuraFlash — where he built and led the technology practices that won and delivered federal work. Northmark is the same operator, under a structure that makes your capture competitive on SDVOSB and 8(a) set-asides.

The trade primes get: senior consulting depth without large-firm overhead, one named principal accountable end-to-end, and active Secret clearance available from day one.

Founder & Principal

Jeff Kimble

Service-disabled veteran

Bozeman, MT

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Jeff Kimble is the founder of Northmark Enterprises and a federal technology architect with fifteen years inside the firms that primes trust. His delivery footprint spans municipal agencies, multi-state grant platforms, state health and transportation systems, and federal programs including FEMA and CDC. At Deloitte Digital, he grew the Salesforce Studio from a single practitioner to a fifty-person organization generating $30M in annual revenue, with technical leadership on the practice’s largest deal ($35M). At Magnet 360, he scaled a global solution architecture team to thirty-plus practitioners across three continents, producing over $50M in consulting revenue. At Guidehouse, he leads West-region technology delivery and vendor partnerships across Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and emerging AI platforms — including current programs at the California High-Speed Rail Authority and the California Department of Health Care Services.

What changed is what Jeff builds now. Alongside enterprise delivery, he designs and deploys cognitive architectures — agentic AI systems, graph-based knowledge reasoning, and machine learning pipelines — for the kinds of regulated, high-stakes environments where failure has real consequences. His internal RFP capture system (the one powering Northmark’s own pipeline) runs on LangChain, LangGraph, and a custom classification engine that processes federal procurement data daily. The academic foundation backing this work is a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence (in progress at the University of Colorado Boulder), specialized certifications in Agentic AI and Prompt Engineering from Vanderbilt University, and a B.A. in International Relations from Harvard — with minors in Government and Economics.

Jeff is a veteran of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) — the Army’s oldest active-duty unit and its official ceremonial escort to the President. That background shapes how Northmark operates: disciplined execution, zero tolerance for sloppy delivery, and a visceral understanding that in government work, the mission isn’t a metaphor.

He holds active Secret and Public Trust clearances through 2028, five Salesforce certifications (continuous since 2012), and maintains an active role in Team Rubicon disaster-relief operations as a Grey Shirt — bringing the same rapid-deployment discipline to disaster response that he applies to federal technology programs.

Northmark is not a staffing firm. It is not a legacy IT shop repositioned for the AI moment. It is a cognitive architecture and enterprise systems firm, built by someone who has spent a career inside the primes — and now brings that same depth to your proposal.

Security Clearances

Cleared and current.

Active clearances eliminate the sponsorship and investigation lag that often disqualifies small subs from time-sensitive federal pursuits.

Secret Clearance

Active through 2028

Eligible for cleared roles immediately; no sponsorship cycle required.

Public Trust

Active through 2028

Suitability determination current for federal civilian engagements.

Credentials

The paperwork primes ask for.

Salesforce Certifications (5 Active)

Certified Sales Cloud Consultant

Certified Service Cloud Consultant

Certified Developer

Certified Advanced Administrator

Certified Administrator

Continuous certification since 2012.

Military

U.S. Army, 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard)

Team Rubicon Grey Shirt (#TR11006492)

FEMA/COVID disaster response operations

AI Specializations — Vanderbilt University

Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT

Completed June 2025

ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis

Completed July 2025

Agentic AI and AI Agents: A Primer for Leaders

Completed July 2025

Education

M.S., Artificial Intelligence

University of Colorado Boulder — In progress (started August 2025)

B.A., International Relations

Harvard University — Minors in Government and Economics

Certificate of Readiness (CoRE)

Harvard Business School (HBX), 2016

How We Operate

Four operating principles.

1. Principal-led engagements.

Every engagement has a named senior owner accountable for outcomes. No account managers inserted between the prime and the work.

2. Senior practitioner depth.

Architecture, delivery leadership, and applied AI delivered by a career technologist — not a rotating staff bench. We know our lanes and say so.

3. Honest scoping.

If a pursuit is outside our lane we say so on day one. Primes don’t have time for subs who overpromise during capture and underdeliver at execution.

4. Compliance without drama.

Standard NDAs, TAs, and reps-and-certs turned around inside a day. No redline marathons on boilerplate.

Registration

Company data for your sources-sought file.

Legal Entity

Northmark Enterprises LLC

Jurisdiction

Montana LLC

Founded

2025

SAM UEI

TJTXAKNPPTR1

CAGE Code

1Z1A1

SDVOSB Status

VetCert application in process

SBA 8(a) Status

Application in process

Security Clearance

Secret + Public Trust (2028)

Headquarters

Bozeman, Montana

NAICS Codes

541611

Administrative & General Management Consulting

541618

Other Management Consulting Services

541511

Custom Computer Programming Services

541512

Computer Systems Design Services

541519

Other Computer Related Services

518210

Computing Infrastructure, Data Processing, Hosting

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