Sebenza LLC

06/28/2022

Sebenza joins the SBA in saluting the LGBTQ businesses in the United States during PRIDE month.
LGBTQ+ businesses in the United States, contribute an estimated $1.7 trillion to America's economy, creating thousands of new jobs each year. Sebenza along with the SBA celebrate the LGBTQ+ innovators and entrepreneurs who provide essential services and diversify our community

08/10/2017

In this intense (and inspiring) piece, playwright Audrey Cefaly explains the passion and research that goes into writing a play.

06/02/2015

Carol has supported us recruiting and we are supporting her on her walk to help prevent su***de in the out of the Darkness Overnight walk. I encourage others to support this cause.

A fundraising page for Carol Moore

04/15/2015

At various stages of our lives, we have all have experienced misfortunes and what we perceive are injustices in our lives. I am not alone when I say I have felt betrayed or desperate when I faced a major change in my life. Whether that change was in losing a job, or a loved one, or when thought I had my heart broken, or when I was ill, or when I got married and moved away from country of birth. We all have felt lost, indignant or hurt. Whatever the feeling, it happens to everyone when they have a changing point in our lives and where we have had to experience ending one chapter and starting a fresh page, a new book or one’s entire life.
The old saying that when one door closes another one opens is often heard but not often do we really believe in it. It is my experience however that we should really say “that when one door closes a better one opens”. This has been true to me in love, in my move to foreign lands, and in work.
I moved to America 20 years ago, and had to make new friends. Create a new home and new customs. This was to be during one of the biggest challenges of my life. Leaving family and friends behind while I was waiting for a critical transplant to save my life. Yet that was when I first came to America, and then had just had the transplant when I was married and moved to America full time. This has turned out to be the happiest and most memorable years of my life. I may have been turning 40 when I got married, but I sure have lived the best years of my life since the move.
In 2004, I lost my job after seven and half years of what I thought was dedicated and hard work with a local company. This was exactly one of these moments of a door closing and me feeling lost. In hindsight, when I look back, I can earnestly say it was also one of the best times of my life as I had gotten to the stage at work where I was not happy. That I did not feel respected by my manager, and I did not feel that the team I was assigned to, was doing their share of work, nor did I feel that I even wanted to work with my team members anymore. Many an evening I would go home and feel desperate and not want to go to work the following day. But I did nothing about it. Then one day the company made a corporate decision to close down the federal side of the house and this meant that everyone on the federal team would be laid off. I was offered a position within the company that I did not want. All of a sudden I was forced to make the decision that I had dreamed about on every bad day. In hindsight I can now say, the writing was on the wall. All the old executive team had been laid off in the months leading up to this point. In my heart I knew it was time to move along. However when the time came, all of a sudden I still felt a sense of shock and total betrayal. I took the lay-off, even though at the time I felt discouraged and betrayed by someone I trusted to look after my interests at the firm. Now that same person was telling me that I could take a layoff with everyone else or accept a position that I did not feel was a parallel move but a step backwards in my career.
In my heart I still knew it was time to step out of my comfort zone and look for something else, as I was not happy. So I took the layoff.
It did not take long before I was made an offer for more money with a company that was local, and then what happened next opened my “better door” and was to my benefit for the years to follow. One of my clients offered me a contract provided I could set up my own business as soon as possible. I decided to go out on a limb and finished all the paper work I needed to complete in a day and worked into the night. Before I knew it, I had set my own company up, had signed a contract with my client and begun to work on my client’s new contract!
The next eleven years flew by and today, I have 15 employees working for me, and a wonderful little business, that I have been dedicated to for the past years. I have had the most amazing employees who have worked hard and made our company respected by our clients. The business affords me the opportunity to work from home. To live a good life and to travel overseas on vacations and discover wonderful new places I never dreamed of going to before.
It is for this reason I express gratitude in the face of my loss, and I try and spread the word, that when things end, it may not always be the timing we had planned for. However, on the horizon could be the opportunity we may have just dragged our feet to go after, and it may also be the opportunity to reinvent ourselves.

Those closed doors for each of us are the opportunities to move forward in our lives. The doors are the way of telling us to move on from a situation. To take a leap of faith and enter into something unknown through the new door. To see what awaits us beyond the doors. To create something different. To be able to stretch ourselves and see what we can achieve and what we can overcome. If something is not quite right, we don’t have to wait for the door to be closed on us, but we need to be brave and reach for the open door. There may be a brief time in between the doors when you are meant to reflect or learn from the past experience before you can be ready to step into the opening of a new one. This is a time to find peace within yourself and to prepare yourself for what to expect. It is a time to recall the bad, put it in the past and know what you will not want to experience again. We should never regret that it's over, or spend time on being sad or think of what we did in the past or what we should have done, but rather smile because it happened, for in every experience there is a lesson to be learned. When one door closes another opens but we often look so long and regretfully ponder upon the closed door that we do not see the pot of gold standing behind the new door egging us forward. So step up and enter the new door and grab every opportunity, and live every moment with open arms.
This month, we are celebrating 11 years of being in business. Each year has been a blessing.

