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2020 Federal 100
Steven B. Sousa
Vice President
CGI Federal
Automating and replicating mis- sion impact. Sousa, who is in charge of CGI Federal’s health IT portfolio, leads teams responsible for helping drive IT modernization at agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services and the Social Secu- rity Administration. At a time when many agencies are still in the early stages of using robotic process auto- mation, Sousa’s team worked with one agency to identify at least 100 RPA use cases for delivering benefits. One implementation has achieved $13 million in cost efficiencies, and
a second has saved more than $200 million. Those successes also help agencies achieve the overarching goal of improving health outcomes.
Paul Strasser
President
Brillient
Transition master. Strasser man- aged two significant transitions in 2019: a personal career move and
the transformation of the leadership role at the Industry Advisory Council of ACT-IAC. As chairman of the IAC Executive Committee, he coordi- nated a complex year of change that involved new people in newly struc- tured leadership roles, new member- ship outreach, new bylaws and more long-term financial stability. He also took over as president of Brillient, an
engineering management and services firm that is expanding into robotic process automation and emerging technology.
Capt. Veronique Louise
Streeter
Acting Director of Command, Control, Communications and Information, Office of the CIO
Defense Department
Rethinking C3. Streeter has changed the game by improving and reinvent- ing almost every aspect of how the warfighter approaches C3. In a record nine months, she deployed secure, capable, speedy and cost-efficient C3 systems under a $37 billion portfo-
lio by leading migration to a shared IT infrastructure that offers secure enterprise services and establishing partnerships in Europe for Satcom and NATO forces. She also created security standards for the depart- ment’s 5G implementation plans and developed the C3 portion of DOD’s digital modernization strategy, which will be foundational for major chang- es in tactical communications in the coming decades.
Toni Townes-Whitley
President, U.S. Regulated Industries
Microsoft
Public sector’s AI advocate. The $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure award to Microsoft was one of the year’s biggest stories, but Townes-Whitley’s leadership covers
far more than cloud. She has been the key driver behind the company’s arti- ficial intelligence strategy and citizen service transformation efforts. She also pushed to prepare the nation’s workforce for the changes that AI will bring. One key example is Microsoft’s AI Business School, which provides practical guidance for leaders on
how to foster an AI-ready culture. In addition, she is deeply involved in the community, including roles with the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the Women’s Center of Northern Virginia.
Elaine Turville
Managing Director
Accenture Federal Services
Planting the seeds of better gov- ernment. As the leader of Accen- ture’s business with the Agriculture Department, Turville brought new strategies to USDA to evolve the Farmers.gov portal and establish
an environment to better apply and share the department’s data. She
was also instrumental in the launch of the AskUSDA contact center, for which she led the consolidation of three pilot programs into a single Salesforce-based platform to modern- ize customer service. The initiative transformed websites, email and the way call centers handle informa-
tion requests. Based on that success, USDA plans to move other programs onto the platform this year.
Steven B. Sousa Paul Strasser Capt. Veronique Toni Townes- Elaine Turville Louise Streeter Whitley
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