Keeping IT Brief: The Power Perspective

Derek Shaw of BDO discusses the Polaris RFP and the requirements applicants should take into consideration when applying.

Derek Shaw

Derek Shaw is a Managing Director in the Industry Specialty Services Group at BDO with a focus on Government Contracts.  Derek has extensive experience in mergers & acquisitions focusing on government contracting aspects, including restructuring proposal development.

BDO

BDO delivers assurance, tax, and financial advisory services to clients throughout the country and around the globe. They offer numerous industry-specific practices, world-class resources, and an unparalleled commitment to meeting their clients’ needs. They currently serve more than 400 publicly traded domestic and international clients.

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In this part 2, Red Team Consulting is joining the Keeping IT Brief podcast to share what they anticipate in the updated Polaris Draft RFP. This Q&A-focused episode will answer questions around all your burning questions, including, how the Polaris procurement is different than CIO-SP4, what companies can be doing now to get prepared for Polaris, how to know if your organization is qualified to prime, and much more.

Red Team Consulting

Red Team Consulting, LLC (Red Team) is the premier provider of proposal development, capture strategy, pricing, and training services in support of federal contractors. Founded in 2004, we have been helping federal contractors of all sizes achieve their strategic goals. Red Team has supported more than 1,000 small and large companies compete on thousands of procurements and captured over $100 billion worth of federal contracts. We have strong relationships throughout the Government and industry, and our experience spans a broad array of service areas. Our mission is simple – help our clients grow their business.

Blake Harvey

As Red Team Consulting’s Business Development Manager, Blake Harvey helps government contractors grow their business by providing them with capture strategy, proposal development, and cost and price strategy consulting services. Blake brings multiple years of Federal contracting delivery experience and knowledge which he leverages to help his clients develop a winning strategy.

Joe Salgado 

Joe Salgado is a professionally trained capture and proposal professional with over 20 years of federal contracting experience. With his diverse background, Joe has successfully run large technical sales and engineering organizations as well as complex capture efforts and large multi-billion-dollar proposal engagements. He has management annual sales of over $300M and captured over $30B in federal contracts.

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Red Team Consulting is joining the Keeping IT Brief podcast to share what they anticipate in the updated Polaris Draft RFP. This Q&A-focused episode will answer questions around all your burning questions, including, how the Polaris procurement is different than CIO-SP4, what companies can be doing now to get prepared for Polaris, how to know if your organization is qualified to prime, and much more.

Red Team Consulting

Red Team Consulting, LLC (Red Team) is the premier provider of proposal development, capture strategy, pricing, and training services in support of federal contractors. Founded in 2004, we have been helping federal contractors of all sizes achieve their strategic goals. Red Team has supported more than 1,000 small and large companies compete on thousands of procurements and captured over $100 billion worth of federal contracts. We have strong relationships throughout the Government and industry, and our experience spans a broad array of service areas. Our mission is simple – help our clients grow their business.

Blake Harvey

As Red Team Consulting’s Business Development Manager, Blake Harvey helps government contractors grow their business by providing them with capture strategy, proposal development, and cost and price strategy consulting services. Blake brings multiple years of Federal contracting delivery experience and knowledge which he leverages to help his clients develop a winning strategy.

Joe Salgado 

Joe Salgado is a professionally trained capture and proposal professional with over 20 years of federal contracting experience. With his diverse background, Joe has successfully run large technical sales and engineering organizations as well as complex capture efforts and large multi-billion-dollar proposal engagements. He has management annual sales of over $300M and captured over $30B in federal contracts.

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This podcast interview with Joseph Davis, a support member of the Defense Health Agency through NIWC-LANT’s Cybersecurity component, discusses how DHA is assessing risk within MHS PaaS, one of the first enterprise system pioneers to feature Kubernetes (K-8’s) orchestrator for containerization technology on Red Hat’s OpenShift container deployment solution for standing up new applications and tools.

Joseph Davis is a Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert at Sentar and support member of the Defense Health Agency through NIWC-LANT’s Cybersecurity component. Joseph has supported many Cybersecurity elements within the DoD and recently has been part of a team that delivered an accelerated cloud migration for a legacy enterprise system and a new pivotal Platform as a Service in 12 weeks from inception to operation. Joseph also lead the security authorization of the first major application to the environment in 3 months.

About Sentar

Sentar is a cyber-intelligence company, applying analytics and systems engineering expertise to protect the national security and way of life by innovating, building, and securing mission-critical assets. Established in 1990, they have a long history of innovation. Today, they are one of the fastest-growing cyber-intelligence companies serving the National Security sector. 

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Today we are enjoying an inspirational interview with Darryl E. Peek II of Google Cloud.  As a thought leader, Mr. Peek discusses how to look introspectively when making plans to grow and develop teams.

Darryl E. Peek II 

Mr. Peek is a thought leader who has spent over 15 years providing executive leadership to government organizations and possesses a well-proven set of proficiencies in the areas of acquisitions, digital transformation, cybersecurity, and business operations.

In his current role as the Head of Federal Strategic Partnerships, Mr. Peek leads a team to manage partnerships with Federal Systems Integrators to implement innovative devices, technologies and platforms to public sector departments and agencies -

leveraging his combined expertise in legislation, policy, and emerging technology to provide guidance and recommendations to federal civilian agencies on strategic priorities and enterprise technology investments.

Google Cloud

Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. They deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.

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In this special podcast, Brock Webb of the Census Bureau joins us to discuss how industry helps Government innovate and how you too can get involved!

