Gwendolyn Price, FOUNDER & CEO
Gwendolyn Price is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of KMC Dezign Technologies, Inc. Gwendolyn has nearly 30 years in law enforcement and retired, of which 24 years were with the U.S. Department of Justice as a federal Agent. Gwendolyn consults with a New York-based non-profit organization that has consultatory status with the United Nations (UN) and holds consortiums, which she travels to twice a year to the United Kingdom (UK). She has prior corporate management experience with the Atlantic-Richfield Oil Company (ARCO). Gwendolyn is currently working on her doctorate in psychology and writing her dissertation for her Ph.D. in International Psychology (IP) with emphasis on studies in Organizations and Systems, and Trauma Services. Gwendolyn has the ability to cut through the noise and help others gain clarity on relevant technical aspects to promote their business. She started KMC Dezign in 2012 with the vision that technology should be simple or uncomplicated, effective, and accessible to everyone. Everything KMC Dezign does is to design and develop new technology that can address virtually any area of life. From concept to implementation, KMC Dezign knows there are many steps to take when launching a new technical product and is ready to dedicate the teams necessary to help bring their latest innovative project to market. Members of the Team had or holds a Top Secret (TS) Security Clearance and Secret (S) Security Clearance and are TS and S eligible 2022.
Patrick O’Malley, CO-FOUNDER & CTO
Patrick O’Malley is the company’s Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and has years of experience in computer technology and brings a breadth of expertise to any technical project. Having experience in the computer technology industry with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and his own IT company. The experiential knowledge of the company’s CTO is instrumental in how to improve upon a concept in terms of system design, technical analysis, and development. This has served the CTO well with his vast experience. Patrick is a motivated Account Executive with over 35 years’ experience in Information Technology. His extensive experience spans all phases of systems development including design, development and implementation of complex, large-scale IT systems for federal, State, and local governments, as well as private industry in both Europe and the US. Patrick has 20 years of project management, account management, and oversight experience, assisting State Government Services clients in the administration and delivery of mission- critical services in Human Health Service programs. Patrick’s experience includes solutions architect, database engineer, and database administrator, programming and database management software modification, software development, group strategy and operations for government customers across multiple fields and scopes of services, and System Design, Technical Analysis and Development. Patrick was a key player in the design and development of the Pennsylvania Child Support Enforcement System (PACSES). He was directly responsible for the design and management of several strategic application modifications focused on performance and customer service improvement. While working on PACSES Patrick was responsible for optimizing the data exchanges between the Child Support, Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF) and Foster Care systems. Patrick has provided oversight for customization of a COTS based Enterprise Integrated Case Management for Health and Human Services and providing a holistic view of client needs and services. Patrick was contracted with DOD for four years on projects related to Mainframe deployment training, operations, and software development.
Ricardo Veasey, CYBER-SECURITY EXPERT
Ricardo Veasey is the Cyber-Security Specialist and brings immeasurable experience as a cyber-security expert having worked in local government, federal government, the military and overseas, primarily in Europe and South America. Ricardo has years of experience in End-To-End System Engineering, Interoperability, Functional Testing, Cyber Security & Mission Assurance Strategy, Configuration Management, and Enterprise System Architecture Design. Ricardo has functioned as the Lead Senior Security Assessor supporting Engineering Programs, periodic security assessment reviews and provided guidance on Risk Management Framework/Certification and Accreditation efforts in support of the engineering community. He has provided security recommendations to technical engineers on engineering performance evaluations, and developed technical validation strategies, cloud security test procedures, and trusted architectures design for addressing Cyber-Security engineering requirements. Conducted risk assessments and recommended plans for remediation of security controls and the security architectures used to protect system assets. Developed governance documentation, conducted interviews with stakeholders involved in the system environment and administered in-depth technical holistic analysis. Ricardo has collaborated with system administrators to conduct compliance and vulnerability assessments of systems utilizing automated cyber-security tools. Developed methods for improving the governance management processes by identifying potential solutions to stated requirements. Provided engineering support by ensuring that cyber-security controls were appropriately applied. Reviewed standard frameworks to determine national security compliance with all stakeholders. Approved security Test and Evaluation (ST&E) entries/exit criteria for product acceptance in the areas of: Insider Threat Detection, Security Forensics, Application Layer Filtering, Source Code Analyzers, Network Traffic Analysis, Firewalls, and Wireless Detection Tools. Ricardo’s company is RRV Systems Solutions, LLC.
