Fresh advice for successful hybrid cloud deployments

Lakshmi Ashok, CTO, Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure, Unisys Federal, has worked in the IT Service industry delivering solutions for the Federal Government for more than a couple of decades. She is passionate about working with clients to solve their complex mission problems by implementing and delivering innovative technologies. She has led corporate wide strategies in the area of next generation IT Services.

Lakshmi has been vastly successful in capturing several large opportunities and driving business growth for corporate. She has extensive experience in architecting, implementing and delivering enterprise scale IT services and capabilities to multiple federal clients. She enjoys building and working with high performing teams and organizations to support client missions.

She was responsible for defining CSRA’s cloud strategy and led their Cloud and Consulting practices. She is now a part of our Homeland Critical Infrastructure group at Unisys Federal and drives innovation, key strategic initiatives and next-gen capabilities to optimize and support our clients’ missions.

David leads AWS’s U.S. Government business where he helps governments and nonprofits realize the potential of technology to help transform their organizations and fulfill their missions.

David is an experienced executive and impactful leader in the information technology sector. For more than 20 years, David has passionately focused on the intersection of technology and organizational change.
Prior to joining AWS, David worked for Apple Inc. for 12 years and led the teams that helped government adopt innovative mobile technologies. Under his leadership, Apple’s government business grew from $250M to over $1.2B in sales in a 4-year period. As head of the U.S. public sector, he played a key role in the introduction and adoption of mobile apps and app stores in federal and state and local governments. David and his team were instrumental in helping the Air Force launch one of the first electronic flight bag initiatives on the iPad mobile device. The Air Force started with 18k iPads and grew to over 100k iPads in use. The reduction of paper and printing costs combined with fuel savings paved the way for improved operations and saved the government millions of dollars. Before joining Apple, David worked for Monster.com and helped lead its customer facing teams which automated the federal hiring and recruiting platforms through USAJOBS and software as a service offerings.

In addition to his executive career, David co-founded Sulla Technology Group. At Sulla, as co-founder and COO, he built a successful datacenter services company focused on higher education clients and state and local governments such as the University of Georgia, Howard University, the City of San Antonio and Cook County. Before founding Sulla, David started Empire Capital Management to focus on the investment needs of mid-market institutional clients.

His studies include a Bachelor of Science in International Economics from Texas Tech University. He and his wife Izumi have twin daughters and currently reside in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, VA.

Peter O’Donoghue serves as Vice President of Application Services, at Unisys Federal. Peter leads new business solutioning for application development and analytics. He collaborates with his peers to build out applications and analytics capabilities, such as digital transformation, cloud migration, mobility and big data platforms.

Peter joined Unisys in 2016 from CSRA, formerly CSC, where he held multiple marketing, practice management, solution executive and delivery roles throughout his 11 year tenure both in the US and in Australia. As Vice President of Solutions, he provided strategic leadership to incubate emerging technologies to grow CSRA’s business. As Chief Technology Officer, he drove CSRA’s technology roadmap, supporting new business activities and innovation into existing accounts to better support customers’ missions. He was a pioneer within CSRA and CSC in implementing next generation technologies, including Cloud, DevOps, SOA and Business Rules, and he positioned CSRA as a next-generation IT thought leader.

Prior to working at CSRA and CSC, Peter provided strategic management and IT consulting to a number of Global 500 commercial organizations and government organizations. He led the establishment of an enterprise SOA, supply chain management, IoT and global ERP capabilities for General Electric Power Systems.

Peter is recognized as a thought leader and frequent speaker in the industry. He attended Old Dominion University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Mechanics. He was recruited to Old Dominion as a scholar athlete from his native Ireland.

Tom Temin has been the host of the Federal Drive since 2006. Tom has been reporting on and providing insight to technology markets for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Federal News Network, Tom was a long-serving editor-in-chief of Government Computer News and Washington Technology magazines. Tom also contributes a regular column on government information technology.