CELP Planning Team Cohort 7
Steven Lazo - Senior Manager (Deloitte) 2023 / CELP Cohort 7 Co-Lead Steven have over 13 years of experience providing innovative methods of cyber risk management and cybersecurity services to federal clients within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. He has been integral in helping his clients protect and defend information systems and networks from cyber adversaries and manage their access management through the implementation of Identity, Credential, and Access Management solutions. |
Samantha Lee, Growth and Innovation Leader (Accenture) 2023 / CELP Cohort 7 Co-Lead Sam has worked at Accenture for over 11 years leading teams across a variety of Defense clients focusing on data, analytics and emerging technology. She now focuses on connecting client challenges with innovative solutions across all of Accenture's Defense and VA clients. In her spare time, Sam enjoys traveling to interesting and unique places, finding great new places to eat, practicing Pilates, and spending time with her husband Robert and dog Kona. |
Grace Flaak is a Senior Manager with Accenture Federal Services / CELP Program Lead Grace is responsible for delivery of an 80+ resource project supporting 24/7/365 Operations. She previously managed service delivery for high-profile clients across both commercial and government sectors nationwide. Grace enjoys developing high-performance professional teams and building effective collaborative relationships. Grace graduated from UVA and currently lives in Loudoun County with her husband and 2 young children. Her spare time is filled with her children’s activities but in her extra spare time, Grace enjoys spending time with friends and family, reading a good book, and eating. |
Joy was promoted to Managing Director in 2023 and possesses over 15 years of information technology experience in government consulting where she has managed the implementation of complex applications across the full software development life cycles (SDLC). Her skill sets include a wide range of custom development and support capabilities for various technology stacks (e.g. Java, .Net, BMC Remedy, Cognos, and Business Objects). Additionally, Joy has driven the implementation of several modernization efforts such mobile adoption, Business Intelligence (BI) integration, technology upgrades, Agile transformation, and testing automation. For over 10 years, Joy has worked for Deloitte Consulting, LLP. She is currently a Senior Manager in the Government and Public Sector practice and primarily supports custom application development and technology modernization projects in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sector. In her spare time, Joy loves to travel and learn about different cultures and history. To date, she has travelled to 26 countries and her last international trip was to Israel and Jordan. She has expanded her domestic travel experience and just returned from a trip to Alaska. Her love for travel and exploration stems from constantly living in various places as a military brat in the Navy. |
Joy Ignacio, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP / CEI PMO Co-Lead and CELP Program Advisor
Dean Lee, Specialist Leader (Deloitte) 2023 / CELP Cohort 7 Co-Lead Dean is a Cloud Security Leader at Deloitte & Touche LLP, Cyber & Strategic Risk Services. He has over thirteen years of experience serving as a cloud, network, and cyber security architect and engineer including designing, configuring, implementing, and securing on-premise and cloud environments. Dean has supported a wide variety of clients including the Department of Defense (Army, Navy, Marine Corps), Department of Veterans Affairs, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. |
Uyen Tran is a Business Manager at Salesforce / CELP Program Lead Uyen is an accomplished business leader and trusted advisor with over 17 years in Medtech and healthcare life sciences spanning provider, medical and surgical devices, biologics, pharmaceuticals, robotics, software, and digital technologies. With over 10 years in leadership and management roles, Uyen has also led teams through change management and several M&A integrations, 3 being multi-billion-dollar acquisitions. Consistent results and recognized excellence led to being the first and only female sales leader in her division at Wright Medical and business unit at Stryker, and serving on several executive strategy committees, advisory councils, and corporate partners teams. Transitioning into the tech industry, Uyen now works with healthcare and life science startups and growth companies in the U.S. and Canada to transform, scale, and drive better business decisions with the world's leading data analytics platform, Tableau - now part of Salesforce. Uyen is a first generation American whose parents were Vietnam War refugees, sponsored and immigrated to the U.S., and achieved the American dream running a family business in the DMV for over 30 years. They taught her appreciation and honor for the freedoms and opportunities we have, and instilled a grit, drive, and faith in her that is deeply rooted. Passionate about serving others, Uyen strives to do so through her work. She loves being active, sports, comedy shows; her favorite times are spent with her family, especially her husband and daughter. |
Margaret Erickson is a Sr. Manager at Accenture with over 16 years of experience in the industry. She has extensive experience in program/project management and in leading and delivering large scale system implementations. In her current role Margaret leads Strategy and Growth for her account. She is also passionate about I&D and serves as her accounts I&D champion. |
Alana's experience is in web development and maintenance of web sites and graphics design ranging from community service to technical web sites. Alana's background includes converting existing web site's outdated coding to meet today's web code standards, 508 guidelines, as well as the latest web & usability standards and organic SEO. Alana owned webEvolutionary services for over 19 years and enjoys volunteering for Non Profits and as well honing her crafting skills. |
Alex has two years of Appian consulting experience with Appian Level 2 credential, and additional 2 years of other technical consulting. Lead Appian developer for Impact Aid for Department of Education since November 2019, where the team continues to deliver new functionality and operations and maintenance capabilities for a complex grant management system. |
Margaret Erickson, Program & Project Management Senior Manager at Accenture Federal Services / CELP Program Advisor
Alana Heng, CEI Webmaster and CELP Planning Team
Alex Oswari, Senior Consultant at Deloitte / CELP Planning Team