Today's guest is Ratima Kataria. She is the Chief Strategy and Growth Leader for Health Analytics, Research, and Technology Solutions at ICF. Ratima was previously the Deputy Chief Information Officer at Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency under the HHS umbrella. We talked about her career journey and then examined the challenges women have in their career and how to expand on those opportunities. Ratima also brought up imposter syndrome and how it impacts many and keeps them from taking reasonable risk. Finally, we talked about the importance of the mission of government agencies and how important it is for federal staff to welcome vendors into the fold and work together to meet mission goals.

You can engage Ratima here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ratima-kataria-4615053/

The Geek Within can be found on several podcast platforms - https://www.polywork.com/posts/W0IZQ1lu

List of past episodes: https://www.thegeekwithin.net/

Today's guest is Chuck Grindle. He is the Executive Advisor for Public Sector at Proofpoint. Chuck is an Army veteran and a previous Chief Information Officer. We talked a bit about the challenges around FedRAMP and the benefits for an organization to implement cloud technologies and how it can be a positive change agent.

You can engage Chuck here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesgrindle/

The Geek Within can be found on several podcast platforms - https://www.polywork.com/posts/W0IZQ1lu

List of past episodes: https://www.thegeekwithin.net/

Today's guest is Chidilim (Okonkwo) Oconkwo, better known as Chi. She is the Director of the Agency Financials Systems Office at NASA. Chi is also an ACT-IAC fellow, which is how we came to know each other.

You can engage Chi here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiokonkwocgfm/

The Geek Within can be found on several podcast platforms - https://www.polywork.com/posts/W0IZQ1lu

List of past episodes: https://www.thegeekwithin.net/

Today's guest is Brett Fraser. He is the Executive Vice President of Technical Services at NSS, which is a women-owned small business technology solution and services company specializing in business automation and AI. Brett has sixteen years of experience in this space and has a passion for solving business challenges.

You can engage Brett here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettfraserspage/

The Geek Within can be found on several podcast platforms - https://www.polywork.com/posts/W0IZQ1lu

List of past episodes: https://www.thegeekwithin.net/

Today's guest is Swamy Sriperumbudur. He is the Chief Digital Officer and Chief AI Officer at Expedite InfoTech, Host of the Leadership in Crisis podcast, and a fellow follower of emerging technologies.

Episode 182 on YouTube - https://youtu.be/SFYY-QnoJAQ

You can engage Swamy here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cswamy/

Nonprofit - https://www.vtsworld.org/

Podcast - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cswamy

The Geek Within can be found on several podcast platforms - https://www.polywork.com/posts/W0IZQ1lu

List of past episodes: https://www.thegeekwithin.net/

Today's guest is Kyle Dodd. He is Vice President for Digital Modernization Capture at ICF.

Episode 181 on YouTube - https://youtu.be/_Po4OLIlYt4

You can engage Kyle here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/doddkyle/

The Geek Within can be found on several podcast platforms - https://www.polywork.com/posts/W0IZQ1lu

List of past episodes: https://www.thegeekwithin.net/

Today's guest is Jason Adolf. He is Vice President Global Public Sector at Appian.

You can engage Jason here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonadolf/

The Geek Within can be found on several podcast platforms - https://www.polywork.com/posts/W0IZQ1lu

List of past episodes: https://www.thegeekwithin.net/

Today's guest is Douglas Hubbard. He is the Manager of the Power Apps Centre of Excellence (PACE) for Transport Canada.

Episode 179 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZhSVaaJgwDQ

You can engage Douglas here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-hubbard-tc/

The Geek Within can be found on several podcast platforms - https://www.polywork.com/posts/W0IZQ1lu

List of past episodes: https://www.thegeekwithin.net/

Today's guest is Justin Fessler. He is Vice President of Public Sector at LogicMonitor and a mentor for YearUp. Justin and I have known each other for a few years through our networks here in the DC area.

Episode 178 on YouTube - https://youtu.be/hjF59FRaWOw

You can engage Justin here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-fessler/

The Geek Within can be found on several podcast platforms - https://www.polywork.com/posts/W0IZQ1lu

List of past episodes: https://www.thegeekwithin.net/

Today's guest is Gláucia Esppenchutz. She is a Data Operations Engineer at AiFi Inc. and a Committer and Release Manager of the Apache Wayang incubator project. Glaucia is also the author of the book Data Ingestion with Python Cookbook.

Episode 177 on YouTube - https://youtu.be/fLlzJKyZLig

You can engage Gláucia here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glauesppen/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/glauesppen

Book - https://a.co/d/gnEaKNu

The Geek Within can be found on several podcast platforms - https://www.polywork.com/posts/W0IZQ1lu

List of past episodes: https://www.thegeekwithin.net/