03/12/2015

Today is World Kidney Day! Celebrate by toasting to your kidney health with a glass of water and by spreading the word with some water for a friend! Once you finished that delicious H20, make sure you have registered as an organ, eye and tissue donor to provide hope to the more than 100,000 people who are waiting for a kidney transplant.

02/23/2015

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/23/organ-donations-save-many-lives/

01/30/2015

Two stadiums full of people are waiting for a second chance at life -
21 of them die each day because an organ was not donated in time.
Sign up to be an organ, eye and tissue donor today at www.DonateLife.net. Give hope. Save lives.

11/12/2014

Sebenza is seeking is a Systems Analyst/Technical Analyst to perform analysis of alternatives (AoA), operational capability assessments, and Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) analysis of IT investments in support of their client. The ideal candidate will have strong systems analysis background, understanding of IT infrastructure, and good communication skills (oral and written). Candidate must be able to work independently as well in a dynamic and matrixed team environment to provide high quality support to existing clients.
Position Responsibilities
• Provide business analysis to assist with the development of Analysis of Alternative (AoA) to optimize end customer’s IT infrastructures by selecting and recommending the most efficient alternative
• Provide implementation plan and strategy for the selected alternative to include an Operational Capabilities Assessment (OCA) proposed approach as well as a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) of the investment, definition of the operational improvements and savings from the recommended alternative to include Timelines & Milestones for Implementation and Return on Investment (ROI) Analysis
• Perform an OCA of the IT infrastructure products and related services to drive cost optimization improvements that result in a) lowering Operations and Maintenance costs which in turn b) increases funding and resources available for unfunded development and security requirements (without increasing overall budget)
• Analyze architecture policies and processes and industry best practices to define the gap between current state and the target state
• Develop OCAs identifying: Personnel, IT Business Processes, and Technology Optimization through the acquisition of an optimal suite of products and related services approaches to infrastructure management
• Provide technical analysis on findings, facilitate meetings, prepare and conduct stakeholder interviews, and research and review existing technical and cost/budget documentation
Position Requirements
• 3+ years experience in IT developing/analyzing AOA's, operation capability assessments, and developing ROMs of IT investments
• Experience in process, technology, and architecture analysis
• Expertise conducting gap analysis in architecture policies and processes of the As-Is and To-Be IT environment
• Understanding of impacts to make recommendations
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Able to work in a highly collaborative and remote environment
• Degree in IT related Field
• Ability to obtain security clearance
• Results-driven, energetic, confident, and self-motivated professional attitude
• Previous experience in consulting services performing deep analytical and business process analysis
• Candidates must be able to work on-site at client sites located in Washington, D.C. or Alexandria, VA, and must be able to obtain a U.S. Federal government client badge

10/28/2014

It's cool to be an organ donor.

03/03/2014

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11/12/2013

Employment Opportunity in Reston, VA! Part time English, Math, Science teachers needed. Also a Center Director needed. Please contact [email protected] for more details!

08/21/2013

The top 5 regrets of dying people -

(I am posting this so we can remember that whilst we are working, we are expected to a great job for our Employer. We must however not fail ourselves and live with regrets because we did not save some quality time for ourselves and for our families! Read # 2 - it is so important and one to remind ourselves of all the time!)

A book by a palliative nurse lists the top five regrets of the dying. How many of these do you share?
If today were your last day on earth, what would be your biggest regret? A palliative nurse who has spent many years counselling people on their deathbeds has written a very moving book which lists the five most common regrets most people revealed during their last days.
The Australian nurse, Bronnie Ware, recorded the dying epiphanies in a blog called "Inspiration and Chai", which she later converted into a book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.
Here are the top five regrets:
1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
Ware says this was the most common sentiment in all the people she counselled and said that as they looked back on their life they realised how many of their own dreams had not been fulfilled. She says, “Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it."
2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
This profound regret was top of the list for all of Ware’s male patients as they regretted spending more time working than with their families. “All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence."
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
Ware says that many of her patients regretted not revealing their true feelings about certain situations, and therefore living a life that wasn’t truly reflective of who they were. Sadly, she says that many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
Many patients expressed regret that they had lost touch with old friends over the years, being so caught up in their own life that they had let good relationships slide. “Everyone misses their friends when they are dying," says Ware.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
Ware says this regret was very common in all her patients as “they didn’t realise until the end that happiness is a choice". She adds that many of them feared change too much to change their life, and stayed in their comfort zones, which at the end of the day, didn’t leave them fulfilled – or happy.