Rich Guzzardi has joined Parsons as vice president of contracts for engineered systems, concluding a career spanning over two decades at RTX subsidiary Raytheon, where he most recently served as executive director of operations strategy development and capital. Guzzardi announced his transition to Parsons via LinkedIn.

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Mike Giesler, a 25-year government and commercial technology market veteran, has assumed the same role at Seattle-based data storage vendor Qumulo. He will lead Qumulo's North America East and federal sales operations in his new position.

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Paul Bradley, previously vice president of technology at information technology consulting firm AbleVets, has been appointed chief technology officer at health IT company MedicaSoft, FedHealth IT reported Tuesday.

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Brett McMillen, the general manager of the U.S. Federal Civilian & Ground Station for Amazon Web Services, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the positive impact cloud adoption, innovation through the cloud, increasing data interoperability and "the art of the possible" for federal agencies.

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Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Matthew Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his efforts growing revenue and continued growth for the company. This marks the fifth consecutive Wash100 award for Desch.

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Mercer Rowe, former vice president of strategic partners at IBM‘s Watson and cloud computing platforms, has been named senior VP and general manager of a newly formed cloud business at Avaya. He will oversee research, development and sales of public, private and hybrid cloud offerings in his new position, Avaya said Wednesday. Jim Chirico, president and CEO at […] More

John Gould and Brent Behrman, respectively former president of Stratasys‘ North American business and senior vice president of sales at Compass Datacenters, have joined data center services company CyrusOne‘s sales organization. Gould was appointed executive vice president for global sales and Behrman will serve as EVP for strategic sales, CyrusOne said Wednesday. “As our world enters an exciting […] More

Gahn Lane, formerly vice president of service-provider sales at Westcon Group, has joined CenturyLink as vice president of independent software vendors and federal channels, Channel Partners Online reported Monday. Edward Gately writes Lane will report to Bill Corbin, senior VP of strategic partnerships and channel operations, and lead the establishment of a federal partner program at the […] More

Martha Bejar, formerly director and CEO of broadband wireless access services company Flow Mobile, has joined the board of directors at CenturyLink. “Her years of experience in telecommunications and information technology businesses will enable her to make immediate contributions to CenturyLink’s future,” President and CEO Glen Post said in a statement issued Monday. Bejar has led Flow Mobile over […] More

Barry Morris serves as vice president of the federal division at EMC and has three decades of federal sales experience. In this capacity, he oversees information technology projects with federal agencies and manages the company’s collaboration efforts with other government contractors and systems integrators. Prior to EMC, Morris spent more than a decade at Polycom, […] More

Steve Pusey, group chief technology officer at Vodafone Group PLC, has been elected to the board of directors at FireEye. David DeWalt, board chairman and CEO of FireEye, said Wednesday that Pusey will share his experience and perspective as the company works to deliver platforms designed to protect enterprises against cyber attacks. “Steve Pusey is that […] More

Cheryl Ragland-Baxter serves as the director for marketing and sales enablement at Avaya‘s government solutions business. She leads a channel sales team and works with strategic partners to create multimedia campaigns for enterprise communications and collaboration technology offerings in the federal sector. Ragland-Baxter oversaw the rebranding of the company’s federal business organization after the firm […] More