Management consulting · Arlington, Virginia

We take the work nobody has defined yet and turn it into a process your team can run.

Luctor Consulting provides logistics, program management and operational improvement; human-centered design, research and program evaluation; and AI workflow support. Delivery is principal-led: the person who scopes the work does the work.

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SDVOSBVOSBVA SWaMMBAPMPLean Six Sigma Green BeltTS/SCI eligibility

What we do

Group 01

Logistics, program management and operational improvement

Program management and PMO support for federal missions. Warehouse and distribution operations analysis, supply chain process improvement, transportation planning, inventory accountability, and contingency logistics stand-up.

Detail

Group 02

Human-centered design, research and program evaluation

Human-centered design to improve program usability. Stakeholder and user research, usability assessment of portals and program resources, surveys, and analysis of program processes.

Detail

Group 03

AI workflow support

Data management and automation for repeatable workflows. AI suitability assessments, AI-assisted methods and operating procedures, opportunity tracking and proposal-support workflows.

Detail

Selected evidence

Both engagements below were delivered by the principal in prior consulting roles, not under a Luctor Consulting contract. Role, employer and government customer are stated for each.

Deputy Project Manager, ERPi Customer: VA / Veterans Health Administration 2020 to 2021

Rebuilding a 250,000 square foot contingency warehouse operation

VHA’s largest COVID-19 contingency warehouse distributed $1.2M of medical supplies to 172 hospitals with no agreed process baseline. We ran the work study, built the process flow diagram the improvement working group used as its baseline, and developed the KPIs aimed at supply chain defects.

13% → <1%

Fulfillment defect rate

3/week → 0

Shipping errors

Manager, Atlas Research LLC Customer: VA / Veterans Health Administration 2021

Governance for a new VHA readiness program

The newly created Regional Readiness Center program had no document governing how it would operate or comply. As governance and policy lead, the principal owned the project management plan and wrote the customer support roadmap the client adopted as its template for engagements with other consulting groups.

Documented result

The customer support roadmap was adopted by VHA as its template for engagements with other consulting groups.

Full experience and principal

Who delivers the work

John N. Barbato, MBA, PMP

Founder and principal consultant

A management consultant and serving U.S. Army Reserve logistics officer with more than ten years of project and program management, process improvement and operations leadership across federal health, logistics and defense missions. Every engagement is delivered by the principal.

MBAPMPLean Six Sigma Green BeltBPMN 2.0TS/SCI eligibility

TS/SCI eligibility held personally by the principal. Luctor Consulting does not hold a facility clearance.

Principal experience includes theater distribution planning across CENTCOM and interagency coordination across VHA, HHS, DLA, DoD, State and DHS.

Contracting credentials

Legal name

Luctor Consulting, LLC

Federal certification

SBA-certified SDVOSB and VOSB, October 2025

Virginia

SWaM Small and Micro, with service-disabled veteran designation

Identifiers

UEI C75PS846AHH4 · CAGE 15JP5 · SWaM 841042

Full contracting reference

Bring us the part of the mission with no procedure attached.

Available as prime or subcontractor; defined work packages and surge support to active contracts.

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