Our Team
Stephen T. Hofmann
President – Lone Star Consulting
As President of Lone Star Consulting, Stephen Hofmann has over 25 years experience representing governments before the US Congress, state legislatures and international governing bodies. Hofmann has represented over 45 governments including Miami-Dade County, Singapore, Norway, Egypt, Costa Rica, Turkey, and the Dominican Republic, as well as a number of cities and counties in Texas including Laredo and Grand Prairie. Additionally, Hofmann has represented Walmart, GM, Levi's, Waste Management, and other corporate clients.
After spending 7 years working as staff in the Texas Legislature, Hofmann spent 8 years as staff in the US Congress. In this capacity, Hofmann worked directly with local government leaders. As a former City Councilmember, Hofmann fully understands the needs of local government.
Working at the city, state and federal levels, Hofmann knows how the appropriations system works. As state and congressional staff, Hofmann helped secure billions of infrastructure dollars for multiple US highways, flood prevention projects, airports, rural development, water systems, bridges, and the redevelopment of communities.
In the private sector, Hofmann secured billions in government funding for numerous projects for clients. Projects such as the Miami International Airport modernization, flood mitigation, seaport expansion, bridge upgrades, power and water systems, and many more infrastructure projects.
Hofmann assists many companies managing the new tariffs and retaliatory tariffs. US Companies need their specialized imported products, and many overseas companies need to provide their unique products to US buyers. Hofmann has spent decades lowering duties on key products, creating tariff exceptions, and re-classifying products to a lower HTS duty cost.
Born in Austin, Texas, Hofmann is married and has four children and holds a BA in Political Science. Hofmann is also fluent in English and German.
Ciro D. Rodriguez
Special Projects
Mr. Rodriguez was a Congressman from Texas for 12 years including being a member of the House Appropriations Committee, the Subcommittee on Transportation, and was Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Prior to joining Congress in 1997, Mr. Rodriguez served 10 years as a Texas State Legislator. Additionally, he served as Justice of the Peace and a school board member.
While in Congress, Rodriguez helped secure billions of dollars for projects throughout Texas, from major highway outlays to Veterans Clinics in rural areas. Rodriguez has also help secure funding for rural development and public works infrastructure.
Rodriguez has a BA in Political Science from St. Mary’s University and a Masters from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio.
Tim Clemensen
Finance
With over 35 years of financial services experience on Wall Street, Tim Clemensen is considered an expert in financial analysis, funding sourcing, and financial compliance.
As a former Executive Vice President at Rubenstein Investor Relations, he structured detailed corporate communication programs to expand greater market awareness for his clients. As a broker with Shearson Lehman Brothers, Clemensen organized high profile portfolios for his international outreach.
Leading the Finance team, Tim provides financial services including the design and creation of financial material, due diligence reports, critical financial structuring, guidance for quarterly and annual reports, fact sheets, and institutional finance coordination for additional capitalization or restructuring.
Clemensen is married and earned his degree in Economics and Business Administration from Rutgers University.
Joe Quinn
Senior Advisor
Joe Quinn has spent his career integrating stakeholder, policy, communication, and community engagement efforts to help organizations succeed. He has managed national strategies and projects for the largest company in the world, been a policy director for a governor, and was an award-winning television journalist.
At Walmart Corporate Affairs for more than a decade, Quinn built national and local Walmart relationships with elected officials, suppliers, customers, and local communities. Quinn helped manage company efforts to hire veterans, make healthy food affordable, and bring manufacturing jobs back to the US. For his role in the historic Walmart $4 generic drug program, Quinn is a recipient of the Sam Walton Entrepreneurial Award.
Prior to Walmart, Quinn was the Director of Policy for Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Quinn managed the communication rollout of the ARKIDS First campaign, which reduced the number of uninsured children in Arkansas by more than 60%.
Quinn is also Executive Director of the Arkansas Good Roads Foundation, working for better roads and infrastructure improve both quality of life and the economy.
Nelson Garcia
Senior Advisor
Nelson Garcia is well respected in the Washington, DC arena serving as senior staff in the US Congress, as well as being the founder and President of the Washington Intergovernmental Professional Group with a membership of over 8,000 senior professionals from the private sector, diplomatic community, and staff members from Congress and the Federal Agencies.
Prior to this, Nelson served as Legislative Director to Rep. Gary Miller, Legislative Assistant to Rep. Ken Calvert and to Rep. Jerry Lewis.
Additionally, Nelson served as Director of Federal and State Policy for the Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA), Director of Governmental Relations for the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, and Director of Congressional Relations for the Alliance of American Insurers.
Nelson earned a BA in Political Science (International Relations) from the University of California, Riverside. Nelson is married and is fully bilingual.
Elliot Meacham
Senior Grant Writer
Elliot is a senior grant writer for Lone Star Consulting working with cities and counties.
Prior to joining the firm, Elliot spent 28 years working with Microsoft, Adobe, and Amazon as a senior technical writer. Elliot oversaw planning and managing professional services documentation projects for several multi-billion dollar companies.
Elliot has worked with non-profits including the Houston Museum of Science and has one of the highest grant success rates in the industry. Specialties include drafting, grant writing, and researching.
Considered an expert in all of Adobe's line of creative professional products including award winning documents for Adobe Premiere, Elliot has earned the Adobe Certified Expert designation in Premiere. These directly apply to enhancing the grant writing and separating your grant request from all the others.
From Dallas, Elliot is an Eagle Scout, married and earned his BA in Journalism from the University of Houston.
Jamie Quinlan
Senior Grant Writer
Jamie Quinlan is a seasoned professional with over 23 years of experience in leadership, grant writing, and communication. Jamie is a senior grant writer for Lone Star Consulting and has written numerous grants for cities and counties in Texas. Jamie is detail oriented and an expert in compliance. She is also the practice lead for Lone Star Consulting’s grant management program.
Additionally, Jamie has worked with MGM and served as a teacher and college professor. Further, she was credited with writing the most successful grants for the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada, which is one of the largest and fastest growing counties in the country.
Jaime lives in Georgetown, Texas, is married and has five children. She holds a BA in Psychology and Masters Degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Alexa K. Haverlah
Quality Control – Grant Writing
As a communications and grant writing professional, Alexa has a specialty for storytelling as education. She has worked as a communications lead at a Washington, DC association and as a news reporter at a national affiliate in Austin, Texas. Further, Alexa was a content writer for the international departments for two universities.
A Texas native, Alexa received her Master's in Journalism from the University of Texas and graduated cum laude with a BA in Art History and Spanish from Tulane University. While at Tulane she studied and taught abroad for one year in Madrid, Spain, and in Costa Rica. Further, she accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to teach university students in Mexico City. Haverlah is fully bilingual.