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Own the strategy, roadmap, backlog, and delivery for a technical feature team modernizing CDC’s integrated disease surveillance platform. Partner with engineers, designers, researchers, CDC, and public health stakeholders to prioritize data migration, case investigation, or epidemiological reporting capabilities. Translate user and government needs into product outcomes, facilitate agile ceremonies, manage technical tradeoffs, support jurisdiction adoption, and navigate legacy-system and cloud-modernization challenges.

Build and maintain secure, compliant software for a CDC disease surveillance platform. Partner directly with health departments during onboarding, migration, and troubleshooting; diagnose product gaps and configuration issues; develop scripts, integrations, and configurations without forking the core platform; collaborate with platform, data, and epidemiology teams; and identify recurring jurisdiction needs for future product features.

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code. Ensure security, compliance, monitoring, logging, and auditability for federal systems. Automate developer workflows, mentor engineers, improve processes, and support continuous delivery while meeting federal data-protection and compliance requirements.

Lead Skylight's Defense & Security business with P&L accountability: grow federal defense, justice, and homeland security engagements, drive business development and proposals, build strategic relationships, assemble and manage multidisciplinary teams and subcontractors, ensure high-quality client delivery, oversee operations (people, finance), and translate market insights into service offerings while supporting hiring, mentoring, and occasional travel.

Lead and scale Skylight's growth by building strategies that leverage SBIR/STTR contract vehicles, coordinate business development, capture, proposals, account management, and marketing alignment. Drive adoption of AI/automation in growth workflows, support bids & proposals, and partner with executives to win federal professional services contracts.

Lead and scale company-wide people operations for a fast-growing digital consultancy. Oversee talent acquisition, HR compliance, HRIS management, compensation benchmarking, performance management, engagement, learning, succession planning, DEI initiatives, and partnership with business leaders. Manage recruiting leadership, onboarding/offboarding, and data-driven people programs while supporting government contracting requirements and occasional travel.