Mr. Caltabiano has been a Senior Technical Writer, Consultant and Trainer with Nan McKay & Associates for over 10 years. Mr. Caltabiano is considered one of the premier housing trainers in the United States. He trains thousands of housing professionals, including HUD Staff, every year. Mr. Caltabiano specializes in QHWRA, Section 8 Eligibility, Rent Calculation, Occupancy, Rent Reasonableness, Section 8 Management, SEMAP, Section 8 and Public Housing Customer Service, Interviewing Techniques, and Fraud Control. Mr. Caltabiano provided training to the HUD TARC staff for a second time in May 2001 on Advanced SEMAP. He assists in writing books and related course materials for training seminars, including course design, agendas, and developing and training seminars. He has performed many consulting services for various PHAs across the country and specializes in vulnerability assessments and problem solving.
Gerald Benoit joined Nan McKay & Associates in 2006 after retiring from HUD. For thirty years Mr. Benoit was the Director of Management and Operations for the certificate and housing voucher programs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He directed the national implementation and management of the on-going operations of the rental voucher, certificate, and moderate rehabilitation programs through the Department's field offices that provided assistance to more than five million households with an annual budget of fourteen billion dollars.
Robert Harmon is a former director of both PIC and PIH systems for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Under Mr. Harmon's direction the PIC and PIH operations divisions worked hand-in-hand with HUD's PIH headquarters, field staff and government contractors, to support approximately 18,000 users across the United States. In addition, Mr. Harmon has vast experiences as a corporate manager, policy maker and analyst, and software developer. Prior to entering the public housing sector, Mr. Harmon was the owner and principal of HR Systems and Consulting; under his leadership the consultancy group led innovations for PC-based human resource management.
Sammie Szabo joined Nan McKay & Associates in January 2009 as both a trainer and consultant after retiring from a 36-year career in the public housing industry. Ms. Szabo served as the Executive Director of a medium sized PHA administering public housing, capital funds, FSS, resident initiatives as well as a certificate and housing voucher programs. Ms. Szabo served as the housing authority's elected PHAS hearing representative for the HUD LA Field Office, as well as the board of directors of several affordable housing organizations.