Doug Davidson: Financial Blogging, Consulting, Charity And More

Doug Davidson didn't plan on becoming a financial blogger. As a Vice President of TeraThink Corporation, Davidson has more than 16 years of consulting experience in the Information Technology industry. But as a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he has spent the last 10 years working with federal administrative and financial management systems. “I graduated from James Madison University with a degree in Computer Information Systems in 1994 and began to work with American Management Systems (AMS) – now CGI GIB – supporting software applications for the finance industry, including loan origination, portfolio risk management, and collections software,” Davidson told Benzinga. “In 1997, I changed employment to a startup; a federal government-focused technology and management consulting firm where I specialized in Federal Financial Management systems.” Throughout his career, Davidson said that he has advanced from the level of programmer, project manager and business developer, all the way to a VP at TeraThink. Davidson spends the majority of his time matching his company's service offerings to federal business opportunities. He also develops partnerships with other vendors to pursue federal contracts. In 2006, he started his own blog: FedCFO.com. “The original intent was to collect, aggregate, and organize information from open sources that I came across to help me identify business opportunities,” Davidson said. “I opened the blog up to the public as it provided a value-added benefit to the niche of viewers interested in the topic.” In general, Davidson said that his posts are summaries and links to open source information from industry news websites, GAO publications, agency Inspector General findings, and so on. “[There are] a few posts that link to articles, which I contributed authorship, [that are] published by other sources,” he adds. Davidson also uses his blog to spread the word about two charities that are very important to him: Holly's Fund and The Yellow Ribbon Fund. “Holly's Fund is a family-initiated charity at Georgetown University Hospital named after my mother, who passed away after a 13-year battle with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,” Davidson said. “The fund provides sustainment support to various research projects at Georgetown that need incremental funding to continue research efforts towards curing cancer.” “The Yellow Ribbon Fund is dedicated to supporting the family members of wounded US Military personnel who are recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland,” he continues. “Yellow Ribbon provides funding to the families for housing, meals, transportation, and entertainment so that loved ones may be with their recovering soldiers/seamen/airmen during their rehabilitation. It has been proven that the support of family during the rehabilitation has increased the speed of recovery.” Finally, Davidson said that he became a Benzinga partner and added our Real-Time News Widget to his site for one simple reason. “I feel Benzinga provides a value-added service to its audience similar to FedCFO.com,” he said.