Lance Johnson, NETWORK ENGINEER
Lance Johnson is the company’s Network Engineer and has a detailed oriented passion for Information Systems. Lance is a IS professional with 25 years of experience working in several diverse environments. He has experience in managing IT staff, consultants, and vendors while supporting Windows Server Networks and WAN / MAN / LAN / Data Center Infrastructure components. Management of Network services & infrastructure (Cisco / Meraki (Firewalls/ Switches IOS), VMWare, Fortinet, Ruckus, HP Switches, Nomadix, Sonicwall, DIAs, Adtran, Juniper, Ciena., Telnet, SSH, RIP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, Putty, SNMP, SSL, QOS, SMTP, Syslog. Lances’s networking expertise includes working with Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016 server installation and administrations: including Active Directory, Group Policies, Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016, Office 365, MS SQL, VPNs, Radius Servers and Virtual Servers – Hyperv, Vmware, Azure, AWS, Remote Desktop Services and Citrix, Scripts – Powershell, batchfiles, Group Policy and Solar Winds, and Network Security Assessments using GFI Lan Guard / Nessus customized documentation and remediation. Lance has experience in Project Management (i.e., PC Deployment, Office, Relocations, Wi-Fi deployments, Server Deployments, Surveillance Camera Systems, and Cabling Projects), and in Disaster Recovery for businesses continuity and in creating policies & procedures and implementations using online backups onsite appliances, Replication, Virtualization, DFS, and Clustering. Lance’s expertise includes telecommunications support for VOIP, SIP, Cisco, Mitel, ShoreTel, Dinstar, Astra, POTs lines, Grandstream, and Digital to Analog converters. Lance’s vast experience includes monitoring systems for uninterrupted IT service, (Logmein, site24x7 ZoHO, Teamviewer, Comodo One, VNC, Zendesk, Solarwinds, SCCM, Nagios and Sysaid. Lance is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE, MCP + 1), a Certified Cisco Network Associate (CCNA 2.0), and a Certified Novell Network Administrator (CAN). Lance possess strong problem-solving skills, which enable him to solve complex networking issues and document the entire process. Lance has excellent customer service skills and a unique ability to explain highly complex technical issues, and resolutions to non-technical parties. Lance’s company is www.worldnetworksystems.com.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
KMC Dezign Tech’s Software Developer is an innovator, and results driven as a Software Development professional with proven skills in designing, developing, and integrating web pages and software applications using latest cutting-edge technologies. Experienced in creating and hosting applications on live webservers and creating SQL queries in Oracle as well as Postgres leveraging full stack training. Our Software Developer is proficient in design patterns, coding from scratch, restful webservices, microservices and multiple front-end technologies such as Angular, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, JavaScript,and Typescript. And further she possesses competencies in the software development lifecycle, coding and programming, project management and tracking, requirements gathering performance management, test driven development, data and information analysis, and creative problem solving, a core goal set out in the company’s mission. Specializes in mobile app development, application, and optimization. Our mobile app developer has expertise in supporting software application development initiatives to ensure the attainment of organizational goals. This is the priority for optimization of software product functionality and performance; while significantly advancing software application capabilities, that enables high-availability and supportability for Web Apps; and drives functional enhancements and performance improvements and facilitates dynamic performance of software applications by leveraging Microservices to break down monolithic code into separate single-function modules, while also performing CRUD operations and creating procedures, views, and sequencing using SQL Developer. Some of her technical Proficiencies include Server-Side: Java, Spring Boot, Maven, Log4J, Java Servlets, JSP, AOP, JUNIT, SQL; Client-Side: Appian/SAIL, Angular, HTML5, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, Boostrap, Selenium IDE; Webservices: SOAP/REST, Postman, SOA; Microservices: Spring Cloud, Zuul, Eureka, Hysterix, Kafka, Zookeeper; DevOps: AWS, CI/CD, Docker, Maven, Jenkins.
Graduated with a degree in Applied Science in Computer and Electronic Engineering Technology; and holds a Fullstack Developer Certification and an Appian Designer Level 1. She brings her role as an engineer/developer in a challenging environment that will task her analytical, leadership and technical abilities to produce the highest-level quality results for the KMC Dezign clients.
Eric Schwartz, STRATEGIC ANALYST
Eric ‘The Professor’ Schwartz is the company’s Strategic Analyst. Eric taught economics in the higher education system in Washington, DC, and Maryland, so hence his name. Eric has extensive knowledge in analytics, research, interpretive data, marketing, and public relations on a global scale. Eric has experience with the world’s largest advertising agency as a Public Relations Executive & Writer at McCann Erickson and has developed public relations strategies and promotional campaigns for multinational firms in North Africa. He has advised corporations such as the Coco-Cola Company, Sony, Gulf Corporation, Yamaha Corporation, L’Oréal Group, Gillette Company and Motorola Inc. As Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief, Eric has overseen editorial operations for periodical publications and supervised teams of reporters in market reporting activities, editing, and publishing of articles on regulatory reforms, financial reforms, and privatization. Eric has interviewed individual business leaders, policymakers, opinion leaders, and high-ranking government officials, including a Head of State. Eric has conducted extensive scholarly research in economic development, education economics, higher education policy, comparative international higher education, and educational choice. He has published research papers, articles, columns, and commentaries in economics, financial reforms, education economics, and public relation. Eric brings his extensive expertise in the areas of economics, finance, education, public relations, consulting, marketing, and advertising and adds a personable touch where he sees every client or customer as encouraging a new collaboration. Eric’s company is advenaworld.com.
IT ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE
KMC Dezign Tech’s Information Technology (IT) Administrative Assistance – an experienced office management and administration professional with over 20 years of corporate HR experience, and experience optimizing productivity, efficiency, and service quality across a broad spectrum of environments; who is highly dependable, ethical, and reliable as a support specialist and leader that combines advanced organizational, technical and business acumen; works effectively with cross-functional teams in ensuring operational and service excellence. Duties and responsibilities include the establishment of efficient workflow processes, monitoring of daily productivity, and implemented modifications to improve overall effectiveness of personnel and activities. Train employees in company and regulatory compliance requirements to promote conformance. Oversee office inventory activities, orders, and requisitions, stocking, and shipments. Communicate corporate objectives across all divisions through regular correspondence and schedule status updates. Manage CRM database, including troubleshooting, updates, and report generation. Included skillset: documentation and control, team leadership, strategic planning, technical support, sorting and labeling, policy and procedure modification, training and development, project management, and performance improvement. Additional duties performed are secretarial duties, including managing calendars, scheduling meetings, screening, and handling office communications, greeting and directing callers, and directing other administrative office procedures as appropriate with reliance on automated, integrated computer solutions to manage and disseminate information, plan and schedule meetings and maintain administrative records; conduct research for IT projects and are adept at using technological means to complete these duties. The Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a heavy concentration of information technology, technical writing, or experience in technical functions is found to be the best fit for the IT Administrative Assistant.
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