Brock Webb is the Cloud Program Manager and leads Infrastructure Planning within the Computer Services Directorate at the United States Census Bureau. He recently returned from a yearlong special assignment as a Senior IT Policy Advisor within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). While there, he led the initial implementation of two sections from Title 3 of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. Brock is a strategic thought leader, innovator, and change agent for Information Technology (IT) services. He was critical in establishing and leading the Census Cloud Program, which has transformed the way Census acquires and consumes IT. Under his leadership, the Census Cloud Program has saved millions in cost avoidance while modernizing capabilities, software, and IT processes. Prior to joining Census, Brock was the Chief Engineer for Cloud Computing in the Chief Technology Office (CTO) at the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). There, he played a key role in the development of DISA/DoD policy, strategic vision, implementation plans, and capability analysis. 

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“HHS is focused on the need to share electronic health records to gain insight into how to assist the mission of HHS to enhance the health and well being of all Americans,” according to Oki Mek. In this edition of Keeping IT Brief, he digs into how this can happen effectively in a large agency like HHS.

About Oki Mek

As the Senior Advisor to HHS CIO, Oki Mek’s focus is on initiating and leading changes through digital transformation that aims to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans; by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services. He also works on strategic analysis; scalability, sustainability, feasibility, and most importantly marketability. Champion collaboration as an essential component to innovation and serve as a conduit to improve HHS ability to deliver mission outcomes, provide excellent service, and effectively steward taxpayer dollars on behalf of the American people. He embraces the big data paradigm shift and continues to evolve not only to change the lives of the American people, but aim to change the world through emerging technologies.

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 Standing out in the competitive and complex hiring process is important in getting the right staff to meet all of your companies needs.  Mark J. Tyrrell, the Founder of Right Resources, discusses how whether you need someone for an important project, or someone to join the team full-time, it is crucial to make the people you work with a top priority and understand that starting with the right people makes every project easier.

Mark J. Tyrrell – Founder of Right Resources

Mark has recruited professionals in healthcare technology for over a decade. He graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelors in Business Administration and started his career as a systems consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. He has recruited on positions for some of the most respected companies not only in and around Baltimore, but nationwide across the health tech industry. He lives in Catonsville, MD with his wife, his daughter, his son, his dog, and the cat, and he is truly grateful for all the opportunities God has provided, including this company.

Right Resources

At Right Resources they support mission-driven tech companies that are passionate about the impact of their work by connecting them with highly sought-after technical talent. They bring the right people together in successful and productive work teams so that all their work will be good and useful for the world. They aim high, fail fast, laugh it off, and get it done!

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We had an amazing number of speakers at the 2021 Innovation Awards.  If you missed it, be sure to check out the full list of winners and register to check out a recording of the event at: https://www.fedhealthit.com/2021/05/2021-fedhealthit-innovation-award-winners-announced/.

Here is a bite from Amir Capriles of Pegasystems, one of the event sponsors.

Amir Capriles

Amir Capriles is a Vice President at Pegasystems, overseeing all client-facing functions serving the public sector business across the United States. Prior to Pegasystems, Amir held sales leadership roles at Salesforce.com and Microsoft Corporation, leading national teams responsible for enabling public sector and commercial enterprise customers in their Digital Transformation journey through the use of cloud based, intelligent business applications.

Amir has over 30 years of experience in the information technology field, including sales, marketing, product development, implementation and support of large, transformational solutions across public and private sector; organizations ranging from small municipalities to large state and local governments and federal agencies as well as large enterprise commercial organizations.

Pegasystems

Pega delivers innovative software that crushes business complexity. From increasing customer lifetime value to streamlining service to boosting efficiency, we help the world’s leading brands solve problems fast and transform for tomorrow. Pega clients make better decisions and get work done with real-time AI and intelligent automation. And, since 1983, we’ve built our scalable architecture and low-code platform to stay ahead of rapid change. Our solutions save people time, so our clients’ employees and customers can get back to what matters most. For more information, visit www.pega.com 

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Does the Sentar/QOMPLX combined company’s future mean benefits for its customers?  The president of Sentar, Darren Kraabel goes over what to expect now and in the future of the Health IT industry.

About Darren Kraabel, Sentar President

Darren joined the Sentar team in 2019 with over 25 years of experience leading large, mission-focused organizations. Since Darren joined in 2019, Sentar has grown substantially, positioning itself as a leader in cybersecurity. The company’s continued success led to a three-year sales growth of 105 percent in 2020, marking Sentar on the Inc. 5000 for the fourth year in a row. Moreover, the company has doubled the size of its team since 2017. Sentar’s recent successes include multiple award-winning initiatives, primarily for our work securing Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Connected Medical Devices. Prior to joining Sentar, Darren was the Chief Technology & Innovation Officer for Jacobs, where he led their global digital transformation. Darren also previously served as a USAF Officer where he helped develop leading-edge combat capability for Special Forces units.

About Sentar, a QOMPLX Company

Sentar is one of the fastest-growing cyber intelligence, analytics and operations solutions providers focused on the National Security sector. Its cyber domain solutions blend expertise in cybersecurity, intelligence, analytics, and systems engineering into holistic solutions that combine these disciplines to deliver superior results to mission partners. Key clients include the Defense Health Agency, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, and the Missile Defense Agency.  Sentar has offices in Huntsville, Alabama; Charleston, South Carolina; Columbia, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas. Visit www.sentar.com for more information